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LAN (local area network) games (programming.dev)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Also known as local multi-device games. Are games that you can play by connecting to the same network and play with family. examples:

  • BombSquad
  • Juicy Realm
  • Rusted Warfare
  • Mindustry
  • UFO99
  • Krafteers
  • Mini Militia
  • ReCharge RC

Please tell me about any LAN game that you know of. Appreciate it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Factorio doesn't give a fuck and will let you play with up to 254 other people on the same server. Most survival crafting games have LAN, as a matter of fact. Somehow this is the only genre that will hold developers accountable on a regular basis and make them hurt for not having LAN and player-controlled servers. Not all of them will, but most will offer LAN.

All of Larian's recent RPG efforts have LAN and direct IP connections: Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, and Baldur's Gate 3.

Titan Quest, Grim Dawn, and the entire Borderlands series (outside of the GOTY edition of Borderlands 1) support LAN, surprisingly, if you want to get your loot game on.

Is Recharge RC the same as the upcoming Unreal engine racing game Recharge? If they don't have the same lineage, they've at least got similar inspirations.

Warside is an upcoming turn-based strategy game inspired by (or ripping off wholesale?) Advance Wars, and it's got LAN in its features list.

Streets of Rogue is an all-timer in the co-op roguelike department, and it too supports LAN.

A game that I download and install on a regular basis in the freeware realm is Armagetron. It's the light cycles from Tron but in an open source LAN game. It doesn't exactly have a ton of depth, but it's good fun for about an hour every couple of years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you! this is the RechargeRC I was pointing at.

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