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I'm still playing Dyson Sphere Program when I have time but it's been busy. I got my sphere mostly done in my home planet and have a sphere design in mind for my next but I need to get endgame white science on farm first before that. I think I'm actually starting to lose interest in the game which is fine sing I got a few hundred hours in. That's rare for my attention span.
My kid and I finished Mario Odyssey on this playthrough recently. He ended up playing most of the second half and was knocking out levels on his own. Can't lie I was both impressed and proud of him. He's actually currently working through postgame stuff now which I didn't even know existed.
I'm still not done with Antimatter Dimensions... I'm on the last mechanic and about halfway through it but I think I'm ready to be finished with it.
Noice. Dyson Sphere Program sounds 'ight. Right up my alley, even. Tbh, strategy games don't do it for me, but that one sounds good. Also, damn, Super Mario Odyssey is also a great game! Glad for your kid.
I feel like automation games strike a very different itch than traditional strategy games. The goal is (generally) not to build up to defeat some enemy but just to build for the sake of building even more. As a kid I always loved strategy games for the base building, but never liked the fighting my enemy part so much. I think that is why I really enjoy the automation and city builder genres.
Some have combat, but they are almost always secondary to the core of the game. Dyson has no combat yet, but it is coming in the near future. Still will be totally optional though.
Interesting.