Asklemmy@lemmy.mlbyOhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
16 hours

Best longterm offline Linux friendly games? Give me your best!

I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.

Bonus if it’s multiplayer capable LAN and not online.

Oxygen not included is nice but mentally taxing sometimes. I prefer laid back chill games with economy and farming. 2d or 3d doesn’t matter. I don’t mind trying indie games. Survival based games are nice. I’m not super pick and choose.

Give me your greatest joy in game form. I’ve heard Stardew Valley is good. I tried it, reminds me of a gameboy game. I could not get into the game. My character kept falling asleep like 14 times in a day.

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      • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
        23 minutes

        +1 for mindustry and luanti.

        I’ll add Wesnoth, Widelands and OpenTTD too.

    • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
      7 hours

      X-plane runs natively on Linux, and you have countless hour of simming. While not fully single-player, Elden ring works perfectly through steam/proton, and the ordinary interaction with other players is about letting message

    • runiq@feddit.org
      13 hours

      What’s that about falling asleep 14 times in a day? What do you mean? That’s not how it works…

      Anyway, here’s Wonderwall:

      • Terraria, Minecraft in 2D.
      • Dwarf Fortress. It’s chill. In a very, ah, neurospecific kind of way.
      • Luanti, it’s basically open source Minecraft. Moddable in Lua, which is easy enough to pick up.
      • Subnautica. Stranded alone on an underwater planet. Not ‘relaxing’ in the original sense, but there’s a sense of discovery few games can replicate. Aside from maybe…
      • Outer Wilds. Explore a mini solar system in a rickety spaceship. Everything else would be a spoiler, but you owe it to yourself to play it someday.
      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        2 hours

        I’m just going to plug here that Luanti is best referred to as “Luanti plus Mineclonia.”.

        My aologies for the Stallman reference.

        I find that whether folks enjoy their first outing in Luanti tends to highly correlate with whether they know to try Mineclonia inside of Luanti, first, before the other more esoteric games available.

      • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev
        3 hours

        Not OP, but I’ve tried getting into Stardew multiple times and the fatigue mechanic absolutely ruins the game for me. “14 times” is an exaggeration but what it feels like.

        People describe it as a cozy game but it is genuinely one of the most stressful games that I’ve played. As in I start clearing the land and then after a very short time my character is exhausted. Either I sleep it off and I’m worried I’ll plant late enough the crops will die in winter or I work through it and end up in the hospital with a bill. Sometimes I’ve used the time to explore the town (as it seems the game mechanics are telling you to do), whereupon I find the shops are closed and I collapse on the way back home.

        The one or two times I’ve played long enough to harvest crops I end up eating all of it just to get to the end of the day. Most of the money I make is from selling actual literal garbage I’ve found lying around.

        The result of that mechanic is that the game is basically telling me the most cozy part of the game (farming) I’m not allowed to play until I’ve invested enough time to stock up on energy drinks. I’m left with fishing, which just isn’t my thing, and mining, which is what I’ll mostly do until I get bored because it’s honestly kinda mediocre on it’s own. I just can’t get into this game.

        (I’m aware that the main pull for the game is the characters, which if you enjoy that that’s good. I’ve just never had much of a reason to be invested in them)

    • Chezus9247@lemmy.world
      14 hours

      If you haven’t played it, Terraria. One of my all time favorite games, after all those years. Should also be really cheap on sales.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3 hours

        I’m trying to persuade my partner to play it with me at the moment. He seems open to it, but experiences inertia around starting a new game.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      15 hours

      Cities: skylines

      This one doesn’t even require Proton, since it’s Linux native. It’s also a very chill game.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      10 hours

      CoreKeeper is a good one for multiplayer. Like Terraria x Stardew. I self hosted a server that we played for months, including at a LAN party, but I do think they use a nat hole-punch server to ease connectivity. Not sure if it was possible to direct connect via IP. It’s a big world with boss/gear progression and some mining automation.

      Nothing has quite scratched the Rimworld itch for me, anything in that realm just makes me wanna play RimWorld more. But technically I have to mention Dwarf Fortress.

      If you haven’t played a factory sim, Factorio is a classic. If you don’t want to have to fight buggers, you could try Dyson Sphere Program or Satisfactory instead.

      Modulus is a recent factory sim with a unique twist: instead of having a fixed tech tree you work through, you’re given arbitrary 3D block configurations, and you lay down the configuration of buildings to make them. I really like the open-endedness. Some designs nicely complement others, so that the pieces you cut out to make part A can be stuck into the line that makes part B.

      Btw, for Stardew, you need to eat foods that give your stamina back. Early on it’s harder to get the foods, but later you grow tons.

    • kartoffelsaft@programming.dev
      14 hours

      If you like Rimworld the obvious suggestion from me is Dwarf Fortress. It’s on steam but if you’re not sure I believe there’s a free version with the original ascii graphics on the bay12 games website (at least there was when I last played).

      Also Factorio might interest you, but for a laid back experience you’d want to turn down biters (mostly disabling expansions). May be mentally taxing.

      Another comment mentions modded minecraft, which gets a +1 from me. Though if you want a “forever world” I’d suggest playing unmodded (save for some client side graphics / QoL if desired), as there’s at least some guarantee you can keep the world as the game gets updated. If you do go modded though I’d suggest using prismlauncher and browsing through premade modpacks on modrinth and curseforge. P.S. if you don’t already own the game somehow you’ll want java edition, not bedrock

    • solrize@lemmy.ml
      12 hours

      Postal Diplomacy has been around longer than the internet, so why not.

      • detren@sh.itjust.works
        14 hours

        +1 to modded minecraft. The Create mod and its many many many addons would fit right in with OPs tastes I think. A team of modders even made a mod adding physics that allow for building planes, cars, and more. It’s pretty wild.

        • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          14 hours

          said mod adding physics is single-handedly making an august 2024 hotfix update the most popular minecraft version

      • Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        15 hours

        (Java Edition of course. There’s several different launchers you can choose from after purchasing a legitimate forever copy of Minecraft, but PrismLauncher is the one I use and it’s a native Qt application.)

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15 hours

      Project zomboid, once build 42 finally comes out that is. Shouldn’t be more than a few more months right? Haha

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
        9 hours

        That game has consumed multiple glorious years of my life. Amazing game with an amazing modding community.

      • JakenVeina@midwest.social
        11 hours

        I dunno if I’d call it Linux friendly. It runs under Proton moderately well, but it feels like it’s still not quite as good as it was on Windows. And there’s no official support.

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
          2 hours

          Satisfactory is fantastic on SteamDeck, since their big update (mid last year?) to get SteamDeck verified.

        • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4 hours

          I’ve put hundreds of hours in on Linux and completed the game once. I’ve done almost everything there is to do in the game without issue. It’s never felt like a sub par experience.