• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    SimEarth remake with a proper geologic and climate model.

    All the newer games in that mode feel like they’re all about growing the predefined lifeforms.

    SimEarth was more about making the planet to support the lifeforms.

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    2 years ago

    NOTE: Someone probably has developed it, but I’m too poor to buy a decent computer.

    I’ve been wanting the shittiest, most grindy military logistics game possible for a bit now. Like, “oh you didn’t upgrade your Sock factory? Fuck you now your platoon has trench foot” type Grindy.

    I want to feel pain

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    An urbanism focussed city builder where you start with an existing city in the current car-centric style, possibly including a couple of dozen kilometers around the city so rural problems are included as well and have to transform it, with realistic building project times, into one that is more walkable, has safe bike paths, good public transport,…

    In particular I would also like it to take verticality in to account both for transport (people and bikes and trains have a harder time going up and down than cars, boats need locks,…) and for buildings (stores at the bottom of a building, residential above,…) and that accounts for the huge amounts of space car-centric cities waste on parking as well as the ongoing infrastructure costs for maintenance and replacements of all that infrastructure in sprawling cities.

    Basically “Not Just Bikes” the game.

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      2 years ago

      Sounds a bit like cities skylines 1 on a suboptimal workshop savegame with the addition of more vehicle physics…

      One can hope for cities skylines 2 to fill this gap in a few years time

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        2 years ago

        Have they stopped making cars disappear when people arrive at their destination?

        Cities Skylines 1 is actually sort of the anti-thesis of what I had in mind because it does all of the things I listed wrong.

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    Factorio-like game where you focus on sustainability rather than being the bad guy in an alien landscape. Need wood? Better replant or there won’t be anything for higher levels of the game. Need metal? You can get it, but only in a few places and then you need to think about recycling what you have.

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      2 years ago

      You should try Timberborn. It’s not exactly what you’re saying but one of the big parts is managing renewable resources like trees. If you cut them all down and don’t have someone replanting, you’re screwed.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I probably wouldn’t want this game to actually exist, but it’s been stuck in my head for years so here goes. I described this one a while ago. A friend of mine was on mushrooms once and described a first person WW1 game where you’re an Austro-Hungarian courier running across battlefields. There would be parkour, time management, stealth, stuff like that. Sneaking through trenches and whatever. At first the missions go ok, easy enough. But then you’re given more complex missions that waste your time, or are foolishly planned.

    Your character begins mumbling under their breath about how the generals are doing everything wrong, the war is lost. Your character becomes more deranged as the missions become more fruitless. Eventually your guy will start screaming deranged conspiracies and wild racist shit. There would be a mechanic where you start to need amphetamines to function.

    Then in the last mission you catch sight of your reflection in a puddle and you’ve been playing as Hitler this whole time.