Since its October, I've been looking for some scary/horror-esq/spooky strategy games for the month. Is there any good game for Halloween?
Dungeon Keeper
>>2166581AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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>>2166559World of horror is technically an RPG but there's a heavy strategic/tactical side to it.There's also Gord and Worshippers of Cthulhu, and the classic cosmic horror Homeworld: Cataclysm... CUT US LOOSE!
>>2166559DUSKERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6c10EN1oNc
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>>2166581spooky scary skellingtons, send shivers down ur spine
Flash gaming was full of zombie games, including occasional strategy games, too.>Autumn WarA very old and primitive game with rather atmospheric visuals.>Shattered ColonyA well-made defense/management game with randomly generated cities. I played this a lot.>Rebuild series> Turn-based survivor management. I remember R2 having different endings, one of which had your colony succumb to a zombie cult - pretty messed up.
The Lotus Clan has to be the most gruesome, freakish, weirdest and cartoonishly evil faction in a strategy game.
>>2166581>>2166616These are practically free spaces on the bingo card. Good games though!
RTS is spooky because it's a zombie genre heheheh
>>2167097your pic just reminded me of myth the fallen lords myth 2 soulblighter
>>2166559Disciples II>literally the second mission of the Undead Hordes campaign is slaughtering demonic Legions of the Damned to bleed a child possessed by the Devil himself in order to resurrect the goddess of death's divine consort
>>2169083This is really warped without proper context. Although a new player will see it exactly like that so fair.
>>2166616man, I miss xcom threads on /v/like those playthroughs some OP would make, getting names from chat, it was very cute how everyone referred to whoever was doing it as Commander
>>2172950>This is really warped without proper contexI played all original Dark Prophecy campaigns. How is that warped?
>>2166559>spooky>elusive>no gameplay aroundCan`t get spookiers than this.
>>2176159I really liked the art direction in Disciples 2, with how humans, even the lowly bandits look like gothic nobles. Oh and also pretty unique take on design of demons and other wretches, a true dark and gothic fantasy
>>2176170>Disciples looks really good>Its lore is gnostics crap>Betreezen did nothing wrong and he made humans>God aint God (not omniscience).It is baffling how the ambience, soundtrack and atmosphere is so good, but the lore is...eh
>>2176170>even the lowly bandits look like gothic noblesHuh? Looks like an ordinary cutthroat. I'd say the opposite is true: Disciples II art is great exactly because it showed clear progression from lowly squires to paladins in richly ornate armor.
>>2176159Big spoilers: Uther is not Bethrezen but an usurper; Mortis was once Solonielle, the elven goddess and wife of the elven god Gallean, whom he tried to save after he lost to Wotan the dwarven god and in process she got this horribly maimed (failed anyway), and she managed to get Gallean revived but he spurned her for her looks and the insanity that slowly crept in as she was futilely trying to revive him; to put the cherry on top the Legions are suffering their fate unjustly in this setting as the Allfather is a retard and Bethrezen genuinely has done nothing wrong until he and all other now demons spent many years in hell they did not deserve.
>>2176159>>2179364Should have been>whom she tried toand>Highfatherbecause I should have been asleep hours ago.
Does Homeworld Cataclysm count?
>>2182481More than it should. How many rts games you have where you fight against eldritch horror?
Dark Omen game scared me as you play as regular dudes in medieval/late med armor against undead, mummies, ghouls and vampires. Add to that the effects from dark magic like souls being sucked from troops and its scream along with gameover screen.
This thread reminds me of two games that are very related to it. I played their demos during previous year Steam Next Fest and while I didn't end up getting full games, I still found them to be quite neat.Anoxia Station is a turn-based base management set deep underground where you explore tunnels, manage resources and deal with underground monsters. It got this very thick alien horror atmosphere.Blood Bar Tycoon is a you can see more of comedic game in style of Theme Hospital and such where you run a bar that's secretly vampire bar and you kidnap your human customers to drain them from blood.
Infested Planet for that alien bug extermination itch. I also heard that Starship Troopers game is very similar and not bad.
>>2166559Some other options I haven't seen mentioned are the UFO games like UFO Aftermath, Urban Strife (early access, unfinished), maybe Jagged Alliance 3 since it has zombies.
>>2166722Gorky17 my beloved
>>2166929I was looking for this one!
>>2167022I remember those diseased guys who used their guts as a weapon, nasty
That Aliens game?