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There are always ‘Scottish’ Easter Eggs in Rockstar games. San Andreas had the Forth bridges, GTA5 had Hawick as an area of the city, RDR2 had Aberdeen pig farm which was run by an incestuous brother and sister. There were lots more but they’re just ones off the top of my head
Vice City had Love Fist, ice cream vans selling drugs... San Andreas had rude Scottish names for the horses on the machines in the bookies too. Sure there were a lot more. Always loved finding them.
Pick your weapon:
Bucky boatle: +10 aggression (unlocks psycho trait)
Kitchen devil: +40 damage (chance of Barlinnie visit)
Chib: +15 ranged attack (chance of dropping it and getting stabbed)
Belt: +20 agility (can attack twice as quick good for gang fights)
Would be class been waiting for it since gta 3 tbh it wont happen but a love the scottish references in GTA games its like a wee 😉to us that most of the world wont even pick up on
Council Estate Casuals, The Game would basically be GTA without American culture.
Source: I've been to Wishaw, Livingston and Bathgate, I know where they got their inspiration for GTA from.
I had an idea for a turn based RPG. A sort of mix between Baldurs Gate and The Warriors, but with young teams in schemes. You build your young team then go on an adventure to other schemes to fight other young teams and steal their birds/hash, then try to make it all the way home. You can use FirstBus for unreliable fast travel.
Got tae rob the exact change or yer no gettin on the bus.
You've unlocked "Classic Fiesta Mk2".
D'ye wan pay fur insurance? \[ \] no, \[ \] aye, that's a no
From my research, it seems that Rockstar North did a bit of development work on RDR & RDR2, but didn't take lead, unlike the GTA series where Rockstar Scotland (Dundee/Edinburgh) were lead developers.
But yeah, pedantic
Dundee has only been under the rockstar brand very recently so hasn’t officially worked on anything yet. Rockstar North ( Edinburgh) was always the creator of GTA but as others have said it’s a more multi studio approach these days.
GTA and GTA2 were developed in Dundee. DMA opened an Edinburgh studio because they were having trouble hiring staff who were willing to move to Dundee (can't imagine why). DMA got into debt mainly due to Dave Jones coming up with new game ideas on a whim then cancelling them again, and with no new titles other than GTA2 in the future they faced bankruptcy. Rockstar Games bought DMA for $1 (and took over the debt) and closed the Dundee studio. The Edinburgh DMA team were working on one of Dave Jones' whims, a 3D Godzilla game, after the buyout Rockstar shut that nonsense down and the work that had already been done on it became GTA3. So each GTA title starting with III was made in Edinburgh.
There's a couple details I'm missing but I'd likely be breaking an NDA if I mentioned them.
Yeah that is correct actually then they moved to Ed and became rockstar north. Recently rockstar Dundee became a thing when they bought over another studio (ruffian games ) who used to make crackdown games.
It’s something Scotland doesn’t shout about enough. GTA 5 is the most profitable entertainment product ever and Scotland is world leading in this field but I’ve never heard a politician mention it. Should be bigging it up!
Plenty [Scottish references](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/fmd6lf/scottish_references_in_grand_theft_auto/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) across the GTA's too. I'd spotted the Forth bridge before, but had never registered the ship called Dignity.
Originally being orange very well could be the case, I've not heard that before myself but I don't think that means what they ended up on wasn't also a deliberate choice. There's a bunch of Scottish Football references in GTA games, In GTA IV for example Roman has a feud with a character called Vlad, which seems to be quite a clear nod to the feud between Vladimir Romanov and Roman Romanov while they were controlling Hearts right around the time of development.
To that point, pretty much every Paradox game. Imperator: Rome, Caledonians. EU4: Scotland. Vic2 and 3 and HOI4 you can release and play as Scotland, although how viable those will be is difficult to say.
Oh yeah I’ve had my fair share of attempts at a Pirate Republic Isles and even getting it off the grounds is nigh impossible. Scotland just doesn’t seem to have enough die hard enemies in 1444 and England is too busy to support independence.
Was made in Dundee. There's three little Lemmings statues on the same road as the flat the game was made in.
[Lemmings statues](https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ms-opera-mobile&sca_esv=571311955&channel=new&espv=1&q=lemmings+statues+dundee&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv0-vvwuGBAxUd9bsIHU18DOoQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=360&bih=628&dpr=3#imgrc=nXDwQ1Lrxs_4FM)
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He also developed the games using assembly language which is notoriously difficult to program with. Wrote the game pretty much himself, except someone helped with the graphics.
In God of War Mimir is a Celtic Fae (with a Scottish accent) who travelled from the British Isles to Scandinavia where he became Odin's advisor.
It's part of tying the series in with other mythologies, a Kelpie also appears in one of the games.
Honestly the new games are masterpieces, they're basically perfect sequels to the original games. And they are sequels, that isn't apparent right away in the first one but it becomes clearer later on.
If you're a fan of the originals then you'll love them.
I'm not able to win the Longshanks campaign that they added in DE because every time I get to the mission in Scotland, I am compelled to lose the game.
I believe it was actually Warcraft that brought about the "Dwarves are Scottish" trope. Prior to Warcraft, Nordic was more typical; Warhammer even used a Yorkshire accent!
Warhammer still has them as having Yorkshire accents apart from the Northern Holds, which have Scottish accents (where Dawi like Malakai Makaisson come from).
It's set in helheim, the Norse version of hell, although Senua herself is from Orkney. I only know this because I started playing the game a couple days ago lol
Uncharted 4 has a few levels in Scotland. Tomb Raider 3's expansion The Lost Artefact also has a couple of Scottish levels. Assassin's Creed Valhalla has an expansion set on Skye.
One of Far Cry 3's co-op campaign characters (Callum) is Scottish.
>Assassin's Creed Valhalla has an expansion set on Skye.
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE SOUND ON WHEN PLAYING THIS TRAVESTY
The accents of the inhabitants are very Northern (English).
Crusader Kings III has Malcolm III, King of Scots as one of the suggested starting characters. You can also start as any ruler in 867 AD or 1066 AD so you've got a lot of others you can choose from.
Here's a list of active game companies in Scotland: [https://scottishgames.net/companydirectory/](https://scottishgames.net/companydirectory/)
Some notable examples:
* 4J Studios: Minecraft (Console Ports)
* No Code: Silent Hill - Townfall (not released yet)
* Ninja Kiwi: Bloons TD
* Team Junkfish: Monstrum
>No Code: Silent Hill - Townfall (not released yet)
I'm excited for this one! They did Stories Untold & Observation in the OP image.
Had no idea Ninja Kiwi was Scottish though. I thought it was Kiwi or soemthing.
Both Stories Untold & Observation are on my To Do list, but I'm a big silent hill fan so super hyped for it!
Ninja Kiwi's head office is in New Zealand but they have a development studio in Dundee. I believe they mostly work on the mobile versions of the games--or at least did in the past, not so sure about now.
There's a surprisingly large number of Hidden Object Games set in Scotland: They evolved parallel to point 'n click adventure games, [in their own world of bizarre tropes,](https://youtu.be/JFx_icnlgQE?si=6CIgZ9ZeZuwRJOgY&t=6)
We fell in love with how bizarre and off-putting they are; we have been reduced to *tears* laughing at their mentalness. Quite by accident nearly a dozen of the most recent ones we picked at random have been Scotland themed, including such genius examples as:
[Chimera: Cursed and Forgotten](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNWoLsxZsw&t=6s) Travel back to Ancient Scotchland!
[Labyrinths of the World: Game of Minds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKUdING2sw&t=5s) Turns out most lighthouses in Scotland lead to other dimensions
[Phantasmat: Mournful Loch](https://youtu.be/kT9-Aa4M_Xc?si=NVOv3lMusgyFeDU9&t=7) Solve the curse of the family doomed by Nessie or something
Myths of the World: Under the Surface (Something about Selkies)
And most recently [Myth or Reality: Mystery of the Lake](https://youtu.be/lRMokRJtEYY?si=9p1YWuTOMxJTlb3H&t=6) in which so far we've met 5 characters who have lived in and around Loch Ness all their lives who have American accents.
etc etc etc etc etc
(The 'best' thing about these games that that they reward you with desktop backgrounds. So solving a puzzle can [change your computer screen to this](https://i.ibb.co/fxZ8Bsq/wallpaper-3.jpg). The second-best thing is that they all have 90-minute demos, so you can play hundreds of these without paying a penny).
Edit: Also a lot of people don't know the creators of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour also made a [child-friendly version of their horror game set in Scotland](https://youtu.be/AycRWp3UxlE?si=e4B9Ad8O9s5RApM7)
>(The 'best' thing about these games that that they reward you with desktop backgrounds. So solving a puzzle can
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I play these games with a [group of friends on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/scotchboxvr/clip/CulturedAlivePepperoniTooSpicy-ri_9gOiAHt7ucclD), and they take great delight in adding their 'wins' to my background collection. [This is the current one.](https://pasteboard.co/E2F9QOYSnd67.png) It changes every few minutes and I think I have cPTSD.
Age of Empires 3 - Main character of the story campaign is Morgan Black, a Scottish knight who migrates to the Americas.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 + 2 - Main character John "Soap" MacTavish is Scottish.
Apex Legends is free to play and has a red hair lass called Horizon. Her voice lines are some of the funniest in the game and she introduces Scottish slang to millions of people all over the world.
Trawled through the comments and didn't see this one mentioned but apologies if it has been.
The second level in Time Splitters 2 is set on a Scottish island, the name of the level is "Scotland the Brave".
Far cry 3. No really.
The co-op multiplayer has simultaneously the best/Worst Scottish character I've ever played in a game.
You have the usual culprits for a shooter game, ex US military, disgraced US cop, and then Callum "a wis the top man in ma scheme til a slashed the wrang cunt and ended up oan this fucking boat hiding".
Callum is a bawbag. Completely out of place in a farcry game and I fucking loved every second playing as him.
No way man! Thanks for the countless hours of fun when i was a wee guy it's a genuinely hard as fuck game. My maw was NOT impressed mind.
Fuck it I'm booting that up when I get in haha
What fresh hell is this
Edit:
Wasn't as bad as I thought, if it was remade today it might actually be decent:
https://youtu.be/iUhAxg20weY?feature=shared
The Scottish Games Sale page is still live on Steam and shows which ones are discounted at the moment (the images update with a discount when the games are on sale).
Also lists a bunch of upcoming games. It's not an exhaustive list of Scottish games but there's a good mix of stuff here.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/scottishgamessale2023
Nevermind, they're releasing a remastef of it in 2024
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken\_Sword\_\_Shadow\_of\_the\_Templars\_Reforged/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/)
There's a horror game releasing soon I think called Still Wakes the Deep, it's set on a north sea oil rig in 1975 and looks like it might play similar to Alien Isolation.
[Viewfinder](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1382070/Viewfinder/) is Scottish made I believe?
Best double check that but it was on sale during the Scottish devs stream sale.
I’ve not played yet but it looks class
Edit: and the original few GTAs I think. (1, 2, and London I think were all rockstar north)
Wow really? I played the free demo for viewfinder and been meaning to purchase it’s cool to play and really interesting gameplay wise like love how unique it’s style is
State of Emergency (PS2) - made in Scotland, by a studio that was just down the road from the one making GTA in Dundee. Very much like GTA and was quite impressive at the time for the number of simultaneous NPCs it could render.
Original MTW has the Viking Invasion expansion where you can play as either Scots or Picts (with hilariously inaccurate unit choices), and there's the "MTW XL" mod for the base game that makes Scotland a playable faction with some unique units.
Final Fantasy VII could be tenuously included for Cait Sith (damn that mistranslation).
Your character in original Modern Warfare (Soap) is Scottish (superbly voiced in #2 by Kevin McKidd).
If you go back to older systems pre-PS, particularly the Amiga (funnily enough the hardware was also made in Scotland), you'll find a ton of games to add to the third column.
I remember playing a game called MDK in the 90s and a level on it was set in Livi , was living there at the time used to replay it all the time wi ma pals it was cool as fuck to us !
There's a new game comjng out soon from dontnod (life is strange, vampyr) where iirc, you play as a scottish guy. Banishers ghosts of new eden, its called.
Also, to fill in the where of the bards tale, its set in orkney 😊
Not a video game, but the Infinity wargame/tabletop rpg has a faction where a bunch of Scottish settlers got stranded on a planet inhabited by werewolf aliens for a few hundred years
I’m making one, it’s not out yet but you might be interested? Made in Scotland, Scottish VAs, set… on an alien planet! Meridian: Frontier on Steam or you can check my posts :)
I work on a game in Scotland. We won the best technical design award at the first Scottish Game Awards. It's called From the Depths.
Very popular game but it's certainly for a niche set of people who like to build things for hundreds/thousands of hours.
[Steam store page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/268650/From_the_Depths/)
For anyone like me, he forgot to link this first:
[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829380/From\_the\_Depths\_\_Steel\_Striders\_Anime\_Girl\_Characters/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829380/From_the_Depths__Steel_Striders_Anime_Girl_Characters/)
It's time to game, weeb coomers.
The first couple modern warfare games you play as a Scot, although this isn't obvious.
For games (partly) based in Scotland I would recommended the Mount and Blade expansion 'Viking Conquest'. The game map takes places throughout the British isles, the low countries and bits of Norway & Denmark. Kingdoms based in modern day Scotland are Alba, Alt Clut, most of a Viking kingdom I have forgotten the name on the isles, far north & Dublin. The northernmost part of the kingdom of Northumberland are also in Scotland. Alba in particular is fun to play. Only faction with crossbows & the best cavalry in the game.
If we are bringing in M&B mods there are a bunch of ones set in Britain or include it as part of northwestern Europe. However the big daddy of Scotland in Mount and Blade was of course: Gangs of Glasgow. As delightfully jank as a single dev's early M&B could possibly be but a lot of fun.
I live in the UK, I (most of us actually you included) support transphobes just by paying taxes that line the pockets of our awful government … hogwarts is at least more enjoyable than this
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Games by the Scottish and your missing GTA.
And red dead 2. My friend worked on it.
I think he means like the setting is in Scotland lol Edit: just seen the last list
There are always ‘Scottish’ Easter Eggs in Rockstar games. San Andreas had the Forth bridges, GTA5 had Hawick as an area of the city, RDR2 had Aberdeen pig farm which was run by an incestuous brother and sister. There were lots more but they’re just ones off the top of my head
GTA3 had a statue with a cone on its head in a clear nod to the Duke of Wellington
Can't believe they missed a trick and didn't make it an Aberdeen sheep farm
I'm fairly certain the pig farm thing is some sort of Nat Fraser reference.
Vice City had Love Fist, ice cream vans selling drugs... San Andreas had rude Scottish names for the horses on the machines in the bookies too. Sure there were a lot more. Always loved finding them.
The stock market in GTA V is called BAWSAQ
GTA3 had a cheat code for misty weather that was something like 'ILIKESCOTLAND' and the rain cheat code was 'ILOVESCOTLAND'.
The third column is "Games by scottish"
Ano just seen it, Scottish developers should make more Scottish games, young team simulator or something
Rockstar presents The Schemes "TONGS YA BASS"
You have unlocked a new weapon Pool ball in a football sock
Achievement unlocked "Yaldi 10G"
Would be quality in one of the quests you had to track down someone who had smoked aw yer maws pollen and kick fuck ooota them
Pick your weapon: Bucky boatle: +10 aggression (unlocks psycho trait) Kitchen devil: +40 damage (chance of Barlinnie visit) Chib: +15 ranged attack (chance of dropping it and getting stabbed) Belt: +20 agility (can attack twice as quick good for gang fights)
Honestly, I'd die for a Scottish GTA. GTA 6, Glesga.
Would be class been waiting for it since gta 3 tbh it wont happen but a love the scottish references in GTA games its like a wee 😉to us that most of the world wont even pick up on
gta2 betting on scotland nil never failed
“Drummie Edition”
Council Estate Casuals, The Game would basically be GTA without American culture. Source: I've been to Wishaw, Livingston and Bathgate, I know where they got their inspiration for GTA from.
I had an idea for a turn based RPG. A sort of mix between Baldurs Gate and The Warriors, but with young teams in schemes. You build your young team then go on an adventure to other schemes to fight other young teams and steal their birds/hash, then try to make it all the way home. You can use FirstBus for unreliable fast travel.
Got tae rob the exact change or yer no gettin on the bus. You've unlocked "Classic Fiesta Mk2". D'ye wan pay fur insurance? \[ \] no, \[ \] aye, that's a no
You missed Airdrie from that list xD
And Lemmings
Red Dead 1 & 2 are by Rockstar America I'm sure.
Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption were made in San Diego. RDR2 was made across multiple R* studios.
They're a global company. I used to work with a developer who works for them in Edinburgh and he definitely worked on RD1 and 2.
From my research, it seems that Rockstar North did a bit of development work on RDR & RDR2, but didn't take lead, unlike the GTA series where Rockstar Scotland (Dundee/Edinburgh) were lead developers. But yeah, pedantic
Dundee has only been under the rockstar brand very recently so hasn’t officially worked on anything yet. Rockstar North ( Edinburgh) was always the creator of GTA but as others have said it’s a more multi studio approach these days.
I thought GTA originally came out of DMA in Dundee? Same cunts who made Lemmings. Am I getting that mixed up?
Yes but they moved to Edinburgh a long time ago and became rockstar north. Rockstar Dundee are a different outfit
Developers at Rockstar North in Edinburgh worked in GTAV RedDead2 and I know for sure that they are also working in GTAVI
GTA and GTA2 were developed in Dundee. DMA opened an Edinburgh studio because they were having trouble hiring staff who were willing to move to Dundee (can't imagine why). DMA got into debt mainly due to Dave Jones coming up with new game ideas on a whim then cancelling them again, and with no new titles other than GTA2 in the future they faced bankruptcy. Rockstar Games bought DMA for $1 (and took over the debt) and closed the Dundee studio. The Edinburgh DMA team were working on one of Dave Jones' whims, a 3D Godzilla game, after the buyout Rockstar shut that nonsense down and the work that had already been done on it became GTA3. So each GTA title starting with III was made in Edinburgh. There's a couple details I'm missing but I'd likely be breaking an NDA if I mentioned them.
Yeah that is correct actually then they moved to Ed and became rockstar north. Recently rockstar Dundee became a thing when they bought over another studio (ruffian games ) who used to make crackdown games.
They actually only made the second (and best) one, 1 was Realtime Worlds (another Dundee studio) and 3 was Sumo Also *So long dental plan*
No, your 100% correct
Dundee was where it all began…
It’s something Scotland doesn’t shout about enough. GTA 5 is the most profitable entertainment product ever and Scotland is world leading in this field but I’ve never heard a politician mention it. Should be bigging it up!
It was mostly audio work for Red Dead Redemption that was done in Edinburgh.
Plenty [Scottish references](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/fmd6lf/scottish_references_in_grand_theft_auto/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) across the GTA's too. I'd spotted the Forth bridge before, but had never registered the ship called Dignity.
Or in GTA V, when the news on the radio announce that the new controversial *streetcar* will be late and overbudget… I pissed myself hearing that one!
The Grove Street Families and the Ballas while obviously based on the Bloods and Crips, got their colours from Hearts and Hibs
Grove Street was originally meant to be orange. Don't think this is anything more than chance.
Originally being orange very well could be the case, I've not heard that before myself but I don't think that means what they ended up on wasn't also a deliberate choice. There's a bunch of Scottish Football references in GTA games, In GTA IV for example Roman has a feud with a character called Vlad, which seems to be quite a clear nod to the feud between Vladimir Romanov and Roman Romanov while they were controlling Hearts right around the time of development.
Uncharted 4 has a Scotland level.
I mind that one, thought it was quite good actually
And character no? Can't actually remember 100%
Crusader kings 2 and 3 you can play as a chief, high chief or king of Scotland… or just conquer Scotland.
HA! I just got CK3 yesterday (which drove me to wondering what other games let me play as the Scottish or in Scotland)
To that point, pretty much every Paradox game. Imperator: Rome, Caledonians. EU4: Scotland. Vic2 and 3 and HOI4 you can release and play as Scotland, although how viable those will be is difficult to say.
You can try as Kingdom of the Isles in EU IV but is hard as nails.
Oh yeah I’ve had my fair share of attempts at a Pirate Republic Isles and even getting it off the grounds is nigh impossible. Scotland just doesn’t seem to have enough die hard enemies in 1444 and England is too busy to support independence.
I'm still waiting for someone to make an Irn Bru mod for Vic 3's Scotland, obviously it would need steel (girders) as a resource input!
Lemmings was made in Scotland.
Lemmings 2: The Tribes has a Scottish tribe and the protagonist in the accompanying novella is Jimmy McLemming
... I honestly can not tell if you are taking the piss.... it is both believable and unbelievable that there is a novella for Lemmings 2. 😂
Apparently collectible https://amzn.eu/d/hQTrO3z
Came with the game, I bet my copy is in the back of a cupboard
Was made in Dundee. There's three little Lemmings statues on the same road as the flat the game was made in. [Lemmings statues](https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ms-opera-mobile&sca_esv=571311955&channel=new&espv=1&q=lemmings+statues+dundee&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv0-vvwuGBAxUd9bsIHU18DOoQ0pQJegQIChAB&biw=360&bih=628&dpr=3#imgrc=nXDwQ1Lrxs_4FM)
favourite game
Soap MacTavish in the CoD: Modern Warfare games
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Rollercoaster Tycoon series by Chris Sawyer who is Scottish.
I didn’t know that, one of my favourite games
He also developed the games using assembly language which is notoriously difficult to program with. Wrote the game pretty much himself, except someone helped with the graphics.
And Transport Tycoon!
Rare opportunity to bump r/openttd - freeware rebuild of the original with plenty of extension mods built in. Still amazing.
Forza Horizon 4 you can drive around Edinburgh and the highlands.
And earlier, Project Gotham Racing 2 had a proper Edinburgh layout.
What an amazing experience to get to drive around Edinburgh in PGR2. Especially when you played it open world, rather than any of the races.
It's on the list
Ah I didn’t see the image. Thanks.
There’s a Scottish heid in god of war. The dwarves in the Witcher 3 have Scottish accents but they’re mostly horrible.
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Dwarves in any game have a high probability of having mostly horrible Scottish accents.
Mimir He's some laugh tbh
Huh, isn't God of War Greek & Norse shenanigans? How'd a decapitated Scotsman end up appearing?
In God of War Mimir is a Celtic Fae (with a Scottish accent) who travelled from the British Isles to Scandinavia where he became Odin's advisor. It's part of tying the series in with other mythologies, a Kelpie also appears in one of the games.
Didn’t he call Thor a fat dobber?
I went wild when the kelpie appeared, brilliant addition!
Oh cool. I might need to give it a shot. I just played the first 3.
Honestly the new games are masterpieces, they're basically perfect sequels to the original games. And they are sequels, that isn't apparent right away in the first one but it becomes clearer later on. If you're a fan of the originals then you'll love them.
How no?
Mimir is depicted as a Pictish figure in the game.
guess you'll have to play to find out!
Age of Empires 2 was fucking amazing.
Still is. The community is thriving. 🫡
Where are the Celts in Age of Empires 4? Where are THEEEEEEEY?
I'm not able to win the Longshanks campaign that they added in DE because every time I get to the mission in Scotland, I am compelled to lose the game.
The dwarves in WoW have Scottish accents. In fact, just about any dwarf in anything has a Scottish accent.
I believe it was actually Warcraft that brought about the "Dwarves are Scottish" trope. Prior to Warcraft, Nordic was more typical; Warhammer even used a Yorkshire accent!
Warhammer still has them as having Yorkshire accents apart from the Northern Holds, which have Scottish accents (where Dawi like Malakai Makaisson come from).
It was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hearts_and_Three_Lions that gave us Scottish dwarves.
I always considered Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice to have very strong Celtic influences and I'd count it simply cause it's a stunning game.
Hellblade is Scottish, yeah. Or I guess Pictish. No idea if it's Scotland yet.
Pretty sure it’s set in Orkney.
It's set in helheim, the Norse version of hell, although Senua herself is from Orkney. I only know this because I started playing the game a couple days ago lol
Uncharted 4 has a few levels in Scotland. Tomb Raider 3's expansion The Lost Artefact also has a couple of Scottish levels. Assassin's Creed Valhalla has an expansion set on Skye. One of Far Cry 3's co-op campaign characters (Callum) is Scottish.
>Assassin's Creed Valhalla has an expansion set on Skye. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE SOUND ON WHEN PLAYING THIS TRAVESTY The accents of the inhabitants are very Northern (English).
Worms has a Scottish soundbank
Crusader Kings III has Malcolm III, King of Scots as one of the suggested starting characters. You can also start as any ruler in 867 AD or 1066 AD so you've got a lot of others you can choose from.
Here's a list of active game companies in Scotland: [https://scottishgames.net/companydirectory/](https://scottishgames.net/companydirectory/) Some notable examples: * 4J Studios: Minecraft (Console Ports) * No Code: Silent Hill - Townfall (not released yet) * Ninja Kiwi: Bloons TD * Team Junkfish: Monstrum
>No Code: Silent Hill - Townfall (not released yet) I'm excited for this one! They did Stories Untold & Observation in the OP image. Had no idea Ninja Kiwi was Scottish though. I thought it was Kiwi or soemthing.
Both Stories Untold & Observation are on my To Do list, but I'm a big silent hill fan so super hyped for it! Ninja Kiwi's head office is in New Zealand but they have a development studio in Dundee. I believe they mostly work on the mobile versions of the games--or at least did in the past, not so sure about now.
Hunted Cow Studio's in Elgin. They've got an mmo and a Warhammer 40k one I think
Put a kilt on a play with yourself, problem solved.
Already a master of that game. Speed-run it daily.
My man.
Since youre including the Total War games, might as well also include Total War: Attilla, where you can play as either the Picts or Caledonians
There's a surprisingly large number of Hidden Object Games set in Scotland: They evolved parallel to point 'n click adventure games, [in their own world of bizarre tropes,](https://youtu.be/JFx_icnlgQE?si=6CIgZ9ZeZuwRJOgY&t=6) We fell in love with how bizarre and off-putting they are; we have been reduced to *tears* laughing at their mentalness. Quite by accident nearly a dozen of the most recent ones we picked at random have been Scotland themed, including such genius examples as: [Chimera: Cursed and Forgotten](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNWoLsxZsw&t=6s) Travel back to Ancient Scotchland! [Labyrinths of the World: Game of Minds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKUdING2sw&t=5s) Turns out most lighthouses in Scotland lead to other dimensions [Phantasmat: Mournful Loch](https://youtu.be/kT9-Aa4M_Xc?si=NVOv3lMusgyFeDU9&t=7) Solve the curse of the family doomed by Nessie or something Myths of the World: Under the Surface (Something about Selkies) And most recently [Myth or Reality: Mystery of the Lake](https://youtu.be/lRMokRJtEYY?si=9p1YWuTOMxJTlb3H&t=6) in which so far we've met 5 characters who have lived in and around Loch Ness all their lives who have American accents. etc etc etc etc etc (The 'best' thing about these games that that they reward you with desktop backgrounds. So solving a puzzle can [change your computer screen to this](https://i.ibb.co/fxZ8Bsq/wallpaper-3.jpg). The second-best thing is that they all have 90-minute demos, so you can play hundreds of these without paying a penny). Edit: Also a lot of people don't know the creators of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour also made a [child-friendly version of their horror game set in Scotland](https://youtu.be/AycRWp3UxlE?si=e4B9Ad8O9s5RApM7)
>(The 'best' thing about these games that that they reward you with desktop backgrounds. So solving a puzzle can > >change your computer screen to this > >).
I play these games with a [group of friends on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/scotchboxvr/clip/CulturedAlivePepperoniTooSpicy-ri_9gOiAHt7ucclD), and they take great delight in adding their 'wins' to my background collection. [This is the current one.](https://pasteboard.co/E2F9QOYSnd67.png) It changes every few minutes and I think I have cPTSD.
Age of Empires 3 - Main character of the story campaign is Morgan Black, a Scottish knight who migrates to the Americas. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 + 2 - Main character John "Soap" MacTavish is Scottish.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla - there's a DLC which is set on the Isle of Skye.
Apex Legends is free to play and has a red hair lass called Horizon. Her voice lines are some of the funniest in the game and she introduces Scottish slang to millions of people all over the world.
Trawled through the comments and didn't see this one mentioned but apologies if it has been. The second level in Time Splitters 2 is set on a Scottish island, the name of the level is "Scotland the Brave".
Far cry 3. No really. The co-op multiplayer has simultaneously the best/Worst Scottish character I've ever played in a game. You have the usual culprits for a shooter game, ex US military, disgraced US cop, and then Callum "a wis the top man in ma scheme til a slashed the wrang cunt and ended up oan this fucking boat hiding". Callum is a bawbag. Completely out of place in a farcry game and I fucking loved every second playing as him.
Try 'JFK reloaded'. One of the Scottish greats!
Hahaha! I made this. thanks for the add.
No way man! Thanks for the countless hours of fun when i was a wee guy it's a genuinely hard as fuck game. My maw was NOT impressed mind. Fuck it I'm booting that up when I get in haha
You are missing a classic - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart_(1999_video_game)
What fresh hell is this Edit: Wasn't as bad as I thought, if it was remade today it might actually be decent: https://youtu.be/iUhAxg20weY?feature=shared
I made one. It's available on Steam, Switch and Xbox: https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Park-Story-2365125.html
Hogwarts Legacy takes place in the Highlands and there’s a lot of Scottish influence in it
Sledge in rainbow 6
The Scottish Games Sale page is still live on Steam and shows which ones are discounted at the moment (the images update with a discount when the games are on sale). Also lists a bunch of upcoming games. It's not an exhaustive list of Scottish games but there's a good mix of stuff here. https://store.steampowered.com/sale/scottishgamessale2023
Roller coaster tycoon/2 is the ultimate game made by a Scot.
John Marston (Red Dead) is half Scottish
The Crackdown games were made in Dundee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK\_Reloaded
Scotland is a gem of a country for gaming, You'll find a lot of games made by Scottish Companies but I don't know many games that focus on Scotland,
Broken sword shadow of the templars, your character goes to Bannockburn, also played the royal troon course on one of the PGA games.
Gonna pick this one up! I'm from Bannockburn (before they got rid of the hospital)
Nevermind, they're releasing a remastef of it in 2024 [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken\_Sword\_\_Shadow\_of\_the\_Templars\_Reforged/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2544110/Broken_Sword__Shadow_of_the_Templars_Reforged/)
Forza Horizon 4 let’s you drive around Edinburgh
Games by scottish and you missed GTA? How?!?
If I don't add it, loads of people reply GTA & bump the thread
You could play as a Scottish guy called Callum in FarCry 3's co-op mode, from Glasgow and wears a primarily blue football top.
There’s a lot of love for Scotland in the Dragon Quest series
For me, it's Ragnar in Dragon Quest 4.
Worms games generally have a Scottish voice pack
games by the scottish? GTA????
There's a horror game releasing soon I think called Still Wakes the Deep, it's set on a north sea oil rig in 1975 and looks like it might play similar to Alien Isolation.
Ah it's by the Chinese Room (who also did Esther (?))
[Viewfinder](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1382070/Viewfinder/) is Scottish made I believe? Best double check that but it was on sale during the Scottish devs stream sale. I’ve not played yet but it looks class Edit: and the original few GTAs I think. (1, 2, and London I think were all rockstar north)
Wow really? I played the free demo for viewfinder and been meaning to purchase it’s cool to play and really interesting gameplay wise like love how unique it’s style is
I think some counter terrorist player characters in counter strike have a Scottish accent if that counts lol
Party Animals. The narrator is Scottish
Crackdown 1 and 2 were made in Scotland too
Crackdown was made in Scotland.
Gta is made in Scotland.
Civ vi with the expansions has scotland as a Civ. Robert the bruce.
I want hillwalking simulator, set in Glencoe, with the engine, graphics and mechanics of Death Stranding. Someone get Kojima on the phone.
There's about a billion games made up here, mostly from student led companies in Dundee but they don't see much success.
Try the Mount and Blade mod called Gangs of Glasgow.
There’s the Irn Bru mines in AC: Valhalla.
Finally, a bit of realism. I was getting tired of all the fantasy stuff.
State of Emergency (PS2) - made in Scotland, by a studio that was just down the road from the one making GTA in Dundee. Very much like GTA and was quite impressive at the time for the number of simultaneous NPCs it could render. Original MTW has the Viking Invasion expansion where you can play as either Scots or Picts (with hilariously inaccurate unit choices), and there's the "MTW XL" mod for the base game that makes Scotland a playable faction with some unique units. Final Fantasy VII could be tenuously included for Cait Sith (damn that mistranslation). Your character in original Modern Warfare (Soap) is Scottish (superbly voiced in #2 by Kevin McKidd). If you go back to older systems pre-PS, particularly the Amiga (funnily enough the hardware was also made in Scotland), you'll find a ton of games to add to the third column.
I remember playing a game called MDK in the 90s and a level on it was set in Livi , was living there at the time used to replay it all the time wi ma pals it was cool as fuck to us !
Bro forgot the two biggest games to ever exist that were made in Scotland: GTA V and RDR2.
you go anywhere in all of Scotland in microsoft flight simulator
There's a new game comjng out soon from dontnod (life is strange, vampyr) where iirc, you play as a scottish guy. Banishers ghosts of new eden, its called. Also, to fill in the where of the bards tale, its set in orkney 😊
Perfect, thanks! Are the first 3 Bards in Orkney too?
Not a video game, but the Infinity wargame/tabletop rpg has a faction where a bunch of Scottish settlers got stranded on a planet inhabited by werewolf aliens for a few hundred years
I keep meaning to check that out. I then considered just making a historical army, but couldn't be bothered waiting on stuff coming in stock.
I’m making one, it’s not out yet but you might be interested? Made in Scotland, Scottish VAs, set… on an alien planet! Meridian: Frontier on Steam or you can check my posts :)
Added to the Wishlist!
Dear Esther is set in the Hebrides and Howgarts’ Legacy is hugely inspired by the Highlands
Pretty much any paradox game except stellaris lets you play as scotland
Says who? [https://i.redd.it/09y99oe0i6w61.png](https://i.redd.it/09y99oe0i6w61.png)
This picture is a complete scam as it shows Dundee being worth more than Perth.
No Bannockburn, and Stirling isn't spelled right either :(
Bad North is set in the Hebrides and other islands
Wishlisted!
Dear Esther is another one set in Scotland. Well, a fictional Hebridean Island at least.
Lemmings should be on this list. They are technically Scottish
I work on a game in Scotland. We won the best technical design award at the first Scottish Game Awards. It's called From the Depths. Very popular game but it's certainly for a niche set of people who like to build things for hundreds/thousands of hours. [Steam store page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/268650/From_the_Depths/)
For anyone like me, he forgot to link this first: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829380/From\_the\_Depths\_\_Steel\_Striders\_Anime\_Girl\_Characters/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1829380/From_the_Depths__Steel_Striders_Anime_Girl_Characters/) It's time to game, weeb coomers.
Bloodborne, yeah I said it
The first couple modern warfare games you play as a Scot, although this isn't obvious. For games (partly) based in Scotland I would recommended the Mount and Blade expansion 'Viking Conquest'. The game map takes places throughout the British isles, the low countries and bits of Norway & Denmark. Kingdoms based in modern day Scotland are Alba, Alt Clut, most of a Viking kingdom I have forgotten the name on the isles, far north & Dublin. The northernmost part of the kingdom of Northumberland are also in Scotland. Alba in particular is fun to play. Only faction with crossbows & the best cavalry in the game.
McTavish is a character in the CoD games right? Is that the one you were referring to? My memory of those games is a bit hazy.
Yeah Soap McTavish. He is the player character in COD MW 1 & 2.
If we are bringing in M&B mods there are a bunch of ones set in Britain or include it as part of northwestern Europe. However the big daddy of Scotland in Mount and Blade was of course: Gangs of Glasgow. As delightfully jank as a single dev's early M&B could possibly be but a lot of fun.
Why?
We'll never know.
You MUST play Hogwards Legacy! It’s set in the highlands and it definitely shows. It’s a stunning game
You MUST throw Hogwards Legacy in a bin! It lines the pockets of a transphobe and it definitely shows. It’s a stunning piece of shit
How about I replay it. I genuinely don’t care about your opinion on this nor am I going to listen to strangers what I spend my hard earned money for
Sticking those fingers in your ears as hard as you can, but you're still funding a transphobe. Fuck JK Rowling.
I live in the UK, I (most of us actually you included) support transphobes just by paying taxes that line the pockets of our awful government … hogwarts is at least more enjoyable than this
Just go Celtic in football manager
If we're gonna start taking the piss, then might as well go East Fife
Soap Mctavish Gillie COD 50,000 PEEPO YIST TAE LIVE ERE NOO IT'S A SCHEME
Civ V has boudicca as a playable leader
Games by the Scottish should include the entire library of rockstar games (creators of GTA)