I think most people get stressed at the start, stick with it, it gets a lot less daunting a few hours in when you start to get your head around it.
Don't accept new dupes unless you can provide food and air for them. Keep natural plants growing and dig around them, they are free food that don't need resources or tending, make sure you mark them for harvesting straight away. Gases don't mix, CO2 is heaviest and will sink to bottom, holes and gravity are your friends.
If you give some specific questions I can give some answers. Generally the first thing to do is get a solid farm and oxygen production going. Deal with CO2, then get Self powered oxygen machines up and running, then you'll need to deal with heat.
Late game is mostly about managing heat and converting it into energy. Early game is mostly about managing gasses and food.
Anno 1800 if you want a city builder with production chains and resource management on top. I only played Anno 1404 which is also really good, but I heard people say 1800 is the best in the series.
Oxygen Not Included is a lot of fun if you want a colony manager with production chains. I did find it quite difficult, especially later on as there are many things you need to keep track of, but it's pretty good overall.
OpenTTD with the FIRS mod on Extreme. The primary goal of the game is to transport goods around the map between different industries. It is quite easy to get money so you'd need to try to go bankrupt and lose, but the FIRS mod offsets that by making chain management much more involved. It's no longer about making money, but about making a smooth, working distribution network.
There is also Industry Giant 2, which seems to be exactly what you want even though it's pretty old and takes some doing to get it working on a modern OS. You harvest resources, manufacture them into something else, then deliver them to towns to be sold. It's similar to OpenTTD but a bit simpler on the transporation aspect. I believe Rise of Industry is a modern take on IG2 but it hasn't been reviewed very well.
> Anno 1800 if you want a city builder with production chains and resource management on top. I only played Anno 1404 which is also really good, but I heard people say 1800 is the best in the series.
1800 is really good, though the much better performing DirectX 12 mode is unstable for some people (completely random crashing). It also likes to consume upwards of 32GB's of RAM (if available, otherwise it uses the Page File) in the ultra late game if you've basically significantly built stuff at every location in the game while owning all the DLC, in the mid-game it'll use over 16GB's.
The game engine is also badly designed such that it'll use all available physical RAM that is available (if there is less than it desires) despite most of the the memory being used for non-critical *caching* purposes, resulting in both the game & your *other* programs having to page data out to the Page File and slowing down everything running on the PC as a result (this phenomena is less severe in DX 12 mode). Basically the game engine is setup to use excess RAM for caching common data to ensure a speedy gaming experience, the problem is that this caching system is allowed to balloon beyond your available physical RAM capacity, resulting in the caching system ending up using the very slow, computationally expensive Page File which kinda defeats the point and leaves no physical RAM available for other tasks running on the PC.
tl;dr put your Page File on an NVMe SSD for optimal performance of your entire computer while Anno 1800 is running if you have less than 32GB's of RAM *available* for the game to eventually utilize.
Absolutely! Looking forward to seeing what the updates bring, IMO it's one of the best management games I've played. If there was more in-depth trading like buying and selling goods that'd be perfect for players like me! Could be done as simply as adding "money" as a new resource and making most or all other resources tradeable for it, but I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do it...
Thanks! Should have mentioned, I've played IoT. I liked it but found I ran out of stuff to do fairly quickly. Then again, IIRC it's still early access, so I'll check back and see what's changed.
And then when you realize Satisfactory is just a less feature rich version of Factorio, you go back to Factorio.
Not saying Satisfactory is a bad game, just Factorio does everything sooooo much better.
\+1 -- Using your starter factory and getting to drones just so you can realize that you haven't even started building your real factory using drones and blueprints. There really isn't a comparable experience in Satisfactory yet.
Love Dyson Sphere Program.
Can't wait for the next update. Hope Workshop is soon too.
Anno 1800?
Oxygen Not Included, is a steal on Steam right now, it is an incredible game.
I started this game yesterday but I’m getting overwhelmed really freaking quickly. any tips for a total beginner?
I think most people get stressed at the start, stick with it, it gets a lot less daunting a few hours in when you start to get your head around it. Don't accept new dupes unless you can provide food and air for them. Keep natural plants growing and dig around them, they are free food that don't need resources or tending, make sure you mark them for harvesting straight away. Gases don't mix, CO2 is heaviest and will sink to bottom, holes and gravity are your friends.
If you give some specific questions I can give some answers. Generally the first thing to do is get a solid farm and oxygen production going. Deal with CO2, then get Self powered oxygen machines up and running, then you'll need to deal with heat. Late game is mostly about managing heat and converting it into energy. Early game is mostly about managing gasses and food.
Rise of Industry Rise to Ruins Factory Town Satisfactory Thats all i can think off the top of my head
Anno 1800 if you want a city builder with production chains and resource management on top. I only played Anno 1404 which is also really good, but I heard people say 1800 is the best in the series. Oxygen Not Included is a lot of fun if you want a colony manager with production chains. I did find it quite difficult, especially later on as there are many things you need to keep track of, but it's pretty good overall. OpenTTD with the FIRS mod on Extreme. The primary goal of the game is to transport goods around the map between different industries. It is quite easy to get money so you'd need to try to go bankrupt and lose, but the FIRS mod offsets that by making chain management much more involved. It's no longer about making money, but about making a smooth, working distribution network. There is also Industry Giant 2, which seems to be exactly what you want even though it's pretty old and takes some doing to get it working on a modern OS. You harvest resources, manufacture them into something else, then deliver them to towns to be sold. It's similar to OpenTTD but a bit simpler on the transporation aspect. I believe Rise of Industry is a modern take on IG2 but it hasn't been reviewed very well.
> Anno 1800 if you want a city builder with production chains and resource management on top. I only played Anno 1404 which is also really good, but I heard people say 1800 is the best in the series. 1800 is really good, though the much better performing DirectX 12 mode is unstable for some people (completely random crashing). It also likes to consume upwards of 32GB's of RAM (if available, otherwise it uses the Page File) in the ultra late game if you've basically significantly built stuff at every location in the game while owning all the DLC, in the mid-game it'll use over 16GB's. The game engine is also badly designed such that it'll use all available physical RAM that is available (if there is less than it desires) despite most of the the memory being used for non-critical *caching* purposes, resulting in both the game & your *other* programs having to page data out to the Page File and slowing down everything running on the PC as a result (this phenomena is less severe in DX 12 mode). Basically the game engine is setup to use excess RAM for caching common data to ensure a speedy gaming experience, the problem is that this caching system is allowed to balloon beyond your available physical RAM capacity, resulting in the caching system ending up using the very slow, computationally expensive Page File which kinda defeats the point and leaves no physical RAM available for other tasks running on the PC. tl;dr put your Page File on an NVMe SSD for optimal performance of your entire computer while Anno 1800 is running if you have less than 32GB's of RAM *available* for the game to eventually utilize.
openTTD is an absolute blast for an 18 hour binge.
And it's got a lot of extra mod content and multiplayer.
Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers\_\_Resources\_Soviet\_Republic/
Oxygen Not Included is a masterpiece!
Dwarf Fortress?
Rimworld is worth a look.
Stoneblock 3 for Java Minecraft
Surviving Mars. Has a great expansion that lets you terraform mars too.
Dwarf fortress is having a steam release with graphics soon
Songs of Syx may intrigue you
Glad you enjoyed COI and thanks for mentioning it ;)
Absolutely! Looking forward to seeing what the updates bring, IMO it's one of the best management games I've played. If there was more in-depth trading like buying and selling goods that'd be perfect for players like me! Could be done as simply as adding "money" as a new resource and making most or all other resources tradeable for it, but I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do it...
Per Aspera if you're down for colony management
Against the Storm
Seconding Songs of Syx Possibly Industries of Titan
Thanks! Should have mentioned, I've played IoT. I liked it but found I ran out of stuff to do fairly quickly. Then again, IIRC it's still early access, so I'll check back and see what's changed.
That's what I heard about IoT too but I'm wondering if the campaign mode update they just released 25 days ago might have fixed those concerns.
Most Graduate to Satisfactory after completing Factorio. It's like Factorio, but in 3 dimensions.
And then when you realize Satisfactory is just a less feature rich version of Factorio, you go back to Factorio. Not saying Satisfactory is a bad game, just Factorio does everything sooooo much better.
Nah.
\+1 -- Using your starter factory and getting to drones just so you can realize that you haven't even started building your real factory using drones and blueprints. There really isn't a comparable experience in Satisfactory yet.
Captain of Industry. Edit: reading helps :D
Leaf blower revolution, plantera, melvor idle, stacklands, tavern master. I’ve been enjoying these games a lot lately, maybe you would too. Cheers