Chaos Overlords

It has an aftertaste of MTG mixed with Cyberpunk an turf war, but it is a great old memory. I spent hours and hours trying to take over the city, and the AI is definitely worth it, challenging and taking avantage of the different strategies the game offers. Great game, that used to abandonware, but is very welcome in the gog updated catalogue!

I only played the demo version, when it was released back in the 90ies, but I totally loved it and played even that limited version for days after days. I was so happy to find it on gog.com, but unfortunately it doesn't really run on win8 (white rectangles and stuff). So a patch/update would be really nice...

The game's creator gave interviews when this game was released boasting about the sophistication and cunning of the AI. It's a lie. While you are restricted by fog of war, the AI is not and can see everything at all times. Rather than process all turns at the same time, the game allows the AI to see what you're doing and react to it on the same turn. Since all players, AI or human, are restricted to recruiting a single unit per turn, the AI can prevent you from winning by simply spending the entire game recruiting gangs into one of your areas every single turn, non-stop, for the entire rest of the game while totally ignoring its own territories being taken by other AIs (who will then use these resources to clobber you). In short, this game is among the worst examples of fake difficulty. This might be tolerable if the game's creator hadn't lied about it and pretended he'd coded some kind of brilliant AI when he'd simply allowed the computer to constantly and blatantly cheat. You can demonstrate this simply for yourself by playing any game variant which requires actual strategy rather than just straightforward kill-them-all to win; the AI becomes hopelessly incompetent. The game can be fun if played with other humans, but don't rely on the AI to provide any kind of fair challenge when playing solo.

One of the most genuinely difficult games I've played in a good long time (but in a good way, mind you), Chaos Overlords is a cyberpunk-themed strategy game that challenges the player to conquer a hellish cityscape by any means necessary, using hired goons and thugs to accomplish the player's dirty work. Although it may seem like a very bare-bones experience at first, it honestly has a lot of depth to its game-play, and it quickly becomes exceptionally addicting after a little while. Be warned, it can and will frustrate you with its difficulty, but the experience, so I believe, ultimately pays off in the end.

Quite unique cyberpunk themed board game type strategy game. Fun against computer but really fun against human player. Or atleast it was on Windows 7. It does not work properly on on Windows 10. For several years me and many others have been trying to get it to work and failed. I fish GOG could fix it.