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[Il Palazzo]

I'm searching for a strategy game. It was a shareware one-hour limited gameplay just like games in popcap.
The setting was egypt (I believe, not sure). You developed cities, sent people to mines to develop technology (Yeah I know, weird)
And after a set of time there was an attack on your cities and you had to defend.
Also people were the resource. It's all I can remember. Please help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_(video_game)

[Cthulhu]

I guess I'll try this, although I don't have much information.  Like I mentioned in the Netstorm thread, I saw three games at Big Lots, and promptly forgot their names.  I've found two of them, (Netstorm and The War in Heaven) and there's one left.  Let's see if anyone can figure it out.

Alright, it was an RTS, 2d, with pretty cartoony graphics (But not goofy cartoony, just not overly realistic).  I believe the box was gray, and there was a screenshot in the inner flap (It was an old game, with a large box that had a flap on the front, the kind of box you don't see anymore).  The only screenshot I remember had some kind of dragon people or demons, red, with wings and horns, running on a castle wall or otherwise stone surface.  I dunno, the perspective was weird.

That's all I remember.  Anyone have any idea?

[blackmagechill]

It was an online game from 2004, it was about mixing DNA of animals, sort of like an evil mastermind thing, where you had a base and you did stuff to earn money and fought with other players mutated hordes....It had a map of your base, but not of your units, which had some movement restrictions for patrols that were kind of weird, it was a slow paced almost like a civ builder. Hope you can find it!

[Kagus]

Alright, it was an RTS, 2d, with pretty cartoony graphics (But not goofy cartoony, just not overly realistic).  I believe the box was gray, and there was a screenshot in the inner flap (It was an old game, with a large box that had a flap on the front, the kind of box you don't see anymore).  The only screenshot I remember had some kind of dragon people or demons, red, with wings and horns, running on a castle wall or otherwise stone surface.  I dunno, the perspective was weird.

That's all I remember.  Anyone have any idea?

Uhh...  The Horde?

Only thing that comes to mind.  But I'm not particularly good at remembering box art for games I don't have, so...

[Rollory]

Ok, here's a couple.  About 12 years ago, in the heyday of downloadable freeware/shareware stuff, I came across two spaceship games that I liked.  One was a 4X called "Crusade in Space".  I am 95% sure of this title, because I remember that phrase from the end of the intro text, as in "begin your CRUSADE IN SPACE".  Despite quite a lot of searching, I have not been able to find it since.  Does this ring a bell?

Second, there was a freeware computer game somewhat like Star Fleet Battles (I think that's what the tremendously detailed ship-to-ship combat game in the Star Trek universe is called).  It was pretty good, included all the Star Trek races, quite a lot of detailed tactical behavior - shields on different facings, armor on different sides of the ships, and so on.  A bit like Privateer in that respect.  Anyone know what I'm talking about and/or where to find it?

[Akura]

Second, there was a freeware computer game somewhat like Star Fleet Battles (I think that's what the tremendously detailed ship-to-ship combat game in the Star Trek universe is called).  It was pretty good, included all the Star Trek races, quite a lot of detailed tactical behavior - shields on different facings, armor on different sides of the ships, and so on.  A bit like Privateer in that respect.  Anyone know what I'm talking about and/or where to find it?

I've got something called Begin 2: A Tactical Starship Simulation that sounds just like that. I can't remember where I found it.

[Medicine Man]

It was an old dos game similar to Commander Keen, I think it's shareware name is different to it's full software name but the shareware was called Monster Bash or something similar.Damn I miss it 

[Sowelu]

It was an old dos game similar to Commander Keen, I think it's shareware name is different to it's full software name but the shareware was called Monster Bash or something similar.Damn I miss it 

It's right here, and you had the correct name.  Like a lot of Apogee's games, the first episode was shareware, and later ones were not.

[Rooster]

It was an online game from 2004, it was about mixing DNA of animals, sort of like an evil mastermind thing, where you had a base and you did stuff to earn money and fought with other players mutated hordes....It had a map of your base, but not of your units, which had some movement restrictions for patrols that were kind of weird, it was a slow paced almost like a civ builder. Hope you can find it!

I think it's "impossible creatures"

[EagleV]

It was an online game from 2004, it was about mixing DNA of animals, sort of like an evil mastermind thing, where you had a base and you did stuff to earn money and fought with other players mutated hordes....It had a map of your base, but not of your units, which had some movement restrictions for patrols that were kind of weird, it was a slow paced almost like a civ builder. Hope you can find it!

I think it's "impossible creatures"

I thought the same, but I think it did have a map of your units, and it was not very slowpaced. Also, it was not online-only, and if I really want to be picky, it was from 2003

[Aramco]

Kind of an interesting thread. My game I can't remember the plot or anything at all, so...

[blackmagechill]

It was an online game from 2004, it was about mixing DNA of animals, sort of like an evil mastermind thing, where you had a base and you did stuff to earn money and fought with other players mutated hordes....It had a map of your base, but not of your units, which had some movement restrictions for patrols that were kind of weird, it was a slow paced almost like a civ builder. Hope you can find it!

I think it's "impossible creatures"

I thought the same, but I think it did have a map of your units, and it was not very slowpaced. Also, it was not online-only, and if I really want to be picky, it was from 2003

This one was free and browser based though.

[Servant Corps]

Two Indie Games, I think They Were Made By Same Company, but not sure:

#1: You played as an historian of migration patterns who work for a politican. Your goal is to manlipuate migration patterns in order to justify an extremly nationalist view of history, claiming that your group was here first and that the Other came later...One mission had you creating history to justify stripping gypsies of citizenship. (EDIT: Answer found, Opera Omnia)

#2: You play as the Nazi German occupation of Poland. Interface is non-personal, which adds to the horror of being an occucpation force. (EDIT: Answer Found, Kristallnacht)

[Sowelu]

Opera Omnia was awesome and, well, haunting.

[Bluerobin]

It was an online game from 2004, it was about mixing DNA of animals, sort of like an evil mastermind thing, where you had a base and you did stuff to earn money and fought with other players mutated hordes....It had a map of your base, but not of your units, which had some movement restrictions for patrols that were kind of weird, it was a slow paced almost like a civ builder. Hope you can find it!

I think it's "impossible creatures"

I thought the same, but I think it did have a map of your units, and it was not very slowpaced. Also, it was not online-only, and if I really want to be picky, it was from 2003

This one was free and browser based though.

Oh, browser based. I've played that. I'll track it down...

Edit: Or maybe I won't. I'm not convinced this thing still exists given how hard it is to find it. I'll add a bit to the original description here in case anyone else knows. The core of the game seemed fairly similar to the other "build a city, build an empire" kinds of browser games, except I think you had a lab to start instead of a city. All of the gameplay was on a grid, like normal. Your "soldiers" were spliced animals that you created from DNA samples. I think there was a marketplace where you could buy and sell samples, but I may be getting my games mixed up. I basically signed up, played around for a few minutes, and didn't pick it back up, so I don't remember a whole lot more.