Indie dev Surprised Man created its game The Wager as part of the 72-hour Ludum Dare game jam in December, and has since been expanding on it for an official release.
It's an exploration game in which you explore islands in the open sea with a ship, which translates some of the magic that Colonization used to give you at the start of every game. It also has some great -- and very British -- writing.
As you explore islands, you go on text-based adventures while managing your supplies. It's great fun and can easily eat away hours of your time once you get into it. Old community member SurplusGamer, who is now a writer at Nukezilla, is half of Surprised Man's team and The Wager is free, so go download it here!
Maurice Tan Maurice Tan does his Associate Editing from The Netherlands in a reality-shattering time zone. After working as a university lecturer in Psychology and Communications teaching game studies and the merits of Keyboard Cat, he now spends most of his time posting news, previews, reviews, and features about industry stuff or all things PC and strategy. He is also a connoisseur of licensed games, as long as they have achievements. Likes
Deus Ex, Colonization, Mass Effect, TIE Fighter, and his iPod Touch.
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11:00 AM on 05.05.2011 | 
I thought I should say that despite our best efforts to increase bandwidth our hosting is getting HAMMERED at the moment because of all the attention, and we're trying to find better places to put the file. In the meantime, consider following us on Twitter at @SurprisedMan and if we do go down we'll keep you updated.