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Best longterm offline Linux friendly games? Give me your best! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176362

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48176361

I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.

Bonus if it's multiplayer capable LAN and not online.

Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn't matter. I don't mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I'm not super pick and choose.

Give me your greatest joy in game form. I've heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.

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[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you know of Songs of Syx?

A bit like a large-scale rimworld, with a focus on managing a big population and world diplomacy/war.

A bit hard to get into, though.

Also, what about project zomboid? A bit far from your description I guess, but who knows.

[–] JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I wish I could recommend this game. It clicks all my boxes for this type of simulation. Problem is it runs like dog shit on my PC. Without fail on both native and proton versions it will drop frames after about 20 minutes of game play. Doesn't matter if it's a new map or a big city. The game is super smooth then out of nowhere the frame rate tanks to a stuttery mess. I've looked around for a solution and it seems like there is a fix for the problem but it doesn't ever work on my machine. Something tells me that writing the game in Java means the memory management side of the code goes fucking bonkers after 20 minutes. I've tried the discord and Steam forums but nothing ever gets resolved.

Then there's an even more extreme bug where if the game doesn't like my Wayland compositor it hard locks my PC on startup. It's so frustrating. It's a great game but it's technically flawed.

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I tried the demo of song of styx but didn't really manage to do anything because I didn't understand the menu symbols. Is there a tutorial or something that I missed?

Edit: The game didn't properly do full screen because of my settings so the bar with the build menu etc was not visible, I am now able to play just fine

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I think there is a tutorial but I didn't touch it, I just started my hemp empire.

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I don't know how long ago you tried, now the game is reaching near completion and there is a tutorial.

It is pretty hard to get into IMO, you need to get used to many concepts and sometimes weird menus and such, that is the problem of the game. I guess you can give a try to the tutorial now and see if it spikes your interest more, the game has changed a lot over the past years.