Aftershock and Afterlight are listed as $4.99 on the bundle page, not $3.99. Which is wrong? The bundle page or the thread text?

Only played the first 2 but I have to say, they're really not bad. I suggest you pick at least one up and see for yourself.

Lol, haven't seen that one in a while. In fact I haven't seen GOG mixes for ages, thought the feature was removed altogether. Should probably update the mix. :P

Also Hard Reset and Shadow Warrior should be added - well, not to the mix but generally to a list of Polish games.
And yeah, it's incredible that the new Shadow Warrior, a remake of the sarcastic manifestation of American ignorance on Asian culture, is being developed here.

What do you mean by "too much work"? Cossacks has a Gold rating on the WINEhq AppDB, and I'm thinking of picking it up, even though the demo didn't seem to work in my testing.

Actually, the province management is much simpler than in Dominions 3, and there's no "tech tree" like the one in Civizilization . Game's awesome tho, you're a fool if you don't buy it.

You have to keep your peasants fed, your army fed, and your army loaded. I don't mean armed, I mean loaded; EVERY bullet gets deducted. The food is even worse because as soon as it gets too low workers die and soldiers stop fighting. So what do you do? Increase food production? Problem; more workers, more food consumed. Over and over you spend 90% of the game just trying to keep your workforce alive all while the enemy comes in and marches over you because you can't defend yourself because you had to send your metal workers to the fields to keep up food production in order to keep your metal workers from starving but they aren't working metal because you had to send them to the fields to produce more food because your soldiers are starving not that it matters because they can't fight anyway because they don't have ammo because you had to send your munitions guys to the fields to get more food to keep your miners from starving and etc etc etc...

If you go in expecting an X-Com remake, you will be severely dissappointed. The games did claim to be inspired by X-Com (and they are), but inspired isn't the same as remaking. So, let's go over them.

Similarities:
Alien Threat.
Research and Development
Strategic Layer
Tactical Layer
Permadeath

Differences:
Simplified strategic layer (different to no finances, no council to please). This does not mean simple strategic layer (ok, maybe in Aftermath), but don't expect to have to juggle wages, or to be transfering scientists between bases near the end of the month to avoid paying the 6 million in wages.
No interceptions. The games have no air combat in them (or at least I can't recall any).
Tactical combat is Real Time with Pause. RTwP does work surprising well in these games, and I wouldn't call it less tactical. But it's not Turn Based, so you do need to have a different mindset going in.
Much smaller squad limit. Usual squad is 5-7 people, and if you have to capture or extract someone you need one space free, so you may find yourself going in with just 4 soldiers.
No nameless soldiers. I think the only game where you could recruit as many soldiers as you could afford was the second (and imho best), Aftershock. For the others, you have a limited amount of soldiers available, so you will have to take care of them.
Soldier training. The soldiers level up, they gain stat points, and if the stat points are high enough, they can receive special training, most common ones being medic and sniper. Depending on the game, some equipment may require specific training (sniper for example), or having the training will provide bigger benefits (medikits).


As Licurg said above, the games are good. But they are not X-Com any more than Terraria is a 2D Minecraft. If you do decide to grab one, I'd suggest UFO: Aftershock, along with Weapon Rebalance and Heroic Assault mods. Both can be found over at Strategy Core

Great information, thanks! Gives me a much better idea of what to expect from the games. I already splashed out on Perimeter and American Conquest this morning, so may have to wait before buying anything further. My bank gets antsy when they see all these small charges to the same place.

Lucky you. I get anxiety attacks. (Yes I'm seeing a doctor and there are more serious things that triggers my attacks).

nice promo. Etherlords and Eador: Genesis were the only ones i could afford.
Thanks GOG

Forgot to add my concurrence that Eador: Genesis is unmissable at this price. Very good game, as long as you are aware of the largely undisclosed turn limit.

There's a mistake in the summary. It lists the final two UFO games for $3.99, when they're $4.99 in the sale.

Eador Genesis is a great (one of my all time favorites atm) game. Does anyone know if Masters of the Broken World is still Masters of the Broken Game?

"American conquest is a Soviet game."


I just wanted to share that great catch phrase. It should be on the trailer.

:p