Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

I semi-regularly wish I lived on the timelines in which Star Wars Battlefront III and MegaMan Legends 3 hadn't gotten canceled.

I'd like to play with a game that's like Civilisation, but when you start, you don't know what world you're playing in. You only know what your ruler sees and hears. You may send your Columbus across the Atlantic, and you will see him arrive to India in the East. Later on you may learn that he instead discovered a new continent. Maybe. Maybe he really landed in India in your game. Or maybe he was a fraud and found nothing, and all the lands he reported on will disappear from the map when you send more ships to follow his route.

Similarly, you wouldn't know which technology would work in this world and which not. Maybe alchemy would be real, and you could develop it to mass produce rare materials. Maybe it would turn out to be fake science only. Similarly, magic and religion may work as either basic mind tricks and psychology that enlightenment would mostly cancel out, or be part of the reality of the world, and you could get gods fighting on your side Greek mythology style, or wizards casting spells even deadlier than tanks and nukes.

I guess this system would be already a bit too hard to implement, but if I could keep wishing freely, it would be awesome if you could actually govern by writing whatever law you want. So you wouldn't just click a button to switch from feudalism to theocracy or communism, but you would actually have to come to an agreement with power figures (or classes) in your society on how your state would work. You could grant rights to tax trade routes in exchange of doing military service for example. And later you would need support from some other group if you would like to abolish this system.

Ender's Game games.

A co-op RPG set in a procedurally generated open world covered in hostile wilderness, designed to simulate the kind of Dungeons and Dragons setting where settlements are rare, the road network is thin, and the monsters are always roaming and threatening to extinguish the candle of civilization.

Polished, complete, co-op multiplayer "FTL: Faster Than Light" for up to 8 players

I'm aware of: - an FTL mod (unfinished?), - Tachyon (work in progress?), - Undercrewed (a bit too much arcade/action and kind of short), - Among Us (but that betrayal aspect...) - Interstellar Rift (closest but too grindy, too long, the encounters leave much to be desired particularly from the perspective of a crewed ship) - Space Engineers (but requires too much understanding of how and why the ship works for some people, and doesn't really have a "series of encounters" mode I'm aware of) - Star Citizen (TBD...)

Also, just generally that co-op games would support more than 4 players.