The Discussion Thread -Day #40- The 15th Annual Greatest Games Event

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#43 - A base-building game where your handful of people must survive the end of the world, as hell has taken over.

1. First you just need to survive, but after a while your group of survivors will do things like farming, crafting, both scientific and occult research, build shrines for rituals and an alchemic table complete with a philosopher's stone.
2. Research needs sometimes some specific items that you can scavenge, as in scientific books, research kits, scientific data to progress in that tech tree.
3. The more survivors you rescued and the more buildings you constructed, the more the forces of hell are aware of you and will attack your base more often.
4. Each survivor belongs to a class, but they will also have some additional talents that can influence a survivor in different ways.
5. Last hint for this game: All the maps and survivors are procedurally generated

#42 - A very long turn-based Fantasy game with clear influences at Civilization, Master of Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic.

1. The game world consists of a planet that has been blown to bits to avoid the forces of chaos to take it over, and the main story consists of assembling those shards and combining them with yours to recreate the planet.
2. This game has been made twice, once in 2D and then immediately they recreated it in 3D, although to this day with piss-poor performance.
3. Battles are turn-based in a manner similar to Heroes of Might & Magic, but every unit is singular instead of a group of troops and the hero is actively fighting along with them. Also, how many units one can bring along depends on the hero's command skill, and how high this can go depends on his class.
4. In the campaign, you fight for shards of the planet that once was and got broken up into many little maps. Each fight over one of those shards, no matter how many turns it took to conquer it (or get defeated and booted from it), counts as one turn in the grand scheme of things, and depending of the difficulty level chosen you'll have up to over 50 of those "turns" which each can take as long as an entire Civ playthrough.

#40 - A Pinball game with 3 tables that would be pretty much impossible to make in reality

1. It has a halloween/dark fantasy setting
2. "FEED ME!" says the castle

#39 - Stealth, Sniping or big guns, whatever approach floats your boat in this game is possible.

1. When it came out, the game was absolutely lauded for it's story and storytelling, and it's only real gripe among reviewers was that the graphics were a bit outdated.

#38 - Thwart an Alien Invasion with a team of soldiers and some researchers trying to reverse-engineer the alien tech into something useable by humans.

1. You start in the late 1970's and with according tech and weaponry, just somewhat adapted for your specific needs. Later on, you'll research laser weaponry, plasma rifles and coilguns, but psionics won't do anything.

#37 - "It is a world, of darkness"

#36 - This series is one of the most-cited successors to the classic DOS game Master of Magic.