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What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #24 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Helldivers is fixed now so I've been playing that with my friends most days. I also found this ancient 1994 economy game Gazillionaire that I liked as a kid. Also Alpha Centauri, which really deserves a remaster but the IP is split really frustratingly so it will likely never happen.

I'm looking for a good game where I can just kind of mindlessly build something, for when I don't want the stress of defending Super Earth. Something more functional-construction than Minecraft or Terraria, but also cozy. Dwarf Fortress has too many systems and quickly becomes overwhelming. Rollercoaster tycoon had a pretty good vibe, so did SimCity, but I hear Cities: Skylines is really complex and that might be too much without a good tutorial system. I just wanna build.

Along that same note, designing machines in Fusion 360 is one of my favorite video games right now.

I'm really excited for Shadow of the Erdtree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

May I recommend Satisfactory? Purely functional building, much more broad strokes than MC, Terraria, or DF. It's extremely therapeutic building arrays of constructors feeding into belts that feed into train stations to pack everything up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

In addition to the Satisfactory recommendation, Factorio can be played with the hostile fauna turned off/made passive, so you can concentrate on just building an ever-expanding 2D megafactory. It's a very good organic puzzle where you can always find something else to go do or rebuild or make bigger until suddenly it's 4am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm also excited for Shadow of the Erdtree!