Model Builder is perhaps the ultimate niche game. It’s a simulation of, wait for it, model building. By this, I meant it's precisely what it says it is. You take the simulated model out of the simulated box, simulate preparing the simulated parts. On this is done, you arrange these parts into the proper order, you move on to simulating the assembling, gluing and painting of the model. When finished, you can place your new simulated model on a simulated shelf, so you can admire it for all time, or until your hard drive crashes anyway. So if you find simulating stimulating, (see what I did there?) come along while we check out Model Builder.
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Twenty years ago, Crash Team Racing beat Mario Kart at its own game, its well-designed courses, power-sliding mechanics, and relative lack of catch-up items or mercy of any sort for its players make it a game that deserves to be remembered. Today its modern clone once more charges forth to challenge Mario. Will it once again show Nintendo the folly of battling a Bandicoot or has it been left in the dust by 20 years of Mario Kart evolution?
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Goofy, surreal and sometimes hilarious Rock of Ages II Bigger and Boulder is definitely a niche product although I wonder if I ended up on some sort of Federal Watch List just for playing it. If you like Monty Python, horribly imitated accents and crushing people with giant rocks this might just be the game for you.
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Are you tired of your village being raided? Do you like to stab people or magically drop flaming boulders on their head? If so The Braveland Trilogy might be for you. A well-executed, turn-based strategy game in the style of Heroes of Might and Magic that does everything correctly if not spectacularly.
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Is your idea of a good time being stranded on a deserted island surrounded by hostile wildlife and of course mysterious human inhabitants with unknown agendas? If so Aground is for you. Aground is a progressive world builder with deceptively simple gameplay. Despite appearances, it isn’t just a building or crafting game. It has building, it has crafting but also throws in some RPG elements just to spice things up.
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