cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176362
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176361
I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.
Bonus if it’s multiplayer capable LAN and not online.
Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn’t matter. I don’t mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I’m not super pick and choose.
Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.
I recnetly started playing a game called “StarSector”
Basically Mount & Blade in space someone said.
Really good so far, have not played more than 30h due to lack of time to play due changed life/work situation.
Edit: forgot to say that it is Single player but tons of mods that feel very much in line with the game.
Fun fact, the devs encourage people to share a serial-key to those wanting to try out the game, so you don’t need to purchase it in case you wind up not liking it.
Here’s a serial-key courtesy of an edgy vtuber that uses a war criminal as an avatar: TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA
Again this is not piracy, the Devs actively encourage this. Which is awesome. So if you like the game, buy the game, encourage this behavior.
Factorio
Endless Sky is a pretty cool open source space game.
Also Dwarf Fortress.
Thanks for reminding me I had Endless Sky in my library!
Openttd trains for ever
Factorio is great, how has no one mentioned it yet? Also Dwarf Fortress, Into the breach and “FTL - Faster Than Light”.
They all have native ports and are moddable.
Factorial and FTL even have huge overhaul mods, that change most stuff so they don’t really get boring.
Minecraft: Java Edition. You need internet the first time, but afterwards it’s fully playable offline and also has LAN support built in.
I think you mispelled Luanti.
No, they didnt.
I think you forgot to switch over to the account that made this post
Huh? What are you talking about?
You aren’t OP yet you’re answering as if you were.
Vintage Story. It’s a very good survival, very customizable experience too.
I think it’s a game that shines best in a multiplayer civilization RP tbh but even as a single player game it’s a very nice survival. It may look similar to Minecraft at first but it is very very different and in all the good ways.
Plus mod support is so good, by design, even the website itself has 1-click installs.
Oh and it has chiseling.
I hadn’t heard of that, looks really good!
Kenshi. Sandbox rpg, citybuilder and more. Pretty unique and unforgiving, but the replayability is endless if you are into that sort of thing (lots and lots of mods as well).
I’ve played Stellaris for years, although I am really not liking the direction Paradox is going with their AI, and it really puts me off of their games.
Satisfactory, building game, a bit heavier on resources since it’s 3d but it’s good
There is also Factorio, game that inspired Satisfactory, less demanding on hardware as its using top-down view and retro graphics.
Starbound! That game kicks ass.
Did they ever finish it or at least finish it enough? Played it a long time ago and it had so much potential.
Not really. But the game was open sourced a couple years ago and that with mods is pretty good.
Oh cool thanks!
Rimworld.
FYI - I’ve only downvoted you becuase OP already mentioned Rimworld and said he enjoys it.
Fair. I read faster than my brain processes sometimes.
It’s such a fun game, always “maximizes narrative”, as it says.
Similar genre: Necesse. It looks a bit ugly, but also very enjoyable.
NetHack
Endless fun
Valheim has a local server you can set up that has it work offline. Shame it’s not on gog, but it’s on Humble which I don’t believe has online checks like Steam, but I had it working with steam offline mode.
Valheim manages 1 fps on my iGPU equivalent to a gtx 1050.
There is Luanti if you want something Minecraft like. It has a built in modding API and tons of mods available. It supports multiplayer over the LAN. It’s also very lightweight, it will run on almost anything.
Or just go for Minecraft itself
Microsoft? No thanks. I’ll stick with Luanti.
I wasn’t talking to you
Do you know how forums work?
Do you know of Songs of Syx?
A bit like a large-scale rimworld, with a focus on managing a big population and world diplomacy/war.
A bit hard to get into, though.
Also, what about project zomboid? A bit far from your description I guess, but who knows.
I wish I could recommend this game. It clicks all my boxes for this type of simulation. Problem is it runs like dog shit on my PC. Without fail on both native and proton versions it will drop frames after about 20 minutes of game play. Doesn’t matter if it’s a new map or a big city. The game is super smooth then out of nowhere the frame rate tanks to a stuttery mess. I’ve looked around for a solution and it seems like there is a fix for the problem but it doesn’t ever work on my machine. Something tells me that writing the game in Java means the memory management side of the code goes fucking bonkers after 20 minutes. I’ve tried the discord and Steam forums but nothing ever gets resolved.
Then there’s an even more extreme bug where if the game doesn’t like my Wayland compositor it hard locks my PC on startup. It’s so frustrating. It’s a great game but it’s technically flawed.
I tried the demo of song of styx but didn’t really manage to do anything because I didn’t understand the menu symbols. Is there a tutorial or something that I missed?
Edit: The game didn’t properly do full screen because of my settings so the bar with the build menu etc was not visible, I am now able to play just fine
I think there is a tutorial but I didn’t touch it, I just started my hemp empire.
I don’t know how long ago you tried, now the game is reaching near completion and there is a tutorial.
It is pretty hard to get into IMO, you need to get used to many concepts and sometimes weird menus and such, that is the problem of the game. I guess you can give a try to the tutorial now and see if it spikes your interest more, the game has changed a lot over the past years.
