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Is it better than that failed DoubleFine experiment, Gang Beasts?
Tried playing that with a few friends and we gave up after not even half an hour, with the terrible net code, horrible movement and just not fun gameplay driving us away.

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Quoting: liamdaweGames don't need to be difficult to be interesting though

Only those games that are heavily story focused manage to be interesting despite offering no challenge.
The Telltale games come to mind, or walking simulators, etc.

Niffelheim certainly isn't "interesting", other than for discovering new art & monsters.
If you look at the general reviews, they all pretty much say the same, I'd pick this Steam review [External Link] for the shortest gist:

Awesome chill out game, which is funny given you are a gritty viking in the land of death.

It really is a game to play to relax, not to be told a story or overcome some challenge.
The game's a grinder - albeit a short one, I think finishable in under 20 hours. You (literally) mine and grind and grind and mine - and even the combat is just keeping a button pressed.
Usually, I loathe that, but this game for some reason relaxes me - could be the art.

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Yep, I'm playing the game, too and I would recommend it if you're looking for a laid back zen-like experience with some really nice art. I find it really relaxing, one of the few games that almost gets me in a trance of a kind.

But if you're looking for a challenge of any kind, don't.

I have no idea if this was intentionally designed to be so easy or not, so I couldn't even rate it (I think games should be rated based on what they want to achieve).

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Quoting: scaineCan't wait! I love these games - they're the best TD games out there!

They're quite good.
But the best would have to go to Dungeon Warfare I and II (latter is not natively on linux, but runs fine via Steam Play). No other TD game reaches that level of depth and possibility, especially of the second part with its leveling up mechanics.

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Too bad, really. But not unexpected.

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Clearly needs more bullets flying around and more enemies.

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Quoting: GuestI wonder whether Houdini engine would satisfy the requirements in terms of building procedural world

Procedural generation is 99% maths and engine-agnostic algorithms.
The result of which then has to be displayed, interpreted for gameplay, etc.

Therefore, every engine that features programmatic generation of geometry and gameplay objects can feature building a procedural world. And I have yet to see a professional engine that doesn't.
Features like a big world without loading times can be implemented in most engines or are present to begin with.

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Quoting: ShmerlIs it using its own custom engine?

Yes, it is indeed.

And there we have the problem.
I think that when you start, you really have to be certain if you want to develop a game, or an engine/middleware.

If it is the first, don't do the second. Most of these attempts fail. I'd know, I lost two years to that myself ;)
Also reminds me a lot of Voxel Quest [External Link] - though that project had the point that there was no engine out there capable of what it needed.
Not sure Unreal or Unity couldn't do what Limit Theory attempted.

All of that said, this project DID get very far.

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Quoting: GuestSo it’s very similar to Civilization? (except realtime).

Eh... honestly, it is a very unique thing, hard to directly compare to another game.
It is from a time before every RTS game tried to copy either Command & Conquer, Warcraft 3 or Starcraft.

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