The day KSP was sold to Take Two, I packed KSP with best mods and made a stadalone version of it. No more updates, no more DLCs. Still playing that. “Success” of KSP2 was guaranteed and I could ditch the future of the entire frachise.
Playing Colin McRay rally on linux with wiimote + wheel frame as a controller was the best time I’ve had with rally games. Both game and controller worked better than I expected and was easy setup for living room couch.
Old crap now, but later sequels nor Dirt didn’t give the same feel.
After watching open source game scene for decades, I’m quite sure Thrive will end up being a good game in “puddle” level, but it will never be more than that.
I don’t know why people mention spore. It only has some similarities with its first stage. Thrive is never gonna be “from puddle to space adventures”-type of game.
Really hoped that Fermi Paradox would realize that “flare clicking” is stupid and would switch to deckbuilding mechanism, but the dev is not a fan of deckbuilders.