Games as in-depth, complex, and open to choices like Dwarf Fortress

[Some White Flour Fanatic]

I've been trying to find games similar to Dwarf Fortress within its complexity and ability to do anything you can think of. The only games I have found to provide such a need was CDDA, rimworld with mods, garrys mod with mods, Unreal World, Skyrim Franchise, Fallout Franchise, Caves Of Qud, Terraria with mods, and Minecraft with mods. Can anyone else give the names of games that I am missing or have played mods that enabled an ability to basically do anything you can think of?

[Enkar]

If you like space-games, i'd recommend X3: Albion Prelude, or X4: Foundations. Big sandbox space operas where you can influence dramatically the political and economical landscape.

Otherwise the "closest" to a dwarf-fortress i can think of would be Rimworld.

[Trickst3r83]

Rimworld is a game that I enjoy a lot, clocking almost 3k hours into it (between 2,8 - 2,9k atm)

Oxygen is fun too but with mods? Rimworld can be quite a beasty game with them, wanna play as some indoor cavern cannibal raiders that eat the enemies and wear their leather? Got it. Wanna play some transhuman bio-enhanced glitter soldiers armed with full tech weapons? Got it too. Or wanna be a pure mediavel tech game? Or zombies? Star Wars? There's a lot of stuff you can do, and you can define it by the mods you subscribe

The first time I played it I thought of refunding it....I'm glad I reconsidered, Rimworld is without doubt my favorite game of all times

[Big Papa]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/341390/Vulture_for_NetHack/

[Nova Solarius]

引用自 moonchild：

Dominions 5

Seconding this. Basically the Dwarf Fortress of turn-based strategy.

[TheDiaz]

Sorry for doing this... but Skyrim franchise... as a fan of the early Elder Scroll games you are hurting me.

People have already given some of the ones I was oging to give, like Dominions 5 or X3 (X2 is an option too). You have a game called Aurora 4x too, if you enjoy games that are hard to udnerstand but give you a lot of freedom. Basically a 4x game where you can design several of the components of the ship, like the radars or engines which can take a lot of trial and error and understanding what they do.

I recommend too the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.. https://store.steampowered.com/sub/35983/

Some of them aged poorly, specially Clear Sky, but they are great. You can both wait untill you finishe the stories or hop right into modding, with mods like Anomaly that combines the maps of the 3 games into 1 big Zone to explore and hunt for loot. They are very atmospheric and immersive.

[SHADOWELITE7]

引用自 Big Papa：

https://store.steampowered.com/app/341390/Vulture_for_NetHack/

the original NetHack is free

[SHADOWELITE7]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/722730/Cogmind/

look into this

[SHADOWELITE7]

引用自 Pitaden：

I'd definitely recommend Space Station 13. Imagine dwarf fortress, but it was started as an atmosphere simulator and each dwarf is a player. Some of these players get to be antagonists, where their entire goal is to cause problems for the rest of the crew.

Servers can vary a lot, but all of them have a ton of depth. I'll talk about Goonstation specifically, because it's what I know the most about. Some of its features include:
- A chemistry system for making medicines, poisons, and whatever else
- Individual organs and limbs which can be cut out and replaced with different ones, such as replacing your leg with a monkey's or stapling an energy sword to your arm stump.
- A full DOS-style terminal system, including a programming language and a packet system for some machines to communicate over wires (which, of course, you can hijack)
- A teleporter that requires math to convert coordinates into the teleporter coordinates, with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of content to explore including an ARG

A ton of the fun of the game comes from seeing the dumb things people manage to do and the stories that come out of it, much like dwarf fortress

check out this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1255460/Space_Station_14/

[SHADOWELITE7]

all the games you mentioned of are pretty close

one that I think is closer is UnReal World

[Nisk Philadelphia]

CDDA is a bit better now, they have a experimental with some new features. and 0.F is released, i use the UNDEAD_PEOPLE tileset and a soundpack.

Rimworld is OK, but you can kind of predict when your colony is going to get ruined, rimworld industry mod for extra mayhem.

Terraria? No.

Minecraft with mods is a hassle to find the right mods or try to keep it interesting, most mod packs suck.

heard of kenshi, watched a little bit, seems okay.

fallout is a alright choice, it has story but for the older fallout 3 and below you need compatibility tools to run them and they can be buggy.

project zomboid is okay, if you consider it a complex game. its just about skill grinding anyways. mods help.

if anything id not even bother paying for the games, they aren't worth your money and trying to make it worth your money is horrible, rimworld is 60 bucks and i could've easily pirated it. thats 60 bucks i could have spent on DMV fees or etc, its a waste of cash, and tynan is only releasing more paid DLC's.

id play more cata tbh, and have been.
aftershock in the experimental adds a bunch of cool ♥♥♥♥ to play around with.

so far ive just pirated just some other crap, game dev's dont deserve your money if their game is gonna be a utter paywall or crap.

and since Pitaden mentioned SS13, I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT.
byond is a ancient 1993 piece of junk software, and ss13 mods are quick to anger.
i've been banned off of almost every game, and have to figure out linux to be order to just even join a server due to the ban evasion tools i need, the HRP servers are extra strict too, and the antags usually are boring with their method.

[TheDiaz]

引用自 Slingring：

and since Pitaden mentioned SS13, I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT.
byond is a ancient 1993 piece of junk software, and ss13 mods are quick to anger.
i've been banned off of almost every game, and have to figure out linux to be order to just even join a server due to the ban evasion tools i need, the HRP servers are extra strict too, and the antags usually are boring with their method.

For this one is better to wait for SS14 to release here on Steam. It won't use Byond to work.

[🐤🎀First AIDS Kid🎀🐤]

引用自 TheDiaz：

引用自 Slingring：

and since Pitaden mentioned SS13, I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT.
byond is a ancient 1993 piece of junk software, and ss13 mods are quick to anger.
i've been banned off of almost every game, and have to figure out linux to be order to just even join a server due to the ban evasion tools i need, the HRP servers are extra strict too, and the antags usually are boring with their method.

For this one is better to wait for SS14 to release here on Steam. It won't use Byond to work.

also Unitystation

[JAGIELSKI]

I'd recommend OpenTTD if it wasn't already. It's on stream for free and it's one of the greatest tycoon style games.