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newthrowaway20, do games w Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic)

This game popped up on my radar a few months back. Definitely gonna check it out.

morbitm, do gaming w Oblivion "remastered"

And if they changed it too much you’d complain and say “it’s too different” you people just loooooove complaining

Gnugit, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

At the thrift store today I picked up an original disk copy of Prey (2006) and the thief trilogy.

LordWiggle,
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Played them all but not a great fan

Gnugit,

I remember enjoying Prey on release but never finishing it and being distracted by Q3A

burntrealm, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Going Medieval is a pretty great building/management type game! It gets updated often with new content too

You build your castle and manage the sims in their daily jobs. There’s a great building system, farming, defense against raiders, mining, a good crafting pipeline. It’s a lot of fun

LordWiggle,
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I have 247 hours on record. But because it’s really slow, I stopped playing it.

SpruceBringsteen, (edited ) do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Check out Elin.

Basebuilding/dungeon crawling/pixel art/roguelike. Kinda like ADOM meets stardew, but weirder and more Japanese. Weirder how? Here’s the wiki entry on the chaos shape race, which you can play as.

VERY in depth systems in the game. Mutations, crafting, prayer, it’s a deep game.

slazer2au, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Factorio. If you like satisfactory and w&r then cracktorio is right up your alley.

There is also a free demo on Steam.
store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/

If you enjoy the base game I would 100% recommend the expansion called Space Age with adds 4 more planets and space flight between them.

LordWiggle,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

I played several factory games which is right up my alley. I know Factorio is the best of all by far, but I couldn’t get in to it somehow.

Rozz,

I couldn’t get into it either, but I loved mindustry (that someone else mentioned)

Bosht, do games w Steam Deck / Gaming News #11

Thank you! I know you’ve been told plenty of times by others, but it should always be said: I greatly enjoy these and appreciate the time you put into them!

As for what I’ve been playing: Pacific Drive released an update for ‘Endlesd Expeditions’. It wasn’t exactly what I was hoping, but I actually ended up greatly enjoying it. I believe the additional Story for it may be bugged as I’ve done close to 15 runs with no voice likes from Francis, but been a blast anyway.

I also tried the play test for a game called Little Rocket Lab. If you’re a fan of Stardew Valley and factory type games I highly recommend giving it a go!

Asafum, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

As far as management goes x4 foundations is an awesome space game! I have hundreds of hours in that game spent just messing around with an industrial empire, buying mining ships, setting trade routes, all that fun stuff. You don’t even have to fight anything if you don’t want to.

LordWiggle,
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I played it too! Was a bit overwhelming at first but such a great game. I used to play Eve, X4 gave me a bit of the same feeling but without the toxic people haha

CubitOom, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game
fistac0rpse,

Seconding Yakuza. There's about 10 games in the series, all are pretty great to amazing. The older ones are all dirt cheap and often go on sale by 50%

Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami or Like a Dragon are all good starting points

LordWiggle,
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Played them all already :)

simple, do games w Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic)

As of today, this is the highest rated game of 2025. Really impressive ratings, I hope I can find some free time to play it later.

tatann, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

The first Witcher game is quite old but you could like the gameplay (it’s not action oriented, unlike the 2 following Witcher games)

It’s honestly not great looking but the story is great, and who knows, you might fall in love with a great franchise :)

LordWiggle,
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I played all with er games but never finished any of them as it’s just not for me weirdly. I played elder scrolls games which were nice but the Witcher just doesn’t catches my attention.

INeedMana, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game
@INeedMana@lemmy.world avatar

management / factory games like workers and resources

Maybe Frostpunk would be up your alley?

LordWiggle,
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I liked 1, didn’t like 2 that much.

anamethatisnt, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

A classic one would be to go for BG1 and BG2
Then either play the enhanced editions with EET or play the originals with Baldur’s Gate Trilogy to allow you to play all three games as a singular campaign (as well as running BG1 in the same engine as BG2 if you go for the originals)

LordWiggle,
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I played them all already :)

anamethatisnt,

Switching to management then, have you played Banished?
Have you played the mod Colonial Charter? Latest version is 1.76 and I found a GDrive download here:
www.gog.com/forum/banished/colonial_charter_mod
Mod makers site seems down.

LordWiggle,
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I did play banished. I haven’t played the mod though, but kinda don’t want to play banished anymore. Is the mod really worth getting back into it?

Edit: I see I already am subscribed to the mod in the workshop so I have played it.

anamethatisnt,

Depends on what parts of banished caught you. The mod lets you build much more visually pleasing cities by adding lots of different housing styles and so on. It also add many more production chains. Was many years since I played it and I think it was an earlier version of it.

Seems to still be up on the workshop too:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=84…

tal, (edited ) do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game
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I liked ksp2

If you’re saying that you liked the (unfinished, abandoned, poorly-rated) Kerbal Space Program 2, you might play the original, which is better-regarded.

On the “factory” side, maybe some colony simulators? Someone else mentioned https://store.steampowered.com/app/294100/RimWorld/. That’s got a bit of DLC, but I think that even the base game has pretty good value for money. https://store.steampowered.com/app/457140/Oxygen_Not_Included/ is another colony sim that focuses more on the building/automation/physics side; I think that you’ll get a lot of hours out of that.

Dwarf Fortress is another colony sim, has a freely-available classic version or a commercial graphical build on Steam. Steep learning curve, but lots of mechanics to explore.

I like https://cataclysmdda.org/, though it has a pretty punishing learning curve. Open-world roguelike. It touches on both the RPG (well, not much by way of plot, but in terms of building a character) and the factory (build buildings, faction camps with NPCs, and vehicles) side. You aren’t going to run out of gameplay complexity to explore any time soon on that. Open source and freely-available, though there’s also a commercial build on Steam.

I have not played https://store.steampowered.com/app/2135150/Elin/, the successor to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elona_%28video_game%29, but it might be worth a look too if you are looking for a game with both a sandbox aspect and RPG aspect.

LordWiggle,
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Wups, that was a typo. I liked ksp1, 2 was a massive disappointment and shitshow and they scammed me out of my 40 euros.

LMDNW, do games w I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game

Oblivion remaster looks pretty good. Have you played through that game before?

anamethatisnt,

Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downlo…
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don’t feel forced to power game my starting skills.

LMDNW,

Nooo! Don’t do that. The initial leveling is my favorite part of every RPG. It really gets my dopamine receptors running.

anamethatisnt,

It only changes it so that you get your +5 choices if you have even one skill up in the category.
Without it the best way to play is to choose your main skills as Minor Skills and skills that are easy to avoid leveling up (and preferably easy to level up when you want to) as Major Skills to always get 3x +5 every level up.
With it you can let your character have major skills that you actively use during gameplay without gimping yourself.

LordWiggle,
@LordWiggle@lemmy.world avatar

I played all elder scroll games (except online) and fallout games but Bethesda lost me. They scammed me with fallout 76 (I have the special edition with power armor helmet) and their games after Skyrim just flatline imo. Fallout 4 got fixed somewhat, but that’s it. They won’t get my money anymore. Screw Todd Howard.

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