Factorio. The factory must grow. Started on my Switch until I could no longer save games, then migrated to laptop. Because the Factory. Must. Grow.
Never in my life have I been so hooked on a game.
For fans of Factorio I highly recommend Dyson Sphere Program. It’s a beautiful factory building game. It’s been in early access for a while now but can already be played like a finished game. There is a combat system coming but that will be totally optional. The only downside is that it’s far more demanding than Factorio when it comes to CPU, especially in the late stages of the game as your factory grows.
It is demanding but the devs seem very dedicated to optimization. I have never read a dev blog post entirely about CPU optimization that sounded so excited about it. For an early access game, it really is super polished.
I haven’t tried scaling to super late game production levels, but you can easily finish the non-repeatable techs before noticing any performance hitches.
If someone else didn’t say it I was gonna recommend DSP. It’s galactic scale Factorio in space and 3D. If Factorio automation and interstellar logistics sound fun then get this game.
For late game do e of the hardcore players take ticks per second and such into consideration so there is a sort of meta think to the game with that regard. You can still just slap automation chains together and get the job done tho. I was getting 15 fps at end game with a RTX 3060 lol.
Factorio also has the Space Exploration mod, but that’s more if you hate yourself and needed a way to fill thousands of hours
Not gonna lie some of the expansion mods I’ve seen scare me. I do wanna get back to Factorio if this DSP kick ever finishes though.
I have never played a game with such a compelling gameplay loop.
Factorio is one of those few games (rim world too) that I can sit down and not realize that HOURS are flying by.
For that alone, Factorio is a must have for anyone who enjoys base building aspects in other games. Also, there is multiplayer on PC. At least with mods it’s possible.
Damn this game made me unaware of time
What’s your favourite game set up? I just finished the vanilla set up with enemies.
Honestly if you don’t know where to start just play the bog standard free play with default settings. Maybe increase mineral deposit richness a bit if you’re just starting out.
If you want to make your life a little easier look for a starting map with lots of trees and deposits close together but not overlapping.
Have you tried Mindustry? It’s supposed to be like factorio and it is open source.
Cyberpunk. They fixed most of the issues the game had at launch. There’s a dlc coming out soon too that will add a bunch of hours, and with it they are reworking loads of mechanics for free. Can’t recommend it enough.
Cyberpunk for me as well. When it first came out, I played it on a GTX970 and enjoyed every moment of it. Low settings, low frames. Ugly as fuck, but still high tech, still low life. Even with all its issues, it was the first game in years where I completed the story. And then did it again.
I recently upgraded my video card along with a 4K monitor and tried replaying the story, but haven’t made much progress because I usually just walk around and look at all the pretty. Yesterday I spent well over an hour in one of the clubs looking at NPCs, walls, and tables. 10 minutes of it was staring at blinking lights on circuit boards inside a floor panel.
I did much of the same thing
It turns out building a better pc and playing cyberpunk has the same effect as walking around a city on acid.
Who would’ve thought
There’s so much variation… I do the same, wandering around at night, just looking around.
One time I found myself in some dilapidated area with oil derrigs (the big pumps idk wht they’re called) and it was all foggy, almost monochrome. mud everywhere.
It was so beautiful.
It was a great game even with the issues it had. I’m really looking forward to the DLC, if only as an excuse to revisit the game!
Did performance improve? I couldn’t get it anywhere close to playable on my 2080 super without dropping the quality to potato, so I gave up on it.
I ran medium to high with 2080 super, 32 gigs of ram, and a ryzen 3600. Frames stayed above 60 in most cases drops in the 40s happened in populated areas.
I have a 2060 super and it ran perfectly on high. I think I had maybe one crash in my entire playthrough
I’ve got a 1070ti and it runs very smooth on medium-high. Obviously not doing ray tracing or anything, and no mods, but I dial back some of the stuff like anti-aliasing too. Definitely worth giving it another shot if you already have it
Same! Hell, I run it on mostly-ultra, as I prefer image quality to frames most of the time. (also, I’m not 4k or anything… Just an old 1080p 60hz monitor)
I played it on a 5500XT and it ran fine. Maybe a handful of crashes per 100h and few bugs / glitches.
I played it almost all the way through on a 1080 and it looked and performed great. I did tweak a lot of the settings to get it to peak performance.
Average FPS was around 40. Obviously not running at monitor resolution.
The problems I have with cyberpunk stem more from the story. It’s depressing and has no real happy ending, just an array of at best bittersweet possible endings. Maybe the new DLC will fix that but otherwise it’s a bit too much art imitating life for me.
Ahh I love that part. Feels like a nice change of pace that the best ending (for me) is open ended with a little bit of hope. Don’t want to spoil for anyone else reading which ending I mean, but I like that it doesn’t wrap up in a fully positive way
See I like that one, I just wish it weren’t the happiest option. Bittersweet is great for movies but for the best option in a video game that you pour hours into, it can be a bit of a letdown.
Dwarf Fortress is beautiful.
This is my answer. Donated to Toady1 a couple times, then bought it on steam.
Same here, donated to Toady and played for years before moving to masterwork DF, and years there too. Once the keyboard only mode is added to the steam version I’m sure I’ll be playing for years there too!
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Ahh, one of my favorites. Might install this again.
What??? You uninstalled it?
Now ye are going to have to reinstall all yer mods again (that is a game in and of itself though)
Figuring out which mod pack I want to install took longer than my actual playtime atm 🥲. It’s always the same story with Skyrim
Witcher 3 wild hunt. Game was released in 2015 and we are still getting regular patches 8 years later. Patch 4.03 was just released last May. Engaging storytelling, a vast open world along with 2 expansion pack, deep role-playing elements to create a memorable and immersive gaming experience.
Have they discussed any more show tie-in content? Was hoping they would use that for promotions.
I haven’t been following the Witcher fan discussion group for a while, but what I recalled was that the Netflix show has deviated drastically from the source material (books) which many fans are pissed about, even the main star and fan expert of the material, Henry Cavill left in season 3.
The game dev CD Projekt Red definitely has no rights to Netflix’s Witcher universe and it doesn’t matter. Fans are anticipating the release of Witcher 4 (code name Polaris) which will be a first of a trilogy.
Yeah I’ve seen the backlash from the community leading up to Henry Caville’s departure, but I’ve been out of the loop so to say since moving over to Lemmy. I kind of assumed that it would be mutually beneficial for CDPR and Netflix to parter on promotions, since I assume it’s mutually beneficial in terms of Netflix subs and game purchases. Can’t blame CDPR for wanting to focus effort elsewhere though.
Idk why, but this sounds like an advertisement so much :)
Rimworld.
It’s kind of funny because I bounced off the game hard the first two times I played it. What really did it for me was the Ideology DLC, gave it a shot on a whim and the amount of structure it gave me for RPing colonies was exactly what I was missing.
Hundreds upon hundreds of hours in now, and it is the game I keep coming back to. Not to mention one of the biggest modding communities I have ever seen in a video game. The only video game subscriptions I maintain currently are to a few Rimworld modders whose work I really enjoy. When I am not playing it, I am working on ideas of themed mod packs to put into it.
Dyson Sphere Program is a close second, it’s my favourite factory-builder. It is still in early access but is a VERY polished experience already. Amazing dev communication too.
I’ve reeeaaaally gotten into the rogue-like/lite genre. Dead Cells, Hades, Slay the Spire, FTL, Vampire Survivors… Just endlessly fun and entertaining. Also for all you Vampires lovers, I just picked up a game called Halls of Torment during the Steam sale for cheap. Super fun “vampires-like”
Check out Brotato! I think you’ll like it.
Brotato has been my palate cleanser between games 😂
RimWorld.
Yes, I am a degenerate.
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I have a bunch of mods that allow me to automate garbage separation. Weapons go one way, clothes go the other way, and the bodies are processed into meat and organs accordingly.
It isn’t a RimWorld build until people around you ask “what the fuck is wrong with you?”
I hit a wall with Rimworld. I’ve gotten into a slog where I’m doing the same thing every day and can’t seem to progress any further. At a loss at what to do next.
Throw something at the colony Sim City style?
As in difficulty spike or out of ideas?
Difficulty spike. Like my drones aren’t self sustaining well enough, and i don’t know how to fix it.
Rimworld
RimWorld is a time machine. I start it up and then look at the clock and I’m 5 hours in the future.
I’ve once started a colony right before exams period. It was tough.
Slay the spire. Probably have close to 1000 hours playing it and I’m still addicted.
Same. I also own it on the switch and phone. Most re-playable game I own.
I’ve heard about it a few times, need to give it a try.
Yes same. I’ve bought it 3 times now, for PC, Android and Switch. Almost 400 hours on Steam alone.
Fallout: New Vegas
The Outer Wilds. Best space exploration game with environmental storytelling I have ever played. And that ending…chef’s kiss made me cry.
The best gaming experience of my life. I wish I could forget everything and play it again. Did you play EotE?
I am in the middle of playing it. I am usually pretty immune to jump scares but with this I have to take a break.
Cyberpunk2077 at the moment. Got more than 250 hours on it. Before that I played Dishonored a lot and that before the very first Deus Ex. The story was just incredible and IMHO still is one of the best in video game history.
FTL. Theme song triggers ptsd in my wife.
I love FTL but I’m so bad at it.
I could hear the opening sound of the title song vividly as soon as I read that. I liked it but somehow never played it much. I think it was missing a little bit here or there.
I only played it so that I won once, and that was a long time ago. Is it really replayable? It didn’t really seem so at the time.
It’s a rogue like. It was built to be replayed endlessly.
Just because it has random level generation/is a roguelike does not mean it has endless replayability. Generally, if you have seen most random events and it’s not really challenging anymore because you got “too” good at the game, it loses its appeal for many, as it did for me.
What I’m asking was more in the sense of, have I missed things? Is there more content than I thought there was? I thought for a roguelike it had pretty limited alternative options to see. Essentially, what makes your 100th run different from your 99th run?, and the answer for me was “not much”
Vampire Survivors on the steam deck.
