Recommend me a modern simulation/manager game

Atomkilla

Atomkilla

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that is NOT a city sim. Cities: Skyline is great, but not what I'm looking for. Nor am I looking for Eurotruck or that sort of stuff. And I don't want those games where I play a single character but manage a town or something (I think I've seen games like that).

I'm looking for anything that's, well, different than your average city sim - village simulation, space colony simulation, anything that you had fun with and think has good replayability.

To put things into perspective, I've played Banished a lot, but grew a bit bored with it - anything in that vein would be great. But I'll take any suggestion.

Hope some of you catch my drift.
 
Black and White 2 is an amazing (kind of tough) game where you are a God and you take care of a village and fight like two/three other Gods in different maps. You use super-powers and many other things. I'd say try it yourself and find out since I'm saying this from memory, and I played it MANY years ago, probably even back when it came out.
 
Hassknecht said:
Surviving Mars, maybe?
Well, you said "modern" games, but I'll recommend older stuff regardless:
Motor City is pretty cool, and so is Imperialism.
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Surviving Mars did catch my eye and is on the list, theoretically. However, after sinking few hundreds of hours and at least a hundred euros into Crusader Kings 2, I am disenchanted by Paradox and their business model. Great games, but fuck that approach. Not to mention that, 6 years later, CK2 is still getting DLCs. That is approaching levels of Bethesda's abuse of Skyrim.

The other two are cool looking, but I won't lie, I'm looking for something that will also be an eye candy. Well, sort of. Some new stuff.
Same goes for Black and White. But I'll keep an eye on all of them.
 
Atomkilla said:
However, after sinking few hundreds of hours and at least a hundred euros into Crusader Kings 2, I am disenchanted by Paradox and their business model. Great games, but fuck that approach. Not to mention that, 6 years later, CK2 is still getting DLCs. That is approaching levels of Bethesda's abuse of Skyrim.
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Yeah, as soon as i saw the amount of DLCs i decided to not even play it. And i got the base game for free. Specially, and at least from what i heard, when some of the DLC is mandatory to have a better experience and it's overpriced as hell.
 
maybe along slightly the wrong lines, but perhaps enough to meet your needs...

Factorio
play the free demo here: https://www.factorio.com/download-demo

Then once you're hooked into the digital crack, buy the game here:
https://www.factorio.com/buy
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/

It's still 'beta' but it's pretty much in 100% complete state, they're soon to release the V1 and the price will go up by $10 ... so if you are interested, now is the best opportunity to grab this game.

I can personally vouch that this is one of the best management games I've ever played.

[edit] I realise this game isn't a traditional 'management' game but in terms of managing and organizing things I can think of nothing greater than this.

Atomkilla said:
... And I don't want those games where I play a single character ...
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- sadly Factorio does revolve around a single character, but perhaps not in the way you are thinking of if that's anything.
 
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Norzan said:
Yeah, as soon as i saw the amount of DLCs i decided to not even play it. And i got the base game for free. Specially, and at least from what i heard, when some of the DLC is mandatory to have a better experience and it's overpriced as hell.
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Don't get me wrong - CK2 is a great game. Faulty, but great, and most DLCs offer something worthwhile. But pricing is a theft.

cratchety ol joe said:
maybe along slightly the wrong lines, but perhaps enough to meet your needs...

Factorio
play the free demo here: https://www.factorio.com/download-demo

Then once you're hooked into the digital crack, buy the game here:
https://www.factorio.com/buy
http://store.steampowered.com/app/427520/Factorio/

It's still 'beta' but it's pretty much in 100% complete state, they're soon to release the V1 and the price will go up by $10 ... so if you are interested, now is the best opportunity to grab this game.

I can personally vouch that this is one of the best management games I've ever played.

[edit] I realise this game isn't a traditional 'management' game but in terms of managing and organizing things I can think of nothing greater than this.

- sadly Factorio does revolve around a single character, but perhaps not in the way you are thinking of if that's anything.
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Thanks, this might be something I'm looking for. I know about this game but completely forgot about it.
 
War For The Overworld is essentially as close to a Dungeonkeeper reborn, as we're ever likely to get. Not a city/Sim per se... but it lets you build an underground village—in each mission; you pay, feed, defend, and entertain your minion.
 
Well, I said it already on the gaming megathred but the Endless Games are fantastic and now on sale on a Humble Bundle for an irrisory price.

In exchange of some flexibility like such of a Paradox game, they're more of an intentional experience. They've actually got a general narrative, lots of quests often with diverting paths, awesome lore and last but not least; stellar presentation in the art direction and soundtrack. Factions (aka Civs/empires) are way more differentiated in playstyle and unique mechanics than the standard fare; you could have a faction that only can build a single city, but also can convert the equivalent of Barbarians to unit spawners, a faction that generates food out of casualties in battles, others that get massive boosts to production for as long they don't passively consume the planet they're standing on, etcetera etcetera. This also makes the more organic occurences a lot more interesting and multiplayer really fun, and they're well balanced across the board.

Endless Space 2 (my main pick if you had to pick one) is easily one of if not the most visually appealing 4X out there. It's also cool how a lot of the development works via feedback from the community; so it's also a decent enough longer investment.

When it comes to their DLC policy it's pretty simple, some bite sized packs with shitloads of quests and minor factions and the sporadic bigger packs with a new faction and their mechanics being added to the general game. ES2 doesn't have many yet as it released last year but it's nothing too crazy based on Endless Legend.

As for others I like, there's of course Stellaris, which is often the opposite of the seen above and more of a sim/role playing your empire game but as for right now I'll wait for the post 2.0 updates to settle down.
 
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