Mods - I am not sure how to read the rule against game suggestions. If it means no asking for suggestions please just wipe the post. No harm, no foul.

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Fall is usually my busiest time of year preparing for winter in our little forest home. But I have been given orders from the doctors to basically take bedrest for up to 3 months, but I’m allowed to be sitting up… So books and games are basically all that is on the menu.

I enjoy automation games, tower defense, survival/building games, and exploration games.

I dislike ‘souls-like’ experiences where combat is tight and requires perfect timing. In fact in most games where combat can be disabled I usually do that.

My top games of all time would be factorio, minecraft, WoW/FFXIV (yeah… i know. But they count as one), Dyson sphere program, vampire survivors (and many of that type), and gemcraft type TD games.

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Some games that have been recommended and tried, but don’t work for me right now or I have already finished:
mindustry, satisfactory, valheim, no man’s sky, alchemy factory, luanti, terraria.

Thanks in advance for your time. Much appreciated.

  • Bo7a@piefed.caOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Thank you. I will take a look at the other communities as well.

    Starbound looks neat. I have added that to my list.

    Stardew Valley was great fun for me until I figured out it was not a farming simulator but a relationship game, which turned me off enough that I never went back. I wonder how my turnips are doing…

    My problem with FFXIV is the inability to get past the MSQ without playing with random people. My wife and I can do the content ‘just us’ most of the time since I play tank and she plays healer, but the game won’t let us in unless we bribe folks to join and leave.

    • Hummingbird@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      In case you didn’t already know, the FFXIV developers added a system called ‘Trusts’ that let you bring AI companions into the dungeons instead of having to play with randoms. They’re usually based on the party members you have with you at that point in the game. I originally didn’t like playing with people either, so I was glad to have the option.

      (Though I ended up meeting a random nice lady who liked books who invited me to a free company, so later on I ended up enjoying the social parts more since I didn’t have to deal with randoms.)

      • Bo7a@piefed.caOPEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I think I recall something about the trusts. Can you actually finish the MSQ that way? that’d be a quick draw for me.

    • MarauderIIC@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Since you said FFXIV and WoW are one of your top of all time except for needing to play with randoms (the part I personally hate are the forced solo sections) then maybe look at Star Wars: The Old Republic. I like FFXIV and I just started SWTOR because I heard the stories were good.

      Also apparently it’s fully voiced. And you can join you friends in their story mode sections (but if they are the same class you’ll have to repeat it for them, and they have to be the same faction [empire/Republic]). And I think you get scaled down to the world level so you don’t eat all their experience in the open world, but I’m not sure. I’m also not sure if there are required dungeons or not yet - I’m only level 13 but story quest level is 10. Free to play for the first two expansions.

    • Auster@thebrainbin.org
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      5 days ago

      On the randoms issue, the stress they’d give me in other games is one of the reasons I support the return of self-hosted multiplayer as a prominent option. "<.<