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?

  • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    I feel like I should recommend Dwarf Fortress but I also feel like I should NOT recommend Dwarf Fortress.

    Look, I’ll just leave Dwarf Fortress here in the corner, peering into the room and the rest of us can try to ignore it. But it’s there.

      • RedM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Pffft! Look at this dude who assigned a tavern keeper to the inn while still allowing non dwarves entrance to it. Everybody knows that those knife-ears and humies can’t handle nutritious dwarven wine. They get drunk and break shit. Best just to not have them in the fortress at all.

    • tobier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      I like the idea of DF, but I’m leaning more towards Songs of Syx instead. It’s not on sale so I’m in no hurry but it’s on my shortlist

      • bigredgiraffe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh absolutely, I’m ashamed I didn’t mention it, I guess my brain was stuck on top down style hah. Satisfactory is incredible, they keep adding awesome stuff to it.

        Captain Of Industry is a little daunting because it uses as close to real world processes as possible but Nilaus on YT has excellent videos on it (and many of the others mentioned). This is his playlist for the recent huge Update 1 for the game.

        I also forgot to mention how good Cities: Skylines has become and how incredible Cities: Skylines 2 looks. I have learned so much about real cities from playing that and watching City Planner Plays play it and relate it to his real world job as a city planner.

  • nodrod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Against the Storm, just recently started playing this and it’s fun. Currently $19.49 on the steam sale.

    Endzone - A World Apart, has a very post apocalyptic feel. Currently $7.49 on the steam sale.

    • WarikCastil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Against the storm is one of my favorite entries to the sub genre in a long time. I play loads of city/colony sims and this title stood out as something unique without getting away from the core elements of a colony sim. It also takes the best parts of rogue likes without making the game feel impossibly hard (but you can ramp up the difficulty in a variety of ways including in the middle of playing)

      But like others have stated it’s not going to scratch the same itch as massive city builders like Cities, or factory games.

      Still it felt fresh and I dumped a couple hundred hours into it already.

  • Amilo159@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m gonna go old school and say Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. Had a blast playing that one on my college days.

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Dwarf Fortress, obviously? You should check out “Odd Realm” and “Songs of Syx” as well.
    Odd Realm is probably the closest to a Dwarf Fortress with proper graphical UI & graphics + animations, but of course not with its age long development & depth behind it. Songs of Syx is a bit of a hybrid going empire builder, that also aims to have big ass battles with potentially thousands of people.