Video Games You Wish Existed

[Deset Gled]

I want an old Grand Theft Auto style "go around the city causing mayhem," except your characters are a roster of escaped zoo animals.

Oddly enough, I've played a TTRPG fairly similar to this. Zoo Mafia.

Zoo Mafia RPG Quick Start Rules by nerdarchistdave

Go Wild, Do Crime, and Don't Let the Humans Catch You

nerdarchistdave.itch.io

 

[trappedslider]

RW just wants a stable of furry hoes. Unsurprising behaviour from an Ewok.

This was not on my bingo card for 2026 or any other bingo card for that matter.

 

[Kaodi]

Watching someone stream shipbuilding in Starfield and suddenly I really want a game that is a combination of Deep Space 9 and The Sims. Ships are basically lots that you can fly directly to other "neighbourhoods" (starbases). And of course you could also live out of an apartment on a starbase.

 

[payn]

Watching someone stream shipbuilding in Starfield and suddenly I really want a game that is a combination of Deep Space 9 and The Sims. Ships are basically lots that you can fly directly to other "neighbourhoods" (starbases). And of course you could also live out of an apartment on a starbase.

I think Eve online was working on being able to get out of ships. Im not sure if that ever happened. I stopped doing MMOs back in 2010.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Watching someone stream shipbuilding in Starfield and suddenly I really want a game that is a combination of Deep Space 9 and The Sims. Ships are basically lots that you can fly directly to other "neighbourhoods" (starbases). And of course you could also live out of an apartment on a starbase.

Yes that would be amazing.

Indie/small AA game devs love to make a game that's about managing a space station or spaceship and the people on it, and then make it completely unfun somehow, or to add a bunch of elements that prevent it being "The Sims: Deep Space 9". Also somehow the Sims has never done a "Everyone is living on a big spaceship/space station" expansion, even though it's incredibly obvious as a concept.

It's part of why this thread exists really, I swear, there are loads of fairly obvious game concepts but devs will take this obvious concept, which is like, "vanilla + chocolate" and then go "Hmmm but I must make it mine, so it's vanilla + chocolate + shredded fresh garlic! ENJOY!".