The Inquisitor is a story-driven, dark fantasy adventure game with action elements, that compels you to face difficult moral choices. The game is set in an alternative version of (religious) reality. Inspired by bestselling Inquisitor book series by Jacek Piekara. Once nailed to the cross and near death, Jesus becomes consumed by utter rage. He breaks free and unleashes violent vengeance on all the non-believers. Centuries pass and now an army of zealot Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith in this blood-soaked Church.
The Council begins in 1793, with players taking the role of secret society member Louis de Richet after his invitation to a private island off the shores of England by the enigmatic Lord Mortimer. Joining him are a number of high profile guests, including Napoleon Bonaparte and President of the newly-formed United States of America, George Washington. The strange nature of this private reception goes beyond just the prestigious guests –Richet’s own mother has recently gone missing on the island, while each and every one of the colorful cast seems to have their own hidden agendas.
In a new twist for the genre, the core of The Council’s gameplay comes from manipulating and maneuvering through character encounters using the unique Social Influence system. During confrontations, skills and limited resources can be used to gain the upper hand and achieve the desired outcome. Players will be rewarded for their knowledge of each character’s psychological vulnerabilities and immunities, as well as their preparations made during prior exploration and investigation. Failing an encounter does not mean ‘game over’, and no action can be taken back. The consequences are permanent, and may result in persistent physical disfigurements or mental traits that help or hinder the rest of the player’s adventure.
We. The Revolution is a unique game with a singular art style set in the blood-soaked and paranoid world of the French Revolution, where often you could not tell a friend from an enemy. As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, you will have to trudge through this setting passing sentences, playing a dangerous political game, and doing everything in your power to not to be guillotined as an enemy of revolution. At the end of a day you will also confront your decisions with your family and very often they will see it differently.
The plot of We. The Revolution will put you in morally ambiguous situations in which there are no obvious solutions, and the decisions you made are never unambiguous. The power over human life and death is a heavy burden, responsibility and strength that can affect the fate of the revolution. keep that in mind each time when passing sentence in the courtroom, while assigning tasks to your agents, giving speeches, and weaving political intrigue behind the scenes. Addressed chiefly to players who enjoy to settle moral dilemmas, make complex personal choices, and immerse themselves in the world of sophisticated political intrigue.
Embark on a thrilling story as President Anton Rayne, steering Sordland through a pivotal time. Confront potential border conflicts, deep-seated corruption, and economic turmoil while navigating complex political dynamics in Anton’s first term. As the leader, your choices will shape Sordland’s destiny.
Emerging from the vestiges of a traditionalist regime and wrestling with a challenging transition to economic liberalization amidst a recession, the populace of Sordland craves democratic reform. Economic uncertainty casts a long shadow as the political landscape transmutes, with rival superpowers casting keen, watchful eyes on the unfolding scene.
Stepping into this maelstrom, you, as President Rayne, must forge effective policies alongside your Cabinet and influential figures. Balance the precarious scales of politics by retaining loyal allies, gauging your values against political necessities, and steeling yourself against potential adversaries. Remember, each character in this narrative carries unique ambitions, fueling the complexity of the political landscape.
As the drama unfolds, the delicate equilibrium between your duty to the nation and commitments to your family will be put to the test – a balancing act that challenges the essence of leadership. Can you hold the reins of presidency successfully while being a good parent?
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative-driven RPG that comes to life on the pages of the protagonist’s journal. Set in a ruthless world where any form of dissent is mercilessly crushed, the story follows a man who has dared to challenge the existing order. Set out on a lifelong journey and become an individual able to carve out their own destiny… But remember that freedom never comes cheap.
Life in the Great Arknian Empire is harsh and its hardest Lot is yours by the circumstance of birth. You are a commoner, holding no rights and no title. To seize your fate and become the rightful heir to the legacy of the Brante family you will have to come to grips with ossified tradition and prejudice. Embarking on a life-long journey from one’s birth until true death, you will have to endure great upheavals, face adversity, and make many difficult choices. Every decision will affect not only the protagonist, his family, and loved ones, but may even topple the foundation of the Empire itself.
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a model of computation, a computer’s instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing-complete or computationally universal if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine (devised by English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing). This means that this system is able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets. Turing completeness is used as a way to express the power of such a data-manipulation rule set. Virtually all programming languages today are Turing-complete.
Everything in a computer can be constructed from a basic component called a NAND gate. You will be challenged through a series of puzzles, to discover the path from NAND gates to arithmetic, memory and all the way to full CPU architectures. If you complete this game, you will have a deep understanding of how assembly, CPU instruction sets and basic components are related. And you will understand how programming concepts like if statements, loops and functions actually work in assembly and hardware.
SHENZHEN I/O
Build circuits using a variety of components from different manufacturers, like microcontrollers, memory, logic gates, and LCD screens. Write code in a compact and powerful assembly language where every instruction can be conditionally executed.
Silicon Zeroes
Build complex electronics from a variety of simple components, like Adders, Latches and Multiplexers. Travel back to the 60s to Silicon Valley’s very first startup, and do your best to keep the whole thing from imploding. Solve more than seventy puzzles, from straightforward introductions to building fully functional CPUs.
A type of wargame that puts realism above everything else. The term can apply to anything from first person shooters such as Arma III, flight simulators such as DCS World (Digital Combat Simulator) or tactical and strategic operational command such as Command: Modern Operations. What they have in common is that they avoid arbritrary game mechanics such as research, development or production and make no political or social statements or interpretation apart from the geopolitical background the scenarios are set in. It should be clear that inevitably a wargame is warmongering, there can not be peace in a wargame or else there would be no game at all.
Based on the radar operator software of aircraft carriers it delivers outstanding realism in naval and air operational command. The developers were invited to the White House to present their software in 2017 and there are professional versions available for military and academy.
COMMAND is a pause-able, real-time joint operations wargame that that spans from shortly after World War II to the near future (1940s-2020s). In it, you control integrated weapons systems. The most common of these are ships, submarines, aircraft, and the bases they stage from. Yet COMMAND also allows you to lead other less visible and glamorous but no less important pieces of the puzzle. Satellites, unconventional special or guerilla forces, and cyberattacks are all at your disposal. The goal is to integrate all of those parts into one whole. You fight on a life-sized globe with meticulously detailed terrain both above and below sea level. Everything from hills to thermoclines is placed on the map and taken into account, and it’s possible to stage from one continent, strike another, and return. The instructions given to your forces can be as broad or detailed as necessary. COMMAND offers the ability to shift from hands-off broadly defined missions to hands-on personal control and back at any time. COMMAND includes a wide range of scenarios that span from brushfire counterterrorism to short but sharp duels of fast attack craft to theater-wide engagements where aircraft and ships across an entire ocean must be coordinated and synchronized. Its internal scenario editor allows for an even greater range. Scenarios on both extremes of the conflict scales have been made, from nonviolent coast guard duties on one end to full-bore nuclear exchanges on the other. COMMAND is aimed to both entertain and educate. It shows the evolution of warfare from the 1940s to the present and illustrates the complexity that such combat has always entailed. It is a tool to show what has changed throughout the decades and what has not, study the lessons of history, speculate the future, and have fun.
In this scenario, following the Brexit several other European nations follow and leave the EU, destabilizing the region and opening a window of vulnerability. Russia decides to seize the opportunity to strike into the Baltikum. As the mission briefing suggests, Kaliningrad turns out to be a real problem.In this scenario, it is discovered that Russia is secretly installing a deep sea surveillance network in the arctic, such as did the USA in the atlantic in the 50s/60s. Which network is now retired and partially disassembled and the rest made available for science and education. That’s not to say there isn’t an replacement unknown to the public.In this community scenario, Korea fires all their missiles, nuclear missiles among them, at Japan at once in rapid succession. Can the Japanese defense stop the missile hail or at the very least prevent the nuclear warheads from causing devastation?
The Digital Combat Simulator is the best civil combat flight simulation to date with unparalleled authenticity, functional aircraft systems and a large selection of available aircraft, including helicopters and aircraft carriers.
It can be played for free with the Russian Su-25T and American TF-51D being included and currently 134 expansion modules available for purchase.
In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An “Iron Curtain” divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact Allies.
Take command of the deadliest mechanized formations available during an arc of time spanning from the Kennedy-Chrušcev confrontation to the final years, and fight your opponents in large and detailed maps all across Europe.
It’s 1989 and the flames of a New War are flaring up. Thousands of square miles of German landscape will become a stage for sweeping battles between the best NATO and Warsaw Pact has to offer.
Lead your Regiment through the inferno of a wide-scale Cold War conflict in this new Real-Time Tactics game. Break through the lines, call in artillery and air support, maneuver, feign retreats, and stage mobile defenses. Do not relent.
The Platoon Command system lets you orchestrate battles with unprecedented precision and ease. No need to micromanage every infantryman – you’re a Commanding Officer, not a sergeant.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is the spiritual heir to the great Eastern Front board and computer wargames of the past; a turn-based World War II strategy game down to the division and brigade level, stretching across the entire Eastern Front at a 10 mile per hex scale. Gamers can engage in massive, dramatic campaigns, including intense battles involving thousands of units with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results. As with all the award-winning titles made by the 2by3 Games team, factors such as supply, fatigue, experience, morale and the skill of your divisional, corps and army leaders all play an important part in determining the results at the front line. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East comes with 4 massive campaigns as well as many smaller scenarios all with different strategic and operational challenges.
The Eastern Front, the most decisive theatre of World War II and the largest land battlefield. A fight to the end, Total War between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union, each commanding millions. The legendary wargame team at 2by3 Games has spent years revisiting this titanic conflict to once again establish a new state of the art.
Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 is a complete overhaul and improvement of the original War in the East, with no stone left unturned to provide a more realistic, more historically rich, and more challenging strategy experience. War in the East 2 comes with a wide array of scenarios ranging from the short tutorial on the Battle for Velikie Luki, to the four month Destruction of Southwest Front, up to the immense full 1941 – 1945 Grand Campaign of the entire Eastern front from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin. A total of seven Operational Scenarios and three Full Map Campaigns await you with hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of historical gameplay.
Tank Warfare: Tunisia 1943 – tactical battalion level combat simulation. Continuation of Graviteam Tactics series on the Western Front.
Large-scale operations for the US Army and Wehrmacht with realistic organizational structure. The campaign features more than 50 detailed vehicles produced in Germany, USA and UK. Over 400 sq. km of realistic landscapes were reconstructed from topographical maps and photo and video materials.
Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm is a grand tactical wargame set at the height of the Cold War, with the action centered on the year 1989. As the force Commander, you will plan and then issue orders and Standard Operating Procedures to your battalion, brigade, or regimental forces shaping the fight by maneuver and your intent.
The game engine is based on asynchronous WEGO turns. This means you will issue orders then watch a variable amount of time unfold on the battlefield. Then issue or adjust orders to react to what has happened as you execute your battle plan.
Flashpoint Campaigns: Southern Storm is a deep simulation of combat operations where your forces are arranged in maneuver units of companies, platoons, and sections of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, infantry squads and teams, recon forces, engineers, air-defense and anti-tank systems, helicopters and more. As the Commander, you will need to use available off-map assets like long-range artillery, rockets, or airstrikes. You may be faced with the specter of using chemical or nuclear weapons to support your forces on the map and win the day.
The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army.
Take command of US Stryker Brigade Combat Teams (SBCT) and Heavy Brigade Combat Teams (HBCT) to fight against Syrian Army Infantry, Mechanized and Armored units in an arid setting. Experience the full range of modern threats to conventional military forces, including irregular combat forces, terrorists, spies, suicide bombers, IED’s and other deadly tools employed in the asymmetric warfare of the modern day. Play the Task Force Thunder campaign, more than a dozen carefully crafted battles, or unlimited Quick Battles.
Players are assigned detailed missions to accomplish based on a richly diverse set of Objectives. Missions can be played in either Real Time or our WeGo hybrid turn based mode introduced with the first Combat Mission game 20 years ago. WeGo allows each player to plan out 60 seconds of combat and then watch as both sides’ commands are carried out simultaneously. The WeGo system also allows for re-watching turn action and playing against another player by email (PBEM) or “hotseat” on a single computer. RealTime and WeGo head to head play can also use TCP/IP on a LAN or over the Internet. Massive replayability comes from a unique Quick Battle system which allows players to purchase their own custom force and fight over the battlefield of their choice from a wide array of different maps. A powerful map and scenario Editor allows you to create battles or campaigns for yourself and others.
WarPlan is a World War II simulation engine. It is a balance of realism and playability incorporating the best from 50 years of World War II board wargaming. Play a recreated World War II in every detail, thanks to the engine flexibility and database.
The game’s scale is massive, covering 70 different potential countries, in a map large 30 miles / 50km per hex using a Peters map scaling (which better represents real distances). The land scale is 15k – 60k men, air scale is 300-400 aircraft and naval scale is 2 capital ships + support ships.
“Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
Microsoft Flight Simulator
First released in 1982 it is one of the longest-running PC game series and predating Windows by three years it is the longest-running Microsoft product. The latest iteration uses AI-technology to create a 3D map from satellite imagery of Microsofts own map service Bing, allowing the user to travel to any place in the world.
Join the NASA academy and go through the history of spaceflight from the first manned space flight with Mercury atop the Redstone rocket to landing on the moon with Apollo… and returning home. You can also take up the job of Mission Control on the ground and there are more things to come such as the russian Vostok-1!
Fed up with space games that insult your intelligence and violate every law of physics? Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like – today and in the not so distant future. And best of all: you can download it for free!
It’s astonishing how far ahead this simulation was, released in 2013 it still looks gorgeous. Unlike ACC it is not limited to GT and has full support for mods, it has more free user mods than any other racing simulator, probably making it the most played sim today still
Physics simulation not as good as Assetto Corsa or iRacing but much broader selection of classes and tracks and support for user mod cars and tracks. Over 35 free and paid licensed cars and tracks including Silverstone, Renault, Formula E, McLaren, Mercedes, Bentley – the list goes on.
Simulation is not as good as rFactor or Assetto Corsa, but included with the base game without additional purchase is a very good selection of classes and vehicles, including exotic and rarely seen things such as Formula Truck.
Automobilista 2 is a celebration of motorsports – a comprehensive simulator powered by genre-leading technology placing you right at the center of the thrills the sport has provided over the decades, with an uniquely immersive experience and unmatched variety of cars, tracks and features you won´t find in any other racing game; it is an advanced simulator that never forgets to remain fun and accessible.
Within a few clicks, you can jump from a rental kart for modern day race in downtown Sao Paulo to a historic Grand Prix car for a blast around Monzas famous banking as if it were the 1960s; Run one of the championship seasons offered within the game, or create your own custom season setting up classes, tracks, points system, weather to your preference;; Travel through the history of motorsports driving legendary machines such as the Lotus 72E, the mighty Group C Porsche 962c or the Mclaren F1 GTR on the tracks they actually belonged; enjoy the unique driving experiences of exotic race cars equipped with ingenious devices that made motorsports folklore never before modeled in a racing simulator, such as the Brabham BT46B fan car or the Mclaren MP4-12 with its ingenuous brake steer system; explore the freedom that Automobilista 2 provides to create great events that never were, or even really crazy ones that never could be.
140 tracks, 189 cars, hypercars, vintage, open wheel, GT, LMP, rallycross and karts, good and bad simulation, wet tracks are not simulated as good as in other sims, for example. Publisher was Bandai Namco, developer Slighty Mad Studios which was then purchased by Codemasters which itself now belongs to Electronic Arts, expiring licenses are the reason why the game had to be taken out of sale.
The most complete motorcycle simulator that allows you to ride every type of motorbikes including ATVs, 3 Wheelers prototype and Sidecars. Challenge your online friends on TrackDayR and climb the leaderboards of players all over the world. TrackDayR, Trackday Everyday!
