Hey guys,

I am planning a virtual tourney for a community I am part of.
Like where you can pick a number to participate and you get assigned with a team / character / fraction and the tournament itself is simulated in a game, like CPU vs CPU style.

To my mind come games like FIFA, or something like Pixel Soccer Cup or Fire Pro Wrestling.

What are more games you know, where you can simulate some matchups CPU vs CPU (maybe even like 4 CPUs)?
Any tips? :)

Just wanted to add: The game itself does not need to have a tournament mode, just a CPU vs CPU opportunity, I can register the tourney in a spreadsheet. People won't be playing for themselves.

2 years ago*

Comment has been collapsed.

You can do hands off with the games from Paradox. Stellaris might be a good candidate, as it's the only game where all empires are supposed to start in a similar position.

Advantage: Up to 30 (IIRC) can compete in one game.Good entertainment factor if you report the status quo of the ongoing game.
Disadvantage: It'll require some time till a winner is chosen.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I think it's also possible to do in Crusader Kings with the random world feature introduced in Holy Fury. IIRC there's an option where everyone starts as a duke and there are no kings or emperors. Considering there are around 400 duchies it makes for a lot of possible "players" :D

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Looks interesting! I might give this a look, though I consider this to be taking longer than I'd like to.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

If you select a late start date and maximum game speed it will probably shorten the thing quite a bit (like around 100 game years instead of 700, so about 85% shorter), although I haven't used spectator mode much so I don't really know how long a complete game with only AIs would take. If you get around to do it I'd be interested in the results :)

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Many fighting games have some form of tournament bracket in-game, but the one that immediately comes to mind is Smash Bros.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Smash Bros is unfortunately not a PC game.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Dota 2 and CSGO have full bot support. You can create a custom lobby and have it use AI controlled bots only, then they will play the game as normal. In CSGO real players can also join the server (if you set it up right) and spectate the bots without participating themselves, not sure if you can do so in Dota. For CSGO you can edit the match length as well, since normally it takes 40-60 minutes which can be quite long.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

That's super interesting, I'll take a look. Thanks man!

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Golf With Your Friends! I just achievement hunted it, you can use all sorts of settings for playing and a scoreboard is displayed for every hole.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Bump!
Just wanted to add: The game itself does not need to have a tournament mode, just a CPU vs CPU opportunity, I can register the tourney in a spreadsheet. :)

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

any fighting and sports game has a cpu vs cpu mode. Although I think tekken 7 for instance, doesn't have cpu vs cpu but it does have a built in tournament mode with brackets and all

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

There's no chance to filter this on the steam bib right? Thanks for your input!

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

i don't think it has a filter option, but I'm not 100 percent sure

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Virtually any classic Worms game. You can even manually build teams consisting of your community members avatars, customize them in many ways. Second coming to my mind would be the Sims games with mods and some creative thinking...many options for some wacky tournaments, not the straight up "harder, better, faster, stronger" ;-)

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

How would one do that? I mean the avatar thing. :) Thanks for the input!

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I'm not sure if you understood me right. By "avatar" I mean a form of representation in the Worms game - name, sounds, in newer versions also body type and other cosmetic things.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Rocket League should have full CPU vs CPU functionality (along with Spectator mode functions) and, while the CPU is still massively underperforming in Casual multiplayer modes, after updates maybe a half year back the Custom mode bots can actually be passably functional in their play at their highest difficulty setting. That said, I don't recall if you can customize which bots spawn or not, which may limit you on being able to have your community select representatives to back before a match begins. Similarly, RL has tournament functionality but, well, I also don't know about what options you have as far as customizing that for bots.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sounds interesting Sooth, I will take a look. Thank you.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Hoser Hockey has CPU vs CPU mode and it's currently in a bundle.

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Ah, that looks interesting! Thanks canis!

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Civ 5 and 6 can run as CPU vs CPU, there is even a channel on youtube that uploads such matches (speeding them up to fit 5-10 minutrs)

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

I think in Little Fighter 2 you can set up CPU vs CPU matches (up to 8 players).

2 years ago
Permalink

Comment has been collapsed.

Sign in through Steam to add a comment.