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Re: "Re: Games Are How Big Now?!"
@stack and I haven't even gotten into the just plain simulation games, like Game Dev Tycoon, Software Inc., political simulations like Democracy 4, and farming simulations like Green Tea Tycoon. There's also Stacklands and Masterplan Tycoon. And there's hacking simulator games, like TIS-100. Turing Complete is an electronics simulator that teaches that stuff in a puzzle-like way. And of course, we have the classics, like Fish Tycoon, Plant Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Prison Tycoon, insaniquarium, and Virtual Villagers!
And there's now starting to be a newer genre popping up with are co-op puzzle games. We Were Here is a co-op puzzle game series.
And then there's Overcooked (which is terrible) and PlateUp (which is great), which are games, but not really tycoons or simulators. Not sure what they would be classified as.
And then if we get further into simulators, there's the 3D simulators, most of which are pretty terrible actually. Games like Surgeon Simulator.
Oct 07 · 3 months ago
🚀 clseibold · Oct 07 at 03:40:
@stack The reason I like Frostpunk so much is that it actually has something to say when you really play through one of its storylines all the way. It's ultimately about tough decisions that are made and how humanity either works together or creates conflict in times of dire need and survival. You make choices in the game based on your preconceptions of what you think the right choices are, but the game is really pointing you in a direction that you don't expect unless you play through the game in a certain way. I don't really want to spoil it, but it's an excellent game. You could get through one of its storylines in about 4 hours or so, but it has ~5 different storylines that all connect.
It really is a great game that gets you thinking about how humans behave and how they can be selfish in times of great stress, and how this selfishness could lead to their death instead of being *selfless* and how this selflessness is really what saves humanity as a whole. Gaah, just writing it out like this makes me love this game even more.
Re: Games Are How Big Now?! — Are these games good enough to be worth it? Most of them aren't, but frostpunk is probably the best game I've ever played in my life. I was obsessed with that game for weeks. The storyline and gameplay was so well done, and I love the city-builder-like survival type simulator strategy games. Games like Foundation, Going Medieval, and Frostpunk. I'm very excited for...