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#86 Darwinia

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This is one of the first non-Valve games ever on Steam. I haven't heard anyone mention it since like 2008. The game's ID on steam is a lowly 1500!

I like the look of any game whose terrain looks like Rollercoaster Tycoon's grid.

It fascinating because it is hard to describe. It controls like a top-down RTS, but you're constantly taking direct control of attack squads and turrets to get stuff done, so it's a micromanagement action game more than a strategy game. But you also have to gently guide these hordes of pikmin (darwinians), so that's a macro aspect.

It's all about the campaign though, a short adventure with a good variety in the level design & objectives. Each level's gameplay is very different, sometimes you're just controlling one little fighting squad through a big action stage, or sometimes you're carefully escorting a small group of pikmin, or sometimes you're generating hordes of pikmin and making them take over the map, etc.

I believe they just re-worked the game to run good on modern computers! That's really nice of them, for such an old game.

BEST LEVEL: Stage 8, Pattern Buffer, in the above screenshot. If I remember correctly, this level has the biggest fights of hordes of your green darwinians versus giant hordes of bad red darwinians