Long Games With Deep Progression
10 games
These are the games to sink an evening into. Warden of Aldmere is a twelve-year conquest campaign, Cloud Corsairs and Starlane are trading careers, Gamedev Stories follows a studio for eight years, and the builders keep growing a city, a tower or a farm for as long as you play. Sandcrown adds a mission campaign and Detention Deep a four-floor dungeon.
Liftwell
A tower building sim in pixel art, in the spirit of SimTower. Stack offices, condos, hotels and shops, plan the lifts so nobody waits too long, and earn each lot's star goal before the deadline.
Detention Deep
A first-person grid dungeon crawler. Four students in detention fall through the cellar floor of their magic academy and climb four floors back up with spells, wands and d20 rolls, to a final duel with an expelled teacher.
Pixelopolis
A city building sim in pixel art, in the spirit of SimCity Classic. Zone homes, shops, industry and offices, run roads and power lines, balance the budget and grow a village into a metropolis in 20 years.
Starlane
A space trading game in flat-shaded retro 3D, in the spirit of the 1984 classic. Trade across the six systems of Slider Reach, ride trade lanes to the jump gates, fight raiders, land on planets and dock at a spinning station.
Sandcrown
A desert real-time strategy game in pixel art. Build a base on the rock, send harvesters out for glimmer, train an army and break the Black Guard across four missions, while a giant sandmaw hunts on the dunes.
Furrowfield
A farm management sim in pixel art, in the spirit of SimFarm. Lay out fields, dig irrigation ditches, run tractors and combines, watch the weather and the market, and meet each farm's goal before the deadline.
Cloud Corsairs
A steampunk sky-pirate trading game in pixel art. Fly a brig between floating islands, trade nine goods, fight airship battles in three altitude bands and follow your missing sister's trail through Act I.
Gamedev Stories
A cozy game studio sim in pixel art, in the spirit of the classic studio management games. Hire staff, pick a genre and platform, ship games, chase reviews, fans and awards over an eight-year career.
Dungeon Hamlet
A cozy fantasy village sim in pixel art. Build shops and paths, host adventurers who hunt monsters outside your fence, send them on quests and grow your hamlet to five stars in four years.
Warden of Aldmere
A fantasy conquest strategy game in pixel art. Talk or fight your way across sixteen realms, win over their mages, visit their towns and ride the tourney to become High King, all in one twelve-year campaign.
Questions and answers
Do these games save my progress?
Warden of Aldmere and Cloud Corsairs save the campaign as you go, Starlane saves a career at every dock, and Pixelopolis, Dungeon Hamlet and Gamedev Stories keep your city, town or studio for later.
How long does a campaign take?
Hours rather than minutes. A Warden of Aldmere campaign runs twelve in-game years and a Gamedev Stories career eight, and you play them at your own pace.
Where should I start?
Gamedev Stories or Dungeon Hamlet for cozy management, Pixelopolis for a classic city builder, Starlane or Cloud Corsairs for trading and fights, and Warden of Aldmere for strategy.