Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator (2010)
Genres:Indie, Simulator, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Co-operative, Multiplayer
Story:Artemis is a multiplayer, multi-computer networked game for Windows computers, and now IOS devices too.
Artemis simulates a spaceship bridge by networking several computers together. One computer runs the simulation and the “main screen”, while the others serve as workstations for the normal jobs a bridge officer might do, like Helm, Communication, Engineering, and Weapon Control. Artemis is a social game where several players are together in one room (“bridge”) , and while they all work together, one player plays the Captain, a person who sits in the middle, doesn’t have a workstation, and tells everyone what to do.Show more
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A wonderfully fun local multiplayer experience. Also, currently being remade as "Artemis: Cosmos" and at least that version would be a great addition to GoG.
Essentially, this is a mix between Guitar Hero and Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
A party game at heart, letting groups of friends be a legally-distinct Star Trek crew on a legally distinct Star Trek ship saving the universe. Many an evening was spend during my university days shouting "hard to port, fire the missiles and -HELM-, get distance from that Kralien!"
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FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival.
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