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Name: I'm hoping to remain a bit more anonymous you can call me null :)

Age: 30-40

Gender: CIS Male

Location: USA - eastern time zone

School/Job: Software Engineer

Likes: see below

Music: my Top 5 arists from Spotify Wrapped (2023) -

Hot Mulligan, Taylor Swift, Taking Back Sunday, The Wonder Years, Julien Baker.

TV/Movies: Mostly dramas. My Girl likely started my appreciation and Forest Gump solidified it. Some of my favorite shows .... Parenthood, This Is Us, A Million Little Things, Gilmore Girls. I also enjoy some more "mystery" type stuff like Black Mirror, Servant, Severence.

Video Games: I really enjoy survival video games but some games I've enjoyed. Divinty Original Sin i / II, Baldurs Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fable 1, Civlizattion games

Board Games: I enjoyed the typical board games growing up (monopoly, checkers, chess, uno, risk, etc) but as an adult got pretty into more niche' games. My all time favorite board game is Res Arcana. Some others I enjoye... Terraforming Mars, Dinosaur Island, Gloomhaven, Heroes of Land Air & Sea.

Dislikes: Rude humans. If you don't believe that humans are all equal despite race, religion, sexuality , gender , etc...then we aren't likely to be friends.

Pets: I love animals and have pets.

Anything else: Just looking for a bit of community here as I start journaling again.

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I love production chains. I also love war. That's why out of all the similar games I most love Anno and Settlers because they provide me with both (and city building! To some extent, at least). I do really look forward to Manor Lords and I've played a lot of Banished (over 900 hours) though I feel Banished gets boring after you've got a nice city and the survival part is just about over. Ostriv is still in development so it's bound to have less content but I feel the developer is really going somewhere with it. I'm happy to be along for the ride, in any case. :)

I never heard of desynced but from what I see it looks like something I'll lose myself in haha. In a good way! I love customisation.

StarCraft... I know that when it first came out I couldn't wait to get it and then I played it a few times and I do remember enjoying it, but I never bought any of the newer ones. I definitely enjoy AoE and C&C more.

Is satisfactory good? I haven't played it yet, I'm usually hesitant about first-person. I've played some first-person games but after a while they get me dizzy and leave me with a headache (on the other hand, it may be good to have something limiting my game hours other than the pressure of getting enough sleep before work, haha).

I've never played Icarus or Mario Wonder but I love Elden Ring! It remains one of my favourite games that isn't my usual repertoire so to speak.

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There's a lot of tabletop games that would scratch the "production chain" itch. I"m not sure if you've tried more in depth ones but my favorite is Res Arcana. In that realm they usually call it engine building but its very similar.

That's A LOT of Banished :D. I have a hard time sticking w/those games but Ostriv had a good flow to me for me at least.

Desynced has a TON of content and I didn't even get to the combat but it absolutely has a lot of gather t1 to make higher tier stuff on repeat.

Satisfactory is my favorite "production" style game. You start out just smacking the ore deposits yourself and then set up smaller mining drills that have very small space. After that the next step is to make a big drill that has a conveyer belt output, which goes to a smelter, which goes to a constructor and it just keeps on going. They just released Unreal Engine 5 update, its a beautiful looking game. You don't HAVE to make things nice and neat but that is usually the direction people take...its a challenge because you keep expanding.

Did you finish Elden Ring? If so just once or multiple times. I'm trying to finish it with ending for Renni.

Haha, yeah I really like Banished. It can be hard to stick with them for me as well sometimes so I end up playing for a few days or weeks and then abandoning it for a few months to a year, repeat. Ostriv has a better flow (it is more modern which typically helps with that) to keep playing.

I haven't played such tabletop games, unfortunately. The problem with tabletop is that they aren't single-player and I don't have people willing to play with me, sadly. I know I should go out and find people somehow but I have a busy life and I'm not the most capable when it comes to forging friendships and finding people to play with.

I finished Elden Ring twice. I got the Melina/Age of Fracture ending (first playthrough) and the Lord of the Frenzied Flame one (second playthrough start to finish, but like fifth or sixth overall). I'm trying to get the others ones, but it's been a while since I played (haven't touched it since June).

Satisfactory does sound like something I'd like... I'll have to check out some gameplay videos and see if the first-person is too bothersome. Long live the internet!

Ironically... there are a LOT of single player tabletop games. Some of the best ones can be played solo... but i ahte playing alone :(. So now i must mention them!

Gloomhaven - this will likely be one of the most monumental shifts for board games. The game took a huge risk and it paid off in a major way. I think it's likely better with a group but plenty of people have solo'd it.

Terraforming Mars - one of the better engine builders that has a good solo mode

Agricola - I'd actually suggest this one and just using the app version of it. Its pretty true to the board game and gives a nice glimpse of what a solo board game may look like.

Mage Knight - wowzers this is such a well done game but the rulebook is a monster. I've literally had to use a laptop and ctrl+f on rulebook podfs to make it through.

Kudos @ multiple endings for Elden Ring. I haven't playe din a baout a week or so but I'm at goderick. I need to level up a bit so I went south of the first starting point where you first see the open world. I really wish I would've stuck w/this game when it first came out. Some friends were doing their own play throughs and talking... i was pretty depressed and not able to enjoy it back then.

Satisfactory is great, maybe this post will help with third person - https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/hi0yi6/third_person_mode/

I will look into those! I never saw good single player games back when I was actively looking for them and I never looked back. It's obvious the tabletop game works has changed since! Exciting.

I hope you're doing better now.

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