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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I highly recommend Space Station 14.

It's an amazing roleplaying disaster simulator, where around 100 players are trying to keep a Space Station afloat. From doctors, through police, scientist, engineers, to cargo and barmans. Every role has a way how to blow up the station - Engineers generate energy through a contained singularity or a Tesla ball. If that escapes because you forgot to repair the cage, the station is fucked.

Scientists experiment with artifacts that give you research for doing stuff with it, and it's generate what does doing stuff with it do, i.e if you wrench it, it does something. Something can be "spawn a monkey", "print money" to "thermonuclear explosion".

And add to that tower of cards some people getting the roles of antagonists, which can be anything between "Syndycate agent that has to kill the captaion", "a blood cult needing to steahltily sacrifice people to ascend", "pantient zero that turns into a zombie", or a "syndicate deathsquad that has to fight to the station nuke and trigger selfdestruction".

It's massive fun, and I highly recommend it.

Oh, and that's basic SS14. There's also a very popular mod - Roundy Marine Crops, which si basically ~ 100vs100 Alien vs Predator, where you play every role imaginable from Marines that are deploying planetside to fight Aliens who are digging in.

If you need convincing, this is the best short story video that absolutly sold me the game. It's aboslute cinema, the way it's told. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjz1MnlxzE

Then there's also the almost legendary video about Space Station 13 from Sseth (this is basically a reimplementation into C#) that can also give you the vibe of the game. But I'd recommend the previous video more.

Note: There's currently some drama with main maintainer, who had control of the launcher and server hub, starting to act extremely egoistically and hostile, holding the whole game and it's auth database hostage, hacking discord servers, banning random people, and in general being a dick. That is why I have linked the playss14 launcher, which is a fork from the rest of the community to sidestep the demands and general dickery the maintainer is doing. It's pretty ugly. The game is on Steam, just like it has other page, but that would lead you to the launcher that's currently being ransomed. You're better off just getting the alt launcher from playss14.com linked above.

[–] Juanro49@tardigram.com 1 points 5 hours ago

0ad @play0ad@mastodon.social

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Lots of great games. Gonna add Endless Sky. 2D top down space sim RPG. Think Escape Velocity series.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] itsralC@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

One of the most realistic games you can play. When it comes to gameplay, 95% of the time, it follows real life logic.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Your link seems to be borked.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Played that one. Think it's a bit silly that humans discovering you is instant game over even if you're already running moon bases.

[–] ludrol@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago
[–] maxy@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Battle for Wesnoth. It's a fantasy-themed turn-based strategy.

Though I haven't played it recently, I have some very good memories. It teaches you gambling and probability (especially on small multiplayer maps), and you develop feeling for the difference between 40% chance to hit and 30%.

The single-player campaigns are nice too. The one that I have in especially good memory is "Under The Burning Suns", which made a few creative and artistic changes to the game. It shouldn't be the first campaign you play, but it can be the second.

[–] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago

Oh man, this brings back memories. Used to play it in multiplayer with a couple of friends a lot at some point. Very well crafted, balanced game. The graphics are beautiful.

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[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Adding OpenRCT2, but I think most anyone who knows of OpenTTD knows of that.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

since no one's mentioned them:

  • Oolite
  • Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I love DC:SS.

It is like a refined nethack

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it's a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.

screenshot

The source is here.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon. The dev is even active on Lemmy! !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world

[–] riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I love shattered PD!

[–] cybervegan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Came here to say exactly this. Played it for years and it keeps getting better and better. It's based on a game called Pixel Dungeon, which the original developer open sourced when they got bored with it. There are several other forks of PD, and I've also played most of them too, and SPD is definitely the best, and possibly the only one still in development.

[–] shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Mineclonia has like 95% of the features of Minecraft but is way better because you don't need a Microsoft account, plus modding is easier.

Also awesome:

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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 23 points 1 day ago

beyond all reason

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.

[–] RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Came here to say this, although I would not categorize it as a "shooter mining grind" (FWIF I never mine grind).

There are tons of things to do and stories to play. The community is quite active especially on the Git and Discord. Lot's do to but you really need to explore to get the full experience.

Also

spoilerRepublic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already?

[–] RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Forgot to add a key detail! This game is a direct homage to the old Escape Velocity games if you remember those.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Actually it was my search for Escape Velocity which led me to it!

[–] RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Same! But long, long ago, like 2017 or so. I am overdue for another play through soon!

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't Doom open source now? Does that count?

[–] Klear@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

BAR is the greatest RTS.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

People have already said a couple of my favorites ( Super Tux Kart and Mindustry ), but I'd like to bring up one almost nobody talks about: Me And My Shadow

It's a 2D puzzle platformer where you control one person normally but then press space to record movement for your shadow character. Last time I tried downloading and playing it on Linux using the appimage on Sourceforge, pretty sure it didn't work because it might need an old glibc that has features that might not exist in newer versions.

This post reminded me of the game, so I'll download and see if I can run it on my desktop. Really feel like playing it now.

Edit:

I am too dumb to figure out how to make it work. Best I get is nothing. Not even a pop-up saying I need something else to make it work. So, I guess plating the windows release through WINE is the best I'd be able to do.

[–] maxy@piefed.social 1 points 9 minutes ago

If you like puzzles, there is also fillets! Oldie but goodie.

apt install fillets-ng

[–] brockhold@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I played hundreds and hundreds of hours of Tremulous back in the day, and at least a few of its successor Unvanquished -- before mostly falling out of playing online games.

[–] ellohir@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Tremulous was THE game for me for a couple of years, I remember people praising Natural Selection 2 as the FPS/RTS combo and I was like "but that's just one player playing an RTS and the rest playing an FPS". I always preferred the natural way we built in first person, and anyone could build anything, from Tremulous.

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