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What's your favourite colony sim on PC? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by tobier@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for a new colony sim on PC. What I've played so far are:

Rimworld
Oxygen Not Included
Banished
Timberworld
Frostpunk
Anno 1800

I know some of these might not be strictly colony sims. What I'm really looking forward to is Manor Lords, but we don't have a definite release date on that.

What are your recommendations?

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Rimworld & Dwarf Fortress

[-] chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Obligatory Dwarf Fortress (I'm a DF simp). But also:

Against The Storm

Clanfolk

Foundation

Going Medieval

KeeperRL (This is a weird one)

[-] Thadrax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Anno 1800 is amazing if you don't like the survival aspect of the other games.

[-] catshit_dogfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If you liked Frostpunk, have a look at Ixion.

You're on a space station, basically the same thing. Except it's one large campaign, not like Frostpunk's limited format. Honestly I think Frostpunk is the superior game, but Ixion is pretty good.

[-] caut_R@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Tropico 4 tbh lol, super fun

[-] Redonkulation@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113120/IXION/

Ixion comes to mind. You are in charge of managing a space station as you try to navigate the last of humanity to a new planet. Its more directed than most Sims, with a campaign split in to multiple acts but I found it quite challenging and engaging.

[-] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You know... I was enjoying playing this until an unfortunate turn of events led to my people going hungry. They then chose to go on strike, but only in the places that produced food... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[-] Redonkulation@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I was in the same boat. Things can go bad very quickly. I think the game expects you to hang out in each chapter for a long time and really optimize your station. It's HARD.

[-] bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I heard they improved the difficulty a little with a recent update but I feel like the ship has sailed for me. I may come back to it sometime because I found the story really interesting.