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Mars First Logistics is a fairly tricky building/exploration game where you make and operate robots from parts to explore the world to get more parts. What you get out of it depends a lot on how you play it.

Designing a new vehicle for each task makes it more of a building game.

Trying to reuse/modify the same vehicle for every task makes it more of a driving/operating game.

Choosing tasks based on what you can already do makes it more of an exploration/road trip game.

If you build infrastructure to get everywhere it’s more of an expand/exploit/city building game.

The Planet Crafter is an exploration/survival/automation game that scratches that itch for a hundred hours or two.

Edit; It’s also an optionally multiplayer game that you can play with your friends/family. It’s very fun thst way. If you do, expect deaths at the beginning because the starting survival resources don’t scale well with number of players, which either pushes you apart from other players to not overlap on resource scavenging or forces you to accept that there will be some deaths. You can choose the difficulty so that nothing is permanently lost on death, which I think is the default.

I’ve got a couple Beitong Asura 2 Pros with hall effect sensors, and they work great, and haven’t worn out like xbox controllers and dualshock 4s do.

I use them with USB-C cables instead of the wireless dongle or bluetooth because they just work forever that way.

The buttons are reprogrammable; I make back buttons on everything I can into the thumbstick buttons so I never have to depress the thumbsticks. It also has a d-pad/thumbstick switch mode if you want to use d-pad on games that use thumbstick.

They have a nintendo mode, but I’ve never tried it.