Mods - I am not sure how to read the rule against game suggestions. If it means no asking for suggestions please just wipe the post. No harm, no foul.

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Fall is usually my busiest time of year preparing for winter in our little forest home. But I have been given orders from the doctors to basically take bedrest for up to 3 months, but I'm allowed to be sitting up... So books and games are basically all that is on the menu.

I enjoy automation games, tower defense, survival/building games, and exploration games.

I dislike 'souls-like' experiences where combat is tight and requires perfect timing. In fact in most games where combat can be disabled I usually do that.

My top games of all time would be factorio, minecraft, WoW/FFXIV (yeah... i know. But they count as one), Dyson sphere program, vampire survivors (and many of that type), and gemcraft type TD games.

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Some games that have been recommended and tried, but don't work for me right now or I have already finished:
mindustry, satisfactory, valheim, no man's sky, alchemy factory, luanti, terraria.

Thanks in advance for your time. Much appreciated.

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[–] 13 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Caves of Qud is one of the best exploration games I've ever played. It's a traditional roguelike where the overworld map is the same each time but the world history, factions, and most individual zones are procedurally generated each time you start over.

You play as either a mutated human with strange bonuses like extra arms, the ability to mind control, wings, etc. or a Truekin that starts with higher base stats and the ability to use implant tech to do things like replace your legs with tank treads or your eyes with night-vision goggles.

It's a deep simulation; all of the NPCs in the game are as fully modeled as the player character, the NPCs you meet are a result of the generated history, and the best choice is often to run away.

It's turn-based with multiple difficulty levels. I recommend playing on classic, but the other ways are just as valid.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    I really want to enjoy it, but that game, and dwarf fortress are just too much for me. I just get overloaded with information and I don't enjoy it.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (4 children)

    In a weird way I would recommend Tales Of Maj'Eyal, Tangledeep, Golden Krone Hotel or Shattered Pixel Dungeon <-- free and open source as good ways to dive into this kind of game, and have more fun learning the mechanics, Caves Of Qud overwhelms me too which might make my main suggestion sound insane but shrugs...

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/259680/Tales_of_MajEyal/

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/628770/Tangledeep/

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/497800/Golden_Krone_Hotel/

    https://shatteredpixel.com/

    Honestly my primary recommendation is Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, yes it is also ridiculously deep but it isn't balanced to be a balls to the wall dungeon crawler, you can approach it however you want and modulate difficulty/complexity through your player choices though you can always get unlucky. CDDA actually isn't that "hard" if you don't take big risks.

    Why not Project Zomboid? CDDA's world is just so rich there is no way Project Zomboid will catch up and if I want realtime and multiplayer Endgame Road To Salvation or Survivalist Invisible Strain compliment CDDA better in my opinion.

    https://cataclysmdda.org/

    https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cataclysm-dark-days-ahead

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1264920/Endgame_Road_To_Salvation/

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1054510/Survivalist_Invisible_Strain/

    If you want a more focused experience where dying doesn't end your run try the superb Sky Islands mode included in the base CDDA game now.

    https://github.com/TGWeaver/CDDA-Sky-Islands

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Is there any way to play CDDA without the ascii graphics?

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