There could be many more stepping games occupying unique positions in that territory-games that look nothing like DROD necessarily but have that same stepping mechanic. But from a game design perspective, there's a huge amount of territory left to explore. Looking at them from a technical or marketing perspective, stepping games are old-school junk. I think that some of the traits of steppers appear simple and anachronistic, like they belong back in the 1960's with games like Robots. Yet these other genres contain thousands of titles whereas stepping games contain tens. But if you think about it, my definition is just as general as (if not more than) ' real-time strategy', ' point-and-click adventure', or ' match-three puzzle'. You could accuse me of gerrymandering an arbitrary definition to include DROD, and you'd be partially right. * Hero's Heart and the other MESH games by Everett Kaser It would be an excellent place to showcase the following titles: Yes, please do immediately register ' ' and launch a portal devoted to games in this recently-defined genre. A natural design side effect of this control system is that the game would present a situation interesting enough to be worth that contemplative pause in the action. A command is given at your leisure, and once given, the entire world updates instantly in response. The basic mechanics of stepping games are that you control a single character or token in the game world and issue commands for its movement. What to call this genre I have in mind? ' Logic puzzles' sorta works, but I want to be more specific, so I call DROD a ' stepping game'.

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