On Fri, 09 Jan 2004, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This may seem like a lame question, but, here I spend most time > >conducting computational biophysics for drug design and I could do with > >some kind of distraction so I don't keep on working during breaks. I > >have ALWAYS avoided games on my workstation but it was suggested they > >may provide a necessary distraction. > > > >Can anyone suggest a good game that isn't just mindlessly shooting > >stuff. Say a good adventure with nice graphics that requires some > >thought? > > nethack and Omega come to mind. KQ is decent and Adonthell seems as if > it would be decent (I'd play it except for the fact it LAGS my > computer). You might also want to check out FreeCiv and FreeCraft.
For other 'roguelikes' don't forget:
ADOM ( free as in beer, not speech )
Dungeon Crawl
Slash'em ( nethack variant )
Angband and variants
For non-roguelikes, I either end up playing old RPGs on an emulator
(zsnes, etc) or (recently) I've been playing a lot of xscorch.
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