this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
170 points (98.3% liked)

Games

48715 readers
945 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone is just saying actually popular games, but ones they don't think are popular enough. If people don't have to look up the game, it's probably not answering this question (with a few infamous exceptions maybe).

Mine would be Stationeers. There's no real action or anything. It's a game about designing, building, managing, and automating a station on another world. Each world has its own issues, be that Luna with a vacuum, Mars (the easiest) with storms, no breathable atmosphere, and cold, Venus with all the Venus issues, or some made up planets with crazy problems. It simulated gasses and liquids, replicating the refrigeration cycle so you can make your own heat pumps for cooling. It's really cool, but complex and potentially boring for most people.

It's made by the studio making Kitten Space Agency. It's a studio created by the DayZ mod creator, and they seem really cool. They're very much not profit motivated, and I think they've said developing Stationeers is costing them money, at least at one point, and KSA is planned to be free and donation supported.

[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds kinda awesome, I'm gonna have to look into Stationeers.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

It has probably the highest learning cliff of any game, but there are also guides for everything. At the higher level, once you're surviving, you'll hopefully be programming stuff too. That's all done in Assembly, so ideally you'll have experience with that, but it's not that hard to learn for doing basic programs. If you need any help, let me know!