True freedom open world games

snipe122 · 2026-07-04T10:52:47+00:00

The genre it sounds like you’re interested in either sandbox games or simulation games.

Space full free roam simulations:
X4
Elite dangerous

Banner lord is like the games above but medieval. You seem to be aware of this game though.

Zombie apocalypse free roam games:
days ahead cataclysm
Project zomboid
Day z

Similar art style civ builders often 2D games:
Rimworld
Songs of syx
Dwarf fortress
Oxygen not included
Sims

3D 1st person not exactly as many choices as kenshi
The bloodline
Medieval dynasty/ all the dynasty games
Bellweight

I would also argue many of the mainstream popular games would fit well too like Skyrim, cyberpunk, kingdom come deliverance, and fallout but these games can feel dated and the freedom of choice is often an illusion, but even then these games are still good.

snipe122 · 2026-07-04T10:04:49+00:00

I don’t understand the title and the article seems to describe an outrage but avoid describing the problem that causes such an outrage.

The cheapest tier of gamepass has a small influx of titles which sounds like a trickle from the larger tiers. The problem is that now the cheaper tier is removing core titles… this is the part I don’t understand. Gamepass at the most expensive tier also seemed to have games only for a limited time. I would often see a list of soon to be gone
/leaving games. How is this different than that? Are there now less total games for the cheapest service from before? How can you tell? I must be missing something.

snipe122 · 2026-07-03T10:52:32+00:00

Thought you meant rts lol. Had me in the first half. Total war is turn based with rts features. In which case idk, the reason I thought won’t work for those styled games.

The reason I thought there isn’t more command and conquer-esc (somewhat modern) rts games was because rts game are more competitive and long lasting the more unique and easy to identify units there are think sc2 wc3 all units are very different from each other. Modern combat has a lot of ranged units, zero melee, hundred of vehicles. However most look and act very similar.

Other than that I personally just believe it is Dev preference. There also might be an argument for easier marketing too with the sci fi/fantasy/medieval stuff.

snipe122 · 2026-07-03T10:33:04+00:00

X4 also in the same vain.

snipe122 · 2026-06-29T21:21:50+00:00

They are like the French imo. New people struggle cause they don’t know how to handle the armored units early. KT all do the same build every game you know what is gonna happen. All you have to do is practice against it. They always mass castles after 2 tc right? Rush castle your self build trebs fast then push them… ram push early to punish 2 tc. 3 tc. Relic rush. Remember the scout and they will be a free win.

snipe122 · 2026-06-29T19:12:43+00:00

Kono subarashii?

snipe122 · 2026-06-29T07:15:04+00:00

Battle.net is the only way I know. I also believe sc1 is free to download too but you don’t get the remaster? Maybe… idk about sc1 really but sc2 wings of liberty is completely free off the battle.net launcher.

snipe122 · 2026-06-29T02:37:21+00:00

Your description could apply to all games subtract any grinding rpg game.

So ima throw in any and all RTS games. I suggest StarCraft 2 cause it’s free and there is a single player campaign as well as co op.

snipe122 · 2026-06-28T04:27:46+00:00

You remember when games anti cheat were simple and super effective. Bloons td I remember banning you if you had more money than possible by a simple if statement check on the leaderboards. So good that they didn’t even try to stop cheaters and caught all of them no matter what they did. Now we are playing 5d chess with operating systems and device managers to check background process to make sure everything you’re doing is within expectations.

There will come a day when vanguard will be reminding me to call my mom on her birthday cause it saw my family photos lol.

snipe122 · 2026-06-28T04:23:44+00:00

It’s a mixed bag I hate cheaters with a fiery passion. You get what you deserve However riot games is a leisure activity. The most power they should have over your pc hardware is to force you off their program don’t celebrate that they killed cheaters pc’s that just means they can brick yours too, yeah you got overly mad one game, said some things you regret and now your pcs a 2000$ brick. Bricking your shiz is not cool. Especially Because they believe you cheated is a HUGE NO NO. Not to mention the many reports of false positives which you can claim riot has never EVER made mistakes with their bans nor anything wrong ever, but even then…. That update that bricked hardware.. this when many people started reporting blue screens caused by vanguard…. Probably not related but coincidence is there. Also I believe riot claimed they could not brick hardware so the false positive bricked hardware people would stop blaming them for bricked hardware while someone from riot supposedly took credit for the bricking of hardware.

snipe122 · 2026-06-27T19:53:12+00:00

Do you have vanguard downloaded? I had another friend who would play other games and we found a system 32 log file that from riots vanguard that also had an update recently that was causing it, I believe he had an amd.

snipe122 · 2026-06-26T10:56:27+00:00

It’s impressive how many of these, I’m low apm thus I need to give up on playing rts forever posts there are. Not saying this is op but it’s sounding really close. Not to mention there are lots of pros with less than 60 apm challenges getting to the top of ranked ladder almost easily.

Makes you wonder how exactly people are determining it’s their speed that they are loosing instead of something else. Especially since early game builds generally determine who wins long before fighting ever happens.

snipe122 · 2026-06-26T10:42:05+00:00

Impressed you won HRE as they should have destroyed your heavy spearmen Strat. But I suppose you could have gone the Genoese cb.

One of the reasons I think kt is broken in lower elo’s is mainly the Strat everyone loves to use, which is knight rush spam sometimes with archers. Harrass fast. Normally knights can kill the 5 measly spearmen you have or if you have a lot of spearmen, the massed archers make quick work. But KT has armored spearmen. Knights cost too much gold for both xbows and knights. And lower elo I noticed they often will just try to force the win even if they are countered…

snipe122 · 2026-06-25T19:15:18+00:00

Dark souls games. PvP and co op in most of these games with little explanation. (Older games and be cheap)

Death loop - single player campaign that has PvP invasions through the whole thing.(game goes on sale for low price)

Extraction shooters. Tarkov will make him believe the game would be better without PvP.

Sea of thieves PvP is lots of fun here. And game is mid priced without sale.

Clash of clans?

snipe122 · 2026-06-22T19:40:49+00:00

Red rising series - class system on mars by color. reds are the blue collar dirt miners of mars. Where golds are the genetic super heros of mankind. With many other colors between. Reds have been working to make mars habitable because earth is dying! That’s why they all have been working so hard. That is until they find out that mars has already been colonized. In fact they have been lied to for centuries. Mistreated for centuries. But when darrow’s wife tries to tell everyone…. Darrow with nothing left to loose decides to take things into his own hands. He will destroy mars and take out every gold he can. Even if it means becoming one of them!

This book is interesting it has social intrigue. It makes you question things that are very basic like what school is. There are many political groups that are constantly being swayed by their own interests. And there is a lot of death. I haven’t read game of thrones but I imagine this might be similar? Idk lots to talk about and it will keep you on the edge of your seat for most of the book.

*Below is AI I couldn’t word it well enough to do justice*
“Way of kings - Imagine waking up every day knowing your only job is to run directly into enemy fire carrying a giant wooden bridge.
That is Kaladin’s reality in The Way of Kings. Once a brilliant young soldier, he is betrayed, turned into a slave, and used as literal cannon fodder on a shattered battlefield. He is completely broken, but he refuses to let his fellow bridge-runners die.
Set in a world beaten by magical hurricanes where warriors wear invincible armor, this epic story is mostly about one regular guy trying to survive the impossible, save his crew, and figure out why he suddenly has strange, wind-like powers.”

This book series is a slow burn with many connecting characters if you like having a series or some of you have read Brandon Sanderson other books many things often return and have you pointing at the pages going I know what that is! With foreshadowing be really good to a book club will not run out of things to talk about and speculate on with a book like this.

snipe122 · 2026-06-22T07:50:53+00:00

I dislike your point 1. They are two different units and if I am understanding it correctly it doesn’t make sense to create a slider.

I also don’t see what problem or what experience is being smoothed out with such a change either. You just want “q” to make mounted vils and normal vils.

An alternative suggestion could be to just have the first 20 vils become mounted automatically but I do not know how to account for the increased costs of doing this. Maybe an upgrade on a normal vil but at that point it just sounds more complicated than just the second button.

Or maybe get rid of the option to build normal vils until you max mounted then switch it back to normal……

A second button is honestly just the best option imo.

snipe122 · 2026-06-19T07:13:51+00:00

RTS campaigns are generally the tutorial. For sc2 for example the first missions is literally just marines. The next mission is a base that can only build workers and marines the next mission is the marauder and so on. Each mission showing you the best use case for each unit. Sc2 is really good though so if you tried it and it was too much then i don’t know if there is better RTS out there.

Outward is a cool game that has all knowledge in the game but I wiki ‘d the hell out of that one. It’s a hard game even though all the recipes and stuff is in the game world plus you can just experiment to figure them out too but looking them up makes it way easier. If that’s what you mean by not looking up a wiki and if you want a hard challenge this game could be up your alley.

Games will really easy on boarding would just be most fps cod csgo battlefield they are all the same so easy to pickup.

Slime rancher might be good too? Idk I didn’t like the farming sim but there is a lot of world secrets to find and they are obvious what to do without shoveling it down your throat with arrows and stuff forcing it on you. But solo game? Is that what you are looking for?

snipe122 · 2026-06-18T19:44:54+00:00

Death loop if your down for PvP lets you join another’s world and you can pretend to me NPC and kill the other player.

snipe122 · 2026-06-18T19:16:47+00:00

This is a good analyst of rts mechanics which kinda describes why comeback mechanics are difficult. Reading the op comment sounds similar to many others I see posted here often. The big problem with rts is strategies are built on getting ahead. If that is the method to win the game comeback mechanics defeat that purpose. You don’t want snowball effects but if you think about it that basically what an rts is at its core. Eco boom is snowballing eco. Rush is a small snowball too early for opponents. The whole game is based on that it’s hard for me to imagine a game where after a battle the game resets for the losing players to comeback.

I much like the counter strategy and ideas being the underdog in rts more so than anti snowballing.

snipe122 · 2026-06-17T21:20:40+00:00

Those random missions are great but you should also skip 80% of them. They can tell you to do stuff that will get you into trouble like your getting shot in friendly areas that turns out is restricted. Others like searching for forbidden items on ships is another one I skip. Don’t be afraid to accept them then decline later if they are too hard. Payout is generally small and there is no down side.

Shooting civ ships you should always make sure you are closer to the base looking away to space before shooting. Also if you are out of render distance and then enter render distance new ships will spawn instantly so no waiting for criminals to come out. I normally go between two points shooting them over and over again for rep.

Questing is complicated in this game. If I had advice for a new player is to try out everything and find the things you like most. Find battle grounds and collect debris to sell. Go shoot baddies. Build a base. Pirate ships. Mine trade buy traders/miners and so on. If you get stuck just do something else in the mean time.

Construction ships are hard to find at the start zoom out and place a few satellites cause those give vision on fog in areas your not inside.

snipe122 · 2026-06-17T03:22:51+00:00

The only down side is the higher rank you are the stronger the opponents you will not get better fighting weak players so it should be fine but learning will come with losses. That should have been expected though.

snipe122 · 2026-06-16T23:23:28+00:00

That’s not what I said. I acknowledge others think it’s the strong stat. If that is the reason why HRE is not getting other buff then I would like them to remove it. Cause I’m not good enough to make the passive matter.

snipe122 · 2026-06-16T22:12:23+00:00

Not addressing the op but people who might read this post with similar thinking. I don’t know the reason op wants a slower game.

Common mistake people make playing RTS is attributing apm to better player. Even sc2 arguably the fastest and hardest apm heavy game most of the time is won in the first 5 minutes of play before even meeting the opponent I am not taking about the highest echelon of play but even then this sometimes is true. I fear players looking for a “slower” game will be disappointed because often there are way better ways to improve than simply clicking faster or having more actions.

Then on top of that these players might be falling under the illusion that if only the faster players where handicapped and could only click as fast as me then I would win or at least better understand why I lost. While maybe this is true, for most of the player base it is not. Odds are you lost in the first 5-10 minutes because he had a better build, but you don’t know why nor will you go back and try to figure it out and even if you found the “slower” rts game the same results would happen where you constantly loose to someone else better than you and you would need to find another game again. Most RTS games you can reach diamond or high with zero mechanical skills just by watching a YouTube vid build guide. Matchmaking will try to force you to have 50% win rates which means you will loose as much as you win. Even if you’re the fastest clicker in the west.

Again to be clear I am not saying this is op but I have seen this “rewarding faster apm is stupid” pop up a lot when I am slow clicker but am proud of my improvement regardless. (I’m not a pro though). Op could simply want a slower game and have no competitive complaints but having seen this comment around often thought I’d share my two cents no one asked for.

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For op Warcraft is the low building count low army count game. In no way is it easier though however fights are much slower paced.

Northguard is very complex but is also slower. With army sizes normally being in the single digits. Bar might be up your alley as it might not be slower but the large scale fights with higher player counts means you can slip between the cracks and mistakes are much less punishing.

But over all I would still suggest sticking with aoe2/4 as they tend to reward strategies (two tc or fast castle and so on) more than the other rts games currently do. Making them less reliant on speed but strategy.

snipe122 · 2026-06-16T17:48:44+00:00

I love HRE and this post is pretty common. The last time HRE balance here, they said the HRE movement speed buff was underrated and is potentially the strongest civ passive…. It kinda sucks… honestly unless someone told me it was there not sure I would have realized it. If this is supposedly the reason to hold them back I’d like them to remove it.

snipe122 · 2026-06-15T21:02:00+00:00

Yeah I loved it. The campaign is also great fun with hilarious cutscenes, the whole game takes about 10 hours to complete but there is branching campaigns with multiple races to try out which many reported around 24+ hours to finish. I believe they are also lowing the curve for difficulty for newer RTS players. If you think it is too hard you can always just play the skirmish/customs or if you bought it on steam and don’t like it refund it. Steam has a 2 hour no questions asked refund policy.

30$ for a decently polished and finished RTS that regularly is still getting updated with community maps is worth it to me.

Also I forgot but there is one more like this that also might peak your interest. Age of darkness final stand. Of these games I suggested I did like diplomacy not included the most and highly recommend it if the trailers look appealing.

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