You're still missing Starbound.
While both are very similar in some regards it brings enough new stuff to keep it fresh.
- Has a story
- Multiple planets but less diverse biomes
- Upgradable spaceship
- Hunger mechanics and cooking
- House pet for your spaceship I chose a cat like in Alien
- COOKING
Edit: It's somewhat related to cooking but I forgot farming. I spent dozens of hours just scouring alien planets for new plants and ingredients and then building a big ass farm on my homeworld 😄
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In regard to your question pretty much the same as you
- Terraria
- Starbound
- Project Zomboid
- Factorio
- Prison Architect
Still holding out on RimWorld and Oxigen not Included - not so much for the price but there is only so much time and all of those games are real time assassins 😅
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Indeed Starbound is worth mentioning. I have it too but I've not played barely anything but the intro. Seems promising too, thanks for the reminder.
I also have Prison Architect (tho I've heard there's a problem with Psychiatric Ward? Is it fixed?) and Project Zomboid was happily added to my library this year too.
Those five are indeed great choices.
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You can play Prison Architect before Paradox, from betas select anniversary version 2018.
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tho I've heard there's a problem with Psychiatric Ward?
The last time I played Prison Architect was before the Paradox takeover so I can't really say much about the DLC but the base game already keeps you busy for quite some time.
But judging by the reviews Psychiatric Ward indeed seems like a bit of a lazy cash grab that only changes some visuals and doesn't compare to the in-depth simulation and mechanics of the base game.
Last time I played I was messing around a bit with Warden mode (which adds a physical representation of the player and fog of war to all parts of the prison neither the warden or any guards can see and thus makes security cameras really important) and trying to improve the re-socialization of my inmates. And figuring out the ins and outs of snitches and how to make my prison contraband proof.
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Adds to that list:
- Prison Architect
- Mindustry
- Dwarf Fortress
- Starbound
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Only missing Dwarf Fortress - which is in my wishlist. Another great game in the same vein of the three I mentioned, and also with low and scarce sales.
Also thanks for the Prison Architect tip!
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You're welcome. I was playing it on GOG with the Introversion build, haven't started playing it on Steam again but I'm planning to after leaning this. Hats down to the random reddit guy. :)
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If you are short on money, the classic version of Dwarf Fortress has and always will be free on the developer's website.
However the classic version afaik only has ASCII graphics which is a bit hard on the eyes, thats why I would recommend a starter pack that comes with graphics and helpful tools like PeridexisErrant's one. This one is currently a few versions behind, but with the years of development DF has that probably won't matter much.
Also the wiki is propably a requirement for this game.
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It's not that I'm short on money, it's that I don't want to keep inflating my backlog, although my intention is eventually play everything I have except a handful of too-crappy-how-this-ended-in-my-library. It's more that I'm searching for a "next most wanted" list to keep an eye on, rather than getting more and more bundles, and look at the weekly sales and finally falling for whatever.
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All of them you have to build stuff, right? Isn't there any good sandbox game where you don't have to build stuff?
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Thanks for all suggestions. Some are in my library, some in my wishlist, some have been added to it, and surprisingly one was in my ignored list: Icarus.
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With the amount of time I'm able to spend in a pretty simple, story-driven, kinda straight-forward games, I'm actually scared of any sandbox game :D
When I applied "Sandbox" tag on my Steam library, it showed like 200 games or so.
I think that no one mentioned Forager and Graveyard Keeper yet.
Also thanks for the giveaway!
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Forager looks great, I have it too.
Graveyard Keeper sounds like fun, like a good game, but everytime I read the reviews I end with a BIG doubt about if it will be for me or I'll be on the side of those who didn't like it.
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strange that nobody mentioned no man's sky yet. never goes on an actual sale, it's always 'half off' somewhere. I'm sure it's worth that much by now with all the updates.
astroneer is another one.
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Astroneer is in my wishlist. I do have a project half done to scrape data, to make a table with the things that are important, so I can both make my wishlist smaller and make again a "most wanted" list which right now is kinda blurry in my mind, so I'm not sure where to spend the money most of the time. And I'd like to spend less money and get less games, just the best ones.
I've been following No Man's Sky from time to time after its disastrous launch, and yes it seems it's getting better with the new updates. So once in a while I go to its store page and look at the rating of last 6-12 months of reviews plus reading some recent reviews; and indeed it has been scalating from "I can't reach 80%" to "wow I'm aiming to 90%". I looked today after a few months and certainly the last 12 months come with a 90% rating and I like more what I read in the reviews now. So despite its infamous fame, I'm adding it to wishlist.
Btw thanks for the review of Can't Live Without Electricity. That lack of mid-save level will prevent me to get it tho it looks like my kind of puzzle. Your reviews are the real top, mate.
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I actually removed nms from my wl quite a while ago. it's to do with constant sale reminders though, not quality. I'm still not certain it's for me but should have so much stuff by now that fucking around a bunch and doing whatever's interesting has to be possible, perfectly fine with 5-10-20 hours. but as I said, half off every other week is not a sale, 30 bucks is the full price at this point, so I'll have to rely on getting informed about whenever it goes half of that, or of course bundled.
thanks and yeah, it's a shame. the dev made more features (even other basic ones like fucking tooltips and a better tutorial, apparently) dependent on sales, which might not be happening due to no saving, and definitely not happening due to zero visibility, so there you go. I did my tiny part, bunch of steam friends bought and even reviewed it too as a side-effect, but I don't upvote maybe and hopefully anymore, so we'll have to wait and see.
that data-collecting thing sounds interesting and very useful for me as well. I wonder where it would scrape data from, uninformative store pages or uninformative reviews? (ratings like overwhelmingly positive or 9/10 are meaningless and useless) so sick of having to ask developers if their most likely lacking game works properly or not, and I mostly gave it up but not entirely yet. not that I need more games to buy/play but some look closer to my interests than others.
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Well it scrapes data to use it my way. I find the Steam wishlist and the ITAD stuff quite bad to manage a game list unless it's small. Since I want to start making big cleaning, I need lots of data like "let's separate the games with too few reviews and see what I save for now, and what I keep in another list to look at next year maybe but not for now".
Once the wishlist is reduced to a more manageable number, I'll dwell more into reviews and let's-play vids to get a better knowledge of what stays in the wishlist. In the past I fell for sales, since I had a severe lack of income and I felt so bad spending money on games, but it was/is a compulsive thing. Now I'm looking for quality, and I was ashamed when my wishlist went over 1000. Recently I got more ashamed when it surpased 2000.
I know from where this compulsive behaviour comes and is unhealthy and a waste, now I'm trying to take measures to control it. Tho since I have the "collector's gen" I'll end making a huge collection of who-knows-what's-next.
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I don't see what the number of reviews has to do with anything. all you need is one (or maybe a few), regardless of thumb direction, with enough information so you can decide if it's for you or not. granted, it's often hard to impossible to find, but 10k people posting single-sentence 'reviews' only mentioning how cute the graphics are or whatever is a turn-off more than anything. this came up elsewhere recently, but turns out that person just wanted to burn money on popular shit (1k+ reviews only), not what they were actually interested in or doing any actual research.
I took my wishlist down to under 400 (from around 500+ or something), which sounds a lot, but I mostly play shorter puzzle games these days (have about 1600 games on steam but completion has been around 2/3 for as long as I remember), plus a lot of them are likely never to come out or have been sitting undiscounted or with the same not good enough discounts for years, so the 'active' part is not that huge.
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I suspect that about half of the games with around 10 reviews or less in my wishlist are just fake meaningless reviews. Specially games with 10-12 reviews (10 reviews is the min to get a score). Yes I click on "add to wishlist" too often without thinking too much, with the intention of "looking at it deeper later". Which led me to the current situation. So I think looking at that huge bunch of probably asset flips or bad games with fake reviews is a good first step into cleaning my wishlist and converting it in something manageable, and more importantly, meaningful. I have more than enough games. If I'm going to get more, I want them to be the best for me.
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fake reviews are definitely a thing but they don't mean the game is necessarily fake or bad. the more reviews a game has the more useless ones there are too. and more useful ones, of course, but those are harder to find among all the trash, especially with joke/meme/ascii/bullshit upvoted to hell, while skimming 10-20 takes a minute or two.
these days I stopped following unreleased games (and many released ones for spamming), steam lets me know when a wl game comes out, that's when I first take a closer look. if it passes that check, next time is when it goes on sale for a price I'm potentially willing to pay, then I either buy, keep waiting or remove. and since I filter the list by 'on sale', it's not like I have to look at hundreds of titles, some I haven't seen in years. I also don't need or even want more games but at least there's something to look forward to, even if these days I remove more titles than add, but that's ok.
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Raft is also in my whitelist.
I really need to manage and shrink my whitelist.
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Raft is a top for me, i play it solo, i play with a friend... It's a great great game ;)
For the wishlist, I made this effort a few months ago and in 4 passes I went from about 1300 to 600, then to 300, then to 120 to finally reach my goal: less than 50 games in wishlist.
It took a long time but it was good for me psychologically to sort out the games :)
For the moment I'm resisting and I don't exceed 50 :D
Force you to do the same !
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I am also in love with that genre. I have played albion online for a very long time. And I have heared Stardew Valley is recommended by most.
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-NMS,
-Starbound with Frackinung Uverse mod,
-Garden Paws
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Garden Paws is a very interesting mention. It's in my library but I've had no chance to try it yet (yes, I have a backlog of testing new games...)
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For me it's just a very relaxing product to coop with my wife
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Well, everyone has different tastes, but I've been after certain games for a loooong time (despite my backlog problem). Those games were sandbox open games, slightly different of each other, but they promised hundreds of hours of fun. You know the deal. I actually was able to play a few hours of one, and try another one. So well, when I (re)entered Steam, there were three games I wanted really so much. My gf gifted me a card, and I got Terraria with it. For the other two I had the problems that I had no income, they were never on sale, and they were expensive for me. They just remained in my "most wanted" list.
However now that has changed, and past month I impulsively purchased RimWorld with all DLCs, and past week I purchased Factorio before it raises price again. So I got all three.
Thus, for me, that podium of endless sandbox indie games is, in no particular order:
My question is now: what's yours? Is there a certain game that's also sandbox/open world, similar to these three, endless gaming, freedom, management and resource search, surviving through ebbs and flows, discover emerging gaming, and find new ways to do it all again?
(Yes I'm also looking at interesting recommendations.)
Traditional gib: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway!/oIXjB!/the-long-dark-survival-edition!
(Not exactly the same style of game, but hey, it's open world survival craft at its finest and the best match I have for now.)
First edit:
Thank you all for your contributions. They reminded a few games I forgot I already have, others that I forgot were in my wishlist, and a few new and interesting discoveries. In my "next list" of games related to RimTerractorio, the list is currently:
Dunno if the thread will attract more recommendations and talks, but for now it's all interesting and you all rock (or roll d20 for initiative).
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