| Game | Type |
|---|---|
| Oxygen Not Included | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Vampire Survivors | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| RimWorld | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Dwarf Fortress | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Tropico Reloaded | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Tropico 3 | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Tropico 3: Absolute Power | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Tropico 4 | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Tropico 5 | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Prison Architect | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| The Planet Crafter | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Satisfactory | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Subnautica | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Parkitect | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Megaquarium | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Totally Accurate Battle Simulator | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 | Set up and leave it running for a while |
| Crusader Kings II | Do an action from time to time |
| Crusader Kings III | Do an action from time to time |
| Europa Universalis IV | Do an action from time to time |
| Poly Towns | Do an action from time to time |
| Banished | Do an action from time to time |
| Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI | Do an action from time to time |
| Sid Meier's Civilization® V | Do an action from time to time |
| Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms | Do an action from time to time |
| Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition | Do an action from time to time |
| Total War: SHOGUN 2 | Do an action from time to time |
| Bloons TD 5 | Do an action from time to time |
| Bloons TD 6 | Do an action from time to time |
| Two Point Hospital | Do an action from time to time |
| Bunny Park | Do an action from time to time |
| Cities in Motion | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Cities in Motion 2 | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Universe Sandbox Legacy | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Garry's Mod | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Tabletop Simulator | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| The Stanley Parable | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Lucius | Play XY hours achievement(s) |
| Team Fortress 2 | Downtime between lives/matches |
| Antimatter Dimensions | Complex clicker |
| Clicker Heroes | Clicker |
| Cookie Clicker | Clicker |
| Crusaders of the Lost Idols | Clicker |
| Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms | Clicker |
| Holy Shit | Clicker |
| Loot Grind Simulator | Clicker |
| Realm Grinder | Clicker |
| THE LONGING | Idle |
| Mountain | Idle |
| Chill Corner | Idle |
| Virtual Cottage | Idle |
| Soda Dungeon | Idle |
| SPACE / MECH / PILOT | Idle |
| Stone Story RPG | Idle |
| Placid Plastic Duck Simulator | Idle |
| Bitburner | Idle, requires some code |
| MONMUSU | Idle NSFW |
| JaDa Fishin' | Idle with script |
| Unity Pomodoro | Pomodoro |
| The Hundred Year Kingdom | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Clickdraw Clicker | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Running Through Russia | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Tap Heroes | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Keyboard Killers | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Blade Kitten | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Defend Your Life: TD | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Turbo Pug DX | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Pizza Connection 3 | Script grindy achievement farming |
| Elite Dangerous | Long taxi rides |
| Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator | Auto Battler |
| Digimon Survive | Set battles to auto |
| Yakuza: Like a Dragon | Set battles to auto |
| Injustice™ 2 | AI loadout battle to gain levels |
| Viridi | / |
| Spellcaster University | / |
| Autonauts | / |
| shapez | / |
| Garden In! | / |
| Dyson Sphere Program | / |
| Kenshi | / |
| Majesty | / |
| Caesar™ 3 | / |
| Faeria | / |
| Loop Hero | / |
| No Man's Sky | / |
| Disciples III: Reincarnation | / |
| Crush Crush | / |
| Blush Blush | / |
| Fallout Shelter | / |
| Pengu Never Left | / |
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Browser games:
Bitburner
Universal Paperclips
A Dark Room
Candy Box
Candy Box 2
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i have oxygen not included running like that most all day when im home
set shit up and do housework or what not
it has a high learning curve but when you get shit squared away you can walk away for an hr at a time
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Yea that is exactly what I am looking for! Sadly I don't own it myself, but hopefully it is a good suggestion if anyone else is looking for something because I heard really good things about the game :)
Thank you!
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it works only for italy (not for the whole serie, be very very ware!)
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Man, I am dumb sometimes. At first I thought you meant the game only works in Italy. Off to the corner of same I go. Thanks for the suggestion!
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antimatter dimensions is great for running background, but it sort of falls under "the obvious clickers" (though it's much deeper and complex than your average idle game)
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Jesus Christ that looks scary complex! Since it is free I might have to give it a go at some point, but I am a bit terrified of it lol. Thank you!
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from reviews:
Some numbers go up then a few more go up. Not that bad.
🖤
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Would definitely be a problem if the numbers somehow went down (looks at Clicker: Mining Simulator I played the other day that has integer overflow issues which just make all your money disappear :( ) :D
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it starts off pretty mild but the end game is crazy if you have the patience to get there
easily one of the best games in the genre
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If it doesn't bombard you with craziness straight off the bat sign me up, I have added it to my wishlist so I don't forget about it when I get around through all the games I already own that are getting added to my list. Thanks again :)
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This free game Viridi might be very nice :)
Spellcaster University
Autonauts
shapez
Garden In
Dorfromantik
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While I don't think Dorfromantik is quite what I am looking for (you have to actively click things to progress) there is multiple games in your suggestions that I really want to get my hands on at some point actually! Thank you for the suggestions!
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You're welcome :) I haven't played Dorfromantik but there is probably no idle aspect to it! It does look very relaxing with no time limit though if you want a break in the background every so often!
All of those games except Garden In have been in bundles/choice and you could get them very cheap! They're pretty much like a set-up and wait for things to be made or events to come! I may find more in my library and add them here :)
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I have played 40 or so hours of it and it is a really good and super chill and enjoyable game, just not what I am looking for atm. Would definitely recommend the game in general tho!
Yea, I will keep an eye out for more bundles with them. Tho Autonauts I refuse to buy out of spite at this point. I have entered over 430+ giveaways (by far the most of any game) for it and I am determined to win it or die trying :D
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Reading this, I figured that "background games" (that aren't clickers or freemium mobile trash) could be its own genre. Who knows, it might just be the next big thing after Vampire Survivors. You heard it here first, folks.
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Haha funny you mention Vampire Survivors because that is pretty much what I did with that game after I gotten my hang of it - get a build going and then just sit in a spot and kill everything while occasionally upgrading items :D
Honestly it should be a thing and my dumb brain would be very grateful for it because its a good way to trick myself to get up and actually get stuff done, its sad that it works :(
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The Longing
(the game itself continue to play even offline)
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I absolutely love the artstyle of this one, thank you for the suggestion!
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I was gonna say that it sounds like you're looking for some idle clicker but you seem to get this covered...
Same with Stanly Parable that makes you play a whole tuesday or just wait 5 years for a cheevo...
Idk, maybe try RimWorld (or some other colony sims) you can often just plan a bunch of tasks and let the whole thing run on it's own for a little while
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Yea I feel like I went through a lot of the obvious ones already, thats why I am asking here. Rimworld is also a very good suggestion, but I literally played it a month ago so I feel like a good my fill of it for now. I need to dig up and see if I got some more decent colony sims that I haven't played yet, thanks for the suggestion!
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Raid Shadow Legends. Just joking, maybe not if you are into it.
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Rimworld would have been my first recommendation too.
No idea if you do like Paradox titles but these do have a hands-off console command, observe. Use it and the game plays all by itself. You quit that mode by selecting a faction via tag command. This way you can let the world/universe run all by itself, occasionally check in and play whatever faction you want.
This works for any of their own games: Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Stellaris, Hearts of Iron, Victoria.
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Rimworld and CK2 are two of my favorite games I have played this year so far actually! I had my fill of Rimword for now but Paradox games/CK2 completely slipped my mind as an option somehow. Also had no idea about the observe thing (I am very new to their games). Thank you!
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Basically any colony sim as mentioned before
Satisfactory
Dyson Sphere Program
Kenshi
Clicker Heroes
Cookie Clicker
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Huh apparently I don't have Clicker Heroes 100%ed so that goes on my personal to-do list and Cookie Clicker on my wishlist because for some reason is not there yet. Thank you for the suggestions!
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You're very welcome! Check out also Elite Dangerous, especially odyssey DLC because in there you have to get from one station to another and you have to book a space taxi and then the driver takes you there in real time so it can take a couple of minutes XD
Also, is that a transformice pfp? :D (Sorry if I asked this before)
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That is a really silly mechanic :D Added, thank you!
Nope, it is not. Many years ago I did actually used to have an avatar that was vaguely based on it, but this one was custom drawn just to fit my username and has nothing to do with it.
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How about XCOM®: Chimera Squad, would be "games with downtime between matches/rounds/."
You would have a pause after each mission but you can also pause at any time during the mission as it is completely turn based.
I can't say if it's worth it, I still have the game in my backlog :D But I have played Xcom 1 and 2 which I found great.
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That is not quite what I am looking for, I am looking for games that will still progress during that time, not things you manually can pause. But thank you regardless!
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SPACE / MECH / PILOT - free idler
Chill Corner - free idler
Holy Shit - free clicker, this might be too fast tho, it's just clicking 100 times :D
JaDa Fishin' - free fishing simulator, idle with a script
Virtual Cottage - free idler
MONMUSU - free NSFW idler
Soda Dungeon - free idler
Loot Grind Simulator - free clicker/idler
Unity Pomodoro - free software idler
And if you want an inspiration from your owned games, here is a list sorted by players completion % https://steamhunters.com/id/MouseWithBeer/games?state=previouslyCompleted,baseGameCompleted,inProgress,qualifiedButNotStarted,played,untouched&achievements=true&sort=completionrate
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Thank you! Added them all to the list.
Personally I use a mix of BLAEO and completionist.me, but having a lot of games in the backlog its hard to sift through to find exactly what I am looking for. I used this Steam library filter to try to filter games out by tags, but I found it wildly inaccurate with how games are tagged.
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Tags won't be accurate anywhere. That's why you can use those filters like player completion % (this usually leads to less quality games) or number of completions (this usually leads to better quality games, might be worth excluding visual novels as a tag because they get many completions by skipping text fast). Something like this: https://steamhunters.com/id/MouseWithBeer/games?state=baseGameCompleted,inProgress,qualifiedButNotStarted,played,untouched&achievements=true&sort=completed&excludeTag=3799 You can try games, 1 by 1 and see what you end up liking.
Completionist.me doesn't remove cheaters, so player completed numbers can be skewed, unlike SteamHunters.
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City building games are like that in general, and to a lesser extent games like Majesty or Dwarf Fortress.
I saw some Tropico games in you catalog and Roller Coaster Tycoon. And Caesar 3. Or you can find old copies of SimAnt and SimEarth.
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Damn, I feel like I missed some really obvious ones there.... I even have Tropico 3 installed (beaten the main game, but yet to play the DLC) faceplam You doubled my own personal list with this comment, thank you so much!
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Stone Story RPG, on its End-game part ?
(Once you get allowed to run either the game playing by itself online ...Or even offline.)
Fun fact, as it seems to be from the same people who made the two "Candy Box" games. (But these one are not on Steam.)
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Definitely grand strategy games like Crusader Kings II/III or Europa Universalis IV. A lot of downtime, but they're not everyone's cup of tea.
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Luckily for me I have recently learned I love those games after thinking all my life I hate them lol. I had CK 2 already listed from a previous comment, but I have added now the other 2 as well. Thank you!
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I too was going to suggest Bitburner :)
PS you can play in your browser as well: https://bitburner-official.github.io/
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Oooo this looks really interesting! I have added it to my wishlist to remind me to give it a go at some point in the future, thank you!
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Of course! I've been searching for games like Orwell and tried it out. It isn't my cup of tea (I code so much during the day that coding during games isn't relaxing to me) but I know other people love it! :)
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Have you found anything else good similar to Orwell by any chance? I played that a while back and enjoyed it so I am curious if you got any recommendations, if you dont mind!
And yea completely understandable. When I was still working as a software dev I probably wouldn't want to look at it either, but now I don't mind :)
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Of course! Here's my shortlist of games that are not really typing hacking games:
- Cyber Manhunt (has some extra DLCs that add new puzzle types to the game)
- Song of Farca (literally so amazing)
- Tech Support Error Unknown (kinda more like papers please than Orwell)
- Greyhat (not greyhack which is more like bitburner)
- Hypnospace Outlaw (waiting for Dreamsettler to release)
- Case of the Golden Idol (not super like it but still somewhat similar)
- Obra Dinn is a great game in general for the detective genre
- Case Cracker (currently playing, much harder imo than the rest and has more typing than clicking)
- Uplink (super low graphic old game but honestly pretty good)
This is literally my favorite category of game but doesn't have its own steam tag and imo doesn't really fall into "hacking" as most-to-all rely on typing and the rest tend to be horror which I'm also not huge on.
If you like the coding ones more than hacknet is always a good bet. That, Hacker Simulator (haven't played this one much tho), or Nite Team 4.
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Thank you so so so much for the suggestions, I really appreciate it! My wishlist is highly unhappy now tho :D
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No worries! My steam wishlist is also a bit out of hand but I think I need to go through it to see if all of them are games I really want instead of think I want. These are mostly indie games so they're all labors of love. And I can only hope that sharing these games enough will show companies there is a demand for this niche genre and make more of them! 🙃
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We can only hope thats the case! Thank you once again for your help :)
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The Saints Row series has a thing where you passively gain money in the background, per business/neighbourhood you own, so you can leave the game running and come back to some money earned.
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Is that just a specific one or is it more of them? I have played the games and I somehow don't remember that, but it has also been a decade and about a thousand of games since then so my memory of it is really bad.
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Hey Mouse, how you've been?
- Faeria Card game, something like Hearthstone. Very fun to play, you can find a lot of playing styles. It also has a lot puzzles so you can easily do other stuff while playing this. Though if you like the game, I recommend all non-cosmetic DLCs. They get -75% on sales. However, the base game is quite fun on its own too.
- Prison Architect You build your prison and watch things happen. New prisoners come to your prison in periods though. Also after Paradox bought the IP, they ruined it with a lot of DLCs, so I recommend the old Introversion version. :) (You can do this by right clicking on game >> betas >> select "anniversary edition 2018")
Others are already written here so that's it from me.
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Heya! I been busy (tho currently enjoying my last few days of vacation) but alright otherwise, thank you! What about you?
Thank you very much for the suggestions! Added them both to my to play list :) Paradox really can't help themselves with DLC can they?.... I played it all the way back in 2016 and I remember encountering a nasty game breaking bug so I hope at least that has been fixed since :/
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Ah that's nice to hear. I'm fine too just being lazy lately due to crazy heat (I'm not a summer person anyway bu this is too much -_-')
You're very welcome! Hope you'll enjoy them.
Paradox love DLCs more than EA at this point :) I think 2018 version could be the least buggy version since Paradox introduced a lot of new ones. I remember bugs here and there but not game breaking ones so it should be okay.
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Please come take our rain instead in that case. Half of my country flooded yesterday (I am not even really exaggerating, they are one of the biggest floods in our history if not the biggest) due to massive rains :( Luckily where I live got spared at least. And this comes less than a week after massive hail storms (we didn't get spared of that one, rip garage roof) and a godamn tornado. So I would very gladly take your heat instead :D sorry for the bit of a rant, it has just been a lot lately.
I am sure I will, at least Prison Architect for sure :)
Oh yea, EA DLC is nothing compared to some other publishers. Gonna find out soon enough on the bugs, thanks once again for the tips!
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Oh my, I saw on the news, it's like some kind of monsoon. :( Hope you'll be fine until it passes.
I wouldn't trade between them, I just want a normal weather. :) I think I got a heat stroke, I've been sick since yesterday. Getting better slowly though. So I wouldn't say no to a little bit rain.
It deserves a rant since this will only get worse for upcoming years, worst part even if we stop all the emissions today, the weather won't change for 20-25 years. :(
Prison Architect is a genius game, I would love to see it as bugless as possible but Paradox happened. I was so glad when I learned I can play the latest Introversion release. This should be a thing for every game.
If you like card games, I'm sure you'll love Faeria too.
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We just had the last rain forcasted for the next few hours ago so hopefully it is over now. But now we got snow on our mountains apparently... our mountains are not that high that should have snow in August... I want of this rollercoaster ride.
Yea that would be ideal. Could be please both have that? Thank you. Oh shit, I hope you feel better soon and it doesn't turn around for the worse and your weather also cools down a little.
Yea it is terrifying what is to come. It already feels like the Earth is trying to wipe out of existence (honestly can't blame it), I can't even imagine how can it get any worse actually.
I my opinion you should be able to just play any version of the game ever uploaded on Steam (and I think you used to be able via the Steam CMD?), but I guess that uses up a bunch of storage space.
I don't actually, but I am always willing to give any game a go because you really never know. Thats how I learned earlier this year that I absolutely love Crusader Kings 2 while I always thought I hated strategy games.
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It's crazy to see the weather is so unstable all around the world while the Earth is getting warmer any day.
Thanks, I'm getting better after loaded myself with minerals and probiotics, took some time though. I guess today was the hottest day comparing to the next week, maybe it gets a little better.
Humans are bunch of resistant bastards so we try to adapt rather than fix things. I wish it was the other way around. I already hate post-apocalyptic worlds in games, definitely wouldn't want to see a real one.
Yeah I think I remember to do that via Steam console but I agree, I wouldn't blame them if they don't want to store all of the builds. Though they could keep the major releases at least.
Heh, finding a game that you love from out of your regular genres feels good to be honest. That occurs kinda rare for me but I love to give them a chance too. Ending up hating an overwhelmingly positive game doesn't feel good but welp. :3
Oh by the way, people who like Crusader Kings usually also like Mount & Blade. Maybe there is a pattern here. :D
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Sorry for the super late answer, been a busy week.
Glad to hear you are feeling better (I hope that is still the case) and I hope the weather has chilled out since.
Yup, humans godamn suck, badly.
Yea, some games do that by using the "beta" system and its great. More games should do it and Valve should have an official way to do it. But I don't think we will ever see that.
Yea, doesn't happen often to me either (I play a lot of absolute trash after all) but it soooo good when it does.
Never played nor do I own any of the Mount & Blade games, but if I ever get my hands on one I will make sure to give it a go.
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It's okay, real life first. :)
I'm fine now but took me one week to get completely better, never been sick like this since Covid.
Weather seems kinda fine since it might rain today but it's still hot enough to melt me down. We don't have enough trees in city to cut the hot weather and fires take down them faster than we plant.
Well, at least it's a workaround and works fine even if that's not an official way.
That happened to me with Binding of Isaac. I kinda hate roguelikes and a friend introduced Isaac to me and I actually enjoyed it.
If you ever want to try Mount & Blade, skip the first game and go for Warband (it's just the polished version of the first game with more content and better graphics) though its graphics are old even for its age but that's not the point anyway.
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Glad to hear you are fine now! I hope the rain actually showed up in the end and it wasn't just a false hope
Noted on Warband, thank you! :)
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Narrator: It was false alarm. :)
No problem! Have fun with your new type of backlog. :)
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Dammit :( I am keeping my fingers crossed that some magically shows up some time soon.
Thanks! The backlog is currently slowly solving itself as I am typing this ;D
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Thanks. Forecasts show the heat getting less wilder but they don't show rain, not even a little bit clouds. :/
That's good to hear. :) A huge library is hard to handle. I don't want to think about sorting my actual backlog if I didn't delete ~1000 games. :)
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Its at least something :/
Yea except making this list specifically I don't even bother sorting my stuff other than completed games going in their own category so can be separate/hidden for the rest. Too much work for not enough benefit.
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Yeah. :/
In that case, Challenge Me! events would be useful I guess. I agree that it's too much work since it took me more than 4 years for me to clean my library. Though at least that served a purpose for me, I wrote ProtonDB reports for some of them so it was not all bad. :)
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I used to do a lot of those. Nowadays I generally just play whatever was the last game I got my hands on, something I really play it or something my Twitch chat picks for me (usually something horrible).
Thanks for writing ProtonDB reports <3 more people should do so :(
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Well, letting Twitch chat choose what to play can be fun, at least the trying out part. Actually trying to play horrible games maybe not that much. :)
I try my best and I agree, more people should do it. I'm kinda sad that Valve removed Linux playtime though, it was somewhat motivating.
Oh and happy cake day. \o/
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No, its not fun, because they always pick stuff they know I would hate (jokes on someone when it came to CK2 lol and now most likely EU4 too). I just spent 25 hours to finally beat AltF4 just to be gifted AltF42 right after :( Both love and hate those people sometimes :D
Ohhh yea I saw that like 3 days ago. I needed to know the Linux playtime of something and went to SteamDB and the section was gone, thought it was weird that they would remove that. So I did an API call that I was 99% sure was returning Linux playtime before and nope, nothing. I looked it up but couldn't find anything relating to it online. Do you happen to know if they said anything why? (Since its Valve I assume probably not)
Thank you!
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Yeah that happened with the latest API change. I asked this to support but they replied with "Steam Support does not answer questions about API change" so I didn't ask any further. I presume I was one of the hundreds of people asked this and it felt like they got tired of this question. Though I tried again twisting it but once they notice it's about API, they won't reply about that and change the topic to "if you have any more questions...". So no use.
For some weird reason, they're not open about this.
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Web-based games have Universal Paperclips (https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/) or A Dark Room (https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/) though those probably aren't what you are looking for.
Idle Dyson Swarm on mobile is also my top choice.
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That just reminded me of the candy box games I used to play on the web browser.
Here's Candy Box and Candy Box 2
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Personally I am only looking for Steam games (to try and put a dent in the backlog), but I shall make a separate section for these in case someone else is interested, thank you for sharing!
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Not sure how much hands off I could manage with it as I remember it being quite hard (but I last played it 7+ years ago), but I will put it in my to play list simply because I really enjoyed the game so even if it doesn't work out I don't mind picking it up again. Thank you for the suggestion!
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Came here to recommend Banished.
Once you set up a little bit, you can just let it run.
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Can't really recommend Banished for this purpose. For a casual player it's hard. If you learn the mechanics then sure it turns into an easy game where you can do whatever. But it still requires at least a bit of constant attention even with disasters turned off because of how the demographics work in the game.
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I would just like to thank everyone for the suggestions once again. I now have a list of 21 games to clear through next when I want to have something running in the background (+1 that I have already completed in the mean time - Poly Towns). But if you got any more suggestions please keep them coming!
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Considering you mentioned games with downtime between rounds Team Fortress 2 came to mind (free 2 play)
In normal matches theres the setup time, and with the latest summer update came the official saxton hale mode (asymetric big team vs 1 player boss)- and this mode in particular theres no respawn, so one could be waiting for awhile for a match to end while spectating.
But TF2 came to my mind first because of some casual maps and how the community dont really bother with wining/finishing matches on then- 2fort in particular is a map so broken(very hard to end the match) folk play it as a sort of endless deathmatch for fun, but you frequently see people just tauting/dancing or whatever around. The community maps (player hosted games) are 50% non-serious idling and killing time- from endless maps like 2fort and hightower to trading servers...
Its my got to game to kill time- i love the game and playing for wining, but when i just want to kill time i just jump on one of those maps or servers and do whatever- including just taunting/stopping somewhere why i go eat something or whatever
And heck, the engineer class core base is pretty much waiting, even more so in certain gamemodes or maps- youre meant to build a defensive turret to protect the objective but it can be sabotaged by enemy spies or destroyed quicker unatended... Good engineers optmize their time and learn how to leave their safety nest and be back to defend their base in a pitch, but on defense just keeping watch of your sentry is playing right and doing whats needed... i got a taunt that is sitting on a beach chair drinking beer just to tell im idling as engineer
Oh and i almost forgot- Planet Crafter, Satisfactory and Subnautica.
In Satisfactory theres nothing to lose doing nothing (and numbers/resources keep going up), while the other two have modes where food/water are non issues. Both satisfactory and planet crafter have a bunch of buildings that generate things over time- subnautica have less of those
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It has been a looooong time since I last played TF2. I heard there was an update, but didn't know what exactly. But yep, this and especially the new mode you mentioned seems to be exactly what I am looking for, thank you! It is now on my to play next list as well as there is also still many achievements I am missing too, thanks!
The rest I sadly (or not so sadly in case of Subnautica, that game is literally my worst nightmare lol) don't own, but I have added them to the list in case it helps someone else in the future, thanks!
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Oh god, another game I haven't touched in about forever (8 years to be exact). Thanks for the suggestion, added it to both my personal and the generic list!
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Two games for me: Parkitect and Megaquarium.
Get a park/aquarium going, let it run... come back to a lot more cash.
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This might sound a little bit silly, but I am looking for games that have a lot of downtime where you can just let the game do its own thing without your input for a little while. I got a lot of things that I gotta get done and not a whole lot of time, but I would still like to get some multi tasking backlog fighting done at the same time.
Other than the obvious clickers I am looking for things like:
I will not be buying any new games, just gonna play games I already own, but please suggest any games as who knows, maybe the suggestion helps someone else.
Obligatory giveaway [Level 2+]EndedThank you in advance for any suggestions <3
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