I personally love Naev and Mindustry

    • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it’s good but I really never get past the mining stage and can’t understand the crafting.

      One day I’m hoping for a fluke we’re I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.

      Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.

      • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I’ve been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon virtually every day for years, through I don’t know how many updates. I’m far from convinced that every run is winnable, but there are some patterns that I’ve observed.

        Mage and Huntress seem to be my best classes. The Mage’s staff means that you are guaranteed to have something that’s worth upgrading. The Huntress’ bow and her special abilities like growing grass by walking can make for some truly interesting gameplay changes, whereas I feel like most of the other classes’ abilities are more about moderate improvements to quality of life.

        A Ring of Haste is probably my favorite ring to find, since being able to kite monsters is a great path to victory. Tenacity, Elements, and Strength are boring. Wealth can be good if it comes upgraded, but I wouldn’t put scrolls into it. Evasion always seems to turn on me sooner or later. Energy and Arcana can improve quality of life but are otherwise pretty mid.

        A Wand of Regrowth is almost always a path to victory, especially if it comes upgraded, doubly so if you become a Warden, and triply so if you can combine it with the Sandals of Regrowth.

        A Wand of Blast Wave is incredibly useful when used to knock enemies off ledges or into traps, saving yourself the trouble of killing them.

        Other wands are a super mixed bag, depending on what you can manage to do with them, but I’ll say that some of my most fun and successful runs are putting a Wand of Corruption into my Mage’s Staff and becoming a Corruption Battlemage. You whack an enemy, Amok him on his friends, then corrupt them, then rinse and repeat until you win.

        I’ve already mentioned the Sandals, which I’d say are incredibly useful if you’ve got a Wand of Regrowth or a Blooming enchanted weapon, but are otherwise hard to keep getting enough fresh grass to make worthwhile. I think the Ethereal Chains and Hourglass are my favorite and most useful artifacts. Horn of Plenty is okay but not great, unless you can combine it with being filled by the Battlemage’s energy generating ability. Other artifacts are mid, but I’ll make a special mention of the Unstable Spellbook which seems to screw me as often as it helps and yet I can’t deny that I have a great time with the mayhem it adds to my run. The Alchemist’s Toolkit is terrible; I hope a future patch significantly alters or replaces it, because honestly why bother using it at all?

        I think my favorite runs are Corruption Battlemage or a Sniper with a nicely upgraded Boomerang; I always get a lot of fun out of using the boomerangs.

        There’s no end to the conversation but that’s all I’ve got for now. It’s far and away the most played game on my phone… possibly my most played game ever, measured by eternal hours. The publisher is an absolute treasure and he deserves all the praise and success in the world.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 months ago

      DCSS has been one of my automatic installs on any PC I have for years now.

  • viking@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    Nexuiz, or whatever they call it now after the original dev trademarked and sold the brand.

    Edit: Xonotic is the name of the active fork.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)

      Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD

    • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me

      I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.

  • billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome

  • GojuRyu@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Mine would be Thrive, not so much due to its current gameplay, though it is okay, but moreso due to an unwavering commitment to a vision. It has gone on for years and is essentially a scientifically close to accurate version of spore. They have almost finished the single cell stage and are working some on the transition to multicellular now as I understand it. I find it to be an impressive project as it started from the disappointment with spore and has evolved into something that I would genuinely suggest as a learning tool in middle school biology class.

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s the amazing thing with most Open Source games. They aren’t restricted by budget - just how much free time people have and how many people are onboard with the vision

  • gartheom@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.

    • Ageroth@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).

      Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I’m not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.

      • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        They’ve been working on the Hai storyline a lot, and last time I played there was a lot more in Coalition space.

    • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
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      4 months ago

      My favorite thing is when I come back after a hiatus and my favorite strat’s been nerfed and I get to struggle to survive like its my first time playing again. I remember when you could make a silent burst fire BB gun that shredded anything that didn’t have armor, and mount them to your deathmobile en masse to just drive through cities untouched by the horde. The Radio Activated Noise Emitter + Caltrops strat’s still good as ever, though the crafting requirements are a lot more complex since the last time I played.

      • alkheemist@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Zombie survival roguelike, forked from the original cataclysm by whales. Also check out Cataclysm: Bright Nights which is a fork of CDDA that makes it more gamey like the original, and less like you’re playing 2d arma.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    Someone on lemmy a few months ago mentioned this rts beyond all reason. Since then I’ve easily put 100 hours in. The game is so dam fun.

    Another great one is Osu

    • Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I was introduced to BAR like 3 months ago and I still have no idea wtf I’m doing.

      Only matches typically vary between these 3 experiences:

      1. Your teams seem evenly matched in skill, 3 people on each team still have no units to speak of 30 minutes in.
      2. One team has a true 20 openSkill player. They are consuming the other team’s players whole at the 18 minute mark.
      3. It has been 3 hours, your’s and your allies’ units are a river flowing forth from your bases. They clash with the sea of enemies in a flurry of dazzling sounds. The frontline has held exactly at the middle for the past hour.
      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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        4 months ago

        It took me about 40 hours to go from Openskill 1 to os 2. I’m now os 5. I mainly play core front and just ball up tanks with a repairing station behind or I use my com to repair. Works great when it works but sometimes I get pushed before I have enough of a mass and then I’m useless and get crushed. It’s definitely a chaotic game