I'd love to see some more great Free-For-All (FFA) games. So much interesting emergent gameplay, game-theory musing, and player-driven engagement. I used to love Warcraft 3 custom game modes that provided this style of gameplay. It results in folks teaming up, then there are inevitable betrayals, back-door trading deals, and all sorts of player-invented fun layered on top of what is otherwise a relatively basic game.
One of the best takes on this FFA style that I've played recently (released 2015 though) is subterfuge - http://subterfuge-game.com. It's a mobile game that pits up to 10 players in an FFA game. It's more or less a "risk" style game. Expansion is rewarded with better army production rates and higher army capacity, at the cost of larger borders to defend. Orders can be issued in real time, and the game has built-in player group chats. However, the game is set up so that after attacks are launched they frequently take 8-10 hours to reach their destination, meaning a game typically lasts 1.5-2 weeks, which has some very interesting side effects on the meta side of the gameplay, as there's plenty of time for scheming with other factions in between orders.
My ideal game is a game that lasts 1-2 hours, features 6-10 players, and incentivizes each to striving for an individual win against the other 9. The actual game mechanics need to provide some kind of resources that can be traded, some kind of cost/benefit to expanding your in-game power, and a large benefit to teaming up with other players to fight a third 2v1. There also needs to be some relatively-costly way to knock out other players, which frequently incentivizes mad-dash finales, suicide runs and all kinds of other player-driven shenanigans.
One of the best takes on this FFA style that I've played recently (released 2015 though) is subterfuge - http://subterfuge-game.com. It's a mobile game that pits up to 10 players in an FFA game. It's more or less a "risk" style game. Expansion is rewarded with better army production rates and higher army capacity, at the cost of larger borders to defend. Orders can be issued in real time, and the game has built-in player group chats. However, the game is set up so that after attacks are launched they frequently take 8-10 hours to reach their destination, meaning a game typically lasts 1.5-2 weeks, which has some very interesting side effects on the meta side of the gameplay, as there's plenty of time for scheming with other factions in between orders.
My ideal game is a game that lasts 1-2 hours, features 6-10 players, and incentivizes each to striving for an individual win against the other 9. The actual game mechanics need to provide some kind of resources that can be traded, some kind of cost/benefit to expanding your in-game power, and a large benefit to teaming up with other players to fight a third 2v1. There also needs to be some relatively-costly way to knock out other players, which frequently incentivizes mad-dash finales, suicide runs and all kinds of other player-driven shenanigans.