Thread 1919459

ITT: strategy games that you and only you have ever played

>>1919476
ahh der autismus...

I've got a couple. My dad had a lot of burnt CDs full of games no one cares about so there's a fair bit of these. I'm pretty sure no one's played this for instance. I barely remember anything about it other than that even as a child I knew that something was kinda weird and fucked about it like the recruitment system. They later released a sequel with humans in it but I remember even less about that one.

>>1919480
Mein Führer...

Another one I remember a bit better was this one. I haven't played it in millions of years but I vaguely recall it as being kinda 90s kino. It's not a good game I think but it had some of that era charm. "Hey let's have rednecks and amazons and robots and cultists fight each other!"
Obviously they're all basically mirror sides with a unique OST track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMc89xEYUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9EIkFH2igI

Also I remember this one being kinda cool. Had some kino including you being allowed to play as giga Iraq and use weather control devices to pull off a jihad. The war was between giga America-EU, Sino-USSR-Japanese Empire, and Giga Iraq. As a novel idea, Giga Iraq barely had units of their own, but instead purchased unit blueprints from the other factions on the black market. Weird game. Also has every late 90s rts cliche ever including very cringey FMVs. For some reason, I just remember that one of Giga Iraq's purchasing options being like
>OK you have two things to buy here. Here's #1!
>I tell him to fuck off unit #1 is shit
>"Excellent choice commander, you'll not be disappointed in your purchase. Here's unit #2. Buy? Y/N"
I have no idea why I remember so vividly that they only made one video and ignored the eventuality that someone might not purchase something.

>>1919480
Wir müssen tiefer gehen!

Being able to control several unrelated factions was an interesting mechanic.
Long downtimes in one region could be compensated with hot action in another and play could naturally flow as some of your your nations fell, but you bought control of new ones.

>>1919509
What game? Looks like early paraslop

>>1919519
Great Invasions the Dark Ages

>>1919536
No Man's Land? Isn't that some fucked up WW1 RTS?

>>1919553
Nah, it's about the conquest of the New World

>>1919557
Conquest of the New World, now THAT'S a banger.

>>1919509
>>1919535
That's the one where you could play as Muhammed right?

>>1919568
Cover goes hard

>>1919459 (OP)
Game I'm making about managing social aspects of a kingdom rather than focusing on military

>>1919584
It's on GoG so it's not a totally unknown game. It's a bit clunky but alright. You get to shoot injuns with cannons, that's always fun.

>>1919557
>>1919536
I played it as a teenager. Pretty fun rts from what I remember. I wanted to replay it some time ago but the abandonware version I downloaded didn't have voice-overs in cut-scenes and it quite bumped me out.

>>1919576
No, he ded.

>>1919527
I got the bad end.

>>1919766
It has sovl, but the clones have better graphics

You must be atleast this icelandic to post in this thread

I really want to play it again but I can't even find a place to pirate it

>>1919812
She looks like she has a large himbo harem

>>1919818
yes

Walls of Rome. Proto Stronghold-type game

An attempt at a civ game by Wild Bill Stealey's new game company after he left Microprose

>>1919459 (OP)
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/cloven-crania-meadow-lb1
Never seen anyone mention this game but me.

>>1920447
once upon a time this was my most anticipated game. I didn't even know it had come out, maybe it never got a UK release

>>1920509
It did tho. Would've been weird not to what with the developers being british.

Used to post this back on /v/ many years ago to see if anyone else played it and would only get one reply if lucky. I played the shit out of it. Playing it online late at night in 2004 was risky stuff for me with my parents, but that put me on the forum-strewn path that led me to 4chan by 2008.

>>1921109
As if I didn't complete every campaign
People talk about Humankind as though it introduced nation switching in strategy games upon ageup

>>1921110
>>1921111

>>1921111
Empire Earth was much more of a janky experience from what I recall

>>1921115
Especially the expansion.

>>1919807
Looks like it's just Ancient Wars: Sparta, it's on archive.org. I thought it was an interesting game even if it was too janky.

>>1919807
>>1921159
Funny enough there is Definitive Edition of this game in early access up on Steam. As well as sequel or spin-off called Ancient Wars: Medieval Crusades from the same devs. I don't know what they're doing.

>>1919812
Have you played the first one?

>>1921195
Definite Edition lmao. Is Medieval Crusades the one set in Eastern Europe? I remember not liking that one as much as the first.

never could figure how to move the mounted guns with out selling them and then rebuying them.

I still remember it's OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUV-dZyglU

>>1921195
I don't think so. I think you have in mind The Golden Horde (also released under the name Great War Nations: The Mongols) from the original devs. Medieval Crusades appears to be its own new thing made by the Sparta DE devs. From the look of it World Forge, the original studio that closed down in 2009, after Ancient Wars: Sparta made three other rts games on the same engine: Fate of Hellas/Great War Nations: The Spartans, already mentioned The Golden Horde/Great War Nations: The Mongols and Sparta 2: Alexander the Great /Age of Alexander.

>>1921953
>>1921393
Ops, wrong link.

Gates of Troy was great, never seen it posted here

>>1922029
Yep this game series is great but i prefer the one where you unite Italy as Rome Tribe. Sadly i dont remember it name.

>>1922343
I know that one. It's Legion. I played it, Spartan and Gates of Troy although truth be told GoT is just a stand-alone map pack for Spartan.

>>1919491
War Wind was a fun concept but it was too broken to play. The AI was way too aggressive and could do the equivalent of a zillion clicks per second; there was just no way to keep up with it. The hippie faction in particular was busted because their mages had a healing spell with infinite mana and their endgame super unit significantly outclassed all the other factions' equivalent.

You could cheese the AI while playing as the purple snake guys though. Build a maze of walls and mines around your base and the AI will navigate them in the least efficient way possible, just like in the first Stronghold game. You still have no hope of beating them head on, but with the maze buying you time you can stealth up one of your wizards and send him behind enemy lines to mind control their leader, then just walk their leader out of his bunker and let his own faction kill him for an instant win.

Bought it in a store around 2010, wouldnt even run on windows xp

>>1922442
Nah, this one is somewhat of a cult classic

>>1922446
I'm surprised, I've literally never seen any of them anywhere after being a kid but they have plenty of steam reviews

>>1922437
Sometimes I feel like this is the most famous obscure RTS, pretty sure it was the OP in a recent thread.
I never finished the campaign but when I feel like playing a random map I choose this over AoE2 DE.
Spamming crusades against a couple Arabs or winning with bats only never gets old.

>>1919459 (OP)
I genuinely hope I'm the only one who played this, because it was really fucking bad.

>>1922495
Pretty sure loads of people played KKND.

Fun games though.

>>1922409
I will never forget the disappointment of getting my parents to buy me that game as a kid, only to find out at home that it's a turn based boardgame-like.

>>1922592
Can't be more disappointing than getting Spore or Empire Total War after reading about them in magazines for months...

>>1922663
>Empire Total War
This made me stop buying Creative Assembly games forever.

>>1922663
>Spore
I'll always remember the awesome preview presentations Will Wright would show for the game around the ecology of the creature phase and all sorts of neat things. Only for the game to end up a mess of half-baked mechanics and apparently aimed at the toddler market. What the hell happened? Was there some coup in the dev team?

>>1922684
The promises they made were impossible to fulfill

>>1922684
Story goes that the development team ended up split into two camps, with one camp pushing for more realistic, complex mechanics and presentation, and the other camp pushing for more approachable, kid-friendly mechanics and presentation. The latter group won because it was seen as the more commercially viable approach.

>>1922663
I was very thankful I went into spore without knowing the hype. It made it actually kind of enjoyable, even if it was just feeling kinda average.

>>1919812
>What no Führer does to a mf

>>1922495
>>1922588
KKND was a banger. I remember liking 2 a lot too. Great music too.
>€3 on a Steam sale right now
Tempting.

>>1922586
I played the demo when I was literally a child. Also played a pirated version later. It was fucking godawful.

>>1925103
Update I bought KKND2 on the Steam sale and it's like I'm ten all over again. They don't make them like they used to.

>>1922443
You're Polish, aren't you?

>Look up some of this shit on Steam
>They're for sale
>At steep discounts!
Aaah! My childhood is coming back to me!

>>1919459 (OP)
very fond memories of this schizo shit

>>1926175
Looks dope. What is it?

>>1926175
Wait this is Realm of Chaos or something like that

I have absolutely broken the fuck out of this game. I used to get stoned and just try ridiculous strategies. If you do it right, by the time it's summer 1940 and it's time to invade France, you can already control everything from Germany to Iraq. Then you turn around and put all your gains into airforce and knock out Paris in a single turn with a massive bombing campaign and a single rush with a tank unit. By the time the US joins the war you can have North America completely blockaded by the combined German-Italian navy and possibly even have conquered Canada.

This one's a banger. Played the shit out of it back in the day. Simple and pretty cool. Really like the animations and interface. Sequel kinda sucked though. Didn't let me fuck around on earth so I never cared.

For me it was DOS 7 years war
myabandonware.com/game/seven-years-war-g31

>>1926163
Sheeet, I played that too. UFO goes nom-nom

>>1925103
Man this game looks way worse in reality than it does in my memories lol.

I feel like games on the Battle Academy engine don't get enough love. I wish they would do a better job of letting you know what units are spent though. Also, put check marks near missions I've completed so I don't have to keep track on a separate application.

>>1926513
>>1926707
This is so 90s it's unreal.

>>1926553
It's actually pretty fun still, don't think it looks bad at all either for its time. Aesthetics and atmosphere carry it pretty far in my opinion.

>>1926198
>>1926199
Rival Realms

>>1926873
That dark period of the 90s where for some reason people thought it was a good idea for each individual unit in an RTS to have its own inventory slots

>>1926877
the fact that Frozen Throne reintroduced this design logic back into the mainstream vindicates the schizo 90s, repent now

>>1919459 (OP)
for me it's mutant weredinosaur slaves rebelling against their demon undead masters and raping some phantasmal elves in the process, with the help of their neanderthal man-ape bros

>>1926994
Heck, any old Koei strategy game is bound to have only a few playerbase.

>>1926175
>that minimap
what the hell is going on here

>>1926994
where can i dl this pc version

>>1926880
What the hell is it?

>>1926880
Why is it written "GAY" in the top right corner?

>>1927110
just reverse image search it numbskull

>>1922442
Czas na żarcie!

Obviously not, but considering how much hatred the RTS part (the best part) of Brutal Legend caught, it sure feels like it.

>>1922586
For some strange reason I always thought that this and Mayday: Conflict Earth were somehow related. Also I swear that one of these 2 had an paper ad campaign where the only thing besides the game's title and 3~4 random screencaps on the advert page was a photo of some comatose naked guy (with just a lettuce leaf on his groin) laying on a dining table surrounded by stereotypical grey ayyylmaos.

>>1927036
war
>>1927110
pic related
>>1927113
I don't see that but if you do, it only confirms you're a raging homo

>>1927224
sexo

I have distant core memories of playing this game at a time when I was too young to grasp any mechanics that couldn't be divined through trial and error, and before speaking any English. It was sick.

I never beat it.

>>1927188
>how much hatred the RTS part (the best part) of Brutal Legend caught
It's because they never showed any of it in the advertising so most people who initially bought it thought they were buying an action adventure game and were entirely caught off-guard by the RTS elements.

>>1927235
Exiting battle...

Centurion: Defender of Rome
ultimate kino...

>>1927224
Did you know that Primitive Wars also has an expansion that never left Korea's inner market (no localization)? It's also actually the sequel to Jurassic War, being called that outside the localization.

The game is average as fuck, but it has some charm.

>>1927195
>Also I swear that one of these 2 had an paper ad campaign where the only thing besides the game's title and 3~4 random screencaps on the advert page was a photo of some comatose naked guy (with just a lettuce leaf on his groin) laying on a dining table surrounded by stereotypical grey ayyylmaos.
I think you might mistake it with yet another alien shooting rts called Dark Colony. Funny enough this picture was actually used for the Italian cover art of this game.

>>1927616
Forgot the pic

>>1927621
>COLONISED!
lel

Are there any more "Hammurabilikes" that I should know of?

>>1927621
Literally indistinguishable from an average Marina Abramovic / Spirit Cooking dinner party in (((Hollywood)))

>>1927473
played this in friend house on his older brother amiga like 30+ years ago
it was fun back then

>>1927621
damn they predicted the future of england...

>>1926233
i liked it but it sure should have 3 sides axis, red allies with option to start allied-red war after hitler kaput

>>1927616
>>1927621
Actually this is probably the ad you're talking about.

>>1927563
Reminded me of that D&D Dragonshard one. They both were pretty cool

>>1922409
I played the movie tie in Alexander rts. I wonder if anyone knows of that one here.
>>1922437
>>1922442
Can't be called obscure desu.
>>1926880
Played that stuff Primitive Wars aka The Ranker. I think it has expansions or sequel or whatever that was not translated from korean, I think.
>>1927560
I never understood what that stuff was or how is it tied to Jurassic Wars 1 and 2 aka the Ranker or whatever, but I guess it doesn't matter if there are no translations.
>>1928189
Dragonshard is like one 2 games that are in Eberron setting.

>>1928433
>I played the movie tie in Alexander rts. I wonder if anyone knows of that one here.
I haven't played it but I know the game. What's interesting to me is that it was made by the studio behind Cossacks and Stalker and it runs of Cossacks 2 engine (or like some version of it). I wanted to say that to my knowledge it doesn't run great on modern systems but from what I now have checked there are some fan patches to it.

>>1928647
I almost beat the campaign as a kid, only two last maps were left. Never found out if those alt history campaigns for different factions the game box mentioned were real or if they lied that you would unlock them after beating Alexander campaign or not or maybe they meant something else.

>>1928860
>Never found out if those alt history campaigns for different factions the game box mentioned were real or if they lied that you would unlock them after beating Alexander campaign or not or maybe they meant something else.
I doubted about this at first but I checked and IGN, Gamespy and Gamespot reviews all mentions how you get access to the other nations campaigns after beating the Alexander's one so it appears it's actually true.

>>1921109
I played it, it was somehow great and garbage at the same time.

>>1929409
where you at my clonecraft bros

>>1928189
>>1928433
Dragonshard was the first game I bought with my own money. It kind of sucked. I still played the shit out of it, although I never got very far.

Speaking of abandonware rts games with Alexander the Great. Here's Rise & Fall. Game by the studio behind the first Empire Earth and >>1921109 . Sadly iirc the publisher fuck them over which resulted not only in the game getting rushed out but also in the shut-down of the studio. One gimmick was that you could at any time take direct control over hero unit and play the game as some over the shoulder third person perspective hack'n'slash. It's one of the game that I would actually like to revisit because I had it when I was young but I didn't play it enough to form a lasting impression of it.

https://youtu.be/biw02sXk88w
Corporate Machine but bellic.

>>1929862
https://youtu.be/mIQHsm3ZM3U

Historyline: 1914-1918. Used the Battle Isle engine and I remember it had a whole load of historical information thrown in. Some cool little animations too, but was a pain to play on an Amiga without a hard drive; constant floppy changes.

>>1929983
https://youtu.be/haq9mKfO9fY
The music in that game goes so freakin' hard.

>>1929983
for a second I thought those cannons pointing south were helicopters and thought "what kind of fucked up WW1 is this"

>>1930482
>"what kind of fucked up WW1 is this
Iron Storm's, probably. Which would make for a pretty interesting strategy game, not gonna lie.
>Sternberg rules all of Eurasia
>WW1 still going into the post-WW2 era
>All nations bankrupted, put their armies on the stock markets
Game's kinda bad but the world's really interesting, wish someone would rip it off and put it into something better.

>>1930482
I thought the exact same thing

Battlefield 1 is probably, without exaggeration, the only good WW1 game ever made

>>1930516
https://www.bay12games.com/ww1medic/
WW1 Medic by Bay 12 Games is really fun and addictive. You're a medic and you have to heal up your troops for points and reserves in the hopes of capturing the enemy trench. It's a really good one! Bit off-topic though. History Line 1914-1918 is pretty decent still though. Empire Earth had an OK WW1 campaign. The old DOS game Red Baron is a pretty neat flight sim. There's a fair bit of good games actually! But very few of them are strategy titles sadly.

>>1930516
Bold claim

>1804
Oops, wrong screenshot

>>1919459 (OP)
This never ran on my pc but I'm still gonna post it here. Got it from a friend who told me I can borrow a bunch of his old games. Looks like a cool realistic rts, sorta like Syrian Warfare.
Now the real problem is that I cannot find any information about it. First of all, the entire box is in Hungarian, so I don't know what the original title was. Supposedly, it was developed by a company called gfi, who were probably russian, judging by the fact that the pictures in the manual are in cyrillic. Tried searching for the title both in English and Hungarian but got nothing. Google pictures won't give me anything either. It was sold in my country by a company called seven m but they aren't around anymore. Title is apperently "Warfare" (Hadviselés).

>>1930644
Are there any screenshots on the back of the cover?

>>1930644
https://store.steampowered.com/app/35300/Warfare/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_oCnksPTEw

>>1919459 (OP)
Empires of Steel
This game is a 4x wego rts with tech tree that takes you from ww1 to atomic age.

>>1930726
That UI looks like Deadlocks (the 4X game not the TPS)

>>1930789
I thought the same thing

>>1930789
While t graphics look like Freeciv over ten years ago and the concept reminds me of picrel

>>1930622
>>1930623
I vaguely remember playing that one. But the memory is so hazy idek if it's real.

>>1930726
>Deadlock but modern day
Looks great. Shoutout to Deadlock by the way, I really liked that one. Or at least, liked playing around with the editor as a kid and when revisiting it as an adult I had a hard time getting into it because of how much detail management you have to do in every city every turn at least on larger map. I really liked the civilizations and the variety of worlds.

>>1930813
Didn't like that one too much. Always preferred the (objectively superior) prequel: >>1926281
Really weird too because the dev is one of the first that trooned out back in 1992 before it became trendy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry

>>1920292
Oh fuck I thought I had imagined this game

>>1930507
There were actually two Iron Storm games. Original Iron Storm and World War Zero, the latter being also known as Iron Storm: World War Zero and even just simply Iron Storm. Most people are familiar with the latter, because both are actually the same game, but World War Zero is a heavily simplified, shortened and made much easier version of Iron Storm, to the point where it was the primary Iron Storm release in some countries and in others it was marketed as sort-of "updated definitive edition".
The issue is while old Iron Storm was at times absurdally hard, it was a vastly superior experience.

>>1930653
This is just Syrian Warfare 2008.

>>1930854
Yeah I remember playing the original version and it was hard to the point where I thought it was glitched because I swear some enemies were literally invincible, at least on some kind of train memory? Memory is really hazy on that one sorry but I sure remember it being a total motherfucker to beat. Didn't know the two games were different though, learn something new every day I guess. I always just assumed WW0 was a different name for the console release of a subtitle I'd somehow forgotten.

Again though: setting was better than the game imo and I really with someone did something with that. Hell, just given how popular Sternberg is in the HOI4 scene thanks to Kaiserreich you'd think someone from that crowd would latch on to the concept.

>>1930834
The backstory of things was quite interesting. It's one of the few ones that while it has humans as the usual diplomats you get humans that are still so damn pissed from being attacked and having the Moon blown up that they're willing to drug themselves up in supreme roid rage that will kill themselves to ensure the enemies die.

>>1930948
Honestly had no idea the lore ran that deep.

>>1931046
There was an document include with the first game that detailed the Skirineen blowing up the moon and getting curbstomped by pissed off humanity. It's also why Humans if they get caught trading with them have huge morale loss.
It also goes into detail the big war between the Humans and their allies the Re'lu against the Cyth and their vassals the, Chch't, the Tarth and the Maug.
It also explains why everyone is trying to conquer the planet in the original game. It was quite detailed.

>>1931082
Should read it then. I own the games on GOG, might as well. When I was a kid I just thought it was a reference to humanity having a more media-driven culture. There actually being some lore to it is really cool.

Only thing I remember from this was that you harvested water and that as a kid I thought that a unit named "martyr" (a suicide bomber) was funny because half his voice lines were him laughing maniacally.

>>1931648
The VA for the Martyr was having the best time recording his lines.

>>1932222
Exactly! Honestly the only thing I properly remember from that game. Besides that it just kinda gets sucked into the grey goo of generic RTS games of my childhood that I don't even remember. Is it actually good? Should I give it a whirl again?

>>1932260
Dark Reign was good enough to keep a cult following and a semi-vibrant modding community that last I checked still releases unofficial patches.
The game itself was kinda wild for a 1997 game. They tried to add so many varied strategies and tactics like being able to completely destroy enemy resources through water contaminators and all that and you even had spies that could outright steal technology from the opposing faction to add to your own.

>>1932273
Is it one of those games I can just get off of GOG and run that way or is it more of a motherfucker to get running and have an OK time with?

>>1932462
I don't actually know. It has been a while since I've personally played.

>>1932466
I guess I'll just have to check around a bit myself then, thanks for answering anyway. If I get it and play it again, I'll post about it here.

>>1922590
I played this! Underrated classic and obtuse as hell. Took me 14 years to beat it because of the psionic jellyfish aliens.

>>1931648
I recall you could send over stealth probes for sighting the enemy base then use artillery to fire 3/4 of the way across the map.

>>1934294
What's the game?

>>1934296
That sure sounds like a 90s strategy game thing to me. I remember loving doing stuff like that in Red Alert and Total annihilation. It wasn't until the 2000s people learned that maybe there ought to be counter-measures against something that could shoot across half the map, or at least some cost attached to the ability to do so.

>>1934626
>What's the game?
Brother look at the reply chain

>>1934672
D'oh, total brain fart moment. My bad. You earned every right to goof on me for that one.

Has anyone played this? Very interesting game. Originally scheduled for a September 2001 release, it's a weirdo game by the people that made Earth 2150. Some of the shit you can do in it is invade Iraq as America to steal their oil, resurrect the USSR as Russia and play as an Iraqi terrorist cell and nuke America. It's a really weird game. Great music, and in some ways it's like a C&C Generals that isn't a parody.
https://youtu.be/IYHqpuM6D9s
https://youtu.be/gcwH3NlZkMY
For some reason, there's very little WW3 action in it though as most of the fighting is between America and Iraq or Russia and Azerbaijan. Sans a few missions, you mostly just beat up smaller countries as superpowers.

Not that bad of a game, though it has some really odd design choices like how a lot of vehicles are impervious to most kinds of damage, infantry is completely missing, and a lot of other odd design choices. Really has some of that neat early 00s experimental feel to it though.

>>1919491
I played it a month ago. It's literally free on steam. I want to like it but its so janky. My units died walking through a laser fence instead of attacking it. Some missions seem to be finding the last enemy on the map. At one mission I couldn't figure what I'm supposed to do and eventually my units died and you have to restart the whole campaign.

>>1919536
I still have the box but not the cd lend it to a friend who at one point claimed he never had it.

>>1922684
all things aside, the round earth rts map was cool as fuck. Wish Planetary Annihilation wasn't dogshit either.

>>1926994
>>1926995
comfy graphics

I don't know why this game bombed

>>1936410
Going by what I could find the thing had only marketing in Germany.

>>1936314
>Warwind
Yep that sure sounds like a typical middling 90s RTS that thinks it's "too good" to copy things that worked in Warcraft and C&C. Could be worse. At least it's not Conquest Earth.

Played the fuck out of this when I was like 6.
>ACTUAL SCREENS

>>1932222
For me it's the Hostage Taker.
Theyy caaan't hiiiide!

>>1919491
Looking at the Steam screenshots, the artstyle and atmosphere remind me a lot of War Breeds. They also share the same publisher.
From what I remember it's janky too but also very unique.

>>1938914
Love the aesthetics of that. It really screams "things that look like 90s jankino but is fucking unplayable". The quintessential 6/10 of the times.

>>1939030
it screams "the artist is color blind"

>>1939065
i noticed you keep using that word.
"colorblind" does not mean "bad at making color choices"

>>1939065
I'm with the above anon. This is not color blindness. These are just straight up bad aesthetic choices. Not gonna lie though I do find it a bit charming in its insanity. Game's probably shit and an outright eyesore but at least it isn't bland and generic, y'know?

>>1927174
this one could be so cool if it had mods and custom maps and so on

>>1919568
it was an ok game. turn-based anno.
not bad.

>>1919459 (OP)
best unit creator i've used

list below in no order
death of flash killed some great games.
doubt you played more than 3 of these

https://www.kongregate.com/games/Alexander311/machiavellian-suns
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Warstrider/garden-of-war-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/fighter106/spectromancer-gathering-of-power
http://www.kongregate.com/games/nulllvoid/hd-xyth
https://www.kongregate.com/games/urbansquall/battalion-nemesis
https://www.kongregate.com/games/GeneralVimes/cards-wars
https://www.kongregate.com/games/ryzed/xenosquad
https://www.kongregate.com/games/MaximK/sea-of-fire-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/DJStatika/eridani
https://www.kongregate.com/games/VictoryGames/nyc-mafiosi
https://www.kongregate.com/games/alienpro/starbaron
https://www.kongregate.com/games/box10Guys/1-will-survive-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/trucbidule/dice-wars
https://www.kongregate.com/games/dz2001/arachnid-wars-1-5
https://www.kongregate.com/games/mofunzone/crimson-warfare
https://www.kongregate.com/games/mitomane/medieval-wars-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/mp630/kings-of-conquest-6
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Cutandreil/littlekingdom
https://www.kongregate.com/games/electrolyte/reprisal
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Junjo/feudalia
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Commander_M/upgrade-station-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Flyborg/via-sol-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Xeptic/record-shop-tycoon-2
https://www.kongregate.com/games/PJJMD/corpseburg
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Gamebrew/drone-wars
https://www.kongregate.com/games/FlashkickGames/hex-battles
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Nerdotik/space-derelicts
https://www.kongregate.com/games/DeadlyPear/lone-shark
https://www.kongregate.com/games/Roshirai/trade-outpost-november
https://www.kongregate.com/games/zocky/hamurabi-reloaded
https://www.kongregate.com/games/YoudaGames/world-domination-2
https://armorgames.com/play/4013/phage-wars-2
https://armorgames.com/waterworks-game/19010

>>1922442
I played this a bunch as a kid. I remember that wheat was referred to as corn.

>>1919459 (OP)
Urban assault

In the intro cutscene the player gets nuggettified and tortured with horrific and intrusive augments to become a living AI-hybrid command center for the resistance against two factions of aliens and two of other humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32JRQYR5cc&ab_channel=XCarnbyX


You could enter first person sight of vehicles to fight (while still commanding all the other tanks, planes and helicopters) and that was the fucking shit at the time I tell you!

>>1943256
This has some hard 90s early Win 95 experimentation vibes.

>>1929409
i got this game in a poundland, it was so fucking good

>>1921109
Looks like a clone of Empire Earth

>>1943490
... I very vaguely remember playing this. Tell me more?

>>1943554
Dawn of War. A pretty unique RTS where all your units are divided on men and women and have their set of stats, and new units are produced through breeding, children inheriting stats of their parents with some random. Also has some other interesting features like global magic, terramorphing and fucking T-Rexes.

>>1943565
>Spoiler
You mean that as adjective or verb?

>>1943741
Adjective. You technically still can get them by reproduction, but it does not require a partner.

All I'm getting out of this is that we need more human/T-Rex interbreeding games.

>>1943336
It's actually made by the original studio behind EE1. One might say it's the true sequel to that game.

>>1943977
Make me wonder are there any strategy games that have human/non-human relationships. Personally I know of Saga: Rage of the Vikings where you get new units by placing male and female unit into houses. The thing is there's not racial restriction so nothing stopping you from having human breed with elf, dwarf, troll, centaur or giant.

For a non-PC one, I played this on WiiWare. I barely remember anything about it other than it being jank.

Neverland Card battles.
and culdcept.
Not a lot of new stuff in this genre

>>1919568
>Games nobody else played
>CotNW
Bitch please, at least you could post Merchant Colony

A lesser known Impressions title

>>1947465
i played this

>>1943957
life, uh, finds a way

>>1947465
That map looks so weird man.
Game seems kinda kino though.

>>1919459 (OP)
Lords of Magic

>>1936410
graphics were shitty even back then and the awful voice acting didnt help either...

>>1947465
Looks fun, is it similar to Capitalism?

Down by the Laituri
Finnish rock festival organizer sim

>>1947770
Loving the art style.

>>1947635
Ah yes, this game needed a mighty 16 megabytes of ram.
I remember the main villain Balkoth being ridiculously overpowered.
>flies around on a bat, can go over any terrain
>can chuck daggers at an infinite range
>is ALSO the most powerful spell caster
I need to play this game again.

>>1947853
It was great. Death was obviously the main bad guys and so their real talent was just how damn overall good they were. Also the idea of the Lich was just so cool.
I tended to suffer as Order though. Stuck in the center of the map where all the neutrals congregate.

>>1919459 (OP)
Recently remembered this game out of nowhere. Not sure if anyone else played it

>>1948228
yeah that was fun, did the campaign twice

>>1944451
Oh sweet, schizoSOVL
https://youtu.be/DkfCHS6iy-0

>>1948473
This looks like the kind of game I'd look at, want to play the shit out of, and then get nowhere in because all political games except Shadow President have awful UIs.

>>1948836
>strategy games
they actually fooled me twice, first time with blupi planet, second time with blupimania. In my defense, I was ~12 years old at that time

For years I was the only anon who had mentioned this game on 5chins, at least by name. Turn based mech strategy with a mechlab and team management, 100+ guns, 4 different armor types you can mix with 1mm increments, full autism. The battle UI is ass.

>>1950727
>we have battletech at home

>>1948836
>So long mate and thanks for all the platinum
I still don't know what the deal with the bouncing bomb is, it never went off just kept bouncing around blocking my path. Repeated orders are cool, shame I only understood how they work around the 25th mission. Iron is op, nerf iron. I can't believe I got tricked into playing this kek but thanks anyway. it was fun to finally finish the game after playing the demo 20 years ago

>>1950930
It was inspired by an old amiga/dos battletech game.

Solidarnosc is a strategy game I found on some abandonware site way back. You play as the Polish anti-Soviet resistance of the game's namesake and try to build momentum against the government. I played it as a child so most of the political and historical stuff went over my head but I always remembered it for its gorgeous pixel art. Love the regional maps in it, very beautiful.

>>1922590
Is this one really obscure? It was all over the abandonware sites back in the day, everybody who downloaded dosbox has probably at least booted it up.

>>1954015
I think that one's more of a cult classic than a big name as far as old school abandonware goes. Let's say that it passes the thread's criteria by a slim margin.

Made a friend buy it he never played it, and i was every day at his house playing it.

>>1954751
I remember playing the demo of that game as a child and it pissed me off to no end because I produced jeeps at the same rate that the computer produced tanks. The game's probably alright, I've watched videos of it as I got older and it seems perfectly fine for what it is. I like its sense of humor for one.

Celtic Kings: Rage of War
Had a story mode that I never manage to finish

>>1943104
I played this, I remember thinking it was amazing for its time as well. I also remember getting my shit pushed in by the eastern-european faction's giant fleets of fucking biplanes that did insane damage

>>1919459 (OP)
Dominant species: play as a coalition of native alien animals fending off human invaders trying to harvest your planet.

I remember bugging my mom to buy me this game thinking it was the much superior Battle For Middle Earth because there could surely be only one LOTR themed RTS, right?? I was so let down and embarrassed and pretended it was amazing and fun to not make my mom feel bad for buying it

It is pretty fun Warlords clone with comfy aesthetics. It probably was so overlooked and instantly forgotten by the world at large because it looks generic to the extreme.

Robin Hood the legend of sherwood, playing as robin hood with his band of robbers and stealthily getting inside medieval english castles.

>>1956636
What's clover do?

>>1956660
inline replying, thread watching, notifications, themes, pass support, filters and a whole lot more. But that's not important right now.

>>1956636
I loved this game when I was a kid. I'd leave Will Scarlet at camp to fully train up and then use him like a wrecking ball to demolish enemies.

>>1956636
Almost has a Commandos look to it. I like the aesthetics.

I got a few
>this game sucks

>>1959457
Oh yeah also this one
>This game also sucks

>>1922442
>no one
Bitch that shit has like 7k peak players on steam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellcross
Never managed to get far in it, it was sooo fucking hard for a 12 dumb kid...

>>1960641
>sooo fucking hard for a 12 dumb kid
yeah it was. but it was pretty fun. I remember spending all money on research and skipping turns just to read the lore.

>>1959457
Funny, I was actually thinking about this the other day. Haven't played it in forever.
>It's abandonware
Tempting but knowing how games from this era go it's probably gonna crash on bootup no matter what you do.

>>1919459 (OP)
I can't even find any information online about this - there's an educational game called Virtual History - Egypt that I played in school as a kid over decade ago. It was literally a full-blown RTS with 3 phases, you would do agriculture as the Nile flooded, fight the Nubians, and build a pyramid in the third phase. Shit was awesome. As far as I can tell the software has been completely erased from history, I can't find any reference to it anywhere.

>>1962692
>Virtual History - Egypt
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/102ftg3/partially_lost_virtual_history_settling_america/

>>1962692
>fight the Nubians
uh-oh, that sounds problematic, sweetie.

>>1959457
>YOU'RE TOO SLOW! THIS IS REAL WAR!!!
I liked the way aircraft looked in this game, but holy shit it was just bad.

>>1936212
came with a gaming magazine over 20 years ago, I played and enjoyed the shit out of it. Rocket artillery was very satisfying to use, same with ICBMs. I remember it being hard as balls though

Does anyone remember Blood & Magic? I have fond memories of it, but I played it so long ago. I should try it again to see how it holds up by today's standards.

>>1962692
>>1963006
>>1963013
o, to have the partial files yet be unable to run them, like Tantalus

>>1963033
>how it holds up by today's standards
it doesn't unfortunately. the graphics are so much better than warcraft 2, but man the ai is so broken. When I was a kid I felt like a cheater restarting the missions over and over until the enemy gave me enough breathing room to kickstart my economy but apparently that's how "pros" (e.g. the people who post gameplay on youtube) play it too.

>>1963046
???

>>1963049
what seems to be the problem?

>>1963046
>restarting the missions over and over until the enemy gave me enough breathing room to kickstart my economy
elaborate

>>1963053
well? there's a random timer that activates enemy units once the mission is started. they may be randomly assigned an order to roam the map, guard a tile, or beeline and attack your nearest structure/creature. in later missions the enemy starts with 10-ish units. If you get ganked by a stone golem and a paladin while you're still gathering mana for your fourth basal golem you might just as well quit and start again.

>>1962692
>>1963039
I've traced the only known functional copy of Virtual History - Ancient Egypt to an autistic tranny on twitter.

How shall I proceed?

>>1963053
nayrt but it sounds like one of those games where the AI knows where you are at the start and hits you with a big raiding force before you can be expected to even have basic defenses set up. It's a pretty common problem with games of the time and tends to lead to unfair situations. But since the player also said that he was a kid at the time that might be it. Plenty of things from my childhood that seemed insurmountable then are things I can often beat on first try after returning as an adult.

>>1963057
become xer

>>1926878
Warcraft III sucked though

>>1926877
that is a good idea though

>>1936410
I played only a bit of it. Looked cool tho.
>>1956636
Played a demo of it, I think. I think this one has a following.

>>1966412
Cryo of all people made a political sim? Never heard of it. Is it good? Or at least charmingly weird?

>>1929513
>After Midway went bankrupt in 2009, the game essentially became abandonware. However, in 2010, the U.S. Air Force took an interest in the game and re-released it as a free download. The reasoning behind this was likely tied to the U.S. military's long history of using video games for recruitment and training. The game featured large-scale strategic and tactical battles, which aligned with military interests in strategy simulation

>>1967414
Really makes you think.

>>1919807
based paesano, for me it was pic related.

>>1919459 (OP)
Metal Knights
>the game is still being supported and it's 30 years old

>>1973713
Love the art style.

>>1955663
It came out before BFME and it was ok to play before then, not that bad just not good. I have some nostalgia for it but obviously BFME is superior.

>>1929850
I used to play the demo of this as a kid, I don't even know if there was actual release of it given how obscure this game is.

I remember the reviews being shit, but I played a demo and kind of liked it.

>>1973713
>Metal Knights
>Isn't about Mecha
Disappointing, but it does look good.

>>1974401
I brought the CD of this, but it didn't work for some reason.

>>1976042
>>1974401
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/besieger-ix9
Is this the same game? If so it's apparently abandonware and you can try if this version here works.

>>1976537
Yeah, looks like that and the same name.

>>1919459 (OP)
I keep looking for a pirate copy of this game and cannot find one for the life of me.

>>1973713
>still being supported and it's 30 years old

>Check their website
>raggedy-ass circa-2000s looking format
>their servers currently have 12 active games

>>1919592
the UI looks clean

>>1978162
Also their FAQ talked about 16-bit AOL internet kits...

>>1919766
>...Designer Danielle Bunten Berry (credited as Dan Bunten)...
uh-oh
>She also held a leadership role with the Boy Scouts
what a time to be alive

I remember playing it every day after school.
AI was a dumb as a bag of rocks, but the story mode was truly epic.
I still have a physical copy, but the disc is scratched beyond saving, and i dont have an DVD reader in my pc anymore.
I also cant find a torrent for it anywhere which sometimes keeps me up at night.

Why is this mobileKINO still not on iOS or Android?

>>1973713
For me it's the Sci-Fi sequel Star Knights

>>1978712
>A tranny-made game is named after an animal that's a sterile freak of nature
Really subtle subtext right here.

War Planets: Age of Chaos.
My dad got a demo for me somehow when I was a kid because I liked to play with the toys the game was based on (basically you had mini planets with moving parts full of military units p. cool). Only thing I remember from playing it was that the range of all units was fucked so you could just shoot beyond it by having units blind fire into the distance so the AI was always outranged and you could cheese it that way. Very 90s jank.

Has anyone even heard of this game? I've literally never seen it mentioned anywhere my whole life and if it wasn't for a MobyGames listing you could easily convince me that it was just a fever dream I had as a child.

>>1979371
The irony runs deep on that one. Recently found out he made this too: >>1926281
Made a lot of good and forward thinking games but lost his mind along the way apparently. Quite sad really.

>>1981438
cool not!tyranids. Is that a coincidence, or did guys not get a license to make a 40k game?

>>1981549
Guess you're referring to these? It's from a toy line from 1996. The game was based on the various figures from that line which was planets with moving parts that each had a small army in them. I really thought they were cool as a kid, it's like a mix between Transformers and Micro Machines with a sci-fi war twist. It's entirely possible that they were glancing at the Tyranids, they were released around the same time and Warhammer was just starting to become a "thing" but it was still far off from reaching the mainstream. No way of proving it though and to be honest I think both them and GW were just looking at various sci-fi tropes for a lot of their inspiration back then. The aesthetics of Warhammer didn't really start to get solidified until the third edition released in 1998 which is well after these were being produced.

>>1981744
oh. with an obscured tail, longer legs, and kneeling pose the minis no longer remind me of tyranids. must have been my fried brain.

>>1981953
No, they're honestly quite similar to Termagaunts.
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Termagant
Don't feel like converting webps but the similarity is definitely there. It's most likely a total coincidence though, both have designs that you can easily sum up as "recolored alien with a gun thing", especially in a bad resolution like the first pic.

I'm pretty sure this is the most anyone's talked about this thing in several decades, wow.

>>1981438
Wait wasn't this the game that had a free demo disc given out with one of the toys? I swear I played one of these games because it had literally given away a demo disc.

>>1982370
I don't remember, sorry. I played it when I was a child and I have no idea how I got the demo. However!
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/war-planets-age-of-chaos-bv0
The single comment here says that it was a freebie and that it was given out with toys in some cases, so it definitely happened.

Picrel was the first one of these I got by the way, now that I do remember. They were really cool. Loved the walkers. I still have them in a drawer somewhere because I was always too much of a sentimental twat to throw out my favorite childhood toys.

>>1982434
Ha it was! I remember that squiggly green "Biofield" terrain.

>>1982434
>>1981744
I had the bone planet, the ice planet, and the smaller evil planet(Remora?) Great toyline, like a war oriented Mighty Max.

>>1983404
Mighty Max... Now THOSE were some toys, let me tell you.

>>1919459 (OP)
I know I wasn't all /that/ unpopular
I just miss strategy games that have speculative futures.

>>1985541
CTP doesn't really cut it for this thread but I get the sentiment. What speculative futures did you enjoy about it, and are there any more obscure games that try out that concept that you enjoy, anon?

>>1985541
I recently tried it out and the public works system and upgrading tiles is a cool conceopt, it's just busywork. Nothing really outstanding about this game other than going to the space age

>>1919459 (OP)
Allegedly unbeatable due to a bug.

>>1919519
>Looks like early paraslop
The dude that designed the board game Great Invasions that the vidya in the screenshot is based on also designed the original Europa Universalis board game that the EU vidya series is based on (not to be confused with The Price Of Power, which is the board game based on the vidya series based on the board game)

>>1927912
>>1927621
Hey, I've played this game!

>>1940136
>death of flash killed some great games
Flashpoint might have them, I saw several Kongregate games on there when I messed around with it before

>>1929850
>>1974061
>>1979370
Bruh it stil exists online! Played with it because of the customizable ship skirmishes, you could unlock credits to play the top levels after grinding skirmishes for a couple hours or less. Flying around and building bases in campaign mode seemed pointless. This was at the same time as Ultracorps was run by that one guy on some rando server after the Zone days.

>>1936677
Hindsight is 20/20, the best thing about the 90s was that a lot of people were actually trying to be creative instead of playing it safe and churning out forgettable paste.

>>1988008
More of a Pizza Tycoon guy as far as Tycoon games no one cares about goes. Or Pizza Connection. Those games are probably more applicable to this thread than the OG PT at least as far as audiences outside of Germany goes, can't imagine those made any real splash outside of those places.

>>1927174
I remember this one, it felt like last big AOE type RTS of the early 00s. RTW came out the following year so I don't think this game ever had a chance.

>>1988764
fyi, these games were pretty big in Poland

>>1989459
Makes sense, those games have central Euro/Nord autism jank written all over them without being a full-on job sim.

>>1988286
>Hindsight is 20/20, the best thing about the 90s was that a lot of people were actually trying to be creative instead of playing it safe and churning out forgettable paste.
It's a double edged sword. I love so much about the 90s, but a lot of the time it doesn't take much for the rose-tinted glasses to be removed. There's a reason why a lot of UIs, controls and more were standardized over the years. And yet, even if there were a lot of duds back then, at least many of them were interesting.

Before 11\9

>>1994265
What game is this I need to know what this secret is and the url at the bottom just gave me a wall of text in German

>>1936212
fun fact WWIII BG actually started out as a prequel to Earth 2140/2150 but NA publishers said that was stupid since "no one here knows what earth 21whatever is."

>>1995052
pokemon?

>>1995131
Pokémon is about 10-year olds. All women in the series would consider someone aged 13 to have hit the wall, so it definitely isn't Pokemon.

>>1994872
It's Manhattan by lemon labs

I only know one strategy game that only I've ever played

>>1995753
failed gamedev?

Nobunaga Ibun on the gba

>>1979339
nigger everyones played this

I've seen literally 0 people talk about this game. The first in the series seems reasonably well-known but no one seems to care about this one.

>>2007598
I had to look that one up. It's got an entirely different name in US as Mob Rule.

>>1967414
The Airforce did the same thing for Area 51. I think they just wanted to save some vidya.

>>2007832
I have no idea why they didn't just call it "Constructor 2" everywhere. Seems like the reasonable thing to do.

>>1998161
niggers

oh hell yeah ive post a word

>>1930789
>>1930834
If I ever get back home again
If I ever get back home again
If I ever get back home again
That recruiter's gonna die!

>>2007598
One of those games were the AI always targets the player

>>2008750
I was always pissed that we never got a 3. I really wanted those fuckers the Skirineen in given how big they were in the backstory.

>>2008750
I have lots of fond memories of it but that game really is a slog. I wish it got a modern release or at least some open source port with QoL fixes. The scenario editor is good and I really like the races in the game. It's SO close to being good. It just needs some fixes here and there.

>>2010241
That would've been neat but given the era it'd likely have been some kind of turn of the millennium clunkfest with the world's worst UI.

Anyone?

>>2015436
Played it and Multiwinia way back in the day, it was one of the few games that could run on my computer at the time. I found the fact that the Darwinians release the souls of their dead in digital Chinese lanterns so they can be reconstituted very moving. The soundtrack was quite nice too.

>>2015816
Oh yeah, it's that Brazilian Starcraft. I didn't play it but I've checked the gameplay and I have to say the voice lines are really something. I especial love the barely understandable indian pilot of transporter.

>>2015442
Did you know the Darwinian death scream was just a recording of one of the devs' cats meowing?

>>2016753
That's an awfully charming little quirk, I had no clue.

>>2015436
how does it hold up today? i used to love everything about this game

space empires 2-4? basically win3.1 imperium galactica. also imperium galactica 1/2. i still play chaos overlords though.

>>2008750
1 and 2

Holy shit my favorite board and thread are back

I'll just state for the record that this
>>1919502
Is an underrated childhood gem.
That's all.

Imperator Rome. Made by Paradox who no one has ever heard of before. Received a patch yesterday believe it or not.

>>2019770
I've got this game and for the life of me I can't figure out what I'm supposed to be doing in it.
I'm fine with the usual paradox denseness and expect to sink dozens of hours before I know what I'm doing, but there's something else wrong with IR that I just can't wrap my retard brain around.

I'm going to say it:
Strategy games set in the Roman time period are boring. Not because Rome is uninteresting, but because any game that offers multiple factions has to pretend that Rome isn't going to dominate the region and "don't worry, Gaul can do it too :^)" without offering any further explanation.
So what you end up with is a reasonably fun Roman campaign and then everything else is dogshit.

Anyone else remembers this? Seven Kingdoms

Another game from that era ish I barely remember from being a kid and playing on my friends brothers computer. It was like a city building rts, where after you made buildings and you clicked on them, a tiny animation played. I remember when we clicked on a house you saw a small kid being snotty and we got grossed out, but that's all I remember lmao

>>2019870
lmao I found it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Alr3NoME8
Constructor

For me, it's pic related. One of the first games I've played (at least at home instead of in the school's computer lab), got it by accident when the guy who got me a burned CD with a bunch of pirated games for my first PC added this instead of Warcraft by mistake. Had pretty cool unit designer and a stock market mechanic I didn't understand back then.

>>1936212
I lent my CD to the son of my father's friend who spent a holiday with us, and I've never seen it again.

>>1985541
CTP is fucking great and I enjoy it above any other Civ game, truthfully.
The soundtrack is killer, too.

>>2019915
Also, this. My father got it for my birthday from the bargain bin in 2000, both of those games had a huge influence on me back then. The original comic is great, too.

>>1930860
Iron Storm was a great game. I suppose if you want Hitler on the back cover, you have to pay the Holocaust tax. Really enjoyed this as a kid though, and probably introduced me to the genre. Unless you count something like Shining Force as a turn-based strategy game.

I'm so glad this thread is back.

>>2019872
Posted about the sequel earlier in the thread: >>2007598
Constructor is practically mainstream compared to its completely forgotten sequel. As for 7K I actually came across it in a YouTube video the other month, hadn't heard of it before. Seemed OK but very by the books for the era.

>>2019915
That game looks fun. Gives me Earth 2140 vibes. Which is a game that probably belongs here too. The one thing I liked about it over the sequel was that it actually had infantry. Always thought the lack of that was a bummer in 2150.

>>2019922
>Holocaust tax
Name a better argument for piracy. I'll wait.

>>2020217
>Name a better argument for piracy. I'll wait.
100% of profits will be donated to the State of Isreal

I feel like someone must have played Star Wolves but I have never meet anyone that has

>>1934294
>play this game as a little kid
>no idea what I'm doing
>get assassinated by my own science officer because I let some colonists starve
Good times.

>>2020263
I played this one and the sequels but I could never get into them. Too much jank and too much waiting around. I'm still convinced these games could've been great if only the concept was executed a bit more competently.

>>2020288
I agree with you on 2 and 3 being slow but 1? you go from objective to objective with very little waiting around

>>2020295
It's been a long time since I played it so maybe my memories are mixed up with the sequels, but I remember simply flying from A to B to take a lot of time.

>>2019918
One of my favorites games although I won't lie it's elevated a lot by amazing mood. It got really great soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y2kj8RPwgM&list=PLF120EBCE7906D837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypvWY2f3_c&list=PLF120EBCE7906D837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTrt84hXsgs&list=PLF120EBCE7906D837

>>2019770
By all rights should be amazing, feels lifeless

>>1957241
it is same genre as commandos

>>1960641
>>1961119
it's frustratingly hard in general, i never really got far either and apparently it just gets worse later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ImoYmct0Ns

>>2020682
I've heard of Spellcross before, but never knew it was Slovak. Huh.

I'm the only white person who played Kingdom Under Fire 2 because they turned it into a cliche MMO with RTS elements tacked on. Now they're making an NFT game out of it. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Korea?

>>2020759
Didn't the NFT craze die almost immediately after it started? Pretty much all major NFT games were quietly cancelled.

>>2020973
Deader than disco within a year, yes.

historykino

>>2020973
I just want a fantasy hybrid rpg/rts, KuF is the only series I know that does this and it hasn't had a good game since the original xbox
They re-released the first game - essentially a warcraft 2 clone - for free on steam as a proof of concept for blockchain multiplayer whatever that means.
This series deserved better. Even the PC ports of the OG xbox game are ASS because they simply stop working on newer hardware and the current devs don't give a fuck

>>2020973
Squenix is still going with theirs. Ubisoft too.

>>2019845
>wrong with IR
bugged to hell. Some mechanics pin you in a lifeless place. Also, autism simulator, click the button so line goes up. Ive so preferred eu3 or the like, where building a new manufacture happened once a decade

>>2020263
Ashes of Victory/пeпeл пoбeды never coming out was a tragedy.

>>2019918
>4 factions to play
>the canonical to comics evil faction (apparently it takes the main character, who's an evil douchebag, much time to realize that the guy who is into dark shit isn't being "pragmatic" but just wants to worship Satan)
>corrupt knight order who get roflstomped in the comics
>the Machiavellian Empire (dudes fight against literal Satan spawn)
>actually goody two shoes knight order that worship God
>play the game
>wanna pick the good knights because I like playing good guys
>first I have to play the tutorial campaign
>in the last mission the MC gathers an army of thugs and promises them that they can ransack the fortress town of the corrupt knight order he needs to wait out winter in and rape anyone they like, spoils to the winners etc.
>you have a big enough army to easily roflstomp the enemy
>well
>run my army into the enemy in the most dumb way I can think of to kill them all off
>a small problem: that leaves a good chunk of the enemy army intact
>kill them all for a VERY long time by abusing MC's magic and their lack of brains
>mission accomplished, I now can finally choose the good guys to work with and just be GOOD without any of that le realistic honhon (it's French) bandit lord nonsense
The game is great in the presentation, but it's so jank that no wonder it never got much acclaim. The AI in it is seriously retarded, like one of the first missions in the actual campaign is to help allied Imperial mages survive an attack by some bandits/evil creatures. Easy-peasy, since they might be squishy, but they are protecting a hole in the wall and giant earth elementals they summon are definitely not squishy. The problem is that the mages don't wanna be left out of the fight and stroll into the midst of it, a long with their summons. The pathfinding is also super fucked up, so the retarded AI still has great chances against the player, since whatever great plan he might have won't survive the reality of his units trying to execute it.

>>2021557
I agree with you. I tried the game a few months back, and it felt so buggy and janky that I decided to shelve it and come back another time, which is a pity as the setting seemed very interesting, but it was really held back by the gameplay.

>>2021557
Yeah, the AI only had 2 tactics:
1: Stand around and do nothing unless enemy comes into range, then stand around and swing/shoot, until something triggers and
2: Everyone charge the nearest enemy
The best way to win a siege was to walk around the wall, throwing fireballs at the enemies on the towers, then do the same when the charge AI triggers and they all bunch up at the gate. If playing Dark Moon, use a squad of necromancers to raise like 6 undead out of a single corpse, somehow.

Melee fliers generally didn't work (at least the archangel shot lightning, but good luck getting a dragon or an air elemental to hit anything), siege engines didn't seem t work and oh god, the friendly fire... I couldn't count the number of times I had to redo a battle because Ghorghor Bey slapped Wismerhill out of existence. Pretty much any melee unit with AoE attacks did that.

Magic was pretty dope, the music was amazing, and the game was very atmospheric. And speaking of good guys, the paladins were pretty badass, playing as the Knights of Justice was the first time a melee unit reached level 20 before mages in my games.

>>2021615
>raise like 6 undead out of a single corpse
And one of these 6 is vampire, which is elite unit that comes in unit of 4 instead of 16. Or maybe that's only true when liches rise dead. Both them and necromancers were always pain in the ass to deal with. You don't kill them fast enough and they'll swarm you with undead. On the other hand it was always cool to take like 5 mages, use fire rain and watch enemy army just burn away.

>>2021799
I remember setting up custom game with a 8 wizard squad of imperial mages surrounded by as much orcs as possible (I think you could do 4 armies, so about 4k?).

Between the earth elementals, rain of fire and earthquake, the orcs never stood a chance.

>>2020263
I played it and liked it a lot. Played some sequels and it wasn't that good.

>>2020990
great game with actual logistic

Was reminded of this in another thread. It's a Sudden Strike-like set during the cold war. I remember being excited to get it because I was hoping to get to play out some of those scenarios. Korean war? Getting to steamroll the IDF? Sign me up!

Game turned out to be pretty bleh in the end though. I'm pretty sure literally no one else ever played this.

>>2025764
>Israel has almost as many campaign missions as the other three campaigns combined
That's the most surprising and amusing thing to me. This and the overall focus on Suez conflicts and lack of Vietnam war. Considering the devs are Russian I found at first weird that there isn't USSR campaign, but then again, what conflict could they depict? Afghanistan? Not the most glorious war.

>>2025797
Maybe have a Soviet expeditionary force for those scenarios and have them act as narrative anchors/hero units. That might work. Outside of hypotheticals most logical factions in the cold war are mostly going to get really shitty deals. Not like America did all that much in the way of conventional fighting that turned out great for them either if that's a criteria.

Might have been interesting with some hypotheticals though. US invasion of Cuba for instance, or some other what-if. Could make a lot of interesting scenarios that way. Overall really wish we had more games that let you play with kit from the 50s-70s. Really underrated era.

>>1985541
I played this as a kid, it was my only Civ game.
>>2020427
>>2019770
Should have leaned more into CK2, less into EU4.

Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld
For those who'd find a Waterworld game too much

>>2027550
>For those who'd find a Waterworld game too much
Civ IV with RI kinda does that already.
>>1919509
>>1988255
SOVVL

I somehow actually played this is a kid and did well. I think by then it was beyond any doubt that I was autistic as fuck and a total lost cause.

>>2033858
>total lost cause
https://youtu.be/ZHLZCfe4g18?t=4

>>2034053
Thanks, anon.

I remember getting this from an abandonware site and playing it in school. It's a game about the American revolution where you manage both the military and society almost like a proto-Total War. I couldn't beat it for the life of me though but since you can negotiate for expanding into Canada you can hypothetically create some pretty blessed timelines.

No idea if this really counts as a RTS, loved playing the demo back in the day and just wrecking everything with that big penis-shaped walking cannon that shoots exploding shurikens.

>>2039452
What is it? And why do those guys look like they have tech magic staffs or tech maces?

>>2039452
>>2039498
Isn't that this game? >>1981438
Also a weird demo of a game no one played and it looks similar.

>>1978712
Dan Bunten was a proto-tranny. Vanishingly rare creatures before the 2000s.

>>2039688
Vanishingly rare creatures before the 2020s.

>>2039784
No, they started to become heavily promoted in the 2010s. It's like a switch was flipped in Obama's second term where they decided to just turn all children into trannies. By the 20s everyone was starting to get sick of state-mandated Tumblrisms.

>>2039518
>>2039498
Yeah it's the War Planets licensed game, never seen the TV show before people started dumping clips of it on YouTube ages later and only gotten the full game from a russian warez website ages after playing the demo, but shortly before 90% of all those kind of places got turned itno ransomware virus breeding grounds.

Also here's the mandatory mention of Ancient Conquest just in case.

>>2040125
>lost my pic as usual

>>1927188
I think I'm the only person who enjoyed the bait and switch. Drowning Doom best faction.

>>2040140
>Drowning Doom
I can't decide between it and Tainted Coil. Ironheade is cool but the other two are just so much more. Brides are like the cutest girls in a Western videogame which is impressive since they are spooky zombie ghosts. Having all 3 upgraded Brides and managing to steal enemy Doom's ones with a Wig is so fucking OP because their slowdown debuff can stack MORE.

"Huang-di" (1996)
A mix of sim, strategy and RPG elements where you rule the Celestial Kingdom

>>2043519
it really was a good looking game, i remember it had my favorite shield effects i'd ever seen and was disappointed at how bad the shield effects looked in sins by comparison
gameplay is fairly interesting too, pretty unique and easy to get into. but i tried it a few years ago and the start of the campaign is excruciatingly boring, just the mission design really but i got bored and never powered through

>>2043569
yes, it has been a very long time since i've played it, when i was a child. i mostly played skirmish because i was too bad for the campaign, i remember playing a map where every faction would meet in some space connected trough wormholes and have huge battles there. if i'd play it today i probably wouldn't enjoy it as much anymore but back then i loved it. and yeah the effects are pretty impressive, especially for a game from 2002. it was also one of the few games running on my absolute shitbox i had back then, it was very optimized

>>1919459 (OP)
>only you have ever played

Space Mining Colony game written in Qbasic, with code i typed in from an old 1980s computer book from UK.
>>1919491
i read the Prima game guide in a bookstore. plot sounds cooler than Starcraft NGL.

>>1940136
>>1988259
you can still play them on Newgrounds.
>spectromancer-gathering-of-power
NG has an almost full version of Spectromancer too. but you can buy it cheap on STEAM anyway. pretty good MTG clone. Chronomancer and Dominator cards are fun.

>>2043611
>spectromancer-gathering-of-power
might as well link it.
https://spectromancer.com/
there's also the demo on the dev's website but you can only play as the mechanic guy in the demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO-PZdJx7GU
gameplay vid.

I don't think there's all that many people who know this game who aren't also from the ex-commieblock parts of world…

>>1940136
>no Necronator2 on the list
Majapahit campaign NEVER EVER

>>2043616
Actually it was popular in Spain

>>2043602
>plot sounds cooler than Starcraft NGL
If only it was even close to being as playable as OG Starcraft.

>>2043616
I haven't played it but I've seen one person calling the game racist. Dunno if it simply because it has Europeans, Asians and Arabs as playable faction or some campaign story wise reasons.

>>2043616
>general flagship
This and S.W.I.N.E.

>>1940136
>no warlight
>no caravaneer
>NO FEUD-
No that one is popular. Machiavellian suns was kino.

>>2017497

ahh chaos overlods, that's the name of the game that inspired the card game chron x.

>>2043616
>>2043630

Spanish here: I confirm it was a good game. Made popular by FX Interactive, a local publisher that brought us good vydia at reasonable prices in the early 2000s, before Steam

Personally, I like Tzar more than AoE as a casual player, back in the days

Submarine Titans was another one

Now, if I have bring a game that wasn't mentioned before I'd say Tribal Rage and Evolution: the game of intelligent life

Both games made my days before 1998 when C&C arrived

I miss the late 90's and early 2000's

Never figured this one out

Walls of Rome… anyone play this?

>>1943490
Ah yes, the game that is impossible to search due to sharing the name with a very popular 40k rts
I don't think it was ever released for sale, just a copy was released online iirc?

>>2052205
>Evolution: the game of intelligent life
Is this the game where the objective was to evolve into a sapient species? I think you could get raptors, humans, elephants, and ravens(?) to evolve sapience at least

>>1943104
Doesn't this have an open-source version and the unreleased expansion variable for free nowadays?

>>2052331
Remind me of Lords of the Realm. Are these games related?

>>2052679
To be fair this series feel more like puzzle game with how restrictive the solutions are. At least that's what I felt playing the third game.

WW2 Frontline Command was a gem

i had a cd with a bunch of demos and loved playing this when i was super young
there was another game that i think was strategy with toy soldiers. a level was like a living room with a glass table in the middle and then some other levels with aliens. does anyone know it?

>>2052767
Swarm Assault? That was a fun game. Did you know there’s an open-source remake built on the OpenRA engine? https://www.moddb.com/mods/opensa

>>1960641
I am happy I am not the only one who played it those 25 years ago

>>2020705
I really, really hope it will arrive at some point on GOG
I will play it during my retirement, to make a whole life circle thing

>>1960641
The only time I beat Spellcross campaign was by cheating.
But good lord, why hasn't other games made the whole "modern army fighting orcs and necromancers" again

>>2052760
https://youtu.be/YoaZ498YTes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTR8OqX6jLs
OST in that game goes really hard. Man, I didn't think anyone remembered that game. Nice seeing infantry in that game's engine too, I remember WW3 BG not having those and that was kinda lame. Janky as it was.
>Sniper shoots one round
>Half a squad is wiped

>>2052767
Not what you're looking for but that reminds me of the fact that I always wanted a good Army Men rts. I loved playing with plastic soldiers as a kid, sad that it never happened. At least nothing good.

>>1925037
Wesnoth has a huuuuuge community.

>>1926994
I still play the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms every now and then just to dust off my NES cart.

>>2053192
Wrong game anon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWudrlXO5c

>>2053270
Oh right, Frontline Command, not Attack.
Well to be fair, no one in the entire world has played FA either.

This shit was my bread and butter as a kid, played the fuck out of it and I'm pretty sure it's why my dad got me the AOE games because I played it so much. I can't get the downloaded versions of this game to fucking work though so I've had this itch to play that I can't scratch for a year now.

This thread has been great. Thanks for all the suggestions so far. We should keep this going after we're about to get bumped off the board.

>>2053855
>We should keep this going after we're about to get bumped off the board.
Judging from the board and this board speed it won't happen until September. Also your pic reminded me of pic related although I don't know if Knights of Honor are really so obscure. It got a sequel couple years ago.

>>2008170
It was story oriented, Constructor was much more like a sandbox
Maybe that's why they went with a different name

>>2052336
Yes, it was

Aside from humans there was elephants, birds, raptors, and wombats or something

Great atmospheric OST btw. My favourite as a child along with Populous The Beginning

>>2043616
Played it, and I would say this one is decently known.

Hammer of the Gods

Netstorm.

>>2039688
His website was very honest about his reasons (and regrets) compared to modern trannies:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020704032302/http://www.anticlockwise.com/dani/personal/changes/dont.htm

>>2057051
Has anyone done something similar to their mission based tech tree thing?

>>1919459 (OP)
World Empire III... home. I only played the shareware version. Now I'm going to try to find a full version and play it again after all these years.

>>2058134
I remember playing 1. Probably 2 and/or 3, but I remember 1. And that's even more fitting for this thread because it doesn't even have a Moby Games listing so I can be fairly certain literally no one else in the world played it.

Total Annihlation was my most played game of the 90s so imagine my surprise when Kingdoms was the most jank disappointment

>>2058542
No, fool. It's underrated gem.

Which are your favorites databases? I bet that every single (non-internet) game here is listed on myabandonware.

>>2058631
I like Mobygames as a general one because I like their search features but Myabandonware is also a very good site and it's especially good for the kinds of games being discussed here.

>>2058512
>it doesn't even have a Moby Games listing so I can be fairly certain literally no one else in the world played it
Based

>>1921109
I have *two* copies!

>>1922441
I played this. Made brothels everywhere.
>>1948836
And this, actually I came to post this but kudos to you.
>>2019870
I only played Seven Kingdoms 2. Found it on GOG a year back.

Let's see my contributions.
Beasts & Bumpkins.

Outpost 2

Small Soldiers

Codename: Panzers

>>2059099
Always like 1 more than 2. I liked the hard sci fi elements of it and turn based colony builders are just kino. It was only later in life that I learned how completely fucked and unfinished it was sadly. Doubt it's aged very well at all, not that it was very popular to begin with even if I sorta liked it, chalk it up to me being retarded and underaged.

>>2059106
Used to be somewhat talked about back circa 2003-2004. They released 3 games in the series, IIRC. Phase One, Phase Two, and Cold War.

>>2059181
Yes, maybe I'm not the *only* person to play it, but it's one of those games I have never seen mentioned during my 15 years of browsing /v/.

Much like pic related, the Space Empires series.

>>2057055
Never understood why Thunder never got an aerial transport. They had one less unit then everyone else.

>>1926994
Man I thought I was good at this but I can't find this game anywhere

>>2059772
I've played the shit out of SE4 back in the day. It was my first (or one of the first) space 4x.

>>2060141
https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/genghis-khan-aoki-ookami-to-shiroki-mejika-iv-1998

I think it was THE first strategy game I played on PC (it was 386SX/33MHz)
I spend unholly amount of hours on that title.

>>1930623
I refuse to believe this game actually worked for people. I bought it from retail, downloaded on various systems and it never once worked. The absolute niggers at Lesta need to be shot by the FSB.

>>1919459 (OP)
Shadow President, it had the whole CIA Factfile in the game for 1992? good read even if you don't play the game.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/9598/shadow-president/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/9598/shadow-president/cover/group-49199/cover-132363/
only one of your staff looks like Dick Cheney. spooky!

i never played the Cyber Judas sequel.

>>2062299
https://www.mobygames.com/game/9621/cyberjudas/

the Cyber Judas game which no one played.

>>2062301
I played that game. I'm probably the only person in the world that bought a copy of it. Old used one because I liked Shadow President as a kid. Major disappointment imo. Just didn't have the feel of the original in various ways and I really didn't like some of the interface changes they made. But I might like it more if I went back to play it I might find some kino in it though. It does have some mid-90s kino going for it. But I think I'll just play the prequel if I want that nostalgia itch scartched.

>>2059099
The Blight is approaching!

This was on a demo disk in one of my nana's pc magazines back in the early 2000s. It's website hasn't changed: https://o-r-b.com/.
I think it was trying to compete with Homeworld. That didn't work.

>>2062329
>I really didn't like some of the interface changes they made.
i think the dev will be sad that you didn't like his cutting edge 3D graphix. supposedly they bought a brand new SGI machine to make them back in the day?

>>2063362
Just compare and contrast these two screens.
>Mostly clearly labeled buttons, no loading into different screens, all information instantly outlined to you, function over form
vs
>Guesswork interface, constant screen switching and clunky, important information is often buried, everything is slower, form over function

It's a problem you see with a lot of mid-90s strategy games in particular. Like motion controls a decade later. You have all these new toys to play with as a developer thanks to the CD and early 3D rendering but did you ever ask: is it actually an idea to use this? Hindsight being 20:20, no it usually was not.

>>2063385
>function over form
yeah but i like round buttons. and pre-rendered 3D is what some newfags would call "soulful".

>all information in 1 screen
ACKSUALLY according to experts in Human Interfaces and UI, back when i learned it in school , too much info packed into 1 screen is also bad form. even if you summarise the info.

>>2063814
>too much info packed into 1 screen is also bad form
Is that why every menu in vidya these days is nothing but a series of boxes that open up other boxes?

>>1919459 (OP)
I loved this game as a kid. I replayed it recently, it's not bad for its time. Terran Ascendancy is the subtitle. Couldn't even find a decent high res picture of the cover.

>>2063814
Vomiting rn. This is what people actually believe sadly.

>>2063874
Yes.

>>2064183
I read a review for this as a kid. I vaguely remember it. Hadn't thought about it in God knows how many years.

>>2064183
this game tells a fun story, there are some good set pieces and the exp progression and kitting out your dudes before a mission feel EXTREMELY satisfying. i also think it's held up pretty well graphics wise
one big drawback is that it's pretty easy most of the time, the only semblance of difficulty comes from annoying bug types like spitters and the occasional brain bug.
you can get it to a decent level of difficulty by increasing the bug spawn rates from bugholes (and making sure you do it only for warriors), but in that case ammo management becomes tough because you'll be eating it up at a rate that the game didn't account for when placing the ammo depots around the map.

>>2052205
>>2043630
>>2043616
>Iberians liked it so much that they made 4 (FOUR!) latinx-exclusive expansion packs
WTF?

Red Lightning, a late 80s tbs. Only recently learned that it was made by Norm Kroger. Actually a pretty big fan of his work.

This era of strategy games really doesn't hold up very well at all imo. These games are often very clunky and slow. But it's fun as a curiosity and it's neat that only a few years later a lot of these earlier issues started to get ironed out, not to mention the graphical leap you had just in the early 90s.

Didn't play the game, just saw trailer for it and it became a core memory
Lost C&C game i like to call it.

Somewhere between 2007 and 2009, around the time when Resident Evil 5 was teasered and released, i saw a trailer for an RTS game that resembled Generals. It was shown on one of those TV channels dedicated to computer games and tech.

The trailer included both live-action and gameplay cuts. In the live-action segment, two old generals were shouting at each other through a video link while sitting in grey rooms that resembled bunkers or command centers. The generals looked like Granger and Townes, and i specifically remember one of them saying to the other, "Я тeбя yничтoжy! (I will destroy you!)". In the gameplay cuts, a female assistant, just like in Generals said, "Дoбpo пoжaлoвaть нa нoвyю бaзy, Гeнepaл (Welcome to the new base, General)". Not "commander," as is typically used in RTS games, especially in other C&C games, but specifically "General." One of the gameplay clips featured flamethrower infantry in red faction color pushing into enemy forces in a snowy environment. The health of the units was displayed not as a bar above them, but as a circle underneath, which changed color as the unit's health decreased.

>>2064742
Why the fuck are those not available on tzared? Balance issues? Authors' rights?

>>2064742
This is similar to what happened with Haemimont's other series - Celtic Kings/Nemesis of the Roman Empire/Imperivm 3. Imperivm got a buncha DLCs/Expacs only in Spanish.

>>2070900
This is a real shot in the dark and it's probably wrong but unless you're talking about some fever dream of a C&C Generals mod I don't know what else you might be talking about.

My best guess is Act of War based on the FMV elements. The time period is off by a few years, but it was a C&C style game with FMV clips sprinkled throughout it. The other inconsistencies could be explained by the fact that you're describing a vague memory from years ago, so it's not impossible that you're remembering a Russian dub of a game absolutely fucking no one except me remembers. Here's a longplay without commentary:
https://youtu.be/n_VW9dWmwp0

I went mad myself looking for this by the way because I read your post and it sparked this most random memory of this game. The only thing I recall is the scene on the Golden Gate Bridge. It's probably the wrong game like I said it's a total shot in the dark but either way this thing belongs here because I haven't seen anyone mention it since the late 00s.

>>2072134
Evem shovelware from the 00's has much better presentation than current AAAslop and indieslop have today.

>>2072165
That game is hardly shovelware. Decent production values for its time, it's just one of those games that were decently received at the time but never caught on beyond that. You should try it, it actually plays pretty well.

>>1919812
I watched as some kids tried to figure how to play this.
They never understood why the map continued seemingly forever.

>>2073225
Was it toroid?

>>2040738
My favorite was the rat gut. Those guys where op as fuck.

>>2072134
Can't be AoW.
I know that what i described exists, even if just as trailer, i remember it like me and my brother saw it on a TV yesterday.

>>2075071
Fair enough. Like I said, quite a shot in the dark. Just have a hard time thinking of anything else.
How about this one?
https://www.mobygames.com/game/29087/maelstrom/
From the same ballpark in terms of timeframe and also has FMV. But also seems to miss a lot of the traits you're listing to be fair.

Really tough one, this. I don't doubt you, but you seem to have hit upon a really obscure one. Which is saying something given how this thread has unearthed shit based on demos for shovelware based on defunct toy lines.

>>1926587
i liked the two battle academy too. too bad we never got a third one.

>>1929409
this one had ton of charm, too bad about only 2 factions.

I remember roleplaying around a lot in sandbox mode with my units
https://www.old-games.com/download/9328/desert-rats-vs-afrika-korps

>>2078500
Given the era having 2 distinct factions isn't a bad deal. Anything with more tended to just be a lot of palette swaps.

>>2079669
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Reality
Man, these guys put out some real jank. Interesting.

>>1959457
I had a demo for one of these back in the day. All I really remember was that you could cancel attack cooldowns by clicking again as soon as the animation finished. I clickspam to this day because of that fucking bug.

Also, chuckling at that BFA on the SAW.

>>2084064
That's funny, only thing I remember from that War Planets game posted earlier is a bug that let you shoot beyond your max range just by clicking beyond it. I bet that's why I experiment with max ranges in games like Total War.

>>1919459 (OP)
Hello. I don't think this is necessarily an obscure game, but it's been a few days of search and I can't find it. I'm looking for a game that was similar to Master of Orion 1 but newer, that I played at some point between 2000 and 2002. The one thing I can clearly remember besides the graphics is that one of the materials for building units was Adamantium, like from Wolverine from the X-men.

Any guesses?

>>2084847
Galactic Civilization, perhaps? It had adamantium armor for ships. Though it was released in 2003...

>>2085340
No, I don't recognize the UI, and like you said it's a 2003 game. I'm 99.99% sure this game must have been released on or before 2001. Thank you for trying though.

>>2084847
>>2085487
I found the game after going again through the list of 4X games but this time on MobyGames: It was Space Empires IV (2000), but I was merging it in my mind with MoO3 which had adamantium armor.
>>2085340
Thank you anon, your suggestion made me look for GC's screenshots on MobyGames and I went from there.

>>2085675
nayrt but funny that you should mention it because I was writing up a reply where I'd suggest that, hit update, and realized you'd already done that. MB is great for these kinds of scavenger hunts.

>>2085675
That's funny, because my first thought was "does Space Empires have adamantium armor?". After checking the tech tree, that was a no, so I went with GC instead (well, and Endless Space, but that's a decade too late).

If no one else wants to, I'll make a new thread based around this concept once we hit page 10. This thread has been fun and full of awesome recommendations.

>>2088325
I totally forgot this existed.

>501 replies
>no Nuclear War
Guess no one ever played it.
The best thing about this game is that while it was released in 1989, the final leaders featured in it stuck around till 2008 (Castro) and 2011 (Gaddafi)

>>2089780
I played the shit out of it in my abandonware years of playing old shit in school. Good game. I liked its comedic angle of it but tbf I was never good at it and prefer more serious games from the era like Shadow President and Middle East Political Simulater. It's just a bit too arcadey for me as far as gameplay goes.

That being said, it's a surprisingly balanced and fun game if you can put up with the somewhat outlandish aesthetics and premise. Good tastes.

>>1919459 (OP)
New thread: >>2091209
Let's keep unearthing things no one's talked about in forever.

>>2059078
Gee, Bill!