Mine is vehicle building games like Stormworks or Scrap Mechanic. It’s so much fun to shoot at your friends with your latest nuclear drone while hiding in your bunker with a better defence system than Area 51 !

I’m very curious about your fav niche game genre !

(I’m sorry for my bad English ^^')

  • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    I like Idler Auto-Battlers, if that’s a good description. Games like Dragon Cliff or Ghost of Dragon (both by the same devs).

    A group of NPCs automatically fight indefinitely, gather loot and experience and while that’s going on you can manage a base or something, change the party, maybe some other stuff. A big part for me is also not constantly resetting to increase some multiplier, like you would in a Cookie Clicker, Leaf Blower Revolution or NGU Idle.

    I need to find more games like this though. A lot of games on Steam in the Idler category are either clickers, which I don’t want or F2P, that seemingly try to get you to buy stuff.

      • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
        2·
        2 years ago

        I know you’re joking to some extent, but can you just let the game run for hours, and it will continue to simulate matches / seasons, with basically no input? Or would it require regular input by changing players and other things?

        I tried an FM once on Game Pass, but when it started with walls of text one after the other, I just zoned out and didn’t even try.

        • INeedMana@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, I was 100% joking. I have never played any football manager.

          But as Darkest Dungeon introduced the idea of managing a roster of heroes, I can see how it can be easy to sink hours into base management alone