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always impermanentHey does anyone have recommendations for hopeful games about building community post-apocalypse? Or like, setting up farm plots and clean water supplies and stuff?
Oh I should probably specify since I didn't in the post: looking for computer games. I already know of a handful of ttrpgs that do this :)
Realization: Seedship sorta qualifies. Sorta.
It's a Twine game where you play the AI of a ship trying to find a new homeworld for humanity. It's good. So-so on "optimistic" but the mood it creates is an interesting one to experience.
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@starkatt I don't know of any but let us know if you get any good suggestions
...actually depending on how the world generates Dwarf Fortress might fit this?
@Felthry Dorfs is a super surprising suggestion and I'm into it :)
@Felthry the game is a bit too much for me personally (I've tried on a couple occasions) but I super appreciate what it is and have seen some quality lets plays.
@starkatt As for more accessible games, the backstory of Avernum feels a little like this (though the apocalypse in that case was an empire gaining control of the entire planet), with how Avernum is a system of caverns deep underground where the empire sends people to die--and yet instead the people came together and found a way to live down there
still, a bit distant from what you want
@starkatt oh! I have one! The minecraft mod pack Regrowth, which is focused on pretty much exactly this: restoring a dead world
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packbats in existence@troodon @Felthry @starkatt Is the FtB launcher version the canonical one? https://ftbwiki.org/Regrowth
@starkatt I mean, it's possible to generate a world where your dwarven fortress is the last outpost of civilization in a broken world
Jonne Arjoranta 🎮@starkatt What would be the ttrpg examples of this?
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Lioness With Mane@starkatt there's Thea: The Awakening, which is this weird… Slavic, folksy, fantasy, turn-based… you build up your village, send out adventuring/resource gathering parties, then have random CYOA-type encounters with and your villagers have skills that translate into different kinds of cards in different skill challenges…
restore the power of the gods (or not), make friends and peace with the remnants of the orcs, dwarves, and elves… if you can win their trust after humans broke the pantheon & life as everyone knew it
witchlectical runeterialist@starkatt holy heck id love a game like this, a lot of my favorite games are like, My Life As A King where you build infastructure for adventurers to do shit, even in final fantasy xiv my favorite parts are where you restore things. like i love how the new expansion is a lot about rebuilding a broken world? but of course you mostly fight baddies and dont do the building
holy fuck id kill for a spinoff of My Life as a King but you're the Crystal Exarch and rebuilding the Crystarium
Amazey@starkatt I just saw a trailer for a game like this! https://www.common-hood.com/
verity, in a pantry near you@starkatt I will never not recommend Fabricationist Dewit Remakes the World, but that might not be what you're looking for:
http://www.makoian.com/jedediah/fabricationist/FabricationistDeWit.html
(It doesn't touch as much on the actual hard work of rebuilding, but on the bit just before)
@noctiluca @starkatt I remember this! I haven't played it for so long.
@noctiluca that was a heck of an experience
I don't know how much branching there is, but at the end of the game I played, the father asked for plans for weapons - defenses to keep the project of recovery alive in the face of robbers
and I spent
a while
with my face in my hands, trying to figure out how to decide
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Mh, maybe the base building part from Fallout 4 or the newer "My time at Portia". The upcoming "death stranding" is about connecting the human kind, but it is more creepy than hopefull I think.
Is there a special genre you are looking for?
Mh, maybe the base building part from Fallout 4 or the newer "My time at Portia". The upcoming "death stranding" is about connecting the human kind, but it is more creepy than hopefull I think.
Is there a special genre you are looking for?
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Fallout 4 is basically a farming sim with big green mutants and hand-launched nuclear weapons.
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Tak!@starkatt Hmm, The Flame in the Flood touches on this, but in a trying-to-connect-with-existing/remaining-communities way
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That kind of game tends to lean toward difficulty & embrace despair as an aesthetic in my experience :(
That kind of game tends to lean toward difficulty & embrace despair as an aesthetic in my experience :(
@enkiv2 Yeah, that's why I want to specify not-that :)
There's so much "apocalypse is a brutal wasteland, get yer guns" and so little "we need to seriously come together and work as a community now" out there.
The book Station 11 is a great example of the latter, if you're looking.
MOVED to @@starkatt ...Eco? maybe?
treed@starkatt Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a post-apocalyptic roguelike that certainly meets the latter part. Lots of crafting available. I see references to NPCs but I haven’t personally seen any yet.