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.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    1·
    1 day ago

    Vintage Story is a slowburn survival game with a Linux version from the developers, not a compat layer. It’s focused on realism.

    Ranch Sim is a game in which you design your own ranch.

    Starship Evo, formerly Sky Wanderers, is still in development but has reached a very playable stage. You build bases and ships out of predefined shapes but with highly variable scaling, as in ranging from 12.5cm grid up to 1m with all the standard slopes, panels, etc. It has logic systems, inventory and production systems, and control systems for space ships, hovercraft, mech walkers, and space stations, all using that heavily customisable building system. Then you can fly around doing little missions, trading, space ship combat, etc.

    Archean is similar building but with more realism and programming but more sandboxy with no NPCs.

    I’ve heard some good things about Steamworld Build.

    I have heard someone say Icarus was like Ark but better.

    7 Days to Die ticks much of those boxes as well.

    Stationeers is another struggle, survive, thrive game with very realistic mechanisms.

    Foundry is Factorio in 3D. Satisfactory is Foundry without a Gödel grid.

  • lemba@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    2 days ago

    If you’re into strategy I can highly recommend some TBS Games (Turn Based Strategy) in no particular order:

    • Heroes of Might and Magic 3, 5 and the new Olden Era
    • Civilization 5 and 6
    • Age of Wonders
    • Battle Brothers
    • Old World
    • Songs of Conquest

    All of them got something to do with building up and watching grow but in a more “laid back”, strategic way 😎

  • runiq@feddit.org
    27·
    3 days ago

    What’s that about falling asleep 14 times in a day? What do you mean? That’s not how it works…

    Anyway, here’s Wonderwall:

    • Terraria, Minecraft in 2D.
    • Dwarf Fortress. It’s chill. In a very, ah, neurospecific kind of way.
    • Luanti, it’s basically open source Minecraft. Moddable in Lua, which is easy enough to pick up.
    • Subnautica. Stranded alone on an underwater planet. Not ‘relaxing’ in the original sense, but there’s a sense of discovery few games can replicate. Aside from maybe…
    • Outer Wilds. Explore a mini solar system in a rickety spaceship. Everything else would be a spoiler, but you owe it to yourself to play it someday.
    • OhShitSon@lemmy.zip
      5·
      2 days ago

      Terraria really cannot be compared to minecraft honestly. Terraria is much more focused on bosses for progression, and it isn’t really a sandbox like minecraft is.

      Absolutely fantastic though, and IMO much more enjoyable than Minecraft.

      • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days ago

        I agree, except I on the other hand prefer Minecraft for the same reasons; it’s a sandbox with little focus on bosses or progression, and the ‘goals’ are only ones you decide for yourself :)

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      8·
      3 days ago

      I’m just going to plug here that Luanti is best referred to as “Luanti plus Mineclonia.”.

      My aologies for the Stallman reference.

      I find that whether folks enjoy their first outing in Luanti tends to highly correlate with whether they know to try Mineclonia inside of Luanti, first, before the other more esoteric games available.

      • runiq@feddit.org
        3·
        2 days ago

        True, Luanti is just the engine and OP, you’ll have to install a ‘proper’ game from within it. I’ve been messing with it for so long that this part has actually slipped my mind.

        Thanks for the Stallman reference, appreciate it :)

    • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev
      4·
      3 days ago

      Not OP, but I’ve tried getting into Stardew multiple times and the fatigue mechanic absolutely ruins the game for me. “14 times” is an exaggeration but what it feels like.

      People describe it as a cozy game but it is genuinely one of the most stressful games that I’ve played. As in I start clearing the land and then after a very short time my character is exhausted. Either I sleep it off and I’m worried I’ll plant late enough the crops will die in winter or I work through it and end up in the hospital with a bill. Sometimes I’ve used the time to explore the town (as it seems the game mechanics are telling you to do), whereupon I find the shops are closed and I collapse on the way back home.

      The one or two times I’ve played long enough to harvest crops I end up eating all of it just to get to the end of the day. Most of the money I make is from selling actual literal garbage I’ve found lying around.

      The result of that mechanic is that the game is basically telling me the most cozy part of the game (farming) I’m not allowed to play until I’ve invested enough time to stock up on energy drinks. I’m left with fishing, which just isn’t my thing, and mining, which is what I’ll mostly do until I get bored because it’s honestly kinda mediocre on it’s own. I just can’t get into this game.

      (I’m aware that the main pull for the game is the characters, which if you enjoy that that’s good. I’ve just never had much of a reason to be invested in them)

      • runiq@feddit.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        I promise it gets better! Improving your farming skill increases your energy efficiency while farming, that helps a lot. There are other ways to raise your energy as well. But yeah, I’ve been playing it for so long that I actually forgot that the first start was a little rough. So, thanks for the reminder. :)

        I guess the one reason why SDV is filed as ‘not stressful’ in my head is because I know that it’s impossible to permanently mess up in that game. Every little thing you do helps you, little by little.

      • runiq@feddit.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        See? It’s chill. The narrator even helps you. What can be more chill than that? :)

    • Aniki@feddit.org
      2·
      1 day ago

      huge shoutout to mindustry! it’s foss and technically free but you can buy it through steam to donate to the developers.

  • Chezus9247@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    If you haven’t played it, Terraria. One of my all time favorite games, after all those years. Should also be really cheap on sales.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’m trying to persuade my partner to play it with me at the moment. He seems open to it, but experiences inertia around starting a new game.

    • detren@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 days ago

      +1 to modded minecraft. The Create mod and its many many many addons would fit right in with OPs tastes I think. A team of modders even made a mod adding physics that allow for building planes, cars, and more. It’s pretty wild.

      • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        said mod adding physics is single-handedly making an august 2024 hotfix update the most popular minecraft version

    • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      (Java Edition of course. There’s several different launchers you can choose from after purchasing a legitimate forever copy of Minecraft, but PrismLauncher is the one I use and it’s a native Qt application.)