Wow, so many people want spaceship games and factorio games.
I want the format of Return of the Obra Dinn applied to a loads different scenarios. It is such a fantastic way to solve crimes and/or peoples fates.
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#802I love factory simulation games (think Factorio, Satisfactory, Banished, DSP, ...) and one thing that I was always missing was a game with better simulation of raw material mining. Most simulation games have you just place a "mine" on a resource and that's it. I wanted to manage an open pit mine myself. Have excavators that mine ore and trucks move it for processing, but as they do, the shape of the terrain changes,…
This looks fun and interesting. How much does it reflect real world processes? After playing this, would I have a better working understanding of mining, refining, and logistics?
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#803I want to play a real-time strategy game with a limit to the number of actions per minute. Look, I'm an old man now. I can't compete on reaction speed against 13-year-olds micro-managing each unit to perfection. But I can macro. I can plan. I can strategize. I can do that better than those damn kids. I want everyone to have a pool of 5 orders, refilling itself by 1 order per (1 second? 3 seconds?). Orders can be to a…
Turn-based strategies might suit you better.
There is a reason why they are a completely different genre of games.
I enjoyed playing Age of Wonders (all titles) because I was getting frustrated with Starcraft: Brood War.
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#804Factorio as a 4X game when you create factories and develop technologies to expand into new previously inaccessible areas and exterminate new threats.
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#805A serious time travel game.
Think of MS Flight Simulator or Google Street View as documenting the current world. Then take the same approach to thoroughly document the past. The locations, the events, all in 3D VR with realistic graphics, and simulated actors that react to events and react to the players.
Take the current knowledge and physical/archaeological remains of the past, and digitise them, digitally renovate them. Do this rigorously and professionally. Not Hollywood-style approximation, but the work of real historians and archaeologists. Let historians use it and debate the details how it should really look, or how the events really unfolded and adjust it accordingly. Organise the database of content and simulations. AI is possibly already there to automate processing and conversion to 3D of old videos, photos and paintings, even perhaps writings to animation scripts. If not yet, some AI researcher is surely working on that.
Make a VR meta world, where players can travel to certain locations and certain time and interactively take part in the events.
I would pay a monthly subscription for such a thing, to see the past getting recreated digitally. It would be the next best thing we actually could do, compared to real time travel.
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#806A true "MMORPG". Back in the day when the genre was new, people were fascinated by the potential of virtual worlds and virtual societies. Social scientists did online studies on player behavior and the interactions people had online, on spontaneous self-governance coming into existence, on how communities formed and developed, and many other similar topics. That potential was never fulfilled. Today - some twenty year…
Check out Foxhole. There's one server with thousands of people fighting on one map in a massive war. All weapons, ammunition, structures, etc are built by players from mined resources. The "High Command" Discords for each faction have their own internal tools used for gathering intel with computer vision and stuff. There's also a live map of the war: https://foxholestats.com/
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#807Mixture of UFO and Invisible Inc. Tactical game where you rely on stealth and elusiveness to infiltrate alien ships and bases to steal their technology to develop new gear to ultimately defeat them (by covertly planting doomsday device under their noses of course).
Game that makes you feel like you are one wrong step from detection and disaster like Invisible inc did.
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#809An update/remake of the old car company simulation game called Detroit.
An update/remake of the incredible machine.
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#810- A low-brow, open world space sim. (Yes, I'm aware of Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, Elite and all the others, but hear me out): I would love to fly my cheap, derelict Lada Riva equivalent of a spaceship into a space station. No landing sequence or wrestling away of controls, I want to land on my own and I want to land shittily. As I touch down, garbage is stirred up and space rats scurry away from the landing site. I…
Beyond good and evil 2? If it ever goes out...