What's a single player PC game you can't get enough of?

For fans of Factorio I highly recommend Dyson Sphere Program. It’s a beautiful factory building game. It’s been in early access for a while now but can already be played like a finished game. There is a combat system coming but that will be totally optional. The only downside is that it’s far more demanding than Factorio when it comes to CPU, especially in the late stages of the game as your factory grows.

Factorio is one of those few games (rim world too) that I can sit down and not realize that HOURS are flying by.

For that alone, Factorio is a must have for anyone who enjoys base building aspects in other games. Also, there is multiplayer on PC. At least with mods it's possible.

I have never played a game with such a compelling gameplay loop.

Damn this game made me unaware of time

What's your favourite game set up? I just finished the vanilla set up with enemies.

My time available for gaming is severely limited, so I'd timebox some time to play, set up a timer and build AFK factories. I noticed that I'd start to find excuses to go to the desk to check an email or pay a bill and would "just check in on my factory" which would turn into "just a quick replenish of my turrets" or to fix an idle driller, then an hour later I'd realize I was 'ate to an appointment.

Later, I set up a private multiplayer server that wouldn't pause on disconnect so that the game wasn't even running on my primary computer.

It's been a while... I should go check on my factory... BRB

Have you tried Mindustry? It's supposed to be like factorio and it is open source.

I'm really not good at it, but I still love it.

Did performance improve? I couldn’t get it anywhere close to playable on my 2080 super without dropping the quality to potato, so I gave up on it.

It was a great game even with the issues it had. I'm really looking forward to the DLC, if only as an excuse to revisit the game!

The problems I have with cyberpunk stem more from the story. It's depressing and has no real happy ending, just an array of at best bittersweet possible endings. Maybe the new DLC will fix that but otherwise it's a bit too much art imitating life for me.

Check out Brotato! I think you'll like it.

I would try out Noita too.

Check out Nova Drift! One of my favorite rogue-likes!

I would try out Noita too.

This is my answer. Donated to Toady1 a couple times, then bought it on steam.

RimWorld is a time machine. I start it up and then look at the clock and I'm 5 hours in the future.

Have they discussed any more show tie-in content? Was hoping they would use that for promotions.

Idk why, but this sounds like an advertisement so much :)

Same. I also own it on the switch and phone. Most re-playable game I own.

I've heard about it a few times, need to give it a try.

Yes same. I've bought it 3 times now, for PC, Android and Switch. Almost 400 hours on Steam alone.

I'm over 20,000 hours on Civilization III just on my current PC - that doesn't even count all the time I spent on it when the game first came out. I've tried the later versions, just don't like 'em as much.

I want to play again but had to stop each time because I get obsessively addicted to it

When I first played back in 200...8? I accidentally stayed up all night. I'm itching to try out the Steam version but I know, I KNOW, that I can't afford the time I will spend on it right now.

Love the game but I'll need them to fix the fps issue before I get back into it. Would be great to have a fortress with more than 100 dwarfs without grinding the fps to a halt.

I found out about it because of f-droid and after a single session knew I wanted the Steam version after I figured out it existed.

I love FTL but I'm so bad at it.

I could hear the opening sound of the title song vividly as soon as I read that. I liked it but somehow never played it much. I think it was missing a little bit here or there.

I only played it so that I won once, and that was a long time ago. Is it really replayable? It didn't really seem so at the time.

+1. Just turned 300hours corner, and I'm not done at all.

I like city building games too. Which SimCity game is your favorite?

Which version?

I highly recommend Tametsi on Steam. It's Minesweeper, but each puzzle is designed to be solvable with zero guessing, and it uses different shapes and some other neat tricks to keep it interesting. It's 98 cents on Steam right now.

I play that too from time to time.

Can confirm

3D Minesweeper. Not sure I really like it, but it's a concept.

Just picked this one up yesterday and I’ve totally been hooked. Reminds me of stardew valley mixed with subnautica.

I put over 30 hours into this game and ended up not recommending it on steam.

Weird progression in that game. The sushi segments just turned into me cleaning dishes and grating wasabi...and I thought the entire sea people quest was bland... Also, Nexon is a pretty crap company but that's not so much a comment about the game. Another comment about the game is the forced fetishizing of shark murder. It made me deliver a shark head to a customer on a plate and watch them cry from happiness while they ate it. STOP MURDERING SHARKS???

I recommend https://openrct2.io/ - it's a fan made open source reimplementation that adds many changes, among them multiplayer, mods, UI improvements, bugfixes and so on. For installation you'll need a copy of the original RCT2 game. It also supports RCT1 scenarios and graphics.

I just wish it wasn't turning into The Sims: Cities with all the DLC packs.

I just want to make cool tiered cities with all kinds of parks and bike trails.

so excited for CS2!

I love Cities Skylines, but I absolutely suck with traffic management. I know it's supposed to be the game's big challenge, but it's the one thing I really don't enjoy. Anytime I have tried to plan a city from the beginning with traffic in mind, I find myself not having nearly as much fun as when I just built stuff haphazardly.

I kind of just want a mod that abstracts out traffic (I know about TPM, but that isn't exactly what I want).

I enjoy city builders a lot too. Used to play this a few years ago.

Horizon is a great game, it's probably one of my favourite game series of all time at this point. Zero Dawn hit all the storytelling tropes that I typically enjoy in games, and had amazing dynamic combat too. It reminded a bit of monster hunter with the preparation you went into big fights with, but also there was a degree of improvisation when stuff didn't go according to plan.

As someone who didn't think Zero Dawn needed a sequel at all, I actually really enjoyed Forbidden West. I think you'll be in for a good time when you get a chance to play it.

Absolutely! Hunting Thunderjaws feels epic as all hell!

I have launched this game several times and always end up wandering around aimlessly before getting killed in the wilderness. Is it possible to get into without following a wiki?

Came here looking for factorio. Great game and possibly the most stable piece of software I've come across

Cheese steak Jimmy

The trains aren't that mad to figure out.

• Chain signals into crossings/junctions, block signals out.
• This also applies to any track section where a train can block other trains.
• Signals and stations only work to the right of the travel direction
• Signals without another signal on the other side are strictly one-directional.
• you can mismatch signals of any pair, i.e. a block sig opposite of a chain sig.
• Using signals within a junction can be useful to improve capacity of said junction, though you must use chain signals for that.
• Always make sure your longest regular train can fully leave a junction/crossing/flow-critical block before it hits another signal.
• Having one train length across your entire fleet can make this easier to wrap your head around

As for station stopping instructions, that'll take a few more lines to go into.

You just need s good intersection blueprint to make trains work, after i found that i became adicted to expand the train network.

factorio trains were a mess to get into without mods and prior to train limits. they're kinda fine now :)

I have been playing this game for years. A20 on all characters. Bought it on 3 different platforms. I am still playing it daily, and I'm not sick of it.

When you get far enough and would like more content, check out the Downfall mod on Steam.

Hell yeah Morrowind! I like Skyrim ok but it feels bland somehow next to the weird setting and deeper mechanics in Morrowind

Yeah baby. I don't know how many hours I've spent on this.

I have many versions of the game but the one I keep playing despite all the years that have passed, it’s Civ 5.

I do sort of feel like it’s lost something as the graphics have improved and animations were introduced

Have you tried Unciv? https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv It's a free and open source remake of Civ 5 and already supports many of its features. I really enjoy playing it as it's much less hardware intensive which makes for near instant loading times and keeps the computer nice and cool on hot summer days.