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RPGs with Desert Environment

pomenitul

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On the ARPG end of things, surely Grim Dawn's latest DLC, Forgotten Gods, should be listed here.
 

Darth Canoli

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There's also Wasteland 2 and Might & Magic 6 / 7

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Neanderthal

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Sacred has a pretty nice desert environment, very atmospheric with a good soundtrack.

Dungeon Sieges multiplayer map has a nice one as well.
 

Lord_Potato

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What I like about the deserts of AC Origins is the diversity of landscapes: the golden sands around the Oracle of Sivah and the Pyramids. The rocky wastelands of the South scorched by the Sun, the barren red hills of Sinai. And a bit of green along the Nile, in the Delta and in some oasis.
 
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Aemar

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MM6 (Dragonsand), MM7 (Bracada Desert), MM8 (Ironsand Desert), Titan Quest (second act), Path of Exile (act 9), Daggerfall (southern regions), Mount and Blade: Warband (Sarranid areas), New Vegas.
 

AdolfSatan

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If you don't mind switching sand-niggers for cowboys, West of Loathing.

More of a wasteland than a desert, but Lisa: the painful should fit the bill.

And that weird level in BaK, you know which.

EDIT: Stronghold Crusader if you feel like playing rts.
 
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Zed Duke of Banville

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Legend of Grimrock II does have a desert biome, strictly speaking. :M

The same is true of Nier: Automata, mentioned in the previous post.

Age of Decadence takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it isn't really a desert and the game doesn't allow you to explore it, anyway.

Morrowind has the Ashlands, but these aren't exactly a desert.

Kenshi includes bona fide desert biomes as well as other types of barren wasteland.
 

Sigourn

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  1. Download Morrowind.
  2. Make all textures use tx_sand.dds
  3. ?????
  4. PROFIT
EDIT:

Hell, I'm thinking I could make it a mod and people would eat it up...
 

deuxhero

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Which was the shortest, most boring planet of them all.

Fire Emblem generally has at least one desert chapter a game. The challenge is that sand hoses movement of most classes, especially of cavalry (who are otherwise good in most games), and (for the 6-10th game) there's a lot of hidden loot to obtain.
 

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