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[Mathmagician]

From classics like the Dungeon Keeper games to our beloved Dwarf Fortress, I love indirect control games.

I'm always on the lookout for more and I would love suggestions from you guys.  Any game where a core mechanic involves indirect control.

Thanks!

[Farce]

Majesty counts, right?  Majesty is awesome.

Also Evil Genius I guess.  You couldn't directly control the grunt-level guys, right?

[Qiu]

Lemmings ! 

[beorn080]

Politics?

[Dr. Johbson]

I love these games too. Sadly I don't know many.

[LeoLeonardoIII]

Populous had indirect control. I think you could control where Knights went by planting a cross in the ground, and by flattening land you could get people to build there, and by unflattening it you lowered the building capacity and forced someone to leave and settle elsewhere. And of course the miracles or whatever they called them.

[Shadowgandor]

I love these games as well, B&W was a game that managed to satisfy my thirst for these kind of games for a while.

[Bluerobin]

Umm maybe Darwinia? I think that counts. All of the other ones I was going to say have been suggested already.

[Mathmagician]

All are fabulous suggestions which I have played.  There are so few in the mainstream.  My Life as a King comes to mind.  I keep hoping some indie dev will take a liking to them, but it seems like I may just have to take up the mantle myself one day.

Keep up the suggestions, though.  We might find a new gem.

[Eduren]

Does Sim city count? I could never get commercial zones developed no matter how much I watched the demand.

[Bokkie3]

Startopia gives you almost no control over your aliens guys.

[Jreengus]

Savage and Savage 2.

The twist is that you lack control because all of your units are human players, if you can convince the team to elect you as commander you play it as an rts placing spawn points fixed defences and researching new units and weapons whilst they play it as an fps.

You can order them to go somewhere or do something but they are free to completely ignore you. This makes commanding a bit hit and miss, a bad team can ignore you completely despite you knowing important things they don't and it can be really annoying when despite giving you team every possible advantage they repeatedly die to the enemy. On the other hand it is fun when you see a "superior" enemy force die because your team is actually better.

[Eduren]

I tried Savage 2 but the controls really got to me. It seems to clunky but that's just me. I quit before I got the experience to try Commanding but I imagine it is satisfying.

But have you heard of Allegiance? Its like Savage, but in space. Literally! It is pretty much the same as Savage except it is dogfighting instead of melee battling.

[UristMcGunsmith]

Gratuitous Space Battles.

I suggest TOTALLY ILLEGALLY LEGALLY TORRENTING PURCHASING IT BECAUSE IT IS A SMALL LINEAR TOTALLY AMAZING GAME

[Thexor]

Also Evil Genius I guess.  You couldn't directly control the grunt-level guys, right?

I second this. It's far from perfect - traps are totally impractical and largely useless - but it's a humorous, amusing little game. You control your Evil Genius directly, although you can't fight or do anything practical, and you can give direct orders to your limited number of Henchmen. The standard hordes of minions, however, are exclusively under indirect control, just like dear DF.

Just make sure you hunt down the unofficial patch. The developers went under after releasing one major patch, but there are lots of add-ons and the like that even out some of the imbalances and fix some of the bugs.