If you haven’t played it, Battlefield 4’s commander mode sounds kind of like what you’re describing. People are still online (at least on PC) and welcoming to commanders.
Any type of game (sandbox, RTS, etc) where the landscape changes dynamically.
All games are either player vs player or player vs mobs or player vs game-mechanics-that-affect-your-stats. But I have never played a game where I have to consider a river overflowing and destroying a village, or an avalanche, or earthquakes.
Even when there are environmental hazards, the base map never changes. Rivers never change their course, islands don’t appear or disappear, oceans don’t dry up, dams don’t burst, quarries aren’t excavated.
The world and nature are always dead and static.
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Actually, Dwarf Fortress does tick those boxes quite often.
Check out Timberborn, it doesn’t check all of your boxes but a lot of it revolves around water management - building dams and reservoirs, diverting rivers, surviving dry seasons, etc. At its core it’s just a fun city building game and I highly recommend it if that sounds good to you. It’s 20% off ok Steam right now too.
As a kid who loved Kingdom Hearts and The Matrix, I wanted to make a game where you could choose from the standard Magic, swords, guns, OR you could whip out your keyboard and hack the game.
It’s not nearly as exciting in retrospect, as it’s basically just Skyrim with console commands, but the thread brought it back to me so I thought I’d share. It felt like a cool idea in 2002, though.
I’ve also been writing and designing a Pokemon game in my head for the last 25 years, but I’m keeping that one closer to my chest even though there’s no universe where that happens.
A civil war simulator, where you make your policies to appeal to as much of the population as you can so they would support you and fight for your side, and if you fail to secure significant militant support you get couped or defeated.
Like 5 to 10 seconds for a turn, everyone lodges their turns and over the next 10 seconds the characters play out their actions with complex complications for unplanned conflicts. Like a guy running though someone elses thrown grenade or two guys trying to run through the same doorway.
Bring Chromehounds back to console. AC6 was close, but not quite there. Dial the sweatiness back to 5 or 6 instead of 11 and gimme the factional MP w/ dynamic comms. I know MAV or whatever exists for PC but I want my comfy console experience dammit
I would love something like Hellgate London (I think that was its name?), doesn’t have to have the same premise, but needs to be a lot less buggy, no p2w, and more production value
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