Does Dwarf Fortress count?
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2025
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I would say yes! Which version are you playing?
Which version are you playing?
The pretty Steam one!
Cool! I might give it a look, the old version always seemed a bit intimidating
DF, no matter how you start, has a learning curve. Having a tile set can help with the visual side, but be prepared to go through a couple fortresses figuring things out. And then a few more after goblin invasions, Dwarves going mad, Forgotten Beasts, and at least one case of flooding your upper floors with water and your lower with lava.
And that's before you even touch the F.U.N that waits down below...
Give it a shot! Great time!
the old version always seemed a bit intimidating
Definitely. You can still turn on an ASCII tile set if you want to give it a try in the Steam release. I did, but it was indecipherable to me!
Game is fun. I'm not good by any means. But I finally broke the cycle of early restarts by running it alongside a utility called DFHack. (Contrary to the name, it's not a hack! I think the devs even encourage its use).
I played a lot of Cities skylines back in the day, but rn I mostly play Timberborn and it's pretty fun ngl
+1 for Timberborn. My only add is that if you want relaxed play there are fully custom options to make the game laid back if you want to just build settlements and not worry about droughts / floods. Also make sure to save often when unlocking science because you can unlock tech and find out after that you need other things unlocked / done first. Example would be unlocking something that requires gears to build but you aren't making gears yet.
Sounds great
I started a new Timberborn save last weekend now that the 3D terrain update has an experimental release. It needs some optimization but it’s quite fun
This game gained 100 hours in about three weeks for me, currently have 549 hours in it. Can not wait for update 7 to make it to main.
Timberborn is on my wishlist!
Worth the money even not on sale honestly.
Workers and Resources - Soviet Republic
It will never not be hilarious that a bunch of depressed Slovakian game devs saw people praising communism’s “efficiency” and were like “we’ll show you morons the efficiencies of communism”.
Only ~1300 people have died in this current playthrough, and I’m partway through the third year. Fuckyouistan will rise again!
I spent a few hundred hours on realistic mode just building roads and railways on those large maps. There's something enjoyable about watching fleets of construction vehicles connect towns and industries. Workers really makes me appreciate infrastructure in a way simcitys and cities skylines never did with the autobuilding and autogrowth.
I can’t not play realistic mode anymore. I’ll usually start with extra cash just so I can overbuild a little in the beginning, but besides that everything on max difficulty helps me maximize the suffering - I mean efficiency.
Only 1300? You obviously need to build more gulags.
Inefficient workmen may or may not have neglected to staff the heating plant, causing a mass freeze. Mass die offs are a staple of any burgeoning republic, I narrowly avoided another one caused by food shortages thanks to road paving.
Frostpunk and Simcity 4, still need to play Frostpunk 2 at some point.
After the 1.0 update I picked up "Foundation" again. Unfortunately the game is still haunted by quite a number of bugs. I am sure those will be fixed, but for the moment it requires a certain tolerance to enjoy the game.
Let's hope!
Caesar III with Augustus is just so good, but looking for other recommendations
This is actually what I've been playing recently.
Roadblocks make Caesar 3 so much more coherent and enjoyable.
They are amazing indeed
my last dip into the genre was with urbek. it's very explicitly about balancing so i didn't get very far but I find it very interesting.
One that I'm hoping to start soon is Songs of Syx. It has city biker elements kind of the realm of Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld, but with a greater focus on economy. And, it zooms it to a much better-defined world map game than either of those two offer.
I just started in caesar2.
Interesting, have you ever played Caesar III before?
Yep caesar3 is better.
I’ve had Anno 1800 for years, never played it till about two weeks ago. So it’s between that and Timberborn currently.