One of the best examples of open-strategy games. A mix of 4x and tower defense, it never punishes you for playing the game the way you want - its not a puzzle, its an open-ended strategy game to play out as you see fit. You begin on a single map with basic construction capabilities, and must research new technology, mine new resources, expand your base across new regions, and ultimately complete a rift station back to earth to allow colonisation of the new planet you've found yourself on. There's a fantastic range of economic options across different types of resources and tiers of extraction equipment. And if a resource pool runs dry, the game never punishes you - a comet will invariably crash land with fresh resources. . You also have research and manufacturing for weapons and Mech features to improve your ability to fight and discover the inhabitants of the new world. Each new map area comes with its own range of creatures as threats, and even once you've eliminated them and set up a base of operations, you move into a tower defence mode, with larger and more dangerous waves of attacks. You have warning of new waves (which may be single or multiple directions) so you can prepare additional defenses in the shape of walls and barriers, weapons, shields, auto-repairs etc. There's a complex without complicated economy you can manage - systems to produce ammunition for different types of defense towers, mud pumps feeding water filtration systems and lines of pipes carrying fresh water to various base structures that need cooling The story mode is relatively thin until the end game where you ultimately build the rift station back to Earth. At this point the game takes on a truely epic sense of achievement as each of the final pieces of the puzzle (or rather, machinery) are produced and fall into place. Thoroughly recommended to get the game plus all DLC, which adds new biomes, monsters, resources, base elements etc.
Multiplayer desync Single Player AI gives up Could be a fantastic RTS if they would only fix the bugs - instead, there's drip feed updates as they gear up for AOTS2 ... but their terrible support for the games is on record
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As with their other title, Cash Cow DX, this is a love letter to the 1980s arcade classics. I already owned both this and Cash Cow DX on another platform, but instant buy on GoG to support the devs for such fantastic games. Everything from the pixel graphics, energetic sound track and "just one more go" platform addictiveness goodness is gaming perfection. Go buy this and Cash Cow DX now if you in any way love classics like Donkey Kong, Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Mr Wimpy etc. I honestly couldn't choose between the two if you could only buy one, so grab what you can and get the other later if you can't get both now.
As with their other title, Donut Dodo, this is a love letter to the 1980s arcade classics. I already owned both this and Donut Dodo on another platform, but instant buy on GoG to support the devs for such fantastic games. Everything from the pixel graphics, energetic sound track and "just one more go" platform addictiveness goodness is gaming perfection. Go buy this and Donut Dodo now if you in any way love classics like Donkey Kong, Manic Miner, Chuckie Egg, Mr Wimpy etc.
As a game at the time, Gunship 2000 with its Islands and Ice was perhaps the best helicopter sim of the 90s (fans of Janes may disagree, but for me, this was much more playable) Unfortunately the GOG release is broken: - It uses an old version of the game which crashes - Whilst the Islands and Ice expansion is included in the game, the docs (including copy protection code sheet) are not included, so if you use the patch (available from the Patches Scrolls) to bring it up to the correct version, then you can't get past the copy protection screen If GOG fix this, then you are getting a very playable mix of action and realism helicopter sim featuring a dynamic campaign system and 4 theatres of operation. Until then, stick with Enemy Engaged Apache vs Havoc and EE Comanche vs Hokum on GOG (and get the EECH AllMods from EECH online) as the best helicopter sim with dynamic campaigns. But I would love the nostalgia of playing GS2000 with Islands and Ice ... as it is, I've wasted 8 quid on a dud.
I already owned this on Steam, and it was an instant buy again on GOG. The developer has worked on this game for years, adding features and tracks for free as well as paid DLC. The result is a very fast, smooth and entertaining Wipeout clone. If you've never heard of Wipeout, imagine hover craft racing with on-track powerups and weapons thrown into the mix, and the use of additional airbrakes to help "strafe" around tight corners. One of the best racers available on GOG!
This was a personal favourite from my old DOS days, so delighted (and instant buy along with ROE 1, Breach 1 and Breach 2) on GOG. Dynamic branching campaigns Highly configurable ship control panels Immediate command over your flagship, with order delays to the other ships in your fleet based on their distance AI commander profiles, so other ships were not guaranteed to follow your orders exactly Fantastic tactical combat, where you would sling-shot past enemies, rotate your shields to keep the fresh sides facing the enemy as your weakened shields regenerate And boarding actions that could be either programmatically simulated battles, or launched with Breach 2 (and later, Breach 3, though it was very buggy) to switch to an X-Com type assault as your marines board the enemy vessles. Deep, rewarding, and incredibly fun. With built-in scenario and campaign editor. There was a mass of user scenarios (including a brilliant Kobayashi Maru scenario that I once completed by purely knocking out the engines of the enemy ships without having to destroy them, leaving them floating harmlessly in space whilst I went about the rescue). You can probably still find these on the interwebsuperhighway. The gripes ... Because its a DOS Box release, there's no immediate way to link with Breach 2 (ROE2 and Breach 2 will install to two separate DOS Box drive instances), so will need to spend a little time figuring that out. ROE2 is fantastic in its own right, but being able to link in with Breach 2 is an added bonus. And unforgiveable ... the ~260 pages of manuals is missing. If you already know and loved ROE2, you'll not need this (though it would have been nice for nostalgia), but if you've never played ROE2 before, this really is a must to get you up to speed with the game. Its by no means a daunting learning curve, but its good to know the ins-and-outs of things - especially the 20+ page tutorial.
