So, I've spent over 2 hours on Steam searching for a nice game to play. But it's all junk, as far as I'm fed with Steam recommendations. I liked ksp~~2~~ 1, cities skylines 1, age of empires 2, baldurs gate 3 a lot, I just finished Divinity original sin 2. I like rpgs and management / factory games like workers and resources, satisfactory etc. I'm having a lot of fun with split fiction when I play with a friend, but I need a proper singplayer game. Anything I could get which isn't a total ripoff due to lack of gameplay or it being a bug simulator or dlc purchase mania?

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I mean Oblivion Remastered just came out.

It's weird replaying Oblivion but it looks like a modern game. All the original audio is there (along with a few new voices to break up the monotony of hearing the same handful of voices over and over again), and all the locations and gear, but it all feels different. Like it's very familiar, but it's still very different from what we remember. Leveling is a bit different this time around as you have seven or so points to divide among your attributes, rather than picking a couple that would get increased by random numbers. I'd recommend trying it if nothing else than to try out the new polished version yourself.

Although some of the jank has been removed from this version, like there are no more items duplication glitches, but the Bound Armor/Weapon glitch works.

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A classic one would be to go for BG1 and BG2
Then either play the enhanced editions with EET or play the originals with Baldur's Gate Trilogy to allow you to play all three games as a singular campaign (as well as running BG1 in the same engine as BG2 if you go for the originals)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I played them all already :)

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Switching to management then, have you played Banished?
Have you played the mod Colonial Charter? Latest version is 1.76 and I found a GDrive download here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/banished/colonial_charter_mod
Mod makers site seems down.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I did play banished. I haven't played the mod though, but kinda don't want to play banished anymore. Is the mod really worth getting back into it?

Edit: I see I already am subscribed to the mod in the workshop so I have played it.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Depends on what parts of banished caught you. The mod lets you build much more visually pleasing cities by adding lots of different housing styles and so on. It also add many more production chains. Was many years since I played it and I think it was an earlier version of it.

Seems to still be up on the workshop too:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=849019386

[–] LMDNW@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oblivion remaster looks pretty good. Have you played through that game before?

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

I played all elder scroll games (except online) and fallout games but Bethesda lost me. They scammed me with fallout 76 (I have the special edition with power armor helmet) and their games after Skyrim just flatline imo. Fallout 4 got fixed somewhat, but that's it. They won't get my money anymore. Screw Todd Howard.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Original is on GOG for 1/10th of the price too, tons of great mods to improve both graphics and gameplay.
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivion/mods?sort=downloads
A must have for me is the All Plus 5 mod so I don't feel forced to power game my starting skills.

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[–] idyllic_optimism@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't see Bioware titles on the list. Dragon Age series for fantasy, Mass Effect for sci fi. Since BG3 is on the list, I wanted to mention in case you haven't gotten to them yet.

[–] tatann@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'll second Dragon Age since it's less action oriented than Mass Effect (which is great but OP seems more interested in strategy/management than shooting)

Mass Effect has a "tactical pause" feature though, but it feels less Baldur-like :)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I loved dragon age games and mass effect 1. Even 2, but 3 was shit.

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Aviassembly.

Its fun in the way that building airplanes in KSP is fun. The game is small, and the physics are simple, but for $10 its a good value.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you tried Kingdom Come Deliverance 2? It’s really good and difficult. It’s a history simulator with a really kick ass story and the hero is just a guy. I really like it a lot.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah but I'm stuck after 2 hours. I got into a battle through a quest I stumbled upon, but there's an enemy I fail to win from. I seem to be unable to get out of the quest. I played 1, which was really nice although I didn't completely finished it due to bugs.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would suggest to load up an earlier save. The beginning is the hardest part of the game (like brutally hard combat sometimes) and if you don’t train Henry up (either find Tomcat or Captain Gnarly, they are trainers) you’ll just die. Or you can do what i did and just brute force the fight with save scumming. The combat is not intuitive until you practice for a bit.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, yeah I should give it another try! I really liked 1 up to the moment the game got stuck during a loading screen from the main quest.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One tip i would give you so you don’t get overly frustrated is if you see what appears to be a combat situation (anyone hanging out on the road or beside it at camps) save the game by exiting. This makes an exit save which will be overwritten by the next exit save but it doesn’t cost you a saviour schnapps to save. This way you aren’t drunk in combat nor are you limited to saving only via schnapps. If you do that right as you see a combat encounter you should be able to try it a few times and if you can’t win just run or sneak past them.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll try that. With 1 I added a mod so I could save any time. I don't like the snapps mechanic.

This time I saw a guy in a tree with wolves under it. I easily killed the wolves, but then had to carry the guy really far. In the end I had to kill some guys at an emcampment so I could bring this dude to his place, but I couldn't kill the more heavily armored camp leader. So I played an annoying side quest by slowly carrying a guy really far, then to end up being stuck. So rage quit haha

[–] teft@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lol Vostatek is great. If you can’t get Pepik back, try going at night and sneak in and kill the camp leader with a knife to the throat while he’s sleeping. If you’re lucky you can kill two or three before the others notice. Also at night they don’t wear armor or weapons except the guy on guard.

Alternatively you can just run in and grab Pepik and get back to Vostatek post haste. The mission is to get the horse, the guys are just extra loot.

KCD2 is a game which rewards you for thinking outside the box. Frontal assaults don’t work unless you’re a sword god and henry ain’t that in the early game.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll try that!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Glad I could help.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did it! Awesome!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

:) The game just gets more awesome as you go so I'm excited for you. Audentes Fortuna Iuvat!

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At the thrift store today I picked up an original disk copy of Prey (2006) and the thief trilogy.

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[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Expedition 33 is a turn based rpg with some slight action elements. Just came out to glowing reviews and might be worth checking out.

Story might not be to your liking though.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're up for ARPGs, simething like Titan Quest or Grim Dawn have many hours worth of gameplay.

Worth looking at as well is anything in the Monster Hunter series. World and Rise are both amazing along with their expansions and Wilds just recently released.

All of my recommendations are long-term games with many hours worth of playtime.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks will look into them!

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As far as management goes x4 foundations is an awesome space game! I have hundreds of hours in that game spent just messing around with an industrial empire, buying mining ships, setting trade routes, all that fun stuff. You don't even have to fight anything if you don't want to.

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[–] tatann@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The first Witcher game is quite old but you could like the gameplay (it's not action oriented, unlike the 2 following Witcher games)

It's honestly not great looking but the story is great, and who knows, you might fall in love with a great franchise :)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I played all with er games but never finished any of them as it's just not for me weirdly. I played elder scrolls games which were nice but the Witcher just doesn't catches my attention.

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