My all time favorite Airplane game growing up. Created in 1991 by LucasFilm games. The game featured a German and American campaign system along with numerous planes and skirmish style missions. Was an absolute blast. The soundtrack and sounds of the game stick with me to this day.

Fun fact: The engine, 3D mechanics, and mission builder logic Holland perfected in SWOTL were used directly as the foundation to create the legendary Star Wars: X-Wing (1993) and TIE Fighter games.

This is a interesting 1993 DOS title, I cant think of another game quite like it. Stronghold is an offically licensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Real-Time Fantasy Kingdom Simulator. Its a little harder for me to recomend than M.A.X Mechcanized Assault and Exploration was yesterday as this game may not be for everyone due to the fact that you don't control your units directly.

If i had to give a comparison i would say the gameplay is similar to Fallout Shelter in that you put units to training so that they can gain levels but you don't really directly control your units.

You play in real time, slowly building and expanding your territory outward while defending your walls & attacking enimies as you share your world with various monster bases as well as a evil wizard that serves as the main protagonist.

At the start of the game you roll a party of fighters, thieves, and wizards, just like any other D&D game but now each party member can build their own stronghold and produce more units of their class and race (meaning a human fighter in your party can now recruit more human fighters, an elven wizard more wizard elves and so on .)

To this day It's definitely still a unique title, worth checking out.

NOTE: To get into the game you will also need to find the instruction manual online that came with the game because it has one of those old school copy protections where it will ask you what is the first word on page 23? If you absolutely can't find it let me know.

The GOG version does come with the Manuel if you purchase it on the GOG website.

After two months of working on this, I finally worked up the courage to post it here.

I’m building MMModern, an open-source (GPL) reimplementation of the World of Xeen engine. Clouds of Xeen can now be played from start to finish, from a new game in Vertigo all the way to Lord Xeen and the original ending. Darkside of Xeen isn’t playable yet; only its intro works for now.

My first goal is to make it look, play and behave as close to the original DOS game as possible. Later I’d like to add optional quality-of-life features like controller support, interface improvements and extra rendering options, always off by default. I also plan to bring it to other platforms like Linux and the Steam Deck, and maybe Android.

It doesn’t include any game data: you need your own copy of the game, and the GOG version works perfectly. For now it only runs on Windows 10/11 (64-bit). It’s still in 0.x, so saves from one version may not load in the next.

It isn’t a port of ScummVM’s Xeen engine. It reuses some ScummVM code, but wherever ScummVM differs from the DOS original, MMModern follows DOS, and those differences are documented in the repo.

I only tested the late part of the campaign using prepared saves, so I’d really appreciate any feedback. Bug reports are very welcome on GitHub.

A note on AI: the whole project was built with Claude and Codex. I did my best and tested everything I could as thoroughly as possible, but I understand if that’s something you’d rather not support.

GitHub and downloads: https://github.com/carbiecarbie/MMModern/releases