Warsimlikes Subgenre Expands (3 New Warsimlike games)

[p]Hello everyone,

I'm once again here to update the exciting list of Warsim-like projects with even more! It seems the more we talk about this the more inspired others become try branch out and start working on their own cool ascii games. The amount of DMs I get about this stuff also is incredible and I respect everyone who tries to do this stuff.

For any who want to follow along closer check out our Warsimlikes discord room on our discord.

So here is the updated list of Warsimlikes!

[/p][p]Thank you all for taking the time to check these awesome projects out. The early support devs get when making a game can make all the difference so it's really appreciated!

We have 12 Warsimlikes total now thanks to 3 new entries!

[/p][h3]CULT GAME[/h3][p]CheffJeff on our Warsimlike discord is probably the Warsimlikes Goat, he's been working on some incredible stuff and also singehandedly saved Warsim from a huge bug that broke development last December by helping me through an issue that I couldn't wrap my head around personally, absolute hero. Check it out here.

He's also lately been popping off with some incredible youtube videos showing his development process, check them out here and see why 25k other people enjoyed it

[/p][h3]Heroes of Book & Paper[/h3][p]The first Warsimlike to go on steam, fun fact about this. It's the only other game on steam that references Aslona (nice little easter egg) and the developer is a longtime Warsim community legend LeMachinga, who came up with a redesign for the mushroom men faces that became the standard, leading to a possible mushroom name for shroomling characters 'LeMushinga'. Check out the awesome game here on steam.

Here are some of his shroomlings

[/p][h3]Church of the One True AI (NEW)[/h3][p]
A new project by community member Geeknik which has been slowly underway and looks pretty interesting. I hope development continues!

[/p][h3]Medieval Merchants (new)[/h3][p]Medieval merchants caught me offguard as someone found it while exploring itch.io and saw the Warsim inspiration mention! We love finding Warsimlikes in the wild and hope that this awesome game gets more attention

Featuring
* Over 100 ports to explore
* Dozens of commodities to trade
* Variety of crew and pirate crew types to hire
* Different merchant ship and pirate ships to build
* Ship combat and fleet management
* and much more!

Check it out here

[/p][h3]VORTEXLH's New Warsimlike Project (new)[/h3][p]This one announced on our Warsimlike discord recently and looks interesting, Warsim community member Vortexlh has been working on this one for a bit and plans to continue to! I can't wait to see how it progresses.

[/p][h3]Roots of Harmony[/h3][p]
This one was an excellent thing to come out of seemingly nowhere, the second Warsimlike you can find on steam!

'Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management. Roots of Harmony is an old-school keyboard-controlled casual game where you have to lead your colony to different stages of development, while facing various threats and managing your doctrines and disciples.'

Check it out on steam!

[/p][h3]Dark Path Wanderer[/h3][p]This one feels like a mix of Warsim and my old game the Wastes (rip) the screenshots look really cool and I'm excited to see how it develops. Check it out here.

[/p][h3]Crusader's Quest[/h3][p]A python based text rpg based on Warsim and Oregon Trail. Another promising project that I watch with interest. Check it out here!

[/p][h3]IceBound Zero[/h3][p]Entered on the list after this post popped up on the Warsim subreddit. It's a Warsimlike where you play a small time drug dealer. A very interesting early project that I hope continues to grow!

[/p][h3]Bazaboo's Warsimlike Project (New)[/h3][p]An early project being crafted on our discord by Bazaboo, who is currently working on some fun stuff with kingdom generation and history generation, awesome to see them having so much fun with it!

[/p][h3]END OF EDEN[/h3][p]This game is one that used the Warsim generators that were released as a free tool for DMs and other game devs a little while back, here we see one of Warsims Underling faces and it's awesome to see our generators go to use like this! Check it out here.

[/p][h3]The Wastes[/h3][p]Adding it here as an honourable mention, this game was made after the initial warsim demo but before I took on Warsim properly and began turning it into a game. This proc gen wasteland explorer game was worked on intensely for 6 months before I had the source code wiped... Didn't keep any backups back then like a bloody idiot but hey lessons learned...

You can download it here - https://huw2k8.itch.io/the-wastes

[/p][p]Are you working on something inspired by Warsim? or are you considering it? Well don't be a stranger please! There might be 8 billion of us on this big rock but the internet makes the connections between us ridiculously easy, I'm sat in my bedroom in Wales and I frequently find it possible to talk to wonderful people seemingly in every corner of the globe.


If you have your own project of this kind, let me know and I'll be sure to share it with the people or join us on the Warsimlikes discord room and share it yourself!

And for those asking what the definition of a Warsimlike is, I'd say it's a stretchable definition that simply means at it's minimum a game that's development has been inspired in part by Warsim, or a game that uses content from the Warsim generators for it's own content

Cheers and take care of yourselves!

Huw [/p]