[City Builders, Economic Games] - Food, Metal, Stonks, Pipes and Six Sigma charts

Cantido

It finally happened. I found an economic colony builder that I enjoy and its called Northgard.
https://youtu.be/8CUZXiiIdvI

I have to get ready for Dune: Spice Wars, after all, made by the same developers.
https://youtu.be/5mz_hPMU3gQ

And then have you seen Falling Frontier? A space RTS in which supply lines and logistics matter. Sorry, you gotta feed your defensive posture (and pay for it.)
https://youtu.be/w3ZGdZMnA4A

Come and discuss your favorite colony sims, city builders and economic games.

Ringo

I've had SimCity lurking in the dark corners of my mind the last two weeks, a game I haven't played since SimCity 2000 on Windows 95

What's good in that genre these days?

Tef

@WiseManTobes

Macro9

Ringo wrote: »

I've had SimCity lurking in the dark corners of my mind the last two weeks, a game I haven't played since SimCity 2000 on Windows 95

What's good in that genre these days?

Cities: Skylines aka the traffic jam simulator

Tons and tons of mods and continued support by the devs after years still.

discrider

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
Which has integrated into Steam now.
Just build a bunch of trains and then try to stop the trains from jamming.

ASimPerson

SimCity 4 was the last real SimCity. Cities: Skylines probably comes closest but with all the stuff they've added each time I start it the number of options is mind-boggling. I need to figure out a stripped down set of things that keeps the game playable.

SiliconStew

Cities: Skylines would be my vote for the best city builder sandbox.

However, I'd say Anno 1800 has the best city building gameplay. Though it's Ubisoft, so it also has the most money grubbing DLC's.

And for a more futuristic colony builder, though not nearly as complex or detailed as the previous two, I'd go with Surviving Mars. Though I'd consider the Green Mars DLC mandatory for the terraforming features it adds to the game.

CornerEagle

I still want someone to make my old idea of a Wild West city builder. Instead of building until you go to Mars, like Civ, you play until the first car rolls through your town. A Banished with cowboys.

Banished also a city builder I ended up playing a lot of.

ouzaru

I couldn't get rolling with Skylines.

Timberborn looks interesting, but I'm not sure there's enough there for a purchase yet.

I have an awful lot of city builders but not many of them have landed.

I really like Stonehearth a lot, but it's abandonware and is not without its problems. Fans have taken over development, but that's crawling along at a snail's pace.

I think it's wonderful, but it missing some important pieces to the puzzle to making it a complete game.

I tried Gnomoria, which was okay, but the interface was too janky.

Edit: It's not really a city builder, but World Box looks kind of neat. I'm not sure how much longevity the game has, but the concept seems like it would be fun for a while.
Edit-edit: I think the main problem with city builders as a genre right now is that so many of them are indie and go into early access on steam way too soon and just never get out of it.

Jragghen

I still have a soft spot for Caesar 3

WearingGlasses

Kingdoms and Castles is pretty chill!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjAcB-bDt8

The devs are cooking up a pretty big update (AI kingdoms you can negotiate with), available in their beta builds

Mvrck

It's less a pure city builder, but as a Rogue Lite Colony Sim, Against the Storm has been really fun.

WiseManTobes

I'll effort post why later, but if you haven't played Tropico, play Tropico!

CornerEagle

By the by, the Cities Skylines Airports DLC is out today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BYaBnbRVA

discrider

Jragghen wrote: »

I still have a soft spot for Caesar 3

I could never get past the two cities that both got attacked by barbarians.

Also earthquakes were rude in that game.

Still great.


And could just change the configuration file so that digging gave you 50000 gold or some such

ouzaru

WiseManTobes wrote: »

I'll effort post why later, but if you haven't played Tropico, play Tropico!

I liked Tropico 2 and have enjoyed none of the other entries in the series half as much. They are good games but I want to be a pirate lord.

101

I picked up anno 1800 on sale and it's doing a great job of satisfying my city-building itch.

I do wish they'd move away from the hunt and peck quests though. I get they're a thing for Anno but I find them just tedious

CornerEagle

I suddenly had issues with mods crashing when I tried to load my Cities Skylines game and couldn't work out why, until I remembered about Release Day++. I've been so out of the Skylines loop that I forgot that after new DLC comes out, you need to wait for all the more complicated mods to update to work with that DLC.

TankHammer

I started on Timberborn and found more than I expected. It's similar to Going Medieval (which I also enjoy) but you can't dig or move the earth until you've unlocked dynamite at the endgame (which I have yet to reach). The big strategy, seeing as how you're making a colony of sapient beavers, is to find large areas to flood and build your housing/industry around/in the water while the fertile land is used for farming.

I've gotten pretty good at making a stable civilization but am mastering larger populations that won't die off in droves during the dry season.

WotanAnubis

I've enjoyed Dawn of Man a great deal.

It's not the best city builder I've ever played, but I quite liked slowly building up a small stone age community.

Slym

I recently booted up offworld trading company for the first time after many years, that game is both really interesting and really hard. It's basically an RTS with no combat, you win by buying out the stocks of your rival companies. I remember reading about either the publisher or developer or someone involved with the game being a shitbird at some point, so maybe look that up before you buy it, but it is a pretty interesting economy simulator.

Kana

David_T wrote: »

I suddenly had issues with mods crashing when I tried to load my Cities Skylines game and couldn't work out why, until I remembered about Release Day++. I've been so out of the Skylines loop that I forgot that after new DLC comes out, you need to wait for all the more complicated mods to update to work with that DLC.

Same, I went to start CS today and most of my mods threw up error messages.

Soo gonna have to wait a week or two until they all get updated, cuz I don't think I can play Cities Skylines anymore without the traffic manager mod.

CornerEagle

Since I started over from scratch, I don't have quite as many mods, but I did have to find an off-shoot update to Loading Screen Mod specifically made for the Airports DLC, because the original one doesn't seem to be updated anyore, and once I did that, everything else I have worked again (including Traffic Manager).

Indie Winter

not a city builder per say as much as it is management/colony sim, but I gotta give a shout out to Space Haven which is really shaping up to be something special

https://youtu.be/va7XjJk-05o

knitdan

I've been playing a phone game called Pocket City

It's pretty simple, given the limitations of a phone game

Kind of like a more approachable Sim City 2000