Article meh, subject interesting. Question: Which games do you people feel have replayability on the level of Civilization except roguelikes and original Xcom maybe?
• Paradox' grand strategy games (Hearts of Iron 4, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 2, Stellaris) – they're Civ (/Master of Orion) on steroids
• Dwarf Fortress – not so much a learning curve as a learning cliff the depth of Valles Marineris
• Kerbal Space Program – also rather steep learning curve, and needs mods to achieve proper depth, but really deep with them in place
• If you haven't seen it already, OpenXcom is a proper remake/port of the original game and just makes it run properly on modern machines (no more DOSbox!), fixes the bugs (no more 80 items limit) and gives it a modding API.
Thanks. Tried Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings 2 and they don't do it for me unfortunately. Also have tried Dwarf Fortress but the permadeath + weird story humour thing is just too weak an answer for time investment for my psychology, though I admire the creativity in the game. KSP haven't tried yet, hear good things. OpenXcom ... I prefer the original, also tried the remake which I felt was sucky, fast and easy with no strategy only tactics.
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Article meh, subject interesting. Question: Which games do you people feel have replayability on the level of Civilization except roguelikes and original Xcom maybe?
• Paradox' grand strategy games (Hearts of Iron 4, Victoria 2, Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 2, Stellaris) – they're Civ (/Master of Orion) on steroids
• Dwarf Fortress – not so much a learning curve as a learning cliff the depth of Valles Marineris
• Kerbal Space Program – also rather steep learning curve, and needs mods to achieve proper depth, but really deep with them in place
• If you haven't seen it already, OpenXcom is a proper remake/port of the original game and just makes it run properly on modern machines (no more DOSbox!), fixes the bugs (no more 80 items limit) and gives it a modding API.
Thanks. Tried Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings 2 and they don't do it for me unfortunately. Also have tried Dwarf Fortress but the permadeath + weird story humour thing is just too weak an answer for time investment for my psychology, though I admire the creativity in the game. KSP haven't tried yet, hear good things. OpenXcom ... I prefer the original, also tried the remake which I felt was sucky, fast and easy with no strategy only tactics.
OpenXcom is the original, just with a new engine: http://openxcom.org/about/
It plays exactly as the original, just with less technical limitations, like on resolution: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/42932168557625...
That's easy to answer with data, not just feeling - http://astats.astats.nl/astats/Steam_Games.php?Sort=8
Civilization 5 is not even in the top 20, and that's just steam games.
How are these statistics generated? Are they scraped from some Steam-wide data, or do you need to opt into their data collection?
They don't check out because if you play offline your stats aren't contributed.