Totally Accurate Battle Simulator - macOS version, bit of knock about fun to fill 10 minutes when time to play is limited.
What other games are we all playing?
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Depending on what you mean by "pure single player", I find No Man's Sky to be Subnautica on steroids, and possibly its most valid alternative.
NMS has the single player mode (which is what I tend to play).
By "pure single player", i mean no MP at all. Many of the "survival" type games I've looked at have a SP mode but are really designed around playing MP. Tried NMS, couldn't get into it in the 2 hours I had before the Steam refund window closed.
Another update iminent for NMS. they go from strength to strength. NMS have a tenth of the devs that ED have, yet they're able to make several significant gameplay expansions a year and they've never charged for any of them. Why can't Frontier do that? NMS is a much happier game than ED, and so are the players.
MSFS 2020 on Steam Sale.
Based on what I keep hearing, not until it’s 50% off.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam Sale.
Not likely, yet.
I can deal with the graphics. The flight model is just a convenient method of getting to places- and that burns many who live to fly.
I can wait. I’ve still got plenty of games in my backlog, and I’ve got a few older flight sims in my library. Not to mention Kerbal Space Program, which lets me design my own planes.Not likely, yet.
MSFS is both amazing and also one of the biggest disappointments in my gaming life. Of course this is a huge example of YMMV, based on where you like to fly, how good your internet is, how patient you are with bugs and constant HUGE updates, and what you think about games that are never finished but sold as if they are..
It's one of the very few games I actually uninstalled from my computer out of frustration and the crazy amount of storage if freed up (I've never uninstalled Elite, except from PS4). It also has me seriously considering the next X-plane release, despite that being serious downgrade in scenic accuracy.
This game looks fun, but then I think - "It's just Space Engineers Lite, and I already own SE!"
Since consolegate it's been NMS ,over 500 hrs so far and it's a blast . Yeah the ship flight let's NMS down a bit , but all other gameplay outstrips Elite by months if not years . I haven't missed Elite ( not deleted ) at all and I used to be on every night .
I think it's one aspect of Space Engineers (and a few others), but taken a deep dive into. The mechanics are great, and I'm loving it.
I've only watched some gameplay videos, so I can't really argue on any sure footing. I just felt like, "I'm already grinding up ships in Space Engineers, so..." That said, I thought for sure Shipbreaker was a VR title when I first saw the videos. Shame it isn't, because I think that would really separate it from the pack.
Borderlands 3 was free on epic this week, so playing that
Interestingly, unless I'm missing a setting the physics/ particle effects seem to have gone backwards. in Borderlands 2 there could be thousands of particles from bullet hits that persisted on the ground for ages. I thought that was great, properly looked like you'd wrecked the place. That doesn't happen in Borderlands 3 and I can't see a setting for it
Interestingly, unless I'm missing a setting the physics/ particle effects seem to have gone backwards. in Borderlands 2 there could be thousands of particles from bullet hits that persisted on the ground for ages. I thought that was great, properly looked like you'd wrecked the place. That doesn't happen in Borderlands 3 and I can't see a setting for it
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Whatever happened to StarBase ?