Any games that kind of look like this?

Preferrably RPGs.

>>11867904 (OP)
Yoda stories

castle of the winds. first roguelike i ever beat, and still one of my favorite games of all time. unfortunately, you'll either have to emulate windows 95 or get a wrapper to play it on modern systems, but if you're on this board that shouldn't be too much of a barrier

>>11867904 (OP)
Early Macintosh software is all like this, Wizardry and Rogue come to mind; they're unique ports.

>>11867931
oh and SimCity of course

Lord Monarch. Works flawlessly on modern systems and it's also free as in free beer.

>>11867935
Based Falcom.
Vantage Master Online is also free.

>>11867904 (OP)
Exile 1, 2 and 3 + Blades of Exile

>>11867931
The mac version of Might and Magic is also pretty good.

>>11867926
Use this. Works great.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CastleOfTheWinds/comments/1g23l68/cotwine_v09_playable_out_of_the_box/

I wish games would still do this. You have way more control over screen configuration, you can more easily run certain programs over the top of said program (like shaders) and I think it looks classic.

>>11868025
oh nice, good rec

>>11867904 (OP)
Lunatic Dawn: Passage of the Book (has a patch).

>>11867913
Man, I used to play that and Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures a lot back in the day.

PolyChrome
https://archive.org/details/Polychrome
Never tried it but looks interesting

>>11867904 (OP)
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol

>>11867904 (OP)
SimFarm

This the type of game I would run into on the Internet when I was too dumb to understand games

if a morrowind remake/remaster doesn't play like an operating system i'm not playing it.

I miss multi document interface games so much bros.

>>11867904 (OP)
BYOND
lol

Not an RPG but the Windows 95 port of Lemmings is comfy

>>11868485
Forgot pic

>>11867913
Based. Loved this game.

>>11867926
Fuck I used to play this in school. This and the preinstalled Windows games. I don't think I ever got very far.

>>11868148
>Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol
How can I play this? Seems interesting but doesn't seem to be in GOG.

I can't think of 3D games of the era that worked like these.

>>11868687
No shit, the sort of thing died once 3D shit got more popular.

>>11868687
a mac game, but Pathways Into Darkness

>>11868687
anon you are making me cry

Metal Marines

>>11868761
Ehhh, I don't consider UT into the "native" window mode like the majority of the posts here, as it uses its own style and still is a fullscreen game

>>11868678
Not sure if it works for that particular game, but you can try otdvm:
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
It allows modern 64-bit Windows to run 16-bit Windows programs. Might work for most of the games ITT.
If that doesn't work, the other option would be to install Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 on DOSBox or 86Box, but that's a lot of work for only one game lol. There's packs with Windows and a bunch of these games preinstalled floating around, though. I made one such pack, if you're interested.

>>11868778
Spaceward Ho I believe is this type

>>11868771
it still works on modern pc's thanks to otvdm

>>11868504
i never saw CoTW as school, i had access to it because my mom was a shareware junkie and ended up sending off for the paid chapter.

i did play a hell of a lot of jezz ball at school, though.

>>11868806
Care uploading/linking to the pack?

>>11867904 (OP)
>>11867935
>>11868098
I'm interested in these, are they available for download anywhere? (And does OP's have an English patch?)

>>11868975
ArtDink is still around and deserves your 5 dollars (on sale).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/335420/_/

>>11868975
you can find lunatic dawn on romhacking. i've bought and played a generous amount of hours. it is quite a challenge even with the translation.

>>11867926
>castle of the winds
You sir are a legend for mentioning this game.

I played this a ton in the 90s

>>11868183
>Sex 0%
what

>>11869007
>>11869009
Thanks anons
>>11869087
Gender is a spectrum
(it's probably just garbage characters from not being able to display the appropriate male/female symbol)

>>11867926
Good lad, CotW was fucking sick. Was awesome getting to play Diablo 1 years before it came out.

>>11869103
It didn't say gender, it says sex.

>>11869132
Don't be fooled, they are one and the same

>>11869138
moon runes to English is pretty tough, ASCII can get wonky

The ICOM MacVenture games — Deja Vu, Uninvited, and Shadowgate — all got Windows 3.x ports in the early 90s.

And yeah, this kind of interface only works with a limited number of genres: RPGs, sims, strategy games, adventure games, and puzzle games. Once first-person shooters took over PC gaming, the native point-and-click UIs quickly died out.

>>11869087
>>11869103
Those are corrupted characters as you said

>>11868687
I was about to post Demise Rise of Ku'Tan but when I searched it up again I suppose my young self thought that looked Windows somehow.

I always wished Space Hulk used the system windows. Not even gonna post a screenshot since it didn't use em, but that was a game that would have looked a lot better with it.

>>11868975
Here you go https://www.falcom.co.jp/monarch/index_e.html

>>11869805
And here are the japanese voices if you want them. The english version doesn't have voices at all.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/h75njk0qx4i15t4/Move_all_files_into_SOUND_folder.zip/file

I wonder why this trend never stuck, at least for point-and-click games. I guess developers wanted the look and feel of their games to stand out, but it feels like they’d slipped back into the DOS era, before PCs had anything resembling a standard, unified graphical interface like what the Mac had had in the preceding decade. It would’ve benefited their games to fit in with the rest of the desktop (including stuff like menus and shortcuts) instead of trying to be a special snowflake.

Is Aurora4X retro? Came out in 2004.

>>11869912
Reminds me of Discover Space. Very soulful

>>11869805
>>11869817
Very cool, I'll give it a go, thanks anon

>>11869898
I'd like to think it's because the 2000s happened, where everything had to be transparent and round.

>>11868972
Here you go:
https://gofile.io/d/w8jMkc
I'm actually working on an update to this pack with better specs and with Windows 98lite installed, but it's not ready yet. This one uses Windows 95, but has all the games you see in pic related set up and ready to go.

>>11869936
I guess, but window chrome isn't the reason people play games. Plus, there's never been a shortage of third-party theming / skinning software for Windows.

vantage master!

>>11869898

I think there's also probably a thing for some people about the 'windows' look perhaps being more associated with work, whereas you come to PC gaming for escapism from that.

>>11869964
Always have respect for people who do this, thank you Anon.

I think the only vaguely RPG-related game like this that I've ever really liked a lot was Decker. I should maybe play through that again

>>11870137
Oh unless you count Progress Quest, obviously that one was fun. But it has its limits - the skill ceiling is, let's say, not high

>>11868437
MDI was an abomination, and the reason it existed at all on Windows was because Microsoft was too dumb to recognize the superiority of having a Mac-style system-level menu bar that would obviate any need for MDI’s clunky confusing desktop-within-a-desktop paradigm. Windows today is still a UI trainwreck largely thanks to the lack of a menu bar.

are you managing your money well, /vr/?

>>11868191
All the old Maxis games have been ported to Windows as well.

>>11870156
Personal productivity software vendors in the early-to-mid 90s really thought they could make doing your taxes as easy and fun to do as playing a graphical adventure game

>>11870156
>tax
>american eagle icon
lmao

>>11868972
Enjoy your botnet

>>11870182
Not everyone is as retarded as you, anon

>>11869087
When it reaches 100%, you become an out-of-control slut

>>11869898
Everybody started going cross-platform with consoles

>>11868724
I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU

>>11868771
Never heard of Metal marines, huh. Reminds me vaguely of Deadlock

I prefer the original exile to the tablet remake

Star Wars Rebellion

>>11870385
I've heard Llylgamyn Saga on PC is quite buggy and not recommended. If you played it, how was the sailing?

>>11870168
They're best on macintosh

>>11867904 (OP)
Pipe Dreams.

and...
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/dare-to-dream-3-fn1
too bad Epic Games is gay and commie now.

>>11868191
Sim Ant. but it was DOS though?

>>11870858
>>11868020
Blades of Exile should still work with WinXP or compatibility modes.

>>11871285
It also has a windows version.

>>11871290
I think there's some open-source version that works just fine on a modern PC.

>>11869964
Thanks, Anon. This is a nice collection.

>>11871010
How good is this?
Heard there was a board game adaptation.

>>11867935
No it doesn't, it errors out when you try to save your game.

>>11870137
Decker was the reason i found out about neuromancer and thus became a fan of gibson. great fucking game.

>>11867904 (OP)
ahead of its time

>>11871470
If you're the type of autist that likes strategy wargames you should like it, it's not only just building armies, you also control characters from the og trilogy and the expanded universe with different stats, which can be sent to a variety of missions. You pick the Alliance or the Empire, each with slightly different goals and starting resources, and you start not knowing what the ai opponent controls, so you start by using espionage and reconnaissance to see whether unexplored systems belong to it or not, then you build your fleets and recruit characters to expand your influence through force or politics until you meet your faction's victory conditions.
The board game is good too, although simplified for obvious reasons, but you need a second autist to play against.

>>11871730
What's this?
I thought Game Dev Story is one of those Kairosoft phone games.

>>11871470
Also nice to chill to the soundtrack
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gX6QMmDTEkI

>>11870858
This looks almost identical to Realmz. They must share the same art.

>>11867904 (OP)
Warpath '97

the kind of crappy realtime MOO clone.

>>11872204
>Warpath '97
http://www.synthetic-reality.com/warpath32.htm
or Warpath: 21st Century, forever in Beta version.

Eh

>>11871820
Kairosoft started out in the 90s making Windows games like this. Most of them done in straight Visual Basic. One of their first games was a bookstore sim https://rhizome.org/editorial/2021/may/18/true-fans-translate-fansubbing-bookstory/

>>11872263

>>11871675
Because the SAVE folder is missing. Create it in the games root directory and it works.

>>11871818
um ok
hopefully the ai is a decent challenge

>>11868484
I miss BYOND.

OP here, I like these the most so far
>>11868148
>>11868148

I like having so many windows that you autistically monitor and the interface also triggers something nostalgic in me. It was an era when many games actually looked like that. Thanks for your replies

>>11867904 (OP)
OP here, I like these the most so far
>>11868148
>>11868183

I like having so many windows that you autistically monitor and the interface also triggers something nostalgic in me. It was an era when many games actually looked like that. Thanks for your replies

>>11868246
Absolutely.

For those who don't know, there is an entire indie game made like this. Check out "kings way"

>>11872263
>>11872269
That sounds very interesting. Thank you, anon.
I know what I'm reading about and playing this friday evening.

>>11867913
YOOOOOOOO I'M FUCKING R2D2

>>11868246
>not gaming on Demise: Ascension

>>11869964
All those games and no Scorched Earth...

On my old Mac (early 90s), I used to have a game that allowed you to produce and market your own movie. Basically this focused on managing a budget, but included the ability to pick actors and a director. The end goal was to get your movie to rank in amongst the other top ten well known, best selling movies.

The way the game worked was that you set budgets for your movie, putting a certain amount of money into marketing, and what not, and then released it to the masses. As the weeks would go by, your score would be determined by how much of a net profit (or loss) you ended up with.

It was non-graphical and ran in a windowed mode like ITT with gameplay akin to something like Dope Wars.It was well done and surprisingly fun to play.

Anyone know this game ans what it was called?

Tibia

>>11867904 (OP)
Suikoden had a Japan only windows release with a default Windows interface.

This page has some. Bonus points for the Garnet look-alike in a 1993 game.

https://win16.page/_en1.htm

>>11870137
>only vaguely RPG-related game
>>11870139
https://www.mobygames.com/game/18468/drug-lord-2/screenshots/windows/119146/

Drug Lord is an RPG.

>>11876078
that goofy little butt

>>11870914
translation when?

>>11876078
Love the colour palette to this, feels like how old Disney cartoons looked as a kid.

>>11867904 (OP)
Taskmaker

>>11867904 (OP)
Realmz was a fav of mine back in the day, not that I knew wtf I was doing

>>11878336
Same man. Some asshole kid's dad had a mac, which I never had. He had Realmz and other cool shit on it and made me want one so bad...

>>11871010
Is this really using the Windows ui? Afaik games cannot re-theme or apply some kind of skin to the window decorations without registry hacks like windowblinds and other did it.

I miss when most interfaces felt native to the OS. These days each one feels different and its always some bespoke corpo minimalist shit that is unintuitive as fuck, besides running like shit

>>11878336
>>11878772
There's a fan remake in the works:
https://github.com/Realmz-Castle/Realmz-Remake

>>11879073
Afaik no, it doesn't. It's in the style of and functions similarly, don't remember the limitations as to how many can be opened at the same time, but you can save them as shortcuts on the column at the right.

>>11878275
I was hoping I wasn't going to be the first to post Yoot Tower (and its secret Japanese sequel).

areena5

>>11870914
>ロイヤルブラッドII
This looks super interesting actually. Have you played it? What's it like?

>>11867983
Came here to post this.

>>11882260
no, unfortunately. I really liked Gemfire so I actually looked into it quite a bit but it seems like it's more of a Brigandine than the former, with heavy focus on story. so not understanding Japanese would be quite a problem.

>>11870914
KOEI being KOEI just winging it with common controls

Microsoft Golf 1.0

which is the ideal OS to play these, xp or 98?

>>11870914
What game?

>>11882257
There's also an english patch for The Tower 2 though only the base game.
https://sanzen.in/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33

>>11884145
Given that this type of game had mostly died out by the turn of the millennium, and considering potential compatibility issues that were commonplace during the 9x -> NT transition period, 98

Here's a unique kusoge Virus: The Game

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Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi_KYBWS_E70Bd7HDhLz0a16FFrlCtOn4

>>11884514
This needs an English version real bad, I refuse to play modern first person business sims

>>11884145
Windows 98 will play the vast majority of these no problem, including ones made during the Windows 3.x era.