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[quote name="Mischief Shai-hulud"]Leave it to shareware developers to come up with crazy shit like a <A HREF="http://www.rtsoft.com/dscroll/index.shtml" TARGET="new">game</A> that mixes <B>Eye of the Beholder</B> with <B>Scrabble</B>, for better of worse. Ignore the spider on the title board. Now here's an even crazier idea: a mix of <B>Civilization</B> with <B>Minesweeper</B>. One that's actually pretty damn fun and over in about 15 minutes. It's called <A HREF="http://www.oasisgame.com/index.php" TARGET="new">Oasis</A>. I highly recommend trying the demo. Speaking of coffe-break games, They made a Sequel to <B>Strange Adventures in Infinite Space</B> with the disappointingly plain title of <A HREF="http://www.shrapnelgames.com/digital_eel/Weird_worlds/1.htm" TARGET="new">Weird Worlds</A>. The graphics are way better, especially the beam weapons in fleet battles. The biggest change this game makes is an increased emphasis towards amassing and upgrading a huge fleet of ships and using them tactically instead of just getting your starting ship beefed up. You can switch equipment into and out of mercenary ships at will and when you're ready to retire, you can strip them bare for trade fodder. The reason a big fleet is necessary is even on normal mode you will run into a whole shitload of enemies. On the downside, if you already played SAIIS to death, you'll find that only a fourth of the goodies to find in this sequel are new. But if you think assembling a ragtag fleet and waging huge space battles in pausable real-time during a break it's worth a DL. Note that the download is an iso file that doesn't include the latest patch, so have a blank disc handy. As far as I can tell from the <A HREF="http://www.lostinflatspace.com" TARGET=New">Flatspace 2</A> demo, the improvements are very marginal and you still have to travel the universe by going Jump! Wait for the Hyperdrive to recharge. Jump! Wait some more. Jump! Holy shit fight off all those attackers! Jump! Wait. And in case I never mentioned it here before, in my interests of proving again and again that Nethack has been outdone a million times over, here's the freeware game <A HREF="http://www.monkkonen.net/notrium.php" TARGET="new">Notrium</A> a robinson crusoe in space survial game utilizing (rather messily) the <B>Crimsonlands</B> engine. Don't bother playing anything but the human.[/quote]