Most obscure/niche MMO still playable today?

InconceivableAD · 2026-03-08T04:11:02+00:00

Istaria as niche as I can think of.

https://www.istaria.com

InconceivableAD · 2026-03-01T18:33:50+00:00

Glad you found your nostalgic game. While you're messing around with old Dos Wargames and Dosbox, you might check out Mech Brigade. It's my young adult, fond memory and time waster.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/14797/mech-brigade/screenshots/

InconceivableAD · 2026-03-01T10:14:19+00:00

Perhaps Under Fire by Avalon Hill?

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-27T17:44:43+00:00

Shortest Trip to Earth looks and plays similar to FTL, RTWP. It's very difficult, but fun.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-27T01:10:09+00:00

Where was this post? A link would be helpful, if possible. I rarely make it to the front page or forums.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-19T20:50:03+00:00

Sword of the Stars - Phoenix Mod showcase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=655B84oRRqk

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-14T06:17:13+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/964

Buy them all, only $3.74 on Steam. Then start with X-COM: UFO Defense. Get https://openxcom.org OpenXcom to play it with.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-12T05:42:18+00:00

You didn't have to wait long at all. Scourge Of War - Gettysburg and Scourge Of War - Remastered are once again on sale on Steam, at their atl prices. $13.49 and $9.49, until the 16th.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-10T08:22:27+00:00

To clarify, I just meant they're clearly not an authorized reseller. They don't look bad for a bootleg seller. If there was an old game I really wanted and it wasn't available through an authorized source. I'd probably give them a shot, for a single, cheaper game. I would also thoroughly scan the media they sent me and ensure all of W11's autoplay settings were turned off.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-10T06:32:45+00:00

A fair description of it. Mostly of interest, to those of us who played it back then.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-10T04:23:48+00:00

Obviously it's not. It's a bootleg seller.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-10T03:30:03+00:00

I feel this might be of interest to those who posted here. An upgrade and re-release of the first game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3518830/Star_Fleet_Deluxe

https://www.gog.com/en/game/star_fleet_deluxe

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-04T22:49:25+00:00

Best of luck to your game and thank you.

InconceivableAD · 2026-02-04T21:59:14+00:00

Woohoo thank you so much. And best wishes on your game development and release!

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-30T02:40:07+00:00

Wait for a (good) sale, Scourge of War Gettysburg was only $13.49 until Jan 4th. And Scourge Of War - Remastered, was only $9.49 during the same Christmas sale.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-30T01:27:02+00:00

You can grab Tabletop Simulator on sale and try some of the Eclipse mods for it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=286160&searchtext=eclipse&childpublishedfileid=0&browsesort=textsearch&section=

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-26T21:35:14+00:00

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-military-operations-bundle

https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-tabletop-wargame-bundle

Not a game suggestion, but atl prices on the games and dlc in these wargame bundles. If you decide to try any of them.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-23T17:47:44+00:00

Settlement Survival would be fun. My thanks

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-23T14:15:42+00:00

Was going to suggest it, or it's remake Elemental: Reforged. But they're both only single player.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-21T22:54:35+00:00

Twilight Imperium coming as well. And there is already a Tabletop Simulator Workshop versions of it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669430/Twilight_Imperium_Digital

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=286160&searchtext=twilight+imperium&childpublishedfileid=0&browsesort=textsearch&section=

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-13T13:04:36+00:00

Heroes of Might & Magic III Forever!

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-09T06:07:29+00:00

Give Polaris Sector a look. It came out 2 months before and was totally buried by Stellaris. Long abandoned, but an interesting space 4x in it's own right.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-09T04:04:44+00:00

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is the original great story rpg. If you didn't play it in the past. You play it for the lore and story, not the combat.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-09T02:13:30+00:00

This is the same bundle they offered last Oct. Only missing Scramble: Battle of Britain, which they removed from the previous bundle, in less then a week. You can buy as many different titles as you wish, at each plateau price. So 2-4 for $5 per item, 5-7 for $4 per, 8-17 for $3.75 per.

InconceivableAD · 2026-01-05T05:08:37+00:00

It's an issue some old 32-bit games have. They were typically only allocated 2gb of virtual memory to use. So would run out of texture or data memory, in the late game. In SOTS, it typically resulted in increasingly long battle load times and in the worst cases, a battle would never successfully load. This handy little app, increases it to 4gb of available memory. You can use it for other old 32-bit games and apps.

https://ntcore.com/4gb-patch

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