Topic- I want to see how many games are even like this one......I dont know of many
Gnomeria is my fave right now
I tried Dwarf Fortress- its waaaay too complicated and im not a person that usually gives up trying (i mastered Distant Worlds which is another maze of a game) - but i had to on this one
Rimworld/Gnomeria is working out for me- what about you fellas, any recommendations ?
I picked up Space Colony on steam recently.
It is an older game with a few similarities to Rimworld.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/297920/
Quote from: Jaxxa on July 08, 2015, 06:49:05 PM
I picked up Space Colony on steam recently.
It is an older game with a few similarities to Rimworld.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/297920/
wow that looks really cool actually. I added it to my steam list. Have you played startopia? I think you would like that game for sure
Prison Architect is kinda similar. Mostly just the look, but it's also another top down building simulator that's in early access, and the developers (Mark and Chris) release an update on a monthly basis and always release a video detailing the changes/ additions which are pretty funny.
Quote from: christhekiller on July 08, 2015, 09:18:45 PM
Prison Architect is kinda similar. Mostly just the look, but it's also another top down building simulator that's in early access, and the developers (Mark and Chris) release an update on a monthly basis and always release a video detailing the changes/ additions which are pretty funny.
ya i got that already- what an amazingly fun game. I bought it along with Project Zomboid and Dwellers
Is prison architect not kind of an ass to start up for everyone else, as in as you start playing and figuring it out and making everything work? Like indoor areas. What the hell is with walls and cement and making it an indoor area...
Zombie- this is a common problem- remember that it's nothing like Rimworld when building walls and expecting a roof/indoors area.
In PA, you specifically have to choose 'Foundations' in order to build an indoor area- not just join up 4 walls...
Banished :)
Prison architect uses a simlar art style and AI priority listing but you only build in that one. Its not about controling the guys like you can in Rimworld. But it is very intresting and would love to see more games made in thsi fashion of top down simple art style with advanced AI and simulated models. Just makes for better gameplay thats emergent and not hand designed.
Quote from: nmid on July 09, 2015, 02:42:23 AM
Banished :)
Not really anything like Rimworld. I played it a bit but its lacking a lot for me. I like Gnomoria and Dwarf Fortress though. DF is pretty complicated, but using the newbie pack which adds graphics and mods like dwarf therapist helps a ton. Its very fun ifyou can get past the learning curve!
edit : some of these games aren't released yet. i just put it there coz i thought it might be interesting. (eventually)
dwarf fortress (the big daddy)
gnomoria (almost pure df clone)
evil genius (friggin awesome)
stonehearth (a bit too early in the alpha)
folk tale (3d same as above, it also seems to tackle more than it can chew)
banished (no battles)
towns (discontinued?)
towncraft (buggy?)
craft the world (side scrolling)
maia (3d awesome atmospherics, slow dev)
dwelvers (3d + dungeons + colony sim)
astrobase command (3d slow dev)
space colony (isometric, fairly new but looks like dated)
the spatials (iso, casual colony sim)
embark (saw this on the off-topic boards, looks awesome)
clockwork empires (needs an i5 and up or it runs slow)
dwarfcorp (2d sprites + 3d environ)
castle story (dev hell?)
edit : almost forgot
timber and stone (they're now on steam, voxel colony sim)
keeper RL : (looks interesting)
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i also would like to know more.
Quote from: keylocke on July 09, 2015, 11:27:35 PM
space colony (isometric, fairly new but looks like dated)
Space colony isn't fairly new, the reason it looks dated is that it was first released in 2003.
It was re-released and remastered earlier this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Colony_(video_game)
Quote from: Jaxxa on July 09, 2015, 11:47:06 PM
Quote from: keylocke on July 09, 2015, 11:27:35 PM
space colony (isometric, fairly new but looks like dated)
Space colony isn't fairly new, the reason it looks dated is that it was first released in 2003.
It was re-released and remastered earlier this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Colony_(video_game)
ah, it looks dated coz it *is* dated. ok, gotcha. ;)
Quote from: BugPowderDust on July 09, 2015, 02:39:43 AM
Zombie- this is a common problem- remember that it's nothing like Rimworld when building walls and expecting a roof/indoors area.
In PA, you specifically have to choose 'Foundations' in order to build an indoor area- not just join up 4 walls...
That's what I mean. The only way indoors ever works for me is if it's 4 walls together, I place the brick, then I place the concrete over the finished product, and if there's a 2nd indoor room beside it, the wall dividing them gets completely torn down. This is the only way indoor areas ever worked for me, and not even all the time.
Cannot play timber and stone since the texture/model changes, lost sooo much of its appeal for me, happy for Robert to take on the help from the forum guys who are now helping him build it but it seems the direction on things like this is changing....sadly itll sit in my bought Alpha and it changed too much pile (its on its own in that pile)
Dwarf Fortress. It's what all games of this genre are based off of. It was the originator, and remains the king of "hands free" settlement sims.
Craft The World is another game with a similar feel - you designate areas to be mined, and your dwarves jump around like retards to do it. It's pretty fun for a day or two, then you realize that developers who refuse to add one-click crafting should be summarily executed.
Gnomoria = Dwarf Fortress - Good + Graphics. Pass on this one.
Towns - another game where you give orders, watch bad pathing get people killed, and lul. This game has a twist in that you are building a town for heroes to show up and start beating the hell out of the monsters below your town. It's okay, but unfinished.
Prison Architect - has 100% less anal rape than it should, but overall it's a great game. Almost identical graphics to Rimworld, great gameplay, hilarious disasters, and constant updates. Build a prison. Watch it go wrong. Lul.
Clockwork Empires - made by our good buddies over at Gaslamp, this game is pretty good. Yadda yadda, give orders, build things, order production. Do not play if you don't understand steampunk. Do not play if you do not understand Lovecraft references such as Deep Ones. Do not play if you have a wooden computer. An amazing game that will only get better with each update.
Quote from: Kruniac on July 13, 2015, 04:58:33 PM
Dwarf Fortress. It's what all games of this genre are based off of. It was the originator, and remains the king of "hands free" settlement sims.
Craft The World is another game with a similar feel - you designate areas to be mined, and your dwarves jump around like retards to do it. It's pretty fun for a day or two, then you realize that developers who refuse to add one-click crafting should be summarily executed.
Gnomoria = Dwarf Fortress - Good + Graphics. Pass on this one.
Towns - another game where you give orders, watch bad pathing get people killed, and lul. This game has a twist in that you are building a town for heroes to show up and start beating the hell out of the monsters below your town. It's okay, but unfinished.
Prison Architect - has 100% less anal rape than it should, but overall it's a great game. Almost identical graphics to Rimworld, great gameplay, hilarious disasters, and constant updates. Build a prison. Watch it go wrong. Lul.
Clockwork Empires - made by our good buddies over at Gaslamp, this game is pretty good. Yadda yadda, give orders, build things, order production. Do not play if you don't understand steampunk. Do not play if you do not understand Lovecraft references such as Deep Ones. Do not play if you have a wooden computer. An amazing game that will only get better with each update.
I like Gnomoria and have played the heck out of it :). Not sure what you mean by - the good, as I also am a big fan of DF(no game will ever compete with DF considering it's development cycle)..
Quote from: keylocke on July 09, 2015, 11:27:35 PM
games list
dwarf fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/) - I was never interested in this, based on it being ASCII art. Enjoy the eye bleeding page.
gnomoria (http://store.steampowered.com/app/224500/) - Buggy and unfinished, possibly abandon, the thing I like about it over Rimworld though, the ONLY thing, is it has Z levels with AI that can path find around it. :P
folk tale (http://store.steampowered.com/app/224440/) - Looks interesting, but I can't afford it so meh.
banished (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/) - Appears to be totally abandon, slightly unfinished, and a mess, otherwise it's good.
towns (http://store.steampowered.com/app/221020/) - Appears to be abandon and impossible to play.
craft the world (http://store.steampowered.com/app/248390/) - Looks somewhat interesting. Haven't tried.
maia (http://store.steampowered.com/app/252250/) - Looks absolutely amazing, I wish I could afford it. :P Then again, so far all games I've bought that "looked amazing" turned out to be abandon or piles of crap that lied about a lot and had misleading screenshots. :P This one has a 46% positive rating so, could be bad.
space colony (http://store.steampowered.com/app/297920/) - I now want to look into this based on seeing it here for the first time. :P
dwarfcorp (http://www.dwarfcorp.com/site/) - Looks interesting, almost like what Towns and Gnomoria should have been.
castle story (http://store.steampowered.com/app/227860/) - This also looks really interesting, I've had it on my wishlist for a while.
I left out the others that I didn't find interesting, but linked all these to show you guys how to link things when you talk about them. :P
Quote from: Vas on July 14, 2015, 02:24:23 AM
banished (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/) - Appears to be totally abandon, slightly unfinished, and a mess, otherwise it's good.
Banished isn't abandoned, it's done. Though the dev is currently working on porting it to Linux.
Quote from: nmid on July 09, 2015, 02:42:23 AM
Banished :)
Not enough depth and it really pales in comparison to Rimworld (modded).
Quote from: Vas on July 14, 2015, 02:24:23 AM
Quote from: keylocke on July 09, 2015, 11:27:35 PM
games list
gnomoria (http://store.steampowered.com/app/224500/) - Buggy and unfinished, possibly abandon, the thing I like about it over Rimworld though, the ONLY thing, is it has Z levels with AI that can path find around it. :P
Abandoned??? Rimwold must be too, since it's not been updated in over a week :D
One day people will bother to read it's forums and see that it's releasing updates as beta patches, hence why no big update has been out for while. This is why Rimworld isn't ready for steam, even with the beta opt-in options people just ignore them and thing it's abandoned
Quote from: Kruniac on July 13, 2015, 04:58:33 PM
Dwarf Fortress. It's what all games of this genre are based off of. It was the originator, and remains the king of "hands free" settlement sims.
You don't play dwarf fortress like rimworld, you play rimworld like dwarf fortress.
wow so much hate for Gnomoria
the game is awesome guys- dont listen to the negativity !
Suprised no one mentioned kenshi yet. Its been in dvelopement for a decade and at this rate will be done sometime in 2022, but it's a pretty cool game that covers a lot more ground than rimworld - cities factions cannibals slavers - all top down 3d rts style, of course you can also build bases, craft, mine, and imprison npcs. Actually next to DF i consider it the closest to RW - especially when you look at content and setting. Kenshi has a long way to go, but I have been playing for over a year and i would really be suprised if it ever got abandoned.
These days I spend most of my time playing Clockwork Empires. Only 75% done and a lot of the content is not in or optimised but it will be a hell of a game when done. Charming, fun and very good blog posts every week.
Hope this isn't toooo much of a necropost...found this post through google, just had a few things to chime in on.
Didn't see much love for Banished in the comments above. That game ranks as my 5th most played game on Steam because it has a great modding scene. I was actually part of it myself for awhile. Colonial Charter is the big one, which adds like.....probably 20x more content to the game compared to vanilla, at least.
Quote from: skullywag on July 11, 2015, 03:13:24 AM
Cannot play timber and stone since the texture/model changes, lost sooo much of its appeal for me, happy for Robert to take on the help from the forum guys who are now helping him build it but it seems the direction on things like this is changing....sadly itll sit in my bought Alpha and it changed too much pile (its on its own in that pile)
Funny, I feel the opposite ;) I played Timber and Stone for awhile, but when I was checking it out, I was turned off by the *old* graphics that I almost didn't pick it up. The screenshots on the website weren't updated yet.
Quote from: mc858 on July 14, 2015, 09:10:14 PM
wow so much hate for Gnomoria
the game is awesome guys- dont listen to the negativity !
Add me to the haters! I tried getting into that game multiple times but I couldn't get past the graphics. Look, there's a difference between bad graphics and
bad graphics. If you're going to have low-fi graphics, great, that's fine, but whatever they're doing just isn't my jam.
And this is coming from someone who adores Aurora. Which wasn't a game mentioned yet. It's sometimes nicknamed the dwarf fortress of space and it's been around for a longass time too. You can get it here, on their forums (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php). Prepare for a week+ of learning how to play, though, it's a ridiculously complex game ;)
Quote from: Owlchemist on September 30, 2015, 02:19:43 AMAnd this is coming from someone who adores Aurora. Which wasn't a game mentioned yet. It's sometimes nicknamed the dwarf fortress of space and it's been around for a longass time too. You can get it here, on their forums (http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php). Prepare for a week+ of learning how to play, though, it's a ridiculously complex game ;)
I discovered Aurora a couple of days ago, and it seems amazing. I've been watching Lets Play series almost non stop and I still haven't got a clue about what to do in game. I really REALLY like the in depth character development where hypothetically a young Captain can get promoted all the way to Governor of Earth for example.
Ack, I just went to look at Aurora and it appears the site is down. Hopefully it'll be back up soon. I want to check it out!
Quote from: mc858 on July 08, 2015, 06:09:43 PM
Topic- I want to see how many games are even like this one......I dont know of many
Gnomeria is my fave right now
I tried Dwarf Fortress- its waaaay too complicated and im not a person that usually gives up trying (i mastered Distant Worlds which is another maze of a game) - but i had to on this one
Rimworld/Gnomeria is working out for me- what about you fellas, any recommendations ?
Oh man try Dwarf Fortress again. Use this series of tutorial videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAXxDBDw10
After watching those and learning the basics, I have had so much fun.
I think we can add Planetbase to the list.
Not officially released yet but appears to have some similarities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhLj3x_9SY
Quote from: Thravid on September 30, 2015, 09:59:07 AM
Stonehearth absolute waste of money, makers don't update, and whenever they update it's a new block.......
I do have to interject here. They do update but I guess they're not working fast enough for you. They update fairly regularly and if you read the dev blog every Tuesday, you'd see what they were doing (most of it at the moment is in the backend which you don't see) and you wouldn't spout absolute crap.
Stonehearth is a lot more forgiving that Rimworld atm, but then again it's still at an early stage, and a lot of the bad guys haven't been added yet.
Quote from: JamDunc on October 03, 2015, 11:47:52 AM
Quote from: Thravid on September 30, 2015, 09:59:07 AM
Stonehearth absolute waste of money, makers don't update, and whenever they update it's a new block.......
I do have to interject here. They do update but I guess they're not working fast enough for you.
-snip-
I so very badly want stonehearth to be a good game, I love the graphics and feel of the gameplay.
That being said I have to agree that where the stonehearth is now I wouldn't recommend it. The game has a large amount of bugs, very little content, and slow development. Maybe in the future I'd be recommending it, but I think the game really has a long way to go.
Quote from: Jaxxa on October 02, 2015, 09:20:18 PM
I think we can add Planetbase to the list.
I am very much looking forward to that game, but can't say much about it until its actually released.
Starbound might not be like Rim world (Terraria in SPACE!) But I like playing that game and building colonies there. Albeit the colonists aren't doing the world.
Quote from: BetaSpectre on October 03, 2015, 03:07:39 PM
Starbound might not be like Rim world (Terraria in SPACE!) But I like playing that game and building colonies there. Albeit the colonists aren't doing the world.
I've sunk WAY too many hours into Starbound. I would have never thought I'd even like a game like that, and then it just SUCKED me in. They are adding stuff pretty regularly too. It's been in beta a long time though, and I look forward to seeing what it's like when it releases.
I am surprised no one has mentioned UnReal World...
Quote from: Reolos on October 04, 2015, 02:03:14 AM
I am surprised no one has mentioned UnReal World...
Never heard of it.... I browsed their website just now but found it highly confusing D:
Doesn't really seem to be related to Rimworld though...not at all a similar genre, is it?
Yeah, "UnReal World" doesn't seem to be similar at all.
UnReal World is maybe more similar to Dwarf Fortress than RimWorld. The Unreal World UI actually reminds me of Dwarf Fortress, with the top-down game view on the left and menu on the right.
UnReal World is definitely an RPG though; you only control one person. Similarities to DF/RimWorld include a skill system, detailed character healing, randomly-generated world that has seasons with weather and temperatures.
btw UnReal World is free if you want to try it. It's easily the best late iron age Finnic RPG on the market http://unrealworld.fi
One game not mentioned here, that actually brought me to RimWorld is Retro-Pixel Castles. I can recommend this one, quite fun and has some sweet hand-crafted pixels.
Easily the best: "This War of Mine"
Like some others here, I just couldn't get into dwarf fortress through I tried once or twice. Graphics killed it for me. If it had rimworld graphics I'd prolly be playing it
Speaking of Maia, it's still in development (last release this month) but slow and the dev hasn't got the core right yet. The forums look like ghost town squared. Colonists breaking down and not building hydroponics room, colonists starving with food rations in storage, IMPs with awkward mine/haul priorities... the game seems especially rough on the priorities side.
Maia is very ambitious, and it's hard SF instead of Rimworld's space opera/space western (I don't know what possessed Tynan to claim Rimworld is hard SF! I hope he no longer does that.). You have atmosphere generators, water, 3D printers, DF-style separate diagnosis + treatment, researching artifacts or fossils, etc. If something is very unrealistic Simon probably won't do that, whereas Tynan is game mechanics first kind of guy it seems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12V4me3FVUo
Check out the models and animations! It's obvious why the development is so slow.
Last I checked Maia was somewhere around 0.37 or 0.43 Or something, I've been keeping entirely apprised through his twitter however, So I hadn't gotten the impression that it was that buggy...
Check out comments below the latest release on youtube. Top voted:
QuoteFor naught point five eight could you please just do a bug build? Cause the game is still suffering from some serious and continuing errors. The priority system is rough at best and people don't seem to be prioritizing water at all, and IMPs aren't hardly any better. Lots of rough stuff that's currently in the game that could be cleaned up before more features are added.
Response:
Quote+LL6869 Yeah going to tweak the holograms so a red blueprint is visibly janky without needing the colour cue. As for the priority build I am also thinking how to make that better. currently the double click VS the usual pickup just doesn't feel good at all.