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There’s a blast from the past. And don’t forget https://obscuritory.com/action/battalion/
I have thousands of hours across dozens of playthroughs, and every single one of them ends the same way; the whole damn universe eventually de-coheres under the pressure of a relatively small quantity of mods and everything gets borked. I swear never again to waste my life playing it, and then start a new campaign 6-12 months later.
From the Depths is AMAZING. I lose a couple months to it every year as it sucks me in again.
StarMade has so much potential. It’s been open sourced and the community is starting to take it over, watch this space.
I really love games where you build large vehicles you can walk around inside, and then you go blow them up.
Linley’s Dungeon Crawl aka Stone Soup. The most worked and polished old school roguelike there has ever been. Just in terms of game design, it is fascinating watching this project evolve. I have never seen a project make more fearless choices, and they almost always turn out to be winners.
http://crawl.akrasiac.org:8080/
Edit: OOPS! Not really multiplayer. There are some social features on the site that hosts it allowing you to watch other people’s games and heckle them and stuff.
I prefer https://www.simutrans.com/ – I grew up with it and OTTD feels too fiddly the way you have to lay out track one tile at a time.
Not an extra thing that you have to install, an extra thing that you have to maintain, forever, instead of just letting the OS do it for you. Have you never borked your main machine with a flubbed driver update? Or found that, uh oh, you broke CUDA last time you upgraded and didn’t notice until you tried to do some work?
Most developers don’t support their native Linux release at all. You’ll download an automatic update, and suddenly the game doesn’t even start; check the forum and find out, they never even tested the Linux build, it’s just all automatic, and it’s gonna take a couple of weeks before they get their linux box updated and working again so they can fix it because their one linux guy is working on something else. It’s crap. Proton has been a massive improvement in game reliability.
Here’s a good place to get better friends: https://friendlylinuxplayers.org/
I was a total Rust junkie, I was playing 40 hours a week. Then they dropped support for the Linux client and wouldn’t let Proton users do EAC. I had to stop cold turkey. But I fucking did it, because fuck capital-driven operating systems designed to exploit me and my own computer against me.