What have you been playing this week? Do you think others might like it?

  • Invishiro
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    2 years ago

    If you are interested in similar games you should check out Satisfactory, I’ve heard it’s similar but 3D with bounce pads and trains. Also a little lizard doggy.

    • Deestan@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Can confirm. It is very similar, but with some differences apart from just 3D graphics:

      • More focus on immersion - gorgeous maps, emotes, tons of style, cool animations
      • Enjoyable movement - bounce bads, sliding, jumping, paragliding, jetpack, vacuum tube rides, cars
      • Verticality - hills, cliffs, and mountains to take into account when building, as well as able to organize production lines on top of each other
      • Smaller scope of production - the amount of machines and produced items in a Factorio Megafactory are unattainable. Some due to it being infeasible to optimize the way a 2D game can, and some because the immersive 3D view constrains what you can see and build at one time.
      • Hand-crafted world that encourages and rewards exploration - as opposed to Factorio’s procedurally generated world
      • Slower pace - no enemy waves, and infinite resource nodes means you can expand at your own pace without being pushed by a need to get more coal, or suppress enemy bases
      • Smaller mods - Factorio has some insane total conversion mods that are not feasible to make without the excellent mod portal and the fact that 2D graphics lessen the work needed for modders.

      I think both games are amazingly fun masterpieces, though Factorio is the game I’ve spent the most time in by far.