Sick of kill, maim, mutilate, jump, shot, bomb, hop, skip, and kick games.

[robains]

There isn't a single game on Steam (or anywhere) that I can find that does:

1. Explore for the sake of exploring
2. Discover, identify, research, and use to create something that doesn't kill
3. Build but not consume everything in sight as an objective
4. Interaction that doesn't lead to war
5. Purpose to learn how to progress without killing someone/thing

I'm not necessarily a pacifist, but I'm just so sick of the same old, shoot and kill games ... even when I look for a resource based strategy game there is always the "kill" and build defenses element.

Are game designers really so unimaginative or is their design contoured by an unimaginative public/gamer/consumer? Surely some game designer has the guts to take a risk ... I can't believe I'm the only one that wants something more than shoot/kill to progress?

Yes I'm old, gaming back to text based Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork (look it up) before any sort of "graphics" were even a possibility and played on a University Computer in their lab. I've seen the game industry just follow the same game design pattern of shoot and kill and reward, add some better graphics, rinse and repeat ... over and over and over.

We can do better?

[Chika Ogiue]

Oprindeligt skrevet af robains:

Where did I say not chop down trees or gather resources??

You implied it with this:

3. Build but not consume everything in sight as an objective

In order to build, you have to "consume" things in sight to get the materials.

[robains]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ionut Catalin Frasineanu:

First of all, if the profile picture is yours, you are not old at all. You're just a grown man and that's not a shame or a problem, it's a fact. I am 38 years old

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm 60 in my profile pic and yes it's pretty recent -- I do workout a lot at my gym and hike/bike.

Anyway, some great suggestions by most with a few peanut gallery comments as expected, but overall something I can check out.

I have looked into many of those listed, but there are a few that escaped me like:

Planet Crafter
Terra Nil
Against the Storm

Thanks for the suggestions.

[robains]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Chika Ogiue:

Oprindeligt skrevet af robains:

Where did I say not chop down trees or gather resources??

You implied it with this:

3. Build but not consume everything in sight as an objective

In order to build, you have to "consume" things in sight to get the materials.

I prefixed with the word "everything" (as in ALL resources).

[robains]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Hobbit XIII:

-game designer and yes we can.

product in development - not released and not completed soon.

Does it have something to do with Hobbits? A hint, more detail?

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Oprindeligt skrevet af robains:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ionut Catalin Frasineanu:

First of all, if the profile picture is yours, you are not old at all. You're just a grown man and that's not a shame or a problem, it's a fact. I am 38 years old

Thanks for the compliment, but I'm 60 in my profile pic and yes it's pretty recent -- I do workout a lot at my gym and hike/bike.

Anyway, some great suggestions by most with a few peanut gallery comments as expected, but overall something I can check out.

I have looked into many of those listed, but there are a few that escaped me like:

Planet Crafter
Terra Nil
Against the Storm

Thanks for the suggestions.

If you've really used Steam for as long as your badge suggests, you should know by now that you can literally tailor the Steam store to only show games that you are interested in and it's easy. It's just a question of ticking boxes of genres and details and genres that you're interested in. You can also hide things that you are not interested in.

[Electric Cupcake]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6bgQnlP1w

[Electric Cupcake]

Minecraft in peaceful mode.

[B✪✪tsy]

Play Deus Ex games. Especially the last two games are designed for non lethal and completely stealth playthroughs.

[Blood]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Electric Cupcake:

Minecraft in peaceful mode.

You mean the first game ever where the point is to consume everything in sight?

[Electric Cupcake]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Blood:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Electric Cupcake:

Minecraft in peaceful mode.

You mean the first game ever where the point is to consume everything in sight?

Plenty of people play as vegetarian, either as a self-imposed challenge or just because.

[Stellar Remnant]

OP, you should try Opus Magnum. It's only $10 right now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/558990/Opus_Magnum/

[Droopy The Dog]

I can only assume OP is too old to use the store search function properly, since the original premise is so entirely wrong

[Chika Ogiue]

Oprindeligt skrevet af robains:

I prefixed with the word "everything" (as in ALL resources).

Yes, and in games, that would be "all" resources. You don't put resources in a game if they aren't being used for something. Now whether you choose to use all those resources is up to you and how you play the game, but it doesn't change the fact that your very post implied what the other poster was pointing out.

[Alucard †]

Oprindeligt skrevet af M100T:

There are a lot of games without violence, even some popular ones (like Stardew Valley).

Stardew Valley is a bad example cause it has suprisingly quite a lot of combat and killing.

Mines , Skull Cavern , Volcano , Island / night enemies (latter can be disabled tho) and these combat areas have a lot of useful/necessary materials for "endgame".

And it's borderline impossible to mine/gather anything in these areas while getting spammed by enemies from every side.
Also certain enemies drop resources that you won't find anywhere else that are needed for your late game farms.
(Not to mention completing/clearing these areas is required for progress/completion.)

So no i don't think OP would like Stardew Valley.

[IFIYGD]

OP- just came across this one in my activity feed when a friend bought it. It might fit the bill:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2020710/Havendock/