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[RAMINATION]

Tetris + Outrun

One course, lots of cars. At the end of the course is a parking lot. Park the cars.

[eyeliner]

Outrun + Ice Climber

You'd drive up a mountain, avoiding penguins and driving carefully through clouds, and at the summit, you'd jump to a moving cargo plane.

[LiquidAsh]

Ice Climber + Closure

Use a candle to illuminate and solidify the environment around you, and to melt strategic hole through the ice platforms that you are climbing.  Just be careful about accidentally melting the ice beneath your feet.

[Erinock]

Ice Climber + Horror.

you stare down at the remains of may before you, the crevice is the arbiter between life or death. What started out to be a family ski trip you may never return...

[Sir Raptor]

Horror + Party Game.

The game board is filled with monsters. The minigames are filled with monsters. You are the monsters (Maybe!)

[iffi]

Sounds like a rather... monstrous party.

Party Game + MMORPG

Party with your... party. Nothing but minigames to see here. Could actually work, given the amount of minigames already in place in many MMORPGs.

[BlueSweatshirt]

MMORPG + DDR-style

[Alevice]

DDR + Survival Horror

Thrilleeeeerrrr!

[Belimoth]

Survival Horror + Marine Biology

You discover a mysterious sunken tanker while doing ground-breaking research at the bottom of the Mariana trench and its contents are accidentally released. Suddenly you are under attack by zombie sea creatures! Can you make it back to the surface?

Marine Biology is not a genre but maybe it should be.

[iffi]

Marine Biology + Fighting Game

[XRA]

KING OF CRUSTACEAN + Deadliest Catch

Dark survival horror game about life on the cold sea floor as a crusty crustacean, battling gangs of roving crustaceans, crawling under the shadows of ships lurking above stealing from fishing pots living life on the edge. So dive in deep and level up your claws in over 100 fathoms of crushing intensity, R U KING OF CRUSTACEAN??? R U THE DOPEST DECAPOD AROUND??

[iffi]

Deadliest Catch + Dating Sim

Save your crewmates from being washed overboard to gain relationship points. Before you know it, bromance everywhere.

[Sir Raptor]

Dating Sim + Kart Racer
Combining a genre devoted to forging romantic relationships with a genre that usually destroys relationships.

[Dom2D]

Kart Racer + Runner game

Infinite Mario Kart-like track that goes faster and faster, avoid obstacles and jump over holes. You could be chased by something too, like in Hook Champ and Tiny Wing.

[rek]

Runner game + Cooking Mama

You play as the ingredients, and your goal is to run full speed into the path of the chopping knife while avoiding counter-top obstacles.

[JMStark]

Cooking Mama + RPG

Travel the world learning the best recipes, collecting ingredients, and hunting monsters for their rare and delicious meat. Level up cooking skills such as cutting, mixing, and timing. Buy and loot cooking equipment such as pans, pots, spoons, stoves, and ovens to improve your ability to create dishes. Learn to use different kitchen layouts and compete against the greatest chefs in the world to become the best.

[Landshark RAWR]

and you fight (hungry) enemies by quickly making food for them?

RPG + RTS

you are the head of an adventurers guild, send out adventurers to gather resources and fight monsters, watch as they run into random battles during their quests!

[FanFan]

*EDIT: Whoops, i blooped. Sorry, everyone*

[Graham-]

RTS + the Minecraft multiplayer experience

Minecraft multiplayer is like a group adventure. Everyone is in a world contributing to it's development. You can see each other at a distance, communicate through chat, but mostly have to work with others using the same methods available in real life. Everyone owns a piece of what the group is trying to accomplish. That's interesting.

The most stagnant element of RTS is the "God" perspective. You can always do everything and see everything. Creative building games existed before Minecraft, but Minecraft made the experience tangible. It showed you that each structure provides a different experiential feeling and players were introduced to their own creativity as a result.

I'd like to see that idea of reduced perspective in Minecraft exist in an RTS that's rooted in it's co-operative multiplayer. It doesn't have to be PVP. You could team up against AIs, or better yet, generated sequences of challenges. You RTS through a world, not into an enemy.

Everyone can only see a small piece of the forces they're trying to control. Teamwork is necessary and it isn't contrived. You have to co-operate because you literally can only be in one place at a time. You have to divide responsibilities by your strengths and constantly communicate.

I'd like that game very much.

[Belimoth]

So it would be like open-world, cooperative Overlord?