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Looking for game rec for extended downtime due to illness (piefed.ca)
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Mods - I am not sure how to read the rule against game suggestions. If it means no asking for suggestions please just wipe the post. No harm, no foul.

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Fall is usually my busiest time of year preparing for winter in our little forest home. But I have been given orders from the doctors to basically take bedrest for up to 3 months, but I'm allowed to be sitting up... So books and games are basically all that is on the menu.

I enjoy automation games, tower defense, survival/building games, and exploration games.

I dislike 'souls-like' experiences where combat is tight and requires perfect timing. In fact in most games where combat can be disabled I usually do that.

My top games of all time would be factorio, minecraft, WoW/FFXIV (yeah... i know. But they count as one), Dyson sphere program, vampire survivors (and many of that type), and gemcraft type TD games.

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Some games that have been recommended and tried, but don't work for me right now or I have already finished:
mindustry, satisfactory, valheim, no man's sky, alchemy factory, luanti, terraria.

Thanks in advance for your time. Much appreciated.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Two games I will suggest:

"Captain of Industry" is a colony sim/automation game, in addition to production you also must care for a population of workers. Production is more complicated than, say, Factorio because most thing have a waste product.

"The Last Caretaker" is a bit different, you're a robot, on a boat, after the end of the world. You run around fixing machines, fixing your boat, and you sail to locations to find resources to do whatever it is you were built for. There are things that will attack you but that isn't what the game is about.

Now Im going to lurk your thread for more suggestions.

[–] Bo7a@piefed.ca 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I totally forgot about captain of industry. I was watching that one for a while.

I have grabbed the last caretaker demo. Looks pretty cool!

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Captain of Industry can be described as "Cascade Failures: The Game", while The Last Caretaker is going to scratch that cable management itch!