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[Kagus]

No, I'm not looking for entertainment devices suited for a matriarchal monarchic audience.  I'm just looking for games with a Victorian England theme.

I'm looking for something that can pull off that good old stuck-up England atmosphere.  Steampunk is of course acceptable, but not really what I was looking for.  I think that there ought to be games out there that tap into the rich, filthy setting provided by that era.  And I'm certain there must be a couple oddballs around here who share my interests in this regard.

I mean, look at it...  It's a great untapped resource!  All these standard themes that have been trodden into the dirt by overusage, and then there's this perfectly useful setting that nobody seems to get into properly!  Or maybe I'm just nearsighted and can't see the blamed things.


So, in short, I'm looking for games with a Victorian age feel to them.  Either that or the stone age, since nobody uses that one either.

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, Arcanum is one game in that line.

Also: Victoria: an empire under the sun.

...this is a rather ambiguous theme. What are you looking for exactly? I think the Patrician games might be in the line, but they are not ambiented at the victorian era, but 4 centuries earlier.

[Kagus]

Well, what I'm looking for is something that (preferably) places you inside large, old-age England cities.  Could be an RPG, could be an RTS, could be a simulator.  But just something to depict the setting to the best of its abilities.


Alright, I'll let you in on what first tipped me off to this idea.  I was playing the demo to Dracula: Origin recently, and got swept up in the foggy, dirty, and pervasively depressing atmosphere depicted in there.  I liked the stiff, practiced motions of the high-class, and the filthy freedom of the low-class.  I liked the friggin' clothing style.

What I'd like, is something that would allow me to explore all that more freely.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Lionheart? I don't remember the exact setting, but I think it was fantasy merged with something close to what you seek.

[Croquantes]

Lionheart has Queen Elizabeth I think, so it's not victorian. It's also depressingly linear and the game favours melee over magic.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

EU: Victoria.

Yeah.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Empire: Total War covers that era pretty nicely.

Too bad the experience is kind of abortive without mods and Creative Assembly are being little bitches about their content.

[0x517A5D]

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is a bit post-Victorian, as its setting is late 1910s through 1920s, the flapper era.  It positively drips flavor, though.  Recommended.

Combat is not done by cutting the opponent down, but by cutting verbally through insults and innuendo and come backs.  Rather like Monkey Island 1, but with more realistic (and hurtful) insults.

It's $20, which I think is a bit steep.  I think it's worth $10 or so.  There is a demo.