swaaye wrote:

A bunch of Sim* games

Were there any of them exclusive to Windows 3.x, though?

swaaye wrote:

What games use WinG in 3.1? I just remember a few screensavers.

SimCity 2000, definitely. And the aforementioned Comet Busters in its last versions. I can't quite recall if JumpStar did.

A bit of Googling also suggests Dr. Drago's Madcap Chase and Grand Prix Manager.

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:

Also, I remember this Space Invaders clone called "Space Bastards" that had prerendered 3D graphics and really neat weapons. Unfortunately, the waves were all the same pattern, and the flamethrower weapon would bring my 486DX2 66 to a crawl. 🤣

Ahh, Space Bastards! Great fun, that one, and strangely addictive. I thought it was Win9x, though.

Jorpho wrote:

Were there any of them exclusive to Windows 3.x, though?

SimTower is Win3.x and no DOS version.

Coktel Vision's pixel-art gem, "The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble," is a WinG-requiring, Windows-exclusive title.

It might not count much, but Sim City Classic was Win 3.x only. It has a few differences from the DOS version aside the title.

Also there's Simcity 2000 Network Edition, IIRC was 16-bit

leileilol wrote:

Also there's Simcity 2000 Network Edition, IIRC was 16-bit

Nope, that was definitely 32-bit, although there were severe difficulties in getting it to cooperate with 2K/XP/etc. (Someone finally developed a patch recently.)

Can't see that anyone else has mentioned it, so I will: The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. That was in my opinion a cool adventure game, featuring lots of FMV and "photo realistic" graphics as they liked to call it back then.

I've watched the Journeyman Project series on YouTube. Interesting games. The comic relief Arthur AI that everyone thinks is hilarious is grating to me though. 🤣

Martian Chronicles was a decent Win3.1 adventure game

Journeyman Project Turbo! was 3.x specific, but runs just fine under 95/98. Just going by the bundle of software that came with my orignal Packard Bell...Silent Steel, Tuneland, Spider-man Cartoon Maker...

SPACE EMPIRES III Best 4x Space strat game ever made.
Gazillionare - Space Merchant trading game thing very fun.

Balance of Power is quite famous apparently but I never played it.

Lots and lots of little 'gamelets' were produced in that era/environment. Most are forgettable. Two good ones that come to mind are Wslam and Confound. Several of the Microsoft games were quite good, like Pipe Dream.

An interesting subtype of this are games originally released for DOS then faithfully rewritten for Windows. Battle Chess is an example. It's exactly the same, but runs in a Windows window. I wonder how many people paid for two different versions of their favorite games?

Outpost was also a great Win 3.x game.

And buggy as hell. Sierra support has said that they had more calls about Outpost than any other game. It is why they released Outpost 1.5.

You Don't Know Jack, is a funny Game that runs under Win3.1.