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[Rakonas]

Prince of Persia was one of the first things which came to mind but yeah I'm pretty sure it's only desert themed at this point.

Spice Trade - old indie game about being a spice trader in 14th century Iraq. Graphics are stylized to look like medieval art. Never really got into it, but it was fairly popular on freeware game sites back when it was released.

This is pretty cool, but I just went on a pilgrimage and this holy man poisoned me for no reason and I died because the doctor didn't cure it. God dammit.

If you are up for something really old, Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire

What is it about, though?

Civilization 5 allows you to play as Darius of Persia and Harun al-rashid of the Ottomans. There's probably also Arabian civilizations in the earlier games.

Al-Rashid is the leader of Arabia in civ5. And no wonder, seeing how the historical figure died centuries before the emergence of Ottomans.

Oh, by the way, in the fantasy civ4 mod called Fall from Heaven, the Malakim civilization is modelled on the Arabian theme, complete with the world turning into deserts under their cultural influence.

The Malakim did come to mind when I was thinking of this, so I'll get around to that.

Anyhow... Medieval Total War 2 lets you play a Muslim country.

M:TW2 does let you be arab, but is there anything flavour-wise that makes it better than playing, say, eu3 as an arab country?

Keep them suggestions coming though!

[Aqizzar]

I'm not going to be the one to say The You Testament 2, am I?

Totally saying The You Testament 2.

I'm also desperate to hear of any other answers, because I'd like to see some stuff like this.

I know one of the Uncharted Waters games had a pretty clearly Ottoman or Arab captain you could play as.  I don't know how much that flavoring factored into his story though.

[jester]

Medieval total war has some good Muslim civs and there are a few mods for kingdoms that do total conversions to the middle east.

[Tronak]

Medieval total war has some good Muslim civs and there are a few mods for kingdoms that do total conversions to the middle east.

this is true, for M2TW try broken crescent mod http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=346 , it shifts the center of the map from italy to persia, and is also more historically acurrate. I totally recommend it, no comparison with Vanilla M2TW when it comes to play as muslim!

[UltraValican]

The Shantae sereis is a platformer with a fairly strong arabian theme.

[Levi]

There is "Telepath RPG: Servants of God", but I haven't actually tried it so I don't know if its any good.  Its supposed to be middle-east/steampunk themed.  Not sure if that is really what you are looking for though.

http://sinisterdesign.net/?page_id=267

[Flying Carcass]

I never got around to playing it so can't say how good/bad the game is (or if its even still available), but Nadirim is a fantasy FTP online RPG set in a Arabian fantasy world. Here's the article about it I remember seeing:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/11/07/free-to-play-nadirim-launches-today/

[RedKing]

The Magic Carpet games were fantasy-Arabic. I mean....you're on a flying carpet, for gods' sake.

Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse was another fantasy-Arabic one.

There's always Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator. Okay, technically you're Israel in that, but the game is certainly focused on the Arab world.

And I believe there was a Civ4: Warlords mod focused around controlling the trade routes through the Middle East.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

bomberman?

*had to mention it, sorry*

[Heron TSG]

*had to mention it, sorry*

No you did not.

[Jopax]

Rise of Legends had the Alin, which were pretty awesomely Arab inspired, not much beyond that sadly.

(Unless you fancy clockpunk/steampunk Italians and alien tech Mayas/Aztecs)

[Urist McScoopbeard]

No, but in all legitness has anyone mentioned quest for glory 2? never played it but I think it be themed as such

[Trappin]

Had my eye on this for ages but just haven't found time to try it out.

Colonize Europe!

Start from nothing and dominate another continent. Spread the influence of your culture while creating your own empire! Since the 14th century, Europe has been a global super power when it started colonizing other continents. But what if history had gone a different way? What would Europe be like if Asia had prevailed?

Abu Al-Qazzaz is the main character in Spice Trade. He is a poor young man from Baghdad, who has inherited a house and some land.. oh, and he wants to get married too. Abu decides to try his luck in the spice game. He has to prevent the European countries from gaining a trade monopoly. Will Abu be able to beat out the Europeans in the spice trade? Could Europe have been different? How? You decide!

http://www.spicetrade.org/index.html

[Lorgath]

You could also try playing Mount & Blade as the Sarranids, they're the generic Arabian faction.

Then there are the various Dune games. That setting feels very Arabian to me, anyway.

Finally, I'd strongly reccomend Anno 1403. I seem to recall enjoying building the Arabic settlements in that, which is a good thing as your European settlements won't get past mud huts without a spice trade.

[fenrif]

No, but in all legitness has anyone mentioned quest for glory 2? never played it but I think it be themed as such

I like your style dude. Like how you don't let reading the thread get in the way of your casual racism.

The only one I can think of is that terrible Garshasp the Monster Slayer game. I remember some of the pre-release stuff surrounding it featured the developers talking about how middle eastern influences aren't really represented in gaming much at all mostly because most games developers aren't from a middle eastern background.

I guess it's a shame their game was kind of poo, I'd love to see some more focus on non-western/non-japanese mythology and cultures.