A game came out recently (called Palia) that essentially forces you to make “pals” to achieve certain things and even be able to gather certain resources. My other half has been playing it and was complaining about the “forced” interaction in the game and I told her similar things to what you’re saying about Eve, that interacting with others to achieve goals will actually become the best part of the game in the long term.
Pro-tip: this isn’t a queue because the game is wildly popular, it’s a queue because of under-provisioning and poorly designed services that can’t handle a normal load.
It isn’t early access if anyone can buy it and they’re charging money for it, it’s a released product.
They just released the minimum viable product even though the actual devs probably told them not to.
I’ve also been playing Eve like 10+ years myself and every time I think I’ve won it I haven’t yet.
One of the best aspects of the game is the community around it though, rather than the actual gameplay. In fact, a lot of the gameplay is rather stale these days.
Yeah but Eve Online isn’t a good game either 😋
How much do you care about the actual combat?
There are an absolute ton of games on Steam that cover the exploring and doing quests vibe and the amount of combat in them varies from none to some but not the main focus of the game. Here’s a few I’ve tried:
Also practically anything in the survival and MMORPG genres are full of just chilling in the world content too.
The situation kind of reminds me of titty streamers on Twitch. Everybody seemingly “hates” them yet they make an absolute killing regardless, because the silent majority think it’s perfectly fine.
Risk of Rain 2
I tried this one but I couldn’t get into it. I just kept getting overwhelmed by enemies and dying and I couldn’t figure out why and gave up.
Currently, 7 Days to Die, though I don’t like where it’s heading.
It’s varied over the years and included Total Annihilation, Wow, Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld among others.
Ha, mine does this when I lay down and want to go to sleep, it’s pretty damn annoying.
Video games have always been a great distraction from things for me instead.
I’ve wondered the same thing for a while. Procedural dungeons in fully 3D in a fantasy setting would be great and it’s weird that it doesn’t exist at least as a modern game.
Wayfinder kinda is like this but I’m not sure if it’ll fully scratch that itch in the end.
A zombie building game like 7 Days to Die, but with the emphasis on building and not pogs per second on Twitch to drive sales.
Also No Man’s Sky but built from the ground up for PC with HOTAS support and far more varied and better procedural generation.
So too do far too many other games.
Usually because they want to sell you cosmetics and other junk and the only way to ensure you don’t just mod it in for free is to make the game phone home and verify itself constantly.
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I’d be down for something like this on a PVE realm where your own actions are typically what lead to your death. I’m less enthusiastic on a PvP realm with permadeath but I understand the current version isn’t for me and that’s okay too.