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From a discussion on themes of colonialism in horror over on sufficientvelocity, an Alien: Isolation style panicked hiding simulator where you play as an eighteenth century british redcoat facing off against nigerian Anyoto leopard men cultists who've actually got the supernatural powers their...

Glowie management simulator where you manipulate a bunch of dissidents into very nearly staging terrorist attacks which you can foil in the nick of time, then use as an excuse to acquire more authority to deal with the threat. Also has a popular DLC, fan mod or cow level where your revolution...

I like the idea that your character is basically useless in a fight, you've got to motivate your team of untrustworthy types with contrary goals to collaborate long enough to win and hopefully get killed by the enemy before they can turn on you.

I imagine the trick would be to make it so you don't have the power to win if you don't have allies, however temporary their loyalty.

I am now driving myself crazy trying to remember the book that did this. A jungle opera written during the cold war, swapping between protagonist viewpoints. People had found fragments of some impossible room-temperature-superconductor crystal washing down a river and sent a team to try to find...

A Halo clone FPS set in the bucolic countryside of seventies england in the Whoniverse. The Doctor is unavoidably detained light-years and centuries away and awhen when an alien invasion strikes and you, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, have to save the world, armed with only your trusty pistol...

Total War: Nationalist Fake History Propaganda A Total War game with every single group of ethnonarcissists' 'ancient superciv' conspiracy theories, simultaneously, as the factions. Hotep flying pyramids vs the orbital killsat platforms of Chudinov's Slavic Empire and Hyperborean Atlantean...

A scifi FPS whose creators actually did their research and put excessive amounts of work into the physics engine. Imagine a sniper duel inside an o'neill habitat where the enemy are above you on the opposite side and you have to account for coriolis force when aiming, a microgravity gunfight...

Simcity - Municipal Darwinist Edition Start with a fairly traditional simcity-style game, only with extra options for dickishness, even by Paradox Interactive's standards. Turn the inhabitants of cities your city devours into slaves or soylent green, hire an out-country bounty hunter to...