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Temporary companions

Video game concept

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94
games
11
platforms

Player is occasionally accompanied by others for a short period of time. Does not include regular party members who die through the course of the story - these would still be considered companions.

Notable people involved: Michael Hoge, Stefan Nyul, Joel '.plink' Nielsen, Kai Rosenkranz and Markus Kark

Contrast:
* Companion - a permanent companion
* Group
* One of many
These never join your quest of whatever, they might acknowledge it, but they think they have other things to do that are equally or more important, or you never divulge your quest to them.

You might be travelling into some place and someone, possibly you, suggest to another who is planning on the same trek that travelling together increases both of your survival chances, but once you reach your destination, you go on your separate ways. It might be that you acknowledge the dangers ahead or know nothing about them and hire or convince someone to help you through, but once that's done, the guide goes back to doing whatever they were doing.

There's other potential cases, but the travelling companion through monster/bandit infested region is a common one.

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Parent group

Companions and subordinates

Games by year

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The first Temporary companions video game was released on October 1991.

Deep Silver, THQ and Activision published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows46
Linux14
X36011
PS39
Mac OS X7
Xbox2
Win3.11
Android1
BSD1
MS-DOS1
PS21

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