Wurm: Unlimited, but without the adventure parts. Just building a farm, cultivating things, making food, beer and stuff, community life, villages;
Football Manager, but make it highly customizable not only on teams and players, but on sports too - you want to create a ruleset for handball or water polo? Do it;
Gran Turismo 2, but you can upload your cars, paintjobs and tracks. Cars could be highly customizable in order to support engine, transmission, suspension or rim changes, making these separate objects from the basic body for example. In that way one could build, for example, a Vauxhall Chevette with an electric pack, all-around independent suspension and rally tires;
ETS2 with ProMods.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kerbal Space Program 2

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is my choice as well. After how much of a disaster KSP2 was, it should be turned over to the public for ownership and control.

It can't be worth very much as IP anymore, as they've killed all the goodwill the brand had. So the least they could do is give back to the community.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, it doesn't have to literally be KSP2. It just needs to be a Kerbal-like space exploration game with an engine not subject to the various problems KSP has.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Agreed.

KSP like exploration
No wiggly rockets
Better scaling
Performant

That's all it really needs to be. And that's a giant oversimplification, and still a massive ask. But if an open source game had those 4 things, it would put KSP2 an additional 6 feet under, putting it at 18.

I've had my eye on Juno New Horizons. They'd probably not go open source, but they look like they know what they're doing. I might be giving that one a try at some point.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Sims.

It will never happen but one can dream

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Same! There are almost no proprietary alternatives either!

It's funny that the first comment is about The Sims 😅 My wife and I are working on a life simulation game in Rust using Bevy. I've been working on it for almost a year, and feeling a we are feeling a bit demotivated recently. So right now I took a small "break" and focus on improving crates that I used inside the game (input management and networking). I know the project is quite ambitious, but I've always wanted to create something like this. Seeing this many upvotes on your comment is quite encouraging 🙂

I post my progress at !projectharmonia@lemmy.ml and here is the GitHub page. The project name is a placeholder. I haven't managed to come up with a nice name yet.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

started following it on github.

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gran Tourismo 2 & 3 and Unreal Tournament. Basically recreations in modern engines.

Those games defined the late 90s/early 00s for me.

[–] cataleen@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Gran turismo 2 would be amazing