Forum Overview :: Mischief Maker's Maker's Mark :: #60-51

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]#60 <A HREF="http://www.apezone.com/starshipsunlimited.php" TARGET="new">Starships Unlimited</A> (Shareware) Space 4X that mixes a little Master of Orion, a little Heroes of Might and Magic, and a little Starfleet Command while de-emphasizing the boring parts of 4X games. Make sure you set the options so that by default you handle combat. #59 <A HREF="http://www.oasisgame.com/" TARGET="new">Oasis</A> (Shareware) An interesting mix of minesweeper and early-ages civilization. Use clues to uncover valuable hidden resources, then use these resources to build your technology and population in preperation for defending against an attack by barbarian hordes. #58 <A HREF="http://www.malfador.com/starfury.html" TARGET="new">Star Fury</A> (Shareware) A capital ship-based elite. Combat plays like "Starfleet Command" but with all the sensor and energy management calculations safely hidden under the hood. There are all manner of customization options for your destroyer. Note that in the full version you can place waypoints for yourself in the system map. #57 <A HREF="http://doom.chaosforge.org/" TARGET="new">DOOM RL</A> (Freeware) Ha! Someone made a Roguelike out of Doom! That's right up there with Progress Quest as one of the great joke games... ...except it's actually really good. All the tactical nuance of nethack combat, along with artifacts and hidden areas and character perks, none of the annoying hunger levels and cursed items. And development is still ongoing. #56 <A HREF="http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/slay.html" TARGET="new">Slay</A> (Shareware) Deceptively simple hex-based strategy game. The trick is that disconnected territories don't share their economies. So if you rampage too far out with your superpowered unit and get cut off from your main supply store, your expensive unit is dead. #55 <A HREF="http://www.blitwise.com/neonwars.html" TARGET="new">Neon Wars</A> (Shareware) While you're trapped in an arena continually filling with deadly abstract vector shapes, each of which has a distinct pattern of movement, this is not really a clone of geometry wars. Shooting and aiming are handled automatically, the player's job is to control the ship's movement (which maps directly to mouse movements). You dodge enemies and collect tiny powerup stars that are destroyed if you let an enemy touch them. The final product is more like a mouse-controlled bullet hell game than robotron. But do yourself a favor and turn off the ugly background tiles. #54 <A HREF="http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html" TARGET="new">Critical Mass</A> (Shareware) Turn-based tactical combat game where you control the wing commander of a squad of starfighters and engage in pitched missile dogfights over a huge variety of randomly generated missions. #53 <A HREF="http://wolfire.com/lugaru.html" TARGET="new">Lugaru</A> (Shareware) Kung fu rabbits with ragdolls and brutal fatalities. #52 <A HREF="http://www.apezone.com/download_battleshipchess.php" TARGET="new">Battleship Chess</A> (Shareware) Like the title says, a WWI-era mix of Chess, the boardgame "Battleship." At the title screen hit F3 and type (in caps) "ADMIRAL" unless you want to spend 20 hours unlocking to get the game to full functionality. #52 <A HREF="http://www16.big.or.jp/%7Ezun/html/th09dl.html" TARGET="new">Phantasmagoria of Flower View</A> (Import) 2-player splitscreen Bullet hell shmup by Shanghai Alice. Actions you perform on your side create bullet patterns on your opponent's side. Victory is a matter of endurance.[/quote]