Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.

 

You play a General hidden deep within an underground bunker. Your mission is to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst saving your own. Points are awarded or lost depending on both the efficacy and thoroughness of your nuclear vendetta and the number of your own civilian deaths. In order to win you must wipe out the enemy population and simultaneously disable the enemy's ability to retaliate against you. This is an extremely difficult task since launching an attack on the enemy exposes the positions of your own Ground Silos, Subs and Bombers the moment they launch nuclear weapons, making you extremely vulnerable and exposed to a crushing counter-attack.

 

Desperate attempts must be made to form fast, tactical alliances, alliances that may at any moment break-down to become the treacherous and most deadly of betrayals. Everyone looks to each other in a state of nervous suspense and paranoid accusation. In all-out nuclear Armageddon, everybody dies, everybody loses, you just have to make sure you lose the least!

 

 

$10 for the pre-order ... Who wants to play a game of global thermonuclear war ..?

Sounds like my kind of game.

Necroposting. DEFCON 1.4 Linux Beta Announced!

If you like Defcon, check out Darwinia and Uplink. Different genres, but from the same company.

 

For some reason Uplink makes me wish I had a laptop. There's something about it that begs to be played on the go.

I have them both (and they are available for Linux too, BTW). Came in a bundle on Steam.

 

PS

But the don't engage me as much as DEFCON.

Edited March 11, 200718 yr by Diamond

I still don't have Defcon. I suck at strategy games. About the only thing I particularly enjoy in them is building up my own base.

Well I suck at them too, but it is alright for casual strategy gamers, and the atmosphere is awesome.

Introvision... Small group of guys kicking major ass.

Introvision Introversion... Small group of guys kicking major ass.

I like their slogan. "The last of the bedroom programmers".

Mmmmm... Defcon...

 

It doesn't matter if you don't like games like this, you still should get it.

Introvision Introversion... Small group of guys kicking major ass.

I like their slogan. "The last of the bedroom programmers".

 

Oops my bad...