Lieju said:
Greyhamster said:
Lieju said:
I'm looking for a game where your own incompetence and internal problems like starvation and crime are the bigger threats than rival players.
If that's what you're looking for the most and you have lots of spare time, patience and tolerance for weirdness: Dwarf Fortress.
I was under the impression Dwarf fortress was about adventuring and battling, but reading up on it, it seems interesting.
There is a mode called 'adventurer mode' which is about adventuring and battling, but dwarf fortress mode the main mode is about building and sustaining a dwarven fortress.
Dealing with your primary issues of sourcing clean and regular drinking fluid, water or otherwise (dwarves love their booze) and the production of enough food to feed your dwarves, hunting, fishing, or growing are all suitable methods to get grub.
Keeping the dwarves happy is also important, which includes making sure they get their creature comforts and are not excessively harmed or they will tantrum, which due to the way the AI works can result in a tantrum spiral where dwarves start rioting and smashing the place up until they are all dead (or almost all.)
However, keeping dwarves happy means enriching them in many ways, when you get wealthy you will attract unwanted attention. First you will have thieves and baby snatchers when they are stopped, ambushes on your caravans, if those fail you may end up under siege from an invading army.
You might also attact the attention of an angry dragon, giant golem or evil ettin etcetera.
You can deal with this in any way you choose. Simply wall yourself into a huge sustainable archaeology and never open to the outside, train up an army and take the fight to the foe, use set piece traps, build your own custom traps using the physics in the game world (my favourite is the dwarven toilet, you make a big stone bowl which enemies, traders and dwarves have to path through to get in and out, surrounded by flood gates with a hole in the middle... )
The game uses some physics. Fire spreads, materials have ignition, melting and boiling points (so melt those invaders under a rain of lava!) water has flow and can be pressurised with big reservoirs to make water cannons.
Oh and of course.. digging too deep can be fun.
I suggest you get 'lazy newb pack' since it comes pre modded with a tileset which is nicer to look at than the default ascii, if you want more fun in your game you can try 'masterwork' it adds a bunch of stuff including new threats and problems (like cthulu cultists who infiltrate your fortress)
So, I'd recommend dwarf fortress since its free and days and days of fun if you can get past the difficult learning curve (its the minecraft of city builders) If you want a commercial game like simcity, well, why not Simcity 4, Tropico 4 is good, but its light on the actual.. city part, more like town builder.
Additionally, for a wildcard try Startopia, you manage and run a sci fi space station. An oldie but really good and has aged well I think.
