Yea..
Maia is technically another sci-fi colony game, in Early Access, and with 3D graphics. But every time I tried it - every few builds - I was unhappy with it. There's just not enough effort dedicated to make it playable, and there are numerous glitches and bugs. It seems optimized for making screenshots. The mechanics are just not fun, playing feels like debugging colonists because they mostly communicate through gestures in a game where a day lasts 2 minutes or one minute ? I don't remember. It is a very ambitious game, with more simulation and systems than Rimworld. It's a game I very much tried to love, but kept bouncing off. I guess I will drop by in a few builds to see if my bugs have been fixed (Especially the canvas scrolling bug).
It seems to be on 50% sale right now. But you've been warned, it's a more frustrating experience than it looks.
Thank you for your reply ;)
dude, I like know a dozen of them!
well similar of course!
Oxygen is not included
Banished
maybe Kingdoms And Castles (very early access)
Project Highrise (kind of a modern "colony" if you catch my drift)
Sheltered
Stonehearth (quite quite similar)
and Kingdom - New Lands
And the famous Dwarft Fortress
Prison Architect falls into the same genre and might interest you if you've not heard of it.
Technically there's "Space Colony", which did have structure building, character with archetype personality, and stuff.
This is however far from what Rimworld feel like.
A relatively old game now (http://store.steampowered.com/app/297920/Space_Colony_Steam_Edition/)
There's "Project AURA" (http://store.steampowered.com/app/305940) which is more of a post-apocalypse management of a cyber-city.
There's "Sol 0 : Mars colonisation" (http://store.steampowered.com/app/387370)
And there "Planetbase" (http://planetbase) but it's pretty lackluster to my taste, nothing to the level of Rimworld.
IDK why, but Factorio seems similar for me, but you do everything byself instead (and with all those damn machines!)
There's also Starship Theory, which, while still in early access, looks promising. It's sort of a cross between FTL and Rimworld, but you're building out a spaceship instead of a colony.
Also, since others have branched off into some similar games, I'll give a new one still under development: Ice Punk looks very good. I saw a couple of YouTubers play it, Quill18 and Enter Elysium. I guess you could say it's a steam punk type colony builder set in a post Ice Age apocalyptic Earth in the late 19th century.
Dwarf Fortress!
It may be an complex game but it is an very fantastic game! (My Opinion)
It have Adventure mode, Dwarf Fortress Mode (Building your Fortress)
And yet Legends to see what happened in your world?
Well that's not all of try to read some stories of Dwarf Fortress players.
@Seriously Unserious You mean Frostpunk (http://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/), correct?
@Chestergazi I have yet to try it, I've been meaning to. It looks like fortress mode plays a lot like Rimworld. I think I'm going to have to look for or make a texture pack (or whatever they're called) for that though, because I'm not a huge fan of ASCII art.
Quote from: gipothegip on November 12, 2017, 12:39:24 AM
@Seriously Unserious You mean Frostpunk (http://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/), correct?
@Chestergazi I have yet to try it, I've been meaning to. It looks like fortress mode plays a lot like Rimworld. I think I'm going to have to look for or make a texture pack (or whatever they're called) for that though, because I'm not a huge fan of ASCII art.
Well of course try Texture packs!
Also remember that losing is fun :D
They're called tilesets, and if you want to start, I'd recommend you use The Lazy Newb Pack (http://lazynewbpack.com/).
Quote from: Another on November 12, 2017, 11:12:00 AM
They're called tilesets, and if you want to start, I'd recommend you use The Lazy Newb Pack (http://lazynewbpack.com/).
Agree with this ^^
I would recommend watching Das' DF tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6wzjlYHL-E&list=PLGB6RkFB7ZmNbSUujzXbgNjJi_-WHTTTD
They are a little out of date version wise, but still very worthy of watching and helping you get started. You just won't learn any of the newer things. Theoretically you could always just play the older version those tutorials are using and learn that way. Then move forward when you are ready.
I've been taking a closer look into "They are Billions". It is kinda different game since it is more a "defend the fort RTS" than a colony manager but... it's pretty amazing.
http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/ (http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/)
I suggest the Splattercat gameplay of it, if you wanna have a feel for the game. I intend to purchase this game as soon as it reaches Steam EA
Dwarf Fortress is what all games after it can only hope to aspire to be one day when they reach adulthood. Minecraft was born in part because of Notch's fascination with DF.
The learning curve is steep, the path to surviving wave after endless wave of attack steeper still. And then, one day, you decide to dig down into the mountain to find a new vein of mineral to mine, you break into a long forgotten and otherwise unknown cavern layer.
and then, from the borders of your land within this cavern comes a forgotten beast, whose shape is like a toad, he spews webs from his mouth and he is hideous.
AND HE KILLS YOUR ENTIRE FORTRESS IN 5 MINUTES.
you had spent weeks perfecting that fort, and it was all destroyed, because you stupidly hadn't created a military.
sigh....
Quote from: gipothegip on November 12, 2017, 12:39:24 AM
@Seriously Unserious You mean Frostpunk (http://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/), correct?
Uh, yeah, that's the one.
Quote from: Listen1 on November 16, 2017, 10:19:01 AM
I've been taking a closer look into "They are Billions". It is kinda different game since it is more a "defend the fort RTS" than a colony manager but... it's pretty amazing.
http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/ (http://www.numantiangames.com/theyarebillions/)
Yeah, that one looks good. My first look was watching Enter Elysium's latest LP of it today. I'll have to check out Splatty's LP too, when I have the time.
I suggest the Splattercat gameplay of it, if you wanna have a feel for the game. I intend to purchase this game as soon as it reaches Steam EA
That one looks good. My first look was watching Enter Elysium's latest LP of it today. I'll have to check out Splatty's LP when I have the time.
Quote from: Romi on August 31, 2017, 04:25:30 PM
dude, I like know a dozen of them!
well similar of course!
Oxygen is not included
That's a lot of fun, especially with the fluid/gas management.
QuoteBanished
Fun, but a bit empty mid to late game.
Quotemaybe Kingdoms And Castles (very early access)
Fun. Still early days though.
QuoteStonehearth (quite quite similar)
Very fun. I've played so much Stonehearth.
There's Gnomoria, but I've hardly played it.
Towns is out there. Quite fun but I think that development halted years ago.
If you think about it Fallout 4 is similar if you want to focus on settlement building.
There is a new game named "First Feudal" very close to Rimworld too.
Oh god, i totally forgot about this post! Thank you everyone for the suggestions.
Well i could say "Evil Genius" But it's more close to "Dungeon keeper 1 & 2".
Both are old games but they are still good. Heavily loved "Evil Genius" when i played it as a kid and i played a lot of "Dwarf fortress" back in 2017.
Thinking about getting "They are billions" someday. But i will wait when an official modding kit or tools jump for that game since i want to see some mods of it.
Thank yoz Kirby, i have played Evil Genius and DK 1 and 2. Gonna lock this topic now, thank you everyone again.