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What’s the most innovative game hook that never took off or got copied? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by massred@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone
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Basically what’s a game that you’ve played that seemed so mind blowingly unique at the time but for one reason or another the game never took off and other developers didn’t pick up and run with it either.

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[–] coolasacurtain@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Messiah - you are possessing the bodies of the enemies including the weapons and access rights and alignments. If you get killed you just take over another person, or you jump from person to person. Amazing and very overseen game.

Red faction - Destructible environment. Rarely seen ever again outside of the series .

Gratuitous space battles - Create, position and configure a fleet, just to watch the battle unfold and see how well your planning turns out, without interfering.