I love the part in Age of Empires 2 where you gather resources and upgrade your kingdom not so much the battling partIs there any good game for me that focuses on grinding and making things better?I know Factorio, but it’s not cozy (similar to frostpunk) most of it is defense and resource management.I want a nice, living, breathing world I can upgrade and expand something like TheoTown, I guess.
Banished I think does this.Actually quite a bit of city builders will have similar features.
Sins of Solar Empire: Rebellion
Have you tried the Anno games? Anno 1800 is the best one in my opinion. Another excellent game is Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom which you can get on GOG. It's very cosy and has very satisfying aesthetic changes as you progress.
Try the Impressions City Builder games.Pharaoh, Caesar 3, Emperor. I didn't really care for Zeus, but I know it has fans.
Totally left field and niche - but kairosoft games. Especially dream town island.
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>>732199665Yeah 1800 or 1404 for some Anno comfiness. I think Medieval Dynasty is also like this? Haven't yet played it.
>>732199515>>732199665Anno games like that anon said You should also try Factory Town, it's a chill and comfy factory likeAlso the recent City Tales - Medieval Era let you build a comfy village with no defense or stressful resource managment
>>732199515There's a whole fucking genre of games like that, so why not play one of them? City builders have been around for a long time, and there are tons of newer ones.
>>732199515Banished is great for thisYou basically build your city from scratch
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They're called city builders. Farthest Frontier on easiest setting sounds like what you're looking for. It's light raider attacks on you from time to time that you can prepare for and animal attacks.It's basically Banished but with combat breaks. Combat isn't really the focus though like AoE 2. The focus is building these civic center things. I've yet to even build one because you have to tech up to them and the resources you need is wild.
>>732199515Satisfactory has similar levels of autism as Factorio but it's full 3D, has a lot of aesthetic options, and the enemies leave you alone or can be turned off altogether.
Against the StormCitybuilder with heavy roguelike elements. Sounds like a crazy genre mashup, but they pull it off surprisingly well. There's tons of strategic depth and room for optimization. Fair warning, though: it's all very impermanent. The goal isn't to build a big settlement that lasts forever. It's mostly about building a settlement up just enough to achieve a wincon then moving to the next one. The game allows a settlement to be continued past that point, but it no longer comes with any rewards for doing so. On top of that, it's also quite challenging. This game is hyperfocused on the strategy, and doesn't have as much of the comfiness or the feeling of slowly building a big thing. That may or may not be interesting depending on what you're looking for.
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I can recommend Settlers 2. It's a rather slow paced logistics sim and doesn't have that much variety in buildings, but I found it rather cozy.
>>732199515Shelldiver was alright. 2-3 hours long
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The Guild 2
>>732199515Fags ITT are all mentioning city builders games, but I don't think that's what you want.What you're talking about is an entire genre. It doesn't really have a name apart from the vague "sim".There are tons of games that that, where you start small, upgrade for automacy, allowing you to concentrate on a new ressource, repeat.The best I can think of are My Time at Portia/Sandrock.You have stuff like Supermarket simulator and many variants with many themes (pretty sure that stuff like Powerwash simulator even goes in here). Schedule 1 is another. If you want more Factorio but without combat, play Satisfactory (but it's still ressource management obviously).Animal Crossing is unironically also a contender, until you finish expanding your town.For a more classic city builder, I say Banished. It's a lot more chill than others, there isn't any ressource management (but early game can be hard until you get going).
>>732202994I tried this game, it was fun at first but starting over every time kind of got boring
>>732203207Shelldiver was a chill game
>>732202994Warcraft 3/WoW really did ruin an entire generation of fantasy art.
>>732203774>OP literally mentions in the very first line that he loved the city builder part of AoE2>BUT I DON'T HTINK THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTI mean farming sims and what not are also adjacent to the conversation, but you don't have to be such a fag yourself about presenting them
>>732199515Songs of Syxyou can download the demo it's like 3 versions behind the current one but you basically get access to the whole thing except saves aren't compatible iircgoat comfy sim for the exact thing you're describing but might be frustrating to get into if you don't want to sink some hours learning the ropes
>>732203157Played the shit out of the DS version. Touch screen controls were a pain in the ass for some reason though, they were badly misaligned.
What kind of a game is stronghold crusader? Just saw it on sale and this thread made me think of it. Is it continuous castle building or do you start over every mission
>>732205953There's no city builder part in aoe, retard. You just put a couple buildings to create units. OP title is "incremental/upgrading", not "making cities".
>>732207674It's mission-based on relatively small maps like most old RTS, and it's commonly referred to as siege simulator which I think is pretty on point, with heavy impact on resource management. I recommed trying it in any case.
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>>732202591satisfactory is the best factory game hands down - the thing is you have to learn to use the blueprint designer and that's like 0.1% of gamers are high IQ enough for
>>732199515Kair->>732199673Yeah. They're max cozy.
OP you might like Majesty, tons of upgrades, an interesting take on the fantasy kingdom building genre, but it's pretty old.Besides that, worth checking out Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles. Very unique kind of game, very aesthetic with lots of subtle mechanics you have to figure out for yourself. Very beautiful as well. It's about humanity rebuilding in a flooded world, you fly around in your airship and build cities, outposts, resource operations, trade routes, among other stuff.>>732206176This, great game, very satisfying.
>>732208673>>732202591it sucks like Factorio because you're fucking up the nice planetDyson Sphere Program is better because you can still achieve massive industry without destroying the environment. plus you can fly around in space and fight robots for the good of mankind
>>732211407>He doesn't enjoy subjugating a foreign hellscape wilderness in the name of humanity and enclosing it forever in the plasteel-concrete-blended fist of progress
>>732211884No, it's better to conquer or build lush garden worlds for humanity to enjoy at its leisure. If you want boring steel and concrete, just stay in the spaceship but you should build beautiful space ships too
I recommend Empire of Sin but I also kinda don’t recommend it. You run a mafia in 1920’s Chicago and attack other rival neighborhood blocks to take over them and slowly expand your mafia empire throughout all of Chicago. You can set up and upgrade various businesses to earn money to set up and upgrade more businesses to earn even more money. It’s kind of half a cookie clicker and half a shitty Xcom clone. Just keep in mind that the game is janky as shit and a lot of the mechanics are very shallow and undercooked. I hear there’s a lot of gamebreaking bugs but I personally haven’t ran into any of them. That said, the game is fucking jank and frustrating at times, so do keep that in mind if it grabs your attention. If you do play it, set it to the lowest difficulty and install QoL mods because the combat is just so fucking repetitive after awhile
>>732212017how do you even build a game around that? fight and conquer a nation, genocide its population, then build a giant national park over it?
>>732211407>it sucks like Factorio because you're fucking up the nice planetI wish satisfactory had a mod to add Blue colored native american type people that I could exterminate with turrets and drones - i know you're b8 but it's still good b8
>>732199515Farthest Frontier. It captures exactly what you're describing
