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[Niveras]

A Dynasty Warriors style Warhammer 40k game made large, I'm talking the size of a whole continent with 2 sides in a massive war with AI that can actually carry the war without you (mostly). You play as a common Commissar and your only task is to ensure the Imperium wins. In many ways, it would also be like any of the massive overworld sandbox games in that you can call in reinforcements or vehicles and get around faster with air travel. Naturally, you don't just commander these vehicles by throwing out the occupant, instead you just declare you are taking the vehicle in question in the name of the commissariat and make them drive or fly you places.

I accidentally put this in the sales thread, dang chrome ghostmoving me to other topics.

Hmm, War40K might be a decent setting for a Just Cause type of game. Total Anarchy.

[JimboM12]

Hmm, War40K might be a decent setting for a Just Cause type of game. Total Anarchy.

Warhammer 40k is a setting that can support any kind of game really. I can totally see a CK2 style game about keeping a planet under your families rule, I can see a somewhat decent RTS city builder style game like Settlers where you settle frontier planets only to find its infested by orks, I can even see a W40k Dating sim. Protip; praise the emperor every day to gain points with Sisters of Battle. They dig that.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Unfortunately, usually when a company gets hold of the license...
Well. The game ends up kind of sucking.

No but seriously when can I just get to play as a Guardsman or a Fire Warrior and feel as expendable as I am.

[Mephansteras]

We were watching The Road Warrior last night, and it occurred to me that it could be really fun to play a post-apocalyptic Civilization style game. Model the times a bit after the collapse of society and go through the periods of Scavenging old tech, then working through wherever you level off as the old tech breaks down completely and people try to rediscover how to do everything, moving on to eventually rebuilding society and moving back up the tech tree.

There have been a few mods to games that kinda do this, but nothing I've seen has had the very concept baked into it from the start.

[Sirus]

So you'd have a sharp regression in tech, followed by a slow decline, followed by gradually improving, possibly past your original starting point?

Say, that does sound pretty cool.

[Gigalith]

There's an obscure boardgame called After the Holocaust which is an economic/military simulation of factions in post-apocalyptic (nuclear holocaust) America. It was renowned for its serious number crunching, and the harshness of the economic simulation. (I've never heard of anyone saying they won by the official victory conditions) I've personally never played it, but I've wanted a modern computer game like it for a long time. Have zombies or something.

[Persus13]

A nonlinear tech tree in Civ in general would be cool. Civ: BE's branching tech tree was neat but wasn't really distinct from the linear version.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, and would work really well for a post-apoc game, since depending on what tech you salvaged and what knowledge you focused on you could have a really interesting mish-mash of industrial/modern tech and ancient tech.

[H4zardZ1]

I don't remember if i said this, but....

Want to see a good and popular 'Code your own AI' game.

[dorf]

Does https://empireofcode.com/ fit the bill?
You can code how an individual unit behaves as well as big-picture strategy stuff.
It plays similarly as Clash of Clans.

[NRDL]

A space pirate game, but not one where you have the option of being a privateer or trader or anything like that.  You don't raid ships and colonies for money, you raid em for supplies PERIOD.  I'm thinking something like the Reavers from firefly; a ship crewed by savage monsters with utterly predator aims and base instincts, who are still capable of operating machinery and navigating in space, however crude.

This endless sandbox game would be a nonstop journey of trying to find food ( pre-prepared goods, animals from colonies, people ), fuel, repairs, weapons.  There is no diplomacy or trade or safe havens where you can recoup and rest up, so your ship and crew are basically rusting and breaking down from all the travel and confrontations. 

[PTTG??]

An RTS or other massive war sim, but Braid-like. Make it so that there's no way you could possibly win the battles, but you can keep going back and retrying,tweaking things until you win anyway.

It might have to be more of an espionage game ... I've got it!

A UN investigative team from 2060 discovers a ruined alien time machine / teleportal complex on Mars. A betrayal and backstabbing results in a small group of ideologues sending themselves back to [Select an interesting date], where they can use their future knowledge to control the world. However, the PCs' friends are still in control of the complex, which insulates itself from changes in the timeline. Nonetheless, the forces of the now planet-dominating rogues are poised to secure the teleportal complex, and it is all they can do to send the PC and a few chosen allies back in time to overcome the rogues.

However, upon arrival, it seems that the rogues arrived a few years earlier, giving them a massive lead in materials. Your only advantage is that you still have access to communicate with the machinery of the teleportal complex.

[Egan_BW]

There is that one time travel RTS that I forgot the name of.

[Nahere]

There is that one time travel RTS that I forgot the name of.

Achron?

[RAM]

There is that one time travel RTS that I forgot the name of.

Achron?

I expect so. Or you could just take any game that has an obscenely difficult setting and promptly savescum relentlessly.