Quoting: etamLooks like http://pioneerspacesim.net/ [External Link] but with better graphics

This looks cool, I've never heard of it before your post, thanks! The development looks pretty active too:

https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer [External Link]

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Quoting: JOndra91I didn't mean the hype thing and missing features. The main problem with No Man's Sky is that there isn't really much to do, so the game becomes boring after a while.

Games like this are for times when players want to create their own goals or even play/wander without goals. That said, it's nice to have more toys in the sandbox!

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Sadly the end result feels rushed and low quality overall.

Wow, and this game was in development for years.

From what I read up and heard from others, it was in EA for so long they released it to get a boost essentially, not because it was ready.

The good thing is that the developers are continuing to work out bugs and fix playability issues based to player feed back. I've followed this game since 2014 so it's sometimes hard to imagine how a new user will find the game in its current state.

Single player story is probably the weakest part of this game, and I've never played more than a few minutes of it, the dialog is grating and rather broken English. Where the game does far better is creative play.

I really wish you had spent some time playing with the ISO editor, loading custom vehicles weapons, etc and sharing that experience of something really unique here. My favorite thing to do is create vehicles and and try all the things that other users share. Weapons, vehicles, weapons armor and building structures can be saved into a library after they are built and can be easily rebuilt in other servers.

This game also has a very well optimized standalone headless server for Linux users, it only requires a few hundred MB of RAM and a few percent of a single cpu thread on my VPN. It's no more taxing than a minetest server. I particularly like the multiplayer survival mode. Each player can join in anytime and start their own colony. I think it could only be better if PvP was consensual (as it is in Ryzom, you have to agree to a duel or war against faction) but you can create or join an existing team ad-hoc in this mode.

Another big strong point of this game is that the developers do engage the players in the forums. Despite the language barrier between English and Chinese and I know your personal experience with the forum may not have been that great, but if you pick one of the developers and read though their forum posts you may see a different picture. They also have an active bug tracker accessible from their official forum pages (I think it only shows up to registered users). I have found myself requesting a single fix/tweak in different ways to get my point across in a way the devs can understand due to the language barrier and my lack of understanding how the game is built.

That said, I love this game. I'm probably a big apologist in this post, but I honestly don't know many (proprietary) sandbox games that give players so much freedom to play on their own terms.

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I've not tried Shenzen, but Infinifactory is fun, challenging and accessible to those of us who might only dabble in writing simple shell scripts occasionally. I'm not a programmer, but I have the urge to test my ability to think through these logic puzzles for the case that I might have some rewarding AH-HA! "IF" has a very physical feel to it and it's just fun to watch things get built as parts move on conveyors, are welded, and otherwise manipulated on a contraption that the player builds. I will likely buy Shenzen after I have at least solved some more puzzles in IF and TIS-100 as well or if Shenzen is thrown into some irresistible puzzle bundle. I'm really happy that Zachtronics makes some great games for putting the Linux geekminds to the test in a fun way.

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Some nice ideas shown in the video are creation of modular vehicles in game and colony creations with power / resources linkages. Traveling between planets in game is also nice. A similar game is Planet Explorers, but while Astroneer does not have all the features (character customization, mobs, NPCs, weapons creation, flying vehicles, Linux support) of PE as yet, what they do have seems to be really well polished with a tight visual style. I hope they make good on the Linux promise and hopefully give some modability or at least customization ability.

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Divinity: Original Sin was a similar story about delay Linux release. It would be nice to have a big open-world jrpg on linux without having to use wine or emulating a console. Hopefully it will be moddable as well.

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While Witcher 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2, could be on my list just because it seemed like they had some plans to support us...

Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord would be a true, kinda big deal

http://store.steampowered.com/app/261550 [External Link]

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Quoting: KelsAnd Minetest, which is free and native on Linux, also offers a great experience.

Seriously Liam! How can you forget that Minetest and Terasology exist!?!? I created an account here just to point this out!

http://www.minetest.net/ [External Link]

http://terasology.org/ [External Link]

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