An atmospheric, frontier planet survival/exploration game. After humanity has eventually been all but wiped out by killer robots in a war between all of the capitalist powers of earth in the not-so-distant future, you play as earths last remaining cyborg/super soldier/etc, and have been in cryosleep for a few hundred years.
You were supposed to wake up, alongside all of your fellow cyborg friends, in the event that the world was in jeopardy, but this is not the case. The war was so sudden that the response was too slow, and all of your cyborg friends have perished alongside most of humanity. You crash land onto earth when your pod runs out of juice after floating around in orbit for the last few hundred years, and you awake abruptly, with the goal of putting your pod back together to use as a home base of operations. After this is completed and the A.I is restored, it will aid you in your mission to clean up planet Earth (But i like the idea of the player knowing none of this, and just implying earth would be more mysterious and fun).
Terraria meets Metroid, this game is all about collecting resources, setting up production, building a fortified base and defences, and most importantly, rescuing as many survivors as possible. As the game advances, you gather more and more people with the option to arm them with weapons to help defend your little colony. Taking bands of followers around with you will help you to reach harder areas as you battle murderous robots.
The game would rely quite heavily on good A.I for the followers you acquire. I didn't want the game to be combat based, but the game needs a bit more thought before i can come up with something more fun/exiting.
The ultimate end could be a cool epic battle to some kind of robot factory, building forward bases along the way, and siphoning all of your new followers towards the enemy robots base, whilst minimising as many casualties as possible.
Multiplayer could be an option also.
I love games with economy, such as Age of Empires II, and also the ambiguity, difficulty and mystery of early Metroid games, as well as the building and collecting in Terraria. I think these things could go together to make a really cool game.
Also, the protagonist would look a lot like the Spaceman from the Spaceman candy sticks box, I love the retro style, this world would definitely look 1940's space-comic-retro :D And either 2.5D sidescroller, or pixel sidescroller for PC and possibly console.
I'd like to subtly draw contrast/comparisons between capitalism vs human nature and the consequences of rampant unchallenged capitalism.
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