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I played the demo for this over the weekend. It's pretty much Terreria from an overhead view, which I prefer.
It keeps being compared to Core Keeper. I don't know anything about it.
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Might be neat
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whoa, this game is turbo-autism tier
think "your gear gets wet and each has its own rate of rusting, you collect dirt in grams, and have to break sticks down into twigs" autism
you're going to spend half an hour just setting up a campsite to boil water to make it drinkable
This is arguably in a separate "survival-crafter simulator" genre, extensive systemic mechanics you won't find elsewhere(AFAIK, anyways)
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This looks like it's shaping up nicely. Next update adds a bunch of new features like animal husbandry & fishing
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Question is are you going to gargle the truth or swallow?
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Smalland Survive the Wilds has some long-eared race that you can play but they also have insect like antennas
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Finarfin wrote: ↑ March 30th, 2025, 14:30Smalland Survive the Wilds has some long-eared race that you can play but they also have insect like antennas
I've started playing this. It's extremely charming but holy **** is being a tiny little elf fella surrounding by huge *** bugs terrifying.
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The fact you're playing a cute little elf also triggers my protective instincts so I really don't want to watch one get eaten by giant ****** up beetlesFinarfin wrote: ↑ March 31st, 2025, 16:33Oh yeah, worse about the game is the bugs are quite realistic. There are different kinds of Spiders and they move, sound and behave like the real things.
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Probably the most promising game, I wonder if it actually has a story
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surprised nobody has posted this yet.
The latest big budget survival crafting game.
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https://enshrouded.wiki.gg/wiki/Survivors
It completely destroys my immersion
Going to guess it's because libs don't really understand genetics
every single game is exactly the same: racially and gender diverse FOLX doing FOLX things
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Ranselknulf wrote: ↑ May 11th, 2025, 09:43surprised nobody has posted this yet.
The latest big budget survival crafting game.
Dex has some people reporting playing it and it seems meh.
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It's hard for the moderns to understand a time before casual air travel enabled people to end up in any random place in the world in under 24 hours. Thus, they do not understand just how insanely difficult it would be for someone of an entirely different ethnic and cultural background to show up in a distant area in an area in a world that does NOT have casual air travel, or even casual land and sea travel. For someone like that to show up would require him to travel thousands of miles on foot or horseback, crossing through multiple territories that all speak different languages. Nobody who does not have this sort of thing as their job description (foreign diplomat, caravan merchant, or travelling circus performer), is gonna do that. So while it's fine and good to allow diverse choices for player characters, as you cannot tell me that a band consisting of a strongman, a lion tamer, a magician, and an acrobat is NOT a circus, it doesn't make much sense for NPCs.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ May 30th, 2025, 10:48how does it not seem to bother people when a game is as racially diverse as london?
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It completely destroys my immersion
Going to guess it's because libs don't really understand genetics
I thought YOU were the wife.Vergil wrote: ↑ March 31st, 2025, 17:26I got scared by a big beetle and my wife made fun of me for screaming![]()
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ December 28th, 2024, 04:09whoa, this game is turbo-autism tier
think "your gear gets wet and each has its own rate of rusting, you collect dirt in grams, and have to break sticks down into twigs" autism
you're going to spend half an hour just setting up a campsite to boil water to make it drinkable
This is arguably in a separate "survival-crafter simulator" genre, extensive systemic mechanics you won't find elsewhere(AFAIK, anyways)
This is on sale, if you consider yourself a fan of really in-depth simulations consider giving it a look. I'm only aware of a couple games with similar depth.
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Id' be interested to learn about them.rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ September 25th, 2025, 13:06I'm only aware of a couple games with similar depth.
By the way, are there any older games of this genre that you'd recommend?
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Talking about games like dwarf fortress in terms of mechanical depth
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rusty tricked me into playing another game where women are menrusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ April 26th, 2025, 23:20Bellwright got an update. Now has animal husbandry, fishing, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Probably the most promising game, I wonder if it actually has a story
