Black & White vs Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Black & White
Black & White is a god-mode simulation game (a.k.a. God game) where players are casted into the role of an almighty god who is able to control the fate of an entire world and yet is dependant on the prayers of your subjects in order to increase your power. You can opt to be a merciless or a benevolent god but regardless of your choices, challenges will eventually arise and you will need to do what it takes to keep worships coming in.Unlike most sandbox games where you can control every single thing built, you can't really force your people to do as you as directly, but you could encourage them indirectly... and this is exactly what makes Black & White such a hit back in the day - a game concept that no one has ever experienced before. Unfortunately, it seems like this game won't be brought back soon and unless you managed to get a old hard copy of the game (and of course, make it work on your much more advanced PC), you may never get to play this game.
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Kainga: Seeds of Civilization , putting it simply, is a curious and intriguing city-builder/RTS game that offers several campaign-like missions where the goal is to complete the objectives needed before the game becomes too difficult to have your people survive through. Not only does it come with a brilliant soundtrack, but the game also has one-of-a-kind art, and most important of all, its RTS-style gameplay. Of course, there's also the fact that you can tame massive beasts in the game and build stuff on their backs or even use them as war mounts to attack your enemies.The game is already showing a lot of promise despite still being in Early Access. With time and some hard work patching up the bugs and improving on certain existing gameplay mechanics in-game, I’m confident that Kainga will be one of those decade-defining indie games for its efforts in innovating a stagnating genre.