Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

If you were to 'take over Iraq' the first thing will happen is that one of your political challengers will use all of their means to usurp you.

The issues are power, control, corruption, clan loyalty, incompetence, dysfunction, bureaucracy, radicalism, laziness, embezzlement, short nearsightedness, lack of key resources, petty infighting, political inconsistency and duplicity from supporting nations, bureaucracy etc..

What happens when the entire system is corrupt? The Judiciary, Police, the Army, the politicians? Everyone is trying to embezzle, selling votes, stuffing ballot boxes, using multiple ledgers, giving their family members jobs, handing out MD's to the rich kids?

Some Billionaire owns the TV Station and is lying about you daily, destroying your ratings. There are protesters outside your door while you're trying to 'plan the buildings'.

The guy who funded your campaign to ascension wants special state-guaranteed contracts.

The rebels in that 'ugly border area' have killed some civilians and the locals want blood.

... and consider that many of the same kinds of constraints exist even in modern countries.

'Building Bridges vs. Schools' is completely pedantic exercise.

They should make the game called 'Saddam' and see how a regular person might fare at that 'job'.

I loved that game as a kid.

1. A random point on a random map is selected and populated with objects to make it a mail delivery objective.

2. The player flies there and faces random enemy aircraft or vehicles en-route or in the objective area.

3. The player needs to survive and land to deliver the mail, and is awarded points for hits on enemies and successful landing criteria like how many pieces are missing from the airplane.

4. Expanding this to cooperative missions, points are divided between players, and bonuses are applied when both survive and land successfully.

5. Daily custom missions are published (like Noita’s daily runs) that players can try once, and since games like IL-2 have excellent mission recording features, it would be entertaining to see the final 5-to-10 seconds automatically recorded with the option of sharing the way you lost one of your wheels on landing.

More info: https://hypertexthero.com/combat-air-mail/

It was a location based strategy game I built (with lots of help) but failed to take off. Building games like this is super expensive.

If we built it again today it'd probably be on a "layer 2" chain (Ethereum) and the parcels would probably be NFTs.