I was getting the same idea as I was reading... only 2 weeks later Something like "Theme Fortress" would be awesome
Trestle Tetris! Seriously, it looks like some kind of bizarre cross between an RTS and a puzzle game. Maybe a turnbased puzzle game where you conquer the other mine? I'm really bad at this, apparently. Every time I think I'm starting to get a handle on it, the new images ruin my theories. Online Saboteur? That'd be awesome.
It's a 3D pipemania like in the middle age with diggles and crafts. MAYBE mixed with some tower defense stuff ?
Some of the best games no one ever played. They were the Chuck of city builders. Popular enough to have their own Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_(video_game)
Mmmm... maybe something about a Lutefisk Factory? Economy management? With pipe puzzles? If not puzzles, it seems like you have to know where to put the pipes to maximize production, or something like that.
A puzzle mine-based pipegame? I kinda hope it'll be better than that and that's just a minor detail, which would lead to Dwarfcity (like, a dwarf mining town build game).
Some kind of Railroad/Transport Tycoon variant with pipes instead of roads and Diggles manning the factories where (amongst others) lutefisk gets processed back into booze, which is then bought by overseers living in shanties. Or maybe Tropico 5: Castro's Eyebrows.
Well, sure. No towers, but you "conscript" diggles and other creatures to fight off a horde of something attacking your pipes and mine carts.
We bein' trolled here. I'm gonna say Odin is an isometric RPG of sorts with some strategy elements, a bit like that not-lolicon game from that Japanese studio.
JRPG in some mines? Dungeons of Dredmor style game, but in much smaller, quest-based bites where you explore a mine instead? A dungeon master sim similar to What Have I Done to Deserve This My Lord? First Person Diggle Shooter?
Schrödinger? No way ^^ Had he put his famous cat in a horadric cube instead of the box quantum mechanics would have looked quite different; Indetermination and uncertainty would have been lutefisk... ...there's a joke in there but I can't get it out :s
Because the joke was converted into lutefisk, duh. The more screenshots I see and hear the more I think that Odin is a fortress building game, kind of like that other fortress-building dwarf-related game.
