showing 36 games

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IXFishing ?? labelminimizeminimize
Manic Digger author? labelminimizeminimize
The Legend of Zelda: A Time to Triumph  author? labelimageminimize
The Legend of Zelda: Navi's Quest  author? labelminimizeminimize
A Tale in the Desert  eGenesis;Pluribus Games2003A monthly fee, free software, social MMORPG set in Ancient Egypt without combat. The focus of the game is activities such as fishing, growing crops, training animals, mining, and such whereby players advanced most efficiently when they cooperate. There are also personal and group challenges to perform. The game has a unique in game government where players themselves are elected and a legal system operated much by the players also. The legal system can ban players, redistrubute abandon property, or even allow or disallow rule altering actions such as individual requests to have a sex-change. The highest office is Demi-Pharaoh, a position that allows the player power to reassign property absolutely, change and influence rules of the game, and even effectively remove players from the game making a tyrannical regime with real-world powers a real possibility (so elections are taken seriously). The systems of the game require a tremendous amount of cooperation. Attempts at adding currency to the game have not been effective, the setting (like the real world example) just doesn't lend well to anything except bartering. New players enter the world at 'newbie island' where experienced players can gain advancement by visiting and helping new players to learn the basics of the game while they also advance. Tests, challenges and player development are divided into categories: Architecture, Art, Body (Health), Harmony (replaced and is a variant the Conflict category), Leadership, Thought, and Worship. There are 127 other 'lesser' categories that have not all been found. Details of the game are sometimes added by developers without announcement. It is up to a player to discover it the new features and tell others so that they can explore it together.

Unique challenges have been presented to the players due to this games unusual format.
Knightmare, Mafia, and another player attempt to force everyone to use the legal system more responsibly. As part of their effort, Mafia damaged a vital resource in the game (effectively detrimentally altering the entire game experience for all players). Players used the legal system to ban Mafia from the game.
A player named Khepry overly-depleted resources and indirectly cause massive environmental catastrophe in the game.
Some skills, called 'stranger skills' allow a player to take advantage of everyone else when they learn them. Effectively, it is possible to learn and then use anti-social skills in the game.
A Character named Malaki traded worthless materials and advocated slavery for women (in addition to treating them as worthless to begin with).
In one phase of the game, treasure chests contaminated with Lung Spore Disease began washing ashore. Players were offered the challenge of finding a cure. Getting the disease inhibited the victim making it more difficult to participate in finding a cure or efforts to stop the disease from spreading. The sick had to be treated. It was left entirely to players to solve the various secondary problems with only the cure itself being programmed into the game.

2014-04-29 ATitD operations were shifted to Pluribus Games
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Stendhal Arianne2005Are you looking for adventure? Want to fight for riches?
Develop yourself and your social standing? Meet new people?
Do you want to be part of a brave new world?

Stendhal is a fully fledged multiplayer online adventures game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system.

Stendhal features a new, rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves and dungeons.
You will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash.
Your character will develop and grow and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons.
And for the blood thirsty of you; satisfy your killing desires by roaming the world in search of evil monsters!

Stendhal is totally platform independent, written using Java 1.5 and the Java2D environment.

So what are you waiting for?! A whole new world awaits...
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Fall of Imiryn  author2007 labelimageminimize
Expedition: The New World Slashware Interactive2011Expedition aims to be an historical turn-based sandbox of the 15th to 19th century world. Explore the world, sail, trade, conquer, colonize, pirate, combat, etc. labelminimizesubject
Minecraft Mojang2011[media=youtube]oG8ar_ieu7Y[/media]***GPL license is likely wrongly applied to this:
[quote]Do not distribute anything I've made. This includes the client and the server software for the game. This also includes modified versions of anything I've made.[/quote] source: [url]http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp[/url]

Also on the former DRM tag:
[quote]Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM.[/quote] source: [url]http://www.minecraft.net/prepurchase.jsp[/url]***Unlike the Windows and Mac versions, the Linux version is distributed as plain Java runtime (.jar archive) which is not Linux specific at all and can be run on any other platform with Java VM.***Go prospecting for materials to build game world bricks and more advanced items (such as minecarts). Fend off enemy creatures. Also grow crops if you like.***Online play is free, offline play requires purchasing online play. The game is GPL and source code is freely available (so paying is not strictly required for anyone who modifies and compiles the code themselves. This is perfectly legal, though somewhat inconvenient)
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Torchlight Runic Games2012 labelminimizeminimize
UnReal World  Enormous Elk2013An RPG set in iron age Finland and focused on local folklore labelimagesubject
Don't Starve Klei Entertainment2013In a vast wilderness use the available resources, magic and science to keep from starving or dying in some other horrible way. labelminimizesubject
KUB Xenddorf2013 labelminimizeminimize
Samphi GreenyGamesStudio2014 labelminimizeminimize
FRONTIERS - Explore ● Discover ● Survive AAD Productions2014 labelminimizeminimize
Don't Starve - Reign of Giants Klei Entertainment2014 labelminimizeminimize
Astraea Norwind Interactive2014 labelminimizeminimize
Eldevin Hunted Cow Studios2014Eldevin is the award winning indie story-driven Free to Play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) from Hunted Cow Studios. Join thousands of other players and explore the mystical lands of Eldevin. Featuring more than 160 realms, each filled with unique creatures and characters for you to encounter. Explore vast open plains or descend underground into hidden caves and dungeons, making friends or foes of the various factions as you carry out your epic quest to defend Eldevin Kingdom.
Features

Rich storyline involving hundreds of epic quests.
Huge world to explore with many cities, areas, dungeons and secrets.
6 Talent Trees featuring over 200 talents.
Real-time combat system.
Use strategy and tactics to defeat epic Foes and Bosses.
Engage in PvP combat with your friends and enemies.
Your decisions and actions will affect future encounters and possibilities.
Class-less combat system; players in Eldevin are free to learn any of over 100 unique abilities.
Train in 14 professions to craft your own weapons, armor, items and amenities.
16 group-based dungeons and dozens of in-depth story-driven solo instances.
Hundreds of items, including over 40 unique sets, to obtain and collect.
Level up to 45 to enjoy awesome end-game content and consistent updates.

Lore
Eldevin Kingdom, for generations, has been a green and peaceful land. All that changed ten years ago with the discovery of the Elemental Spheres. Once thought to be mere legend, these powerful magical artifacts had an immediate affect on the kingdom, plunging it into confusion and chaos. The royal family decreed that the Spheres be scattered to the corners of the world lest they cause more destruction. They were too late. The presence of the Spheres corrupted the Champions protecting them. Now Tristan, Emperor of the Infernal Empire, has set his sights on conquering the Spheres. Only the Kingdom of Eldevin stands in his way.
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Don't Starve Together Klei Entertainment2015 labelminimizeminimize
Don't Starve: Shipwrecked Klei Entertainment (Klei Entertainment;Capybara Games)2015 labelminimizeminimize
RPG MO Marxnet (Marxnet;ResideSin)2015 labelminimizeminimize
The Survival Games Hella Games Entertainment2015 labelminimizeminimize
Truecraft author2015Created by reverse engineering Minecraft beta 1.7.3. It is Minecraft with all the basic features. Dig up resources, cultivate resources, craft stuff, and things. labelminimizesubject
Midora Epic Minds2015 labelminimizeminimize
Don't Starve Together: A New Reign Klei Entertainment2016 labelminimizeminimize
Ice Lakes Iceflake Studios2016 labelminimizeminimize
Stardew Valley Chucklefish;ConcernedApe (ConcernedApe)2016[b]You're moving to the Valley...[/b]

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley.
Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life!

[b]Features[/b]

- Create the farm of your dreams: Turn your overgrown fields into a lively and bountiful farm!
- Learn to live off the land: Raise animals, go fishing, tend to crops, craft items, or do it all! The choice is yours...
- Become a part of the local community: Pelican Town is home to over 30 residents you can befriend!
- Meet someone special: With 12 townsfolk to date, you may even find someone to start a family with!
- Explore vast, mysterious caves: Encounter dangerous monsters & valuable treasures deep underground!
- Customize: There are hundreds of character & home decoration options to choose from!
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3D Arcade Fishing rokapublish (bumblebee.)2017 labelminimizeminimize
Fishing Planet Fishing Planet2017 labelminimizeminimize
Soul Searching Kayabros2017 labelminimizeminimize
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues  Portalarium2018The game includes an offline mode. A classic Ultima style story by Tracy Hickman (no involvement by EA). 5 guaranteed episodes (there probably be more eventually)

Online modes are "open", "friends", and interestingly, "solo". It seems one can experience the online world version populated only by AI players and opponents or with only a select group of friends (together or verses, it would seem).

It seems to be shaping up to be a [s]direct competitor[/s] superior replacement to Ultima Online, period[s]by offering all the UO features plus many more[/s]. Also, I've been playing beta content and seeing some content that seems vaguely familiar. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that among the vast amount of worlds and content a small subset of it is [game=#38049]Ultima IX[/game] done right.

"Vendors sell vendors.. Its obscene" -redfish***[media=youtube]gSZLrF657yo[/media]
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Isle of Jura  EM Games;Sedoc (EM Games)2022 labelminimizeminimize
Euro Fishing  Dovetail GamesTBA labelminimizeminimize
Seedling aurthorTBA labelminimizeminimize
Swords Sleepless SoftwareTBA labelminimizeminimize
VOX AlwaysGeekyTBA labelminimizeminimize
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