I personally love Naev and Mindustry
Xonotic is really fun if you enjoyed Quake 3 and Unreal. Has an active community as well. Beyond All Reason is a pretty polished RTS using Spring engine.
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
DCSS has been one of my automatic installs on any PC I have for years now.
They ever end up taking magic dart out of dcss?
Story?
the devs suck.
I play shattered Pixel dungeon on my phone once a day it’s good but I really never get past the mining stage and can’t understand the crafting.
One day I’m hoping for a fluke we’re I somehow go on to beat it but anytime I actually feel like my characters getting good I die in seconds to something.
Good game though it does give you the hope you just need a lucky run.
I’ve been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon virtually every day for years, through I don’t know how many updates. I’m far from convinced that every run is winnable, but there are some patterns that I’ve observed.
Mage and Huntress seem to be my best classes. The Mage’s staff means that you are guaranteed to have something that’s worth upgrading. The Huntress’ bow and her special abilities like growing grass by walking can make for some truly interesting gameplay changes, whereas I feel like most of the other classes’ abilities are more about moderate improvements to quality of life.
A Ring of Haste is probably my favorite ring to find, since being able to kite monsters is a great path to victory. Tenacity, Elements, and Strength are boring. Wealth can be good if it comes upgraded, but I wouldn’t put scrolls into it. Evasion always seems to turn on me sooner or later. Energy and Arcana can improve quality of life but are otherwise pretty mid.
A Wand of Regrowth is almost always a path to victory, especially if it comes upgraded, doubly so if you become a Warden, and triply so if you can combine it with the Sandals of Regrowth.
A Wand of Blast Wave is incredibly useful when used to knock enemies off ledges or into traps, saving yourself the trouble of killing them.
Other wands are a super mixed bag, depending on what you can manage to do with them, but I’ll say that some of my most fun and successful runs are putting a Wand of Corruption into my Mage’s Staff and becoming a Corruption Battlemage. You whack an enemy, Amok him on his friends, then corrupt them, then rinse and repeat until you win.
I’ve already mentioned the Sandals, which I’d say are incredibly useful if you’ve got a Wand of Regrowth or a Blooming enchanted weapon, but are otherwise hard to keep getting enough fresh grass to make worthwhile. I think the Ethereal Chains and Hourglass are my favorite and most useful artifacts. Horn of Plenty is okay but not great, unless you can combine it with being filled by the Battlemage’s energy generating ability. Other artifacts are mid, but I’ll make a special mention of the Unstable Spellbook which seems to screw me as often as it helps and yet I can’t deny that I have a great time with the mayhem it adds to my run. The Alchemist’s Toolkit is terrible; I hope a future patch significantly alters or replaces it, because honestly why bother using it at all?
I think my favorite runs are Corruption Battlemage or a Sniper with a nicely upgraded Boomerang; I always get a lot of fun out of using the boomerangs.
There’s no end to the conversation but that’s all I’ve got for now. It’s far and away the most played game on my phone… possibly my most played game ever, measured by eternal hours. The publisher is an absolute treasure and he deserves all the praise and success in the world.
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I used to play Tremulous. That was a blast. Very clever game.
Whoa same! Always played on that server that had greatly increased the build points so there were turrets everywhere :D
Oh yeah. I remember that. There was a nice consistent player base on that server
That takes me back. Waiting on 1.2 release, any day now…
I heard Unvanquished maybe scratches the same itch
Unciv
Open RCT 2
Doom, or, gzdoom! You can use it to play the original Doom 1 and 2 games with modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays. And there’s an endless number of fan made level packs to try.
As for open source AND free / open resources, there’s Freedoom 1 and 2. I occasionally play them, they’re fun, but a little lacking in stage design.
modern mouse and keyboard controls on HD displays
No thanks I’ll stick to my John Deere tractor drm to run it
openttd is great
Probably the Ur-Quan Masters.
https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Download
An HD Remaster with optional QoL fixed and added content!
One of the best games of all time.
I’m a pretty big fan of Star Control: Origins, too.
Mine is Mindustry too
OpenTTD is also nice
OpenTTD is awesome, especially when you dive into the NewGRFs (mod content)
Simutrans is also pretty cool. Similar game but definitely makes some different choices that make it play differently and has some nice features that will probably never make it into OpenTTD
Simutrans is also pretty cool.
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
CDDA probably. One of the more comprehensive zombie survival experiences
What’s the full title?
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. Zombie survival roguelike, forked from the original cataclysm by whales. Also check out Cataclysm: Bright Nights which is a fork of CDDA that makes it more gamey like the original, and less like you’re playing 2d arma.
Oh my bad, I forgot to put it in, looks like it’s already got a reply though.
Cataclysm dark days ahead
My favorite thing is when I come back after a hiatus and my favorite strat’s been nerfed and I get to struggle to survive like its my first time playing again. I remember when you could make a silent burst fire BB gun that shredded anything that didn’t have armor, and mount them to your deathmobile en masse to just drive through cities untouched by the horde. The Radio Activated Noise Emitter + Caltrops strat’s still good as ever, though the crafting requirements are a lot more complex since the last time I played.
Unciv is a Civ 5 remake with simplified graphics. Its a lot of fun but the AI is brutal.
Unciv is pretty cool but the simplified tiles and buttons can make me feeling a little lost and feel like I’m missing stuff at times
I play king and lose 9/10 times. still great
Tried this just couldn’t get past the tiles I’m probably spoiled from playing civ on pc but yeah I tried quite a few tilesets and nothing worked for me
I suspect the actual game is probably better than the official ones but I just couldn’t get past the graphics.
I play DDay Normandy, a quake 2 mod
OpenRA d2k
Minetest
Veloren
Fun games
There are a lot of great responses on here! I’ve been playing (at least until my steam deck shit the bed two days ago) around with OpenRA and Minetest.
The responses have been amazing, will certainly be coming back to this thread whenever I want to find a new game
Not enough shout outs for Super Tux Kart soccer mode. Getting a group of friends playing that is awesome
That, or the tire arena mode thing. Both are pretty fun when you are bored of all the official tracks and your favorite add-on tracks.
Wait there’s addon tracks?!
Yeah. Don’t know how to have them uploaded or even make them, but you can download a ton of different tracks, carts, and arenas from inside the game itself. All for free, with variable quality since pretty much all but maybe a few tracks are all fan made originals or old versions of official maps.
Don’t know how old of an update you can be on to use the feature, but on the latest version you’ll definitely have the ability to use it. I think it’s on the right hand side of the screen, either in the bottom corner or above it. It adds a lot of longevity after you get bored of the official tracks.
True.
Also, a single keyboard can be used to setup the controls of both user 1 and 2.
Was awesome to play games together, without needing a separate computer or input device.
Endless sky. You start off with a single spaceship and fly around the galaxy trading, fighting pirates, and buying/capturing more ships. The devs are still regularly adding new content too.
Endless Sky is amazing. I’ve put so many hours into it. It’s available on Steam or as an AppImage from https://endless-sky.github.io
I love this game too, I was deeply into all three of the Escape velocity games as a kid and Endless Sky scratches that itch perfectly
I used to spend hours on this before playing Naev (which is also meant to be like the Escape Velocity series, infact was originally a acronym: Not Another Escape Velocity).
Have they added any new campaigns lately? Really want to finish the Wanderer campaign, but I’m not sure anyone has picked it up yet after the original developer had to step back.
They’ve been working on the Hai storyline a lot, and last time I played there was a lot more in Coalition space.
