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Crash
lemmy.ml
crash_thepose@lemmy.ml Joined: 2024-02-03 |
I want to be able to be a colonizing warlord who also lives with 20 cats, Is perpetually horny. and keeps lighting his house on fire. |
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SillySpy
piefed.social
SillySpy@piefed.social Joined: 2025-07-21 |
Crusader Kings? |
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teawrecks
sopuli.xyz
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2023-06-06 |
One of those is turn based, the other is a real time simulation. How were you envisioning time would pass? Massive Chalice comes to mind, but it's more like tactics + sim. |
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Quetzalcutlass
lemmy.world
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-08-02 |
Your likely best bet is whatever you'd call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay. |
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Crash
lemmy.ml
crash_thepose@lemmy.ml Joined: 2024-02-03 |
One of those is turn based, the other is a real time simulation. How were you envisioning time would pass? Massive Chalice comes to mind, but it's more like tactics + sim.
I didn't think that far! I thought maybe one of you would find the solution for me :D |
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muhyb
programming.dev
muhyb@programming.dev Joined: 2023-07-05 |
Crusader Kings?
Checks everything. |
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its_kim_love
lemmy.blahaj.zone
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2025-10-14 |
Your likely best bet is whatever you'd call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay.
Just a few thousand more mods and it will be perfect. lol |
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GameOverFlow
lemmy.zip
GameOverFlow@lemmy.zipJoined: 2026-03-04 |
Crusader Kings 3 |
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Tanis Nikana
lemmy.world
tanisnikana@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-19 |
I didn't think that far! I thought maybe one of you would find the solution for me :D
The honesty is refreshing. |
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CerebralHawks
lemmy.dbzer0.com
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comJoined: 2025-08-18 |
Off the topic title alone, I'd say Animal Crossing fits the bill. I mean, it's Sims but you build up your island. You technically colonise the archipelago in the DLC, and you can put castle walls and turrets around your house. There are a bunch of games like that. Animal Crossing is just the one I play. It's made for kids, but it's secretly (?) post-apocalyptic (I was shocked to find out but apparently it's kinda common knowledge in the fandom?), but there are others like that. |
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Hudell
lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2023-06-22 |
I have often thought about making a game like that. One of my main inspirations is "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as A King" |
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Hudell
lemmy.dbzer0.com
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2023-06-22 |
Your likely best bet is whatever you'd call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay.
Rimworld feels like my kind of game but everytime I watch its trailer on steam I think "oh maybe it isn't". Mostly the guns and stuff make it seem like it might not be the kind of game I expect. |
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Quetzalcutlass
lemmy.world
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-08-02 |
Rimworld feels like my kind of game but everytime I watch its trailer on steam I think "oh maybe it isn't". Mostly the guns and stuff make it seem like it might not be the kind of game I expect.
They showcase the combat because action looks better in previews. Your base does get raided occasionally, but most of your time is spent balancing all the tasks a colony needs done and maintaining the fragile mental states of your limited number of colonists (it takes heavy inspiration from Dwarf Fortress in that regard). You can also adjust the settings of the "storyteller" (the AI that makes events happen to shake up the gameplay) if you want a more peaceful community builder sort of experience. |
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EarMaster
lemmy.world
EarMaster@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-09 |
In SimCity 4 you were able to import your Sims from The Sims (1). But that was about it. It didn't influence the game very much. |
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Amnesigenic
lemmy.ml
Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlJoined: 2025-03-07 |
Dwarf Fortress is the closest thing I've played to this |
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SoyTDI
lemmy.world
SoyTDI@lemmy.worldJoined: 2023-06-12 |
In SimCity 4 you were able to import your Sims from The Sims (1). But that was about it. It didn't influence the game very much.
And you could use your city as a neighborhood in The Sims 2. |
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j_elgato
leminal.space
j_elgato@leminal.space Joined: 2024-08-08 |
Go. Outside. |
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pawb.social
Kolanaki@pawb.socialJoined: 2024-10-06 |
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shyguyblue
lemmy.world
shyguyblue@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-07 |
One of those is turn based, the other is a real time simulation. How were you envisioning time would pass? Massive Chalice comes to mind, but it's more like tactics + sim.
Stellaris is a pretty decent hybrid of a real-time-turn-based game. Time flows on, but the major math all happens at the end of the month. You can spacebar pause whenever you need, but you don't have to keep smashing that turn button |
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INHALE_VEGETABLES
aussie.zone
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone Joined: 2023-06-17 |
Dwarf Fortress is the closest thing I've played to this
20 cats, not 200 cats. |
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brynden_rivers_esq
lemmy.ca
brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca Joined: 2026-02-24 |
Dwarf Fortress is the closest thing I've played to this
Also, a tremendous game. A work of art! |
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BladeFederation
piefed.social
BladeFederation@piefed.social Joined: 2026-02-18 |
Go. Outside.
The progression system sucks |
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MufinMcFlufin
lemmy.world
MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-06-09 |
It doesn't quite have everything you were asking for but you might like Space Haven. No cats, but you're trying to keep your small group of spacefarers alive and your spaceship afloat. A lot of the game is resource management, managing faction relations, and doing small scale tactics as you fight against aliens, robots, and raiders. It has some of the small scale control over your spacefarers similar to Sims, but allows you the freedom to be a group of roaming mercenaries, set up your own little outpost on an asteroid to offer services, or raid everyone in sight. It's still in early access, but it has fairly active development with several updates having been pushed out this month alone. |
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leftzero
lemmy.dbzer0.com
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com Joined: 2025-06-08 |
Crusader Kings?
Colonizing: definitely. |
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H4CK3RN4M3D4N63R570RM
lemmy.ca
H4CK3RN4M3D4N63R570RM@lemmy.ca Joined: 2024-08-19 |
Go. Outside.
Is that "Go Outside" with mixed steam ratings or "Go Outside Simulator"? |
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prole
lemmy.blahaj.zone
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone Joined: 2024-06-11 |
Rimworld |
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Amnesigenic
lemmy.ml
Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlJoined: 2025-03-07 |
20 cats, not 200 cats.
At some point in the past decade they introduced the option to geld animals, now you can stop the cat explosion before it starts! |
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teawrecks
sopuli.xyz
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz Joined: 2023-06-06 |
Stellaris is a pretty decent hybrid of a real-time-turn-based game. Time flows on, but the major math all happens at the end of the month. You can spacebar pause whenever you need, but you don't have to keep smashing that turn button
Interesting, i've heard of it, but I've never played it. I'll have to check it out. |
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Mirodir
discuss.tchncs.de
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de Joined: 2023-09-27 |
I haven't dug my teeth into it as much as I should have yet, so I can't tell you which parts of your requirements are and aren't fulfilled. But have you had a look at Kenshi? There's also a sequel on the horizon. |
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Xenny
lemmy.world
Xenny@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-29 |
Rimworld
Yes this is literally just rimworld |
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Xenny
lemmy.world
Xenny@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-29 |
Rimworld feels like my kind of game but everytime I watch its trailer on steam I think "oh maybe it isn't". Mostly the guns and stuff make it seem like it might not be the kind of game I expect.
Rimworld is a game that you get to play in the way you want to play. It allows you to choose the pace of your game and the difficulty by allowing you to choose a "storyteller" that determines the events that happen in your game and how often. You won't ever be able to turn off combat, but you can make it less of a problem. |
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GreenBottles
lemmy.world
sturmblast@lemmy.world Joined: 2023-07-07 |
Also, a tremendous game. A work of art!
If you can stand it, yes |
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Crash
lemmy.ml
crash_thepose@lemmy.ml Joined: 2024-02-03 |
Go. Outside.
I'm outside right now thank you very much.
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