Title. I like games that require a lot of work to get into. Here are some of my favorites:

  • Eve Online
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Satisfactory
  • @Fabriek@beehaw.org
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    1310 months ago

    NetHack! Been playing for 10+ years and haven’t come close to finishing it yet. Fantastic game but a lot of work to get into.

    And of course Go, but that’s on a completely different level.

    • JakeSparkleChicken
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      510 months ago

      It’s been pretty close to 30 years for me. Beautiful game, but so hard to get anywhere!

  • @Swifter@beehaw.org
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    910 months ago

    Stellaris - Big real-time space strategy game

    Dominions 5 - Fantasy turn based fantasy strategy game with tons of nations often based on real world mythology mixed with fantasy elements.

    Kingdom Death: Monster - Tabletop (play on tabletop sim) game that mixes Darksouls/Monster Hunter like boss-fights with a little bit of Darkest Dungeons like colony management/attrition/madness

    • @Magusbear@lemmy.ml
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      410 months ago

      Kingdom Death: Monster is awesome. Love it to death. It’s also absolutely terrifying in so many ways. From learning the rules, setting up the game and obviously playing it. Unfortunately we never play it because of location. Sometimes a years goes by between sessions and we are always too overwhelmed setting everything up and getting back into the rules.

      • @FrozenLama@beehaw.org
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        310 months ago

        There is a pretty decent scripted tabletop simulator for Kingdom Death. Me and a couple buddies player five or six session and we were able to pick up and play pretty quickly.

    • @FrozenLama@beehaw.org
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      310 months ago

      I was super in to Dominions 3 back in the day, played it online a ton, won a few big games. It’s got a brutal learning curve though. Late game when the turns were on a 96 hour timer and that still felt too short…

    • @fl1ghtless@beehaw.org
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      410 months ago

      I just started this last night. Reminds me of Civ5 but in space. I’m enjoying it so far. So much stuff to do.

  • Biberkopf
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    710 months ago

    Bitburner

    In it you write JavaScript to hack things to be able to write more JavaScript to hack more things. It’s very fun. Especially if you don’t know how to write any JavaScript.

  • @NoxiousPluK
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    710 months ago

    RimWorld. Easy to play, hard to master. Also Rust

  • @mozoa@beehaw.org
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    610 months ago

    Factorio for sure. It just so satisfying to build a well oiled factory.

    Can also recommend Dyson Sphere Program, little less polish than Factorio imho but it’s basically building production facilities spanning a universe.

    • @dillydogg@lemmy.one
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      210 months ago

      It’s amazing how much is possible in Factorio. I don’t think any other game has given me half as many “aha!” moments from coming up with (what I think to be) a clever solution for a problem.

      I approached it as a puzzle game and think that served me well. I have on the order of 200 hours and I’ve yet to try building a proper megabase.

  • JakeSparkleChicken
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    610 months ago

    Shenzhen I/O and TIS-100 take some getting used to.

    The Witness is amazing, if you like puzzle games that take a lot of time to figure out the rules.

    • Deebster
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      210 months ago

      There’s some book about orbital dynamics that hit the Amazon bestseller list because of Kerbal players.

      I know that people to get into it seem to like the realism mods that make it even more complicated and less forgiving.

    • @gingerrich@beehaw.org
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      210 months ago

      I watched some one being tutored on it and it completely lost me. The real science in that game is waaaay beyond me. Kudos to the people that get it and enjoy it though.

  • sickday
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    610 months ago

    These games are my goto for a “complex but still fun” mood:

    • X series (X3 and X4)
    • Endless Space 2, Endless Legend
    • Crusader Kings 2
    • Stellaris
    • @blindgambit@lemmy.ml
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      210 months ago

      I never really understood how obtuse learning Stellaris can be. I’ve been playing it since release and have been with it through every step of its massive changes. This year I had two friends pick it up and attempting to explain the basics plus the intricacies along with slowing down my playstyle in order to explain why I do what I do was a learning experience in and of itself. I wish the new coop mode had been out when I was initially showing them the ropes. They’ve since started to to get the hang of things though and I’m proud!

  • @Sewot@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    Dwarf Fortress of course. Other good mentions are Factorio and Rimworld, if you understand them and are done with it, install a couple hundred mods and have a whole different game!

    • @blindgambit@lemmy.ml
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      510 months ago

      I won’t lie the new steam release of Dwarf Fortress has helped alot but there’s still so much that’s possible and tiny little things that affect other things.

  • @SaintxMeow@lemmy.one
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    510 months ago

    A minecraft modpack called Gregtech New Horizons. It takes the general modding scene of minecraft 1.7.10-1.12.2 era and pushes it to 11

  • @Magusbear@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings and XCOM in harder difficulties in iron man mode. I love brooding over difficult decisions and devising strategies in turn-based (and similar) games.

  • @Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    Victoria 2. Haven’t gotten around to trying the sequel yet, but will eventually. Been playing a bunch of Dwarf Fortress as of late too.

    • @Jediotty@beehaw.org
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      210 months ago

      I played like only one real game, as Spain, and I just repeatedly took took bites out of Portugal, until my ally France turned on me. Lost some ground but was able to stop them. I should play it again.