World/city builders

[RizzoTheRat]

Quite enjoyed Planetbase and Banished recently, but ultimately got bored due to the lack of endgame, despite armed invaders or diseased crops, the challenge is getting a stable community early on. I seem to remember this was the same reason I didn't like the Sim City series years ago.
So I dug out Anno 1404, the campaign mode gives you something to aim for, albeit fairly trivial, but it's not as good as Banished in quite of a lot of areas.

I used to love the Stronghold series as you had to build up your defences to withstand an attack you knew was coming, but think I've only got the first couple of them.

I'm aware there's a couple of versions of Anno since 1404 that I've not tried yet either.

So should I be looking at Strongholder Crusader 2, Anno 2070/2205, or something else entirely?

[vonuber]

City skylines.

[RizzoTheRat]

Is that basically an updated version of Sim City? Video on Steam looks very similar.

[Altrezia]

It's by another team/company. It was released shortly after the "current" sim city, but was way more in depth and - imho - better. Good game.

[ReallyReallyGood]

Presume you've tried the Civilisation series? Guess it's not techincally a builder in the same sense, but it has very similar mechanics in that you have to build up your empire whilst dealing with resource management, money, and attacks.

Edited by ReallyReallyGood on Thursday 12th January 12:32

[RizzoTheRat]

Yeah, ever since colonization. There was a recent Sid Meir Humble Bundle deal that everything up to 4 with all the expansions. Think I prefer the mechanics of 3 but 5 just looks better.

[The Beaver King]

For a real left field choice, take a look at Rimworld.

It has stolen my life, it is that addicitive.

Available on Steam, still in alpha but a complete game in every sense.

[JB!]

Civ 5 complete edition will be cheap next steam sale and 100% worth every penny.

[RizzoTheRat]

vonuber said:

City skylines.

Thanks to you lot I'm now spending far too much of my time trying to design decent road junctions
Some major limitations in the modelling though, traffic keeps stopping at junctions where it doesn't need to, if I have the same number of lanes in as out with no crossover (eg a one way 2 lane and a slip road merging on to a 3 lane one way) there's no reason the the traffic to stop, but it quite often does.
Plus I've really not the the hang of curves, my slip roads are a nightmare

[JB!]

RizzoTheRat said:

vonuber said:

City skylines.

Thanks to you lot I'm now spending far too much of my time trying to design decent road junctions
Some major limitations in the modelling though, traffic keeps stopping at junctions where it doesn't need to, if I have the same number of lanes in as out with no crossover (eg a one way 2 lane and a slip road merging on to a 3 lane one way) there's no reason the the traffic to stop, but it quite often does.
Plus I've really not the the hang of curves, my slip roads are a nightmare

Yep, this is my frustration with it, that and getting junction dropped exactly where you want them

[RizzoTheRat]

JB! said:

that and getting junction dropped exactly where you want them

I've found marking up a grid with dirt tracks helps a lot