Favorite non-actiony, online-capable games for 2+ players?

[forgotmypasswordagain]

stupid post stupid question

Apart from chess/boardgames, Worms, Wesnoth, MoO2*, MoM*, Civ, SotS, AoW:SM, and competing to see who can take the highest score in JFK: Reloaded, I don't have any other good ideas for non-action games that'd be fun to play online with a pal or two whenever we've time to kill.

Any genre works, and the game needn't be turn-based, just so long as it's nothing too frantic (so, no to most FPS and RTS, no Freelancer, etc.) or anything that requires joysticks/gamepads.

Any suggestions? Emulators are fine too, provided the game is 16-bit or lesser as I'd prefer something with relatively low system requirements.

Something RPG would be sweet, but I'm guessing there's nothing but roguelikes with online play? I never tried the NWN series online, just single-player, no idea if it's worthwhile and I don't enjoy MMORPGs so if it's like that....

There's obviously a lot to choose from, but I just haven't tried enough to know which are fun/smart and which are lame.

Thanks. :]


* - not even sure these can be played online?

 

[kingcomrade]

hide the sausage

 

[Sceptic]

Worms would've been my number one pick but you're looking for something else.

Wacky Wheels was a great Mario Kart clone from the mid-90s and was tons of fun in multiplayer. I have no idea if it supports online play though. There was a modem option and a LAN option, so online should work at least through Hamachi (can you get DosBox gto work through Hamachi?)

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 of course.

 

[The Village Loon]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe
http://www.openttd.org/en/

Back in the day, TTD was *the* game we played on LAN with a few buddies.

M.U.L.E
http://www.planetmule.com

Cannot go wrong with the multiplayer classic from C-64.

Leisure Suit Larry 1
http://sarien.net/larry

No words needed.

 

[entertainer]

Commandos 2

 

[Konjad]

nwn!

 

[entertainer]

what are you doing in a hospital anyway

 

[Tails]

Laser Squad Nemesis

 

[Brotherman Bill]

what are you doing in a hospital anyway

Spamming the codex, cant you see

 

[KalosKagathos]

Remove the unreasonable non-actiony requirement and get GGPO.

 

[ChristofferC]

what are you doing in a hospital anyway

pm?

 

[Suchy]

Baldur's Gate coop (good to have more than 2 players)

 

[Hoodoo]

Laser Squad Nemesis

good?

 

[Tails]

Laser Squad Nemesis

good?

Very good, has great balance from what I've seen. It takes time to get into it ad learn some tricks, since it's semi-turn based game. You can always pick trial and play some games with other people (or with buddy on same PC) as Laser Marines only. Last time I played it with buddy in 2006, some time after last version release. Too bad Codo Games don't update it still, thought the game really has no bugs.