So what's a good sim builder? One of those where you can end up with a perfectly working world that just goes without your input? I've been watching quite a bit of Let's Game It Out and, horrendous business practices and abuse of Graces' aside, it's scratched an itch. I'm looking at something like Project Hospital, but are there some hidden gems out there?
Kingdoms and castles is a fun little builder with an active dev who continues to roll out new features.
Anno 1800 will be the big fish in this genre, beautiful and complex. Definitely a time sink.
If you’re looking for a roller coaster tycoon style game, Parkitech is the modern spiritual successor. Isometric viewpoint and all. Everything is well rendered though with a super deep building and scenery system and a robust series of missions.
Satisfactory is fantastic, can't wait for the full release. That's on Epic and you can get it with that coupon which makes it one hell of a fucking deal.
Factorium is the top down version of the same thing.
Cities: Skylines is a very excellent Sim City.
Planet Coaster and now Planet Zoo are good ones, though sounds like Zoo might still be a little buggy.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
So what's a good sim builder? One of those where you can end up with a perfectly working world that just goes without your input? I've been watching quite a bit of Let's Game It Out and, horrendous business practices and abuse of Graces' aside, it's scratched an itch. I'm looking at something like Project Hospital, but are there some hidden gems out there?
Honestly I've never found something that scratches the itch quite like Banished, but I wish I had
Foundation as well as Kingdoms and Castles seem to be well-reviewed, but something about the aesthetic doesn't quite work for me
HiT BiT🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man'sRegistered Userregular
There's a promo running at https://www.games-workshop.com/ where you can get a Total War: Warhammer Steam key for free with any order.
It seems to be available in different countries. There is no minimum spending required (you can even order a simple dice).
Also, you can ask your order to be delivered to the your nearest Games Workshop or Warhammer store. That way you won't need to pay for delivery:
So after hearing about it for a little over a year, I picked up Heaven Will be Mine on the Steam sale and I...have very mixed feelings about it? I played as Pluto, and played through her story and when it was interpersonal or going through her chat messages with Mars it was really good. When it was getting into the metaphysical descriptions and discussions of Culture and Gravity it got a little too on the purple prose side for me. Like almost put it down immediately overwrought at the beginning, until I got about two-three days in and it started balancing it better. The times the prose seemed to work for me was during some of the mech battles, like
Saturn and Pluto's fight where they are dealing with Pluto's insane psychic powers by having Saturn use her hijacking distance powers to ride the waves was really cool.
Or the ending scene for the CG ending, where Pluto, Luna-T, and Saturn manage to break off from Earth to create life in space and protect the rest of space from Earth.
I'm not sure if I'll play the others, it'll definitely probably be after a break though.
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Ugh, I swear I paused Humble last week but apparently not. Oh well, I was vaguely interested in Phantom Doctrine I guess. I mean, not $12 interested but I've wasted more money before on less.
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I tried playing Cities Skylines again today. Did my usual thing of playing okay until I needed to upgrade my traffic system, then spending 30 minutes trying to design a junction for my main arterial road that is efficient and not hideous before getting frustrated and quitting the game.
Building intersections in that game is such a fucking chore.
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Ended up going with Anno and Satisfactory.
I'm gonna lose days and days to Anno, but boy is it a chore to launch.
Turns out, even though I bought it through the Epic store, I still have to link to my Uplay account.
Then, turns out, even though I've linked my Epic account to my Uplay account, I have to launch it with the Uplay launcher.
Then, turns out, since I don't have the Uplay client installed, there's no launcher and no error message about that, the game just never launches when you press play in the Epic client, so I now have to download and install the Uplay client.
Then, turns out, even with the Uplay client installed, if I try to launch the game through the Epic client, the Uplay launcher pops up wanting my email and password, then errors out saying that "An Epic Games service is unavailable at the moment".
Because apparently I have to launch it straight from the Uplay client to be able to play it. As soon as it downloads this 6 gig patch that wasn't part of the original download.
But game is fun.
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Uplay is suspiciously terrible software. It goes way past bad design and makes me think it was created by the son of an impoverished croquet set manufacturer, who blames video games for his family's downfall and wants revenge on us all.
I'm trying to get back into Outer Wilds and man there's so much of this game that I'm so into but playing it is just kind of a frustrating experience
it's so fiddly and delicate, I crashed into the dang sun like three times in a row just trying to go to Ash Twin
I think what I really need is a really good Youtube playthrough so I can see all the extremely cool stuff without having to actually play it
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Anno 1800 is a lovely plate-spinning simulator that I’ve sunk a bunch of time into lately. It does a great job of ramping up the complexity and keeping everything interesting into the mid and late game
I'm trying to get back into Outer Wilds and man there's so much of this game that I'm so into but playing it is just kind of a frustrating experience
it's so fiddly and delicate, I crashed into the dang sun like three times in a row just trying to go to Ash Twin
I think what I really need is a really good Youtube playthrough so I can see all the extremely cool stuff without having to actually play it
Don’t forget you can autopilot to planets. But yeah I tried to get back into it after a long hiatus and the problem I had was trying to figure out what I should do based on the mess of a ship’s log I had left. Also, fuck the dark bramble.
I’ve been watching this LP, I’m not done with it but so far it seems pretty thorough, and has no commentary.
I'm gonna lose days and days to Anno, but boy is it a chore to launch.
Turns out, even though I bought it through the Epic store, I still have to link to my Uplay account.
Then, turns out, even though I've linked my Epic account to my Uplay account, I have to launch it with the Uplay launcher.
Then, turns out, since I don't have the Uplay client installed, there's no launcher and no error message about that, the game just never launches when you press play in the Epic client, so I now have to download and install the Uplay client.
Then, turns out, even with the Uplay client installed, if I try to launch the game through the Epic client, the Uplay launcher pops up wanting my email and password, then errors out saying that "An Epic Games service is unavailable at the moment".
Because apparently I have to launch it straight from the Uplay client to be able to play it. As soon as it downloads this 6 gig patch that wasn't part of the original download.
But game is fun.
The ubisoft launcher system and everything about the experience of using it is shit
yeah, I've played multiple games through Uplay on it's own that I either bought there or got free or codes for, and it works totally fine. But using it through Steam/Epic sounds like a shitshow
I tried playing Cities Skylines again today. Did my usual thing of playing okay until I needed to upgrade my traffic system, then spending 30 minutes trying to design a junction for my main arterial road that is efficient and not hideous before getting frustrated and quitting the game.
Building intersections in that game is such a fucking chore.
If your frustrated you can go on the workshop and download all different kinds of intersections and exchanges. It's a lifesaver. There's people making art out of roads out there and I'm all for using their stuff over my god awful stuff.
3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
edited December 2019
Yesterday I started what has at this point become my annual holiday playthrough of Mankind Divided. God, I just love this game. The environmental and sound design work so effectively to create an oppressive, bleak atmosphere, and I'm still not sure any other game has done the "multiple pathways, play your way" thing as well as this one did.
It's such a dang shame that Square got greedy and forced Eidos to split it into a trilogy.
Satisfactory is fantastic, can't wait for the full release. That's on Epic and you can get it with that coupon which makes it one hell of a fucking deal.
Factorium is the top down version of the same thing.
Cities: Skylines is a very excellent Sim City.
Planet Coaster and now Planet Zoo are good ones, though sounds like Zoo might still be a little buggy.
Planet Zoo has had a bunch of patches to fix most issues and is pretty stable now.
I was shown a hilarious bug in Civ 6. If you want a truly busted round of civ 6 this is the bug for you.
Race to pantheon, and then select either the pantheon that gives you a free settler, or a free builder.
When you hit "Found Pantheon" hit esc at the exact same time. It will give you the settler or builder and let you pick again. repeat until you are loaded in builders and settlers ( stop around 7-10 because you will have to delete any stacked units at the end of the turn anyway)
Also fun to see how bad the AI cheats on high difficulties, because they will still keep up.
MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
It turns out you can also do it with the one that gives you an adjacency bonus for tundra tiles to holy sites, meaning you can get a holy site with +n per adjacent tundra tile, where n is the number of times you can be bothered to go through it, which you can then easily (by purchasing the right great scientist with faith) turn into a +n science bonus as well, which should set you up to finish the tech tree in basically however many turns there are techs remaining in your tree.
FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Oh man.
I got a new 55" Samsung QLED in the Boxing Day sales.
I just put the Steam Link App on it and kicked up a game on it with my kids sitting next to me on the sofa while I played Rime for the first time. This was so much better than having them squabble about who is sitting in my lap and fighting half the time.
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Kingdoms and castles is a fun little builder with an active dev who continues to roll out new features.
Anno 1800 will be the big fish in this genre, beautiful and complex. Definitely a time sink.
If you’re looking for a roller coaster tycoon style game, Parkitech is the modern spiritual successor. Isometric viewpoint and all. Everything is well rendered though with a super deep building and scenery system and a robust series of missions.
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Anno looks like Banished on steroids, which is not a bad thing. Unless you're WADA. And there's the Epic $10 dollar coupon deal...
Factorium is the top down version of the same thing.
Cities: Skylines is a very excellent Sim City.
Planet Coaster and now Planet Zoo are good ones, though sounds like Zoo might still be a little buggy.
Honestly I've never found something that scratches the itch quite like Banished, but I wish I had
Foundation as well as Kingdoms and Castles seem to be well-reviewed, but something about the aesthetic doesn't quite work for me
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It seems to be available in different countries. There is no minimum spending required (you can even order a simple dice).
Also, you can ask your order to be delivered to the your nearest Games Workshop or Warhammer store. That way you won't need to pay for delivery:
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After that it's just optimization of resources and against incoming invaders and dragons until the next new feature.
Or the ending scene for the CG ending, where Pluto, Luna-T, and Saturn manage to break off from Earth to create life in space and protect the rest of space from Earth.
I'm not sure if I'll play the others, it'll definitely probably be after a break though.
Still irritatating as fuck though.
And also Shadow of the Tomb Raider is there.
oh man and @Eddy thank you for Encased!
I feel like the belle of the ball
Building intersections in that game is such a fucking chore.
I'm gonna lose days and days to Anno, but boy is it a chore to launch.
Turns out, even though I bought it through the Epic store, I still have to link to my Uplay account.
Then, turns out, even though I've linked my Epic account to my Uplay account, I have to launch it with the Uplay launcher.
Then, turns out, since I don't have the Uplay client installed, there's no launcher and no error message about that, the game just never launches when you press play in the Epic client, so I now have to download and install the Uplay client.
Then, turns out, even with the Uplay client installed, if I try to launch the game through the Epic client, the Uplay launcher pops up wanting my email and password, then errors out saying that "An Epic Games service is unavailable at the moment".
Because apparently I have to launch it straight from the Uplay client to be able to play it. As soon as it downloads this 6 gig patch that wasn't part of the original download.
But game is fun.
it's so fiddly and delicate, I crashed into the dang sun like three times in a row just trying to go to Ash Twin
I think what I really need is a really good Youtube playthrough so I can see all the extremely cool stuff without having to actually play it
Just turn up the graphics.
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Don’t forget you can autopilot to planets. But yeah I tried to get back into it after a long hiatus and the problem I had was trying to figure out what I should do based on the mess of a ship’s log I had left. Also, fuck the dark bramble.
I’ve been watching this LP, I’m not done with it but so far it seems pretty thorough, and has no commentary.
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The ubisoft launcher system and everything about the experience of using it is shit
Ventblast the Frogcore.
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yeah, I've played multiple games through Uplay on it's own that I either bought there or got free or codes for, and it works totally fine. But using it through Steam/Epic sounds like a shitshow
Anyway, speaking of Epic, free game today is Shadow Tactics: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/shadow-tactics/home
Tomorrow is The Talos Principle
If your frustrated you can go on the workshop and download all different kinds of intersections and exchanges. It's a lifesaver. There's people making art out of roads out there and I'm all for using their stuff over my god awful stuff.
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Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
It's such a dang shame that Square got greedy and forced Eidos to split it into a trilogy.
I'm prepared for 2020
Planet Zoo has had a bunch of patches to fix most issues and is pretty stable now.
https://clips.twitch.tv/ViscousCourageousCougarCharlieBitMe
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
Race to pantheon, and then select either the pantheon that gives you a free settler, or a free builder.
When you hit "Found Pantheon" hit esc at the exact same time. It will give you the settler or builder and let you pick again. repeat until you are loaded in builders and settlers ( stop around 7-10 because you will have to delete any stacked units at the end of the turn anyway)
Also fun to see how bad the AI cheats on high difficulties, because they will still keep up.
I got a new 55" Samsung QLED in the Boxing Day sales.
I just put the Steam Link App on it and kicked up a game on it with my kids sitting next to me on the sofa while I played Rime for the first time. This was so much better than having them squabble about who is sitting in my lap and fighting half the time.
Gamechanger.