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.
Openttd trains for ever
Endless Sky is a pretty cool open source space game.
Also Dwarf Fortress.
Thanks for reminding me I had Endless Sky in my library!
Endless Sky got so difficult for me that I just could not progress. I became so known and such a target that the enemies just became too difficult and I could barely move from system to system. Survival became such a chore that I just gave up. It was pretty good until then, though.
Factorio
Was gonna suggest that, too, but he wants laid back and chill.
I suppose if he disabled biters it could be more laid back
I always disable biters, even back when you needed to kill them for purple packs.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
NetHack
Endless fun
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.
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.
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!
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.
Caves of Qud. I’s like if Dwarf Fortress’ adventure mode was actually good, and set in hyper-post-apocalypse scifi world where the very water you need to drink (or if you’re amphibian, splash on your skin) is also the world’s currency
It’s a great game and all, but… is it just me or is it a bit harder than would be expected? I would consider myself to be pretty decent at the genre, but I will usually die a stupid death on something not previously encountered while exploring, and since it takes a while to reach that stage again, I’ll usually put it aside for a while and do something else.
Is it just me?
nah it’s HARD. I just savescum constantly when I play it cuz I enjoy going deeper than the whole roguelike way would ever let me
Ok, makes sense then. Live and drink, friend.
Live and drink! <3
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.
Vntage Story is pretty neat, it does require a WAN connection to start it for the first time but AFAIK it’s possible to play it completely offline afterwards.
Beimg as mechanically complex as it is you’d think you need a wiki open the entire time, but the ingame “guide” has everything you need to know.
I don’t know about the state of public multiplayer servers, but it is LAN compatible and it actively supports modding!
I have had it check my account after long periods of not starting the game. Infrequent internet connections briefly appear to be required to play it. Not sure how hard that would be to bypass.
So if you are going to be without internet for a very long time then you may want to look into that in more detail. Otherwise, great game.