Deity Empires

Sadly, abandoned.

This could have been such an amazing game, and in playing it, you really really want it to be that game. Sadly, it needs someone to finish it, and its not gotten the development it needed. Its a sad wreck of a game, that could be so amazing if there is just some more work on it.

Hex Based world builder, Not the best but one I always have a saved game that I play every month.

Even the modding community died

Despite the graphics (which I highly recommend the Hi-res mod for) the actual design is phenomenal. As models in your unit die your amount of attacks and damage scale down appropriately. There are evolutions for many monsters. The xp curve requires a little tweaking though. Overall it has more satisfying combat than most games of this type.

Always liked games with a lot of depth. Every time I play I find I new mechanic I was ignorant to before. The enjoyment I get out of this game doesn't come from the challenge or difficultly in winning, but without fail, finding out I was ignorant to half the game. Its complexity comes not just from an increasing level of granularity, but more and more mechanics. You can win while interacting with less than half of the game mechanics; the fun part is that it doesn't matter what half. Overall, it plays a bit like CIV, but with a whole bunch more stuff going on to make it high fantasy. I would liken it to CoE, but it's more sedentary; you should not be losing territory. It shares in that weird feeling of a 4x game feeling "Open World". Very good.