Mods - I am not sure how to read the rule against game suggestions. If it means no asking for suggestions please just wipe the post. No harm, no foul.
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Fall is usually my busiest time of year preparing for winter in our little forest home. But I have been given orders from the doctors to basically take bedrest for up to 3 months, but I’m allowed to be sitting up… So books and games are basically all that is on the menu.
I enjoy automation games, tower defense, survival/building games, and exploration games.
I dislike ‘souls-like’ experiences where combat is tight and requires perfect timing. In fact in most games where combat can be disabled I usually do that.
My top games of all time would be factorio, minecraft, WoW/FFXIV (yeah… i know. But they count as one), Dyson sphere program, vampire survivors (and many of that type), and gemcraft type TD games.
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Some games that have been recommended and tried, but don’t work for me right now or I have already finished:
mindustry, satisfactory, valheim, no man’s sky, alchemy factory, luanti, terraria.
Thanks in advance for your time. Much appreciated.
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I found Journey to a Savage Planet and it’s sequel enjoyable, FPS puzzle platformer where you explore and document the local flora and fauna.
The Isle is a nice time sink, you play as a dinosaur and have to grow and survive, maybe live long enough to start a little dino family. You want to change the game version to Envirma (sic) as that is the version currently getting developed.
Timberborn definitely. Also, Factorio, which has a better balance of simplicity, complexity, and interface automation than Satisfactory or Mindustry, as well as a different goal. Also mods lmao
If you’ve never tried it before, Dot Age is a fun little time sink made by an Indie dev. It’s a city builder people/resource management type game where you’re trying to build a successful village to survive a coming apocalypse. You have to plan ahead and deal with upcoming ‘bad events.’ A run is like 5-6 hours long and there is a lot of variety between runs thanks to building variants, etc.
I’ve been having a blast playing Pikmin 3 using the Eden switch emulator.
My favorite game to play when I am sick is Banished, a medieval city building game that was the labor of love of a solo dev. It starts off quite brutally difficult until you learn the best ways to handle the first winters and then it becomes a cozy opportunity for optimization, and a challenge to balance expanding the city as much as you can while supporting the population with agricultural and forestry goods. It’s inspired some other games to follow in its footsteps, and it has a modding community still making content for it.
I have been known to dabble a bit in banished. I think my wife is in the 2k hours bucket on that one. Super great game.
I know you’ve said Satisfactory and Mindustry… but I can’t believe no one has suggested Factorio…
That game is good at keeping me up at night til 2am wanting to expand and remake my factory.
You can think of it like 2D satisfactory, but there’s much more of a base defense mechanic because you get periodically rushed at by groups of bugs annoyed at your pollution.
A Vampire Survivors-like game I really enjoyed was Death Must Die. Its cheap, the systems and character types are really fleshed out, and progression feels good. It is still in Early Access as the Dev is still adding more zones but I’ve put about 40 hrs into it so far and I have been totally satisfied
Great rec! I actually have that installed. I’ve been tryting demos of a lot of the games people in the thread have mentioned but now I’m waiting on one to install, maybe I’ll fire up dome DMD.
Cheers.
GregTech New Horizons mod pack for Minecraft. There’s thousands of hours of automation entertainment there.
Hmm I have been out of MC for a while. I’ll definitely check this out. Thanks.
Campaign for North Africa
I’ve never heard of this. I’ll check it out thanks.
They’re trolling you. It’s a board game that nobody has ever finished because it takes so long. :)
hah fun stuff. Thanks for the head’s up.
Wurm online. It’s like like RuneScape mixed with Minecraft and just as old. Great for spending hours on.
Neat mix. Thanks. I’ll check it out.
I recommend Starrupture, a 3D base building game that includes combat.
Thanks!
A very fun exploration and puzzle game would be Tunic. It has combat which can be pretty tricky at times but in the game’s settings you can make yourself invincible so you can just get through the combat if you’d like. If you try Outer Wilds and like it, I would try Tunic as well.
Both of these games are so interesting because they can be completed at any point, but it’s completely dependent of everything you the player learn while playing the game. But for that reason I would not look into the games more than what’s on the Steam store page, you gotta go in blind.
Thank you kindly. Tunic looks quite unique. On the list!
Mars First Logistics is a fairly tricky building/exploration game where you make and operate robots from parts to explore the world to get more parts. What you get out of it depends a lot on how you play it.
Designing a new vehicle for each task makes it more of a building game.
Trying to reuse/modify the same vehicle for every task makes it more of a driving/operating game.
Choosing tasks based on what you can already do makes it more of an exploration/road trip game.
If you build infrastructure to get everywhere it’s more of an expand/exploit/city building game.
Very interesting concept. I’ll take a look. Thanks!
If you enjoy automation, tower defense, survival/building games Rimworld might be of interest to you. Enjoying committing war crimes is optional but a nice bonus!
I have fought against rimworld for many years for fear of being subsumed entirely by the game. but thst is kind of what I need right now isn’t it? Top of the list!
thx!
Halls of Torment is a lot like vampire survivors and done extremely well
Emberward is a great tower defense game where you also design the track the enemies use with little Tetris prices
Shape of Dreams is a isometric top down roguelike with optional co-op that is reminiscent in league of legend’s character design but is fully PVE with encounters where you clear rooms and boss challenges.
Thanks! Checking out all three.
