Yeah, HordeHoard was a top-down arena shooter with mp, I didn’t really get into it. Drakan was indeed SP but the aerial battles with other AI dragons was extremely well done. It was a combat flight simulator with a dragon basically, with an RPG tacked on. Such a great game.
There was also that terrible Lair game, but nobody talks about that.
I did see an indie mp dragon combat game in EA a year or two ago, but it certainly didn’t look anything like Century.
@Left_Empty that’s a real game, I remember it too. No idea what the heck it was called. (Or really how it worked, I remember it being pretty opaque)
Phew!
I couldn’t get into Hoard either, but I had nobody to play it with. Did you try the MP part of it, Krok Whisperer?
I don’t think so, no. I vaguely remember putting a short time into the SP portion, thinking I’d come back to it, and never doing so. Perhaps time to exhume it from my Steam library and give it another shot.
What about Dragonstrike, the licensed Dragonlance D&D game?!
Oh darn, the painful memories
My achievement list suggests my wife and I were playing Hoard a bunch in 2014. I remember that we played, but not the mechanics of the game all that well. I think it worked for us because you didn’t have to treat it as dragon v dragon combat, you could compete by trying to burn down more villages and stuff? I do remember that we tried leaving our lobby open to get other people playing, but the MP scene was completely dead by the time we were playing.
Calelari
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That was it!
My kid and I got into HOARD (apparently all-caps is the official title) for a bit back in 2010-2011. I don’t recall single/split-screen MP, probably just SP vs AI.
Correct. You only needed direct combat to stop another player doing stuff.
Hoard was a lovely little game. I had a good enough time playing against the AI, although eventually I had it mastered.
Bobtree
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The Pathless is now available on Steam. 3D action-adventure.
ONI-like 2.5D building and management. Similar to the recent StoneDeep.
Retro traditional roguelike sequel.
Beautiful SF 3D flight.
Non-violent speed-running retro metroidvania.
Lite automation, puzzles, economy, and management. Has a demo.
Actually, Exo One isn’t quite flight. For all intents and purposes, it’s Tiny Wings on procedurally generated 3D terrain. Pretty trippy, but I’m not sure there’s $15 worth of gameplay in there.
-Tom
What’s Tiny Wings, it doesn’t show up on Steam!
lordkosc
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Looks like an iPhone game?
Ooooh! That’s why it was vaguely familiar: it was my very first phone game when I bought an iPod as a console, copying what you were telling on podcast at the time!
I loved that game, can’t believe I had forgotten about it. Now I’m intrigued about Exo One.
The video was really beautiful but nondescriptive.
tomchick
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Tiny Wings is basically the skiing in Tribes 1, but as an endless runner. Exo One uses the same basic concept. Click to increase your mass and speed up downhill, and then releases to decrease your mass and ramp off inclines. You can also hold down shift to glide, and you can steer since it’s a 3D world.
There does seem to be some variety among the different planets in terms of how lift works with varying atmospheres. But basically, you’re dropped onto procedurally generated terrain with a waypoint off the in distance. When you reach it, you progress to a new map. As far as I can tell, that’s the entirety of the game. An endless variety of random maps.
So, not really a game so much as a traversal sandbox using a fancy graphics engine. In other words, right up there with Riders Republic and Forza Horizon 5. :)
-Tom
Sick burns!
Now I want to try that Tribes game everybody’s been raving about for years decades, but I am way too late for that.
It’s never too late for Tribes, still the best capture the flag game ever made.
To be fair, I should point out that I’ve enjoyed all three games. Forza Horizon 5, Riders Republic, and Exo One have wildly divergent amounts of gameplay built around their physics models and graphics engines, but they’re essentially the same thing: traversal sandboxes. I like all three of them.
-Tom
I saw a friend on Steam bought this and it looks like an amazing puzzle game.
Did you vote for his battlefield team? ;)
