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.
Xcom 2: War of the chosen
Minecraft: Java Edition. You need internet the first time, but afterwards it’s fully playable offline and also has LAN support built in.
Barony mayb slay da spire 2
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.
Technically, Satisfactory (3D Factorio, but more chill) allows you to host your own servers. You can host a server in your LAN, connect to server via IP -> enter the server’s local IP.
There is also Terraria which is very low spec.
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
Farming Simulator (pick which year/edition), it’s surprisingly relaxing after whole day in office.
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.
If you like 4x games, I would suggest X3:Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude from Egosoft. Its older, so wont be a burden,(CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT) and probably the last good game from egosoft (/CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ALERT)
Space game set in a huge world with multiple factions and in a breathing world that can and does change with time with or without your actions… hundreds of hours of gameplay, with options for building your own empire… and its got a huge modding scene that can make it even more alive.
Once you start getting your personal economy going, you can take a more macro chill approach to the game, you can sit in a mothership issuing fleet commands and letting the AI handle everything, or you can get right into the cockpit of a corvette/fighter and dogfight yourself. While building massive station complexes to produce goods to sell and generate funds with… or to build your own ships and fleets with.
Endless Sky is a pretty cool open source space game.
Also Dwarf Fortress.
NetHack
Endless fun
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.
The Planet Crafter seems pretty neat, though I’ve only played the demo. It’s a first person survival crafting game where you terraform a planet.
Maybe CDDA with some difficulty setting changes to reduce combat difficulties and push it more on survival/building.
Find a car. It needn’t be in perfect condition. It’ll let you run away from many a sticky situation, carry your loot, provide light, and you can mod it. Perhaps add a minifridge or such.
Played sky islands a lot in my last run so not much deathmobile stuff. It’s a nice change and can play more recklessly when death isn’t the end.
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.
