M.U.L.E IS BACK, BOYS. -

[Y2K Baby]

Funny how I mentioned M.U.L.E recently and just learned today that this was coming to Steam.

MULE Returns on Steam

MULE is a ridiculously fun and addictive strategy game that combines real-time and turn-based styles as you battle for land and resources on a newly colonized planet. The game is easy to grasp but provides great depth of game-play.

store.steampowered.com

Hopefully it will have online multiplayer.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I've heard amazing things about MULE, but never played it. Looks like there's a perfect time to start.

 

[Xarpho]

The original designer who made it for EA back in the 1980s died about twenty years ago. Did they somehow acquire the rights or just some hack that made a game based on it, then has the gall to name it the same thing and charge for it?

 

[Y2K Baby]

The original designer who made it for EA back in the 1980s died about twenty years ago. Did they somehow acquire the rights or just some hack that made a game based on it, then has the gall to name it the same thing and charge for it?

Pretty sure they acquired the rights. A couple of different things have been done with the property over the years. Plus the original was emulated online for free years ago anyway, lol.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

I like mules.
Tasty drink.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

A MULE thread without the theme posted? That’s really the best part, it has the best intro of any 8-bit computer game.

It’s a great game and there was a reboot a couple years back for iOS that never took off. This is a port of that, and iirc it does have netplay. It’s a good faithful reboot but really I’d suggest checking out Offworld Trading Colony if you’re looking for a playerbase since it’s essentially a really, really good modernized sequel. It even has MULEs in it.

There’s also a html5 webapp MULE somewhere, but I can’t remember the name since it got changed to dodge copyright before Returns came out.

 

[Y2K Baby]

That’s really the best part

False, the game design is.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Fun vidya fact: The first MtF dev in the game industry made M.U.L.E. long before any other troons entered the scene. The reason they don't talk about her is that she regretted the sex change operation.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Fun vidya fact: The first MtF dev in the game industry made M.U.L.E. long before any other troons entered the scene. The reason they don't talk about her is that she regretted the sex change operation.

They were based AF and won awards.

 

[Billy_Sama]

I have the cart for my NES but still yet to play it. Is it worth the trouble to learn to play it?