Actually, Octodad is pretty fun.
I prefer to forge weapons. I knew one game where you had to equip your army of furries (yeah ignore that m8), with a weapon of their choice. So you had a few dudes and you took an order, then you picked an ore to make the weapon from, waited for it to melt into right temperature (material dependant). Afterwards, you were to pour the molten ore into a mould carefully (but not too slowly).
There was an interesting effect on the weapon if you botched the melting and pouring. Depending on the ammount of fail, you weapon would look like piece of scrap metal you just torn off a crashed air plane.
Then you needed to add things like spikes, pomels, shafts etc.
The last part was to hammer it in the manner that the whole blade has optimal edge and sharpness, not too much but also enough to make in nice and sharp. Then there was the battle, where your furry army fought random monstersm beating them up for new ores and recipes. The HP of your soldiers was determined by type of the weapon, and the material it was made from, with the damage dependant on how well the weapon was made.
This would make a great adition to games where you can craft your own weapons.
Ill try to find the game in case anyone is interested.
