cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176362
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176361
I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.
Bonus if it’s multiplayer capable LAN and not online.
Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn’t matter. I don’t mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I’m not super pick and choose.
Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.
I recnetly started playing a game called “StarSector”
Basically Mount & Blade in space someone said.
Really good so far, have not played more than 30h due to lack of time to play due changed life/work situation.
Edit: forgot to say that it is Single player but tons of mods that feel very much in line with the game.
Fun fact, the devs encourage people to share a serial-key to those wanting to try out the game, so you don’t need to purchase it in case you wind up not liking it.
Here’s a serial-key courtesy of an edgy vtuber that uses a war criminal as an avatar: TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA
Again this is not piracy, the Devs actively encourage this. Which is awesome. So if you like the game, buy the game, encourage this behavior.
There is Luanti if you want something Minecraft like. It has a built in modding API and tons of mods available. It supports multiplayer over the LAN. It’s also very lightweight, it will run on almost anything.
Or just go for Minecraft itself
Microsoft? No thanks. I’ll stick with Luanti.
I wasn’t talking to you
Do you know how forums work?
Starbound and Terraria come to mind. Also Planet Centauri and maybe Stardew Valley.
Also Minecraft if a DRM-free version other than the Pi Edition (which is abandoned) ever comes.
Since when did Minecraft have DRM? The only real DRM on it is logging in with a microsoft account that owns the game. You don’t even need to use the official launcher.
Afaik, the Java version is only accessible with an account, 3rd party launchers potentially being considered cracking means. Bedrock version is tied to its platforms’ DRMs, like Win10’s Microsoft Store validation and a hard-to-access folder which changing permissions is a nightmare, and Google Play Services’ validation on Android.
As for console versions, major consoles have DRM to their games by default, with a case like PS Vita games even requiring the user to create a dummy validation file by launching the game once to be able to use backups (also iirc all Vita cartridges have a self-explanatory gro0:/DRM/ folder). And as for cartridge overall, be them Nintendo’s, Sony’s, etc., being hard to access their contents due to using non-standard could be considered DRM, and some cases formally considering as in the DMCA.
So sounds to me like it has DRM in most versions, yeah.
3rd party launchers potentially being considered cracking means.
No, they directly integrate with the authentication servers and download the files straight from mojang. You even get an official prompt in a browser login window to connect your account to the third party launcher.
Login to access the contents afaik is still DRM, even if it takes more steps.
If it is DRM, it’s hardly the DRM that people complain about. It’s pretty ethical DRM. If this was a strictly offline computer, you can even install Minecraft on a USB drive and move the installation over.
I’d need to check how long the validation lasts, since it may be well be like emulated PS1 games from the PSN (“PSOne Classics”) and Steam’s offline mode, both that take a few years to reset, but neither permanent.
But about people complaining, they usually do so only for problems that are obvious to them. And the obvious is usually immediate.
And if it takes a few months/years to expire, I’d say it is not ethical, but pretty vile, as then people will not notice the problem at first, and when they do, they may no longer access their contents.
And considering people that forgot to upgrade their original Mojang accounts, or didn’t have access to the needed tools while the change to Microsoft accounts happened, there is a precedent for Minecraft validation methods to not become available any longer.
Also, from my experience with Windows Vista, where even though I have an actually original key for it, if I try to install Vista nowadays and try to connect it to the internet, it will lock the whole system from my access on the next start-up, I’d imagine because it can’t reach the validation servers. So I’ve seen first hand how Microsoft’s preservation goes over several years. And since Minecraft may also be used online due to multiplayer, checks may still happen, and being nowadays also a Microsoft product, it may suffer from the same vices of origin.
logging in with a microsoft account
Well that is a big no.
Just make a burner?
That’s weird. Why would I do that?
Because you don’t want to use Microsoft’s ecosystem? It’ll just be the same as any other account
If I don’t want to use them, I am not making an account. I already have a billion accounts I don’t need yet another, and certainly not a Microsoft one.
But go back to the original question OP posed: two distinct things, Offline and Long Term.
I don’t trust Microsoft, Minecraft is dead to me and I cannot count on them long-term.
Requiring an account is not offline.
So Minecraft does not meet op’s requirements.
Luanti is basically open-source minecraft
Openttd trains for ever
ICARUS. Works perfectly under proton.
Runs like shit for me. I think it depends a lot on your GPU. For me it eats all the VRAM and then runs at 3FPS.
Yep, thats fair. Its a pretty graphically intensive game.
It can run easily 60FPS, it’s only after my 8GB of VRAM fills up that it turns to shit. Meanwhile some people with far less VRAM are fine. I think it’s an Nvidia issue.
Ahh yep, I’ve had that before. Though it was Diablo 4 that had the vram issue on my 3070ti.
They did do some optimisations in the last few updates, but that vram issue needs to be fixed up by nvidia.
Vntage Story is pretty neat, it does require a WAN connection to start it for the first time but AFAIK it’s possible to play it completely offline afterwards.
Beimg as mechanically complex as it is you’d think you need a wiki open the entire time, but the ingame “guide” has everything you need to know.
I don’t know about the state of public multiplayer servers, but it is LAN compatible and it actively supports modding!
I have had it check my account after long periods of not starting the game. Infrequent internet connections briefly appear to be required to play it. Not sure how hard that would be to bypass.
So if you are going to be without internet for a very long time then you may want to look into that in more detail. Otherwise, great game.
Starbound! That game kicks ass.
Did they ever finish it or at least finish it enough? Played it a long time ago and it had so much potential.
Not really. But the game was open sourced a couple years ago and that with mods is pretty good.
Farming Simulator (pick which year/edition), it’s surprisingly relaxing after whole day in office.
Xcom 2: War of the chosen
Minecraft: Java Edition. You need internet the first time, but afterwards it’s fully playable offline and also has LAN support built in.
I think you mispelled Luanti.
No, they didnt.
I think you forgot to switch over to the account that made this post
Huh? What are you talking about?
You aren’t OP yet you’re answering as if you were.
Barony mayb slay da spire 2
Technically, Satisfactory (3D Factorio, but more chill) allows you to host your own servers. You can host a server in your LAN, connect to server via IP -> enter the server’s local IP.
There is also Terraria which is very low spec.
Kenshi. Sandbox rpg, citybuilder and more. Pretty unique and unforgiving, but the replayability is endless if you are into that sort of thing (lots and lots of mods as well).
I’ve played Stellaris for years, although I am really not liking the direction Paradox is going with their AI, and it really puts me off of their games.
The Planet Crafter seems pretty neat, though I’ve only played the demo. It’s a first person survival crafting game where you terraform a planet.
Valheim has a local server you can set up that has it work offline. Shame it’s not on gog, but it’s on Humble which I don’t believe has online checks like Steam, but I had it working with steam offline mode.
