• yabai@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It’s been a few years, but Armagetron Advanced was the best. Felt like you were riding the lightbikes from Tron.

  • megane-kun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    I’ve played Simutrans on and off ever since the mid 2010’s. I’m not any good at it, and usually play it without regard to a lot of its mechanics (especially managing finances), but I’ve spent countless of hours just connecting communities and cities with over-engineered roads, rail systems, ferries, and airplanes.

  • Waveform@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Clonk! It’s a 2D mining/strategy/base-building hybrid that was apparently more popular in Germany than other places. I actually paid to play it way back in '05, but it has since become freeware. It’s got a particle sim (similar to Noita, but not as extensive) that plays into the scenarios well.

    clonk.de

  • afansfw@lemmynsfw.com
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    22 hours ago

    Nikujin by ikiki, and other games by the same developer. Not sure where to find them now, but they were some of the greatest freeware games I have played.

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    1 day ago

    One of my absolute favorites is a quirky strategy game named Lord Monarch. I found it on the Nihon Falcom website way back in the mid 90s when I was first starting to use the internet: Lord Monarch

    It’s super tiny in modern terms, but I remember waiting a good 20-30 minutes for it to download from a 33.6Kbps modem.

    Another huge one for me was a game I actually got a full version of from a Gravis gamepad promo CD named Seek and Destroy. It’s a top down shooter where you can be either a helicopter or a tank: Seek and Destroy

    The last one that comes to mind is a giant robot fighting game that also came on that same Gravis CD named One Must Fall: One Must Fall 2097

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    For the longest time I thought Minecraft was free because I only ever pirated it. Lol

    PlanetSide 2 is the free-to-play I keep going back to

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      1 day ago

      Heck, I still pirate it even though I bought it. (I didn’t want the hassle of migrating my account after the Microsoft buyout.) PollyMC ftw!

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      18 hours ago

      Neat! I had a ton of hours in ET, played competitively for a while, and made some silly mods for my clan.

  • ocasta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    UnReal World is a free, survival-focused roguelike rpg that came out in 1992 and is still actively being developed and improved. It’s got a lot of depth and a very cool fantasy setting heavily inspired by Finnish folklore (the developer is Finnish).

    I highly recommend it if you’ve got the patience for an in-depth roguelike rpg.