![]() It has an interesting story, some light turn-based strategy, and gorgeous hand drawn graphics. The Banner Saga is a very good game (a series of 3, actually), that is heavily influenced by King of Dragon Pass. If you like playing in the sandbox (building up your city and then sending an earthquake to destroy everything, for example) you might like the Tropico games. More recently, the Anno series of games has carried on this lineage in a variety of historical and futuristic settings. This includes the Caesar series, as well as Zeus (ancient Greece themed) and Children of the Nile. If you like carefully placing buildings to optimize all the systems, you might like games in the lineage from the 90's Caesar games. If you like playing with transportation systems, you might like Cities: Skylines and its various expansions Sim City is the progenitor of the "City Builder Genre" There are a whole bunch of different lineages here. The Endless series by Amplitude (Endless Space 1 and 2, and Endless Legend) is probably the best modern version of the genre (other than Civilization 6 itself). The later games (3 and on) were poorly received, but the first two games in this series are still very well regarded and surprisingly easy to get into given how old they are. You can play it either with or without the Alien Crossfire expansion, which some people see as diluting the focus of the original game. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( available on GOG) has a clunky-to-modern-eyes interface but is still one of the best examples of story-telling in the genre. (They're sort of like hearing "I liked The Godfather, what should I watch?" and saying "Well, if you like classic movies I'll bet you'd like Singin' in the Rain").Ĭivilization is considered the progenitor of a genre called "4X". Those are also great games, but they have nothing to do with Sim City or Civilization, and they both have some light action/combat elements, so if you really don't like any sort of action, they're going to be not to your taste. That said, I'm a little baffled by people suggesting Minecraft and Stardew Valley. ![]() One of the things that makes your question hard to answer is that Civilization and Sim City are both classic games that have inspired entire genres, so it's hard to know what to recommend in the same way that it would be hard to answer "the only movies that I've watched are The Godfather and Casablanca, what other movies would I like?" or "the only novels that I've read are Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick, what other novels would I like?" What games do you think I might like? posted by panama joe to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (43 answers total) 54 users marked this as a favorite This is also something I like to do on long flights. Seemed like the kind of thing I could have liked, but the UI was just too alienating.īasically I pretty much never play games, but a few times a year I'll hole up in my apartment and play Civ or SimCity while listening to history podcasts. * I tried playing Dwarf Fortress once but was put off by the endless succession of menus. To be honest, I don't even really care about graphics. Or at least it has to have an option to dial back the graphics detail to get better performance. * Any game with super heavy graphics requirements, since I'll be playing on a laptop. * Any game that requires you to be online, since I'll be playing on an airplane some of the time * Any kind of game where you have to kill more goblins to get more weapons and armor The last SimCity game I played was SimCity 4 - I briefly tried to play the 2013 release, but I didn't like the UI. ![]() Oh, and there was an iPhone game I liked once called King of Dragon Pass.Įssentially, I'm kinda done with Civilization 6 for now, and I'm ready for a new game. I am not a gamer, but for whatever reason, I've always loved the SimCity and Civilization games. ![]()
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