Do you have a game that you could say theirs nothing else like it.

[mjs warlord]

I am asking this question because i am looking for something " different ".

A puzzle is a puzzle is a puzzle etc
You could list dozens of games that you go on a mission , kill something , get a reward.

For the past 2 years i have been hammering SATISFACTORY and like thousands of others i am waiting for new content , i have looked at other construction games but none of them seem to float my boat. I did look at city skylines but it looks a big complicated

 

[ZedClampet]

From one lover of Satisfactory to another Here's a preliminary list for you. The first game is the most like Satisfactory, but the rest might be of interest to someone who enjoys the sorts of things you do in Satisfactory.

Astro Colony is sort of Satisfactory in space. It's not quite as complex, but I found it quite fun and easy to learn. Travel on your station to planetoids. Even hook the best ones up to your station and take them with you. Gather resources and have your researcher unlock new tech. Build complex factories and eventually travel through black holes to new universes.

Astro Colony on Steam

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

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Build a factory without conveyor belts while managing your people and building up your community in a voxel world similar to Minecraft in Colony Survival. If you want to, defend against nightly monster attacks by setting up your archers, building walls, etc.

Colony Survival on Steam

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

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Planet Crafter is a first person survival/crafting/building game where you terraform a planet similar to Mars. Fun and relaxing with no combat. You can turn off losing items when you die (usually from running out of oxygen), which makes it even more relaxing. Dying just becomes a quick trip home. Great exploration and advancement. Lots of systems but not hard to learn at all. Some good mods available.

Save 30% on The Planet Crafter on Steam

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build you base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

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Design and build the perfect space ships in Cosmoteer. Travel around the galaxy in your ships gathering resources, fighting pirates, doing missions, etc. Very challenging to make the best ships. Game is easy to learn, hard to master.

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander on Steam

Design and simulate the starship of your dreams! Command it in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ship in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

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Avorion is sort of a 3D version of Cosmoteer with great ship building and exploration.

Avorion on Steam

A procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their own space ships out of dynamically scalable blocks. Fight epic space battles, explore, mine, trade, wage wars and build your own empire to save your galaxy from being torn apart by an unknown enemy.

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I really like Big Ambitions. It's an isometric business game set in New York. You pick your locations and set up anything from gift shops to hair salons to law firms. You buy and place the fixtures, hire and train the employees. You'll also set up a home office with personnel managers, etc. and have warehousing and deliveries to deliver to all your businesses each day with stock that you get from importers or wholesalers.

Big Ambitions on Steam

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

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Two colony sims I have sunk some hours into are Kingdoms Reborn and Timberborn. What sets KR apart from other colony sims is that you lead your community from the middle ages all the way to modern times. In Timberborn you lead a post apocalypse community of beavers. Both can be as relaxing or stressful as you want to make them. Both are easy to learn. Timberborn doesn't take a ton of time to play and there are two factions and multiple maps. KR has 4 factions and maps can be randomly generated.

Kingdoms Reborn on Steam

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

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Timberborn on Steam

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

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If running a farming business sounds fun, there's always Farming Simulator 22. Buy a farm and equipment. Work the fields or hire farmhands or both. Decide what and when to plant. Build factories (not the same way as in Satisfactory) to process your crops further to bring a better price. Deliver the crops to the right seller for the highest price. Etc.

Farming Simulator 22 on Steam

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

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Want to try your hand at running an auto repair and customization shop? Car Mechanic Simulator 21 is very highly rated (all these games are) and you can do everything from taking jobs from customers with car problems to wandering through barns and junkyards looking for cars to restore. Jack those cars up with custom parts and take them to the track for a timed test drive. Very in depth systems that are somehow extremely easy to use.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 on Steam

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

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Like doing handyman work and decorating houses? You might like House Flipper

House Flipper on Steam

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

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Like commercial aquariums? Design, stock and manage one in Megaquarium. Fantastic game with massive amounts of content and Steam workshop support that adds even more.

Megaquarium on Steam

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

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Those are what I have for now. I'll look through my library later and see if I can come up with more suggestions. These are definitely some of my favorites, though.

 

[Rolfil]

House Builder First Job is the first two levels of House Builder.

I second Planet Crafter, an excellent game developed by just 2 people

 

[Brian Boru]

i am looking for something " different "

"nothing else like it"

Hmm, I guess that depends on what game types you already know.

This has construction, but not like you're used to—it's more a puzzler if you choose to go for 3 stars on Expert mode.
Royal Envoy series
Try the 1-hour free trial on them all to see if you like the gameplay. If you purchase, I advise getting the Collector's Editions with about 50% extra levels.
RE1 hardest
RE2 easiest
RE3 tricky and interesting
RE4 easy [aka Campaign for the Crown]

Moduwar Demo
Guaranteed very different RTS. Currently free on NextFest.

 

[ZedClampet]

House Builder First Job is the first two levels of House Builder.

I second Planet Crafter, an excellent game developed by just 2 people

There are several more like that, too, if he likes them. These games are sort of like zen busywork simulators like Ship Graveyard and PowerWash Simulator. Good for just letting your mind go and unwinding.

 

[Zloth]

Letting my mind GO? That sounds dangerous! What if it finds a skull it likes better?

To the original post... Maybe you need to go the other direction and deconstruct?

Hardspace: Shipbreaker on Steam

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

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The title is a different thing... If you're going to call "a puzzle a puzzle," then you must be talking about extremely unique games. There have certainly been plenty of great, highly unique games. They started their own genres after other developers used the unique ideas in their own games! These days, you're probably talking about games that are very niche, just plain not-so-good, or trapped in obscurity.

 

[Johnway]

So far the most unique experiences i can think of have been puzzle games. manifold garden and antichamber are the first to springs to mind. i would also add viewfinder as possible to add to the list.

Honorable mention to hypnospace outlaw. if it wasn't did feel so much as work, it would have been something i would have loved and would have been one of the best things i played last year. Still getting the sequel though.


EDIT: outside of puzzle games, the one standout experience that was memorable at the time was Planetside 2. Seeing hundreds of players just assualting or defending a base is a massive thrill. especially when both teams are balanced in numbers and skill. heroic assaults', glorious last stands, objectives constantly flipping, so many kills that your k/d is in the positive and in double figures. it was amazing. thats all over now, but damn, when it was with the right people it was amazing and a real thrill and i left them feeling entertained and walking away with loads of credits to boot.

 

[BeardyHat]

Snowrunner.

Sure, it's a driving game, but it's very different. It's somewhat chill, but can also be very intense at a very slow pace.

The quick description is this: explore a partial wilderness area with a small truck or SUV (my favorite is the International Scout II. Always wanted one), uncover as much of the map as you can, find upgrades for your truck. Find a mission to haul something, tow something or retrieve something, get the appropriate truck for the job and then study the map and get to know it and strategize how you're going to get what where. From there, there's the micro strategy of how you're going to approach and tackle certain obstacles in your path (this route is quicker, but has some big rocks your large truck may tip over on and dump your load). Once you get the mission done, get your money and upgrade your truck to tackle new loads or routes you couldn't before by adding larger tires, lockers, AWD, etc, etc.

There's not another game like it.

 

[Pifanjr]

Some of the most unique games I've played:

Black & White (1 & 2)
Darwinia/Multiwinia
Sunless Sea (there's also a sequel: Sunless Skies, but I haven't played it)
Crusader Kings 2 (I haven't played 3).
Honestly, all of the grand strategy games of Paradox are quite unique, especially if you have all of the DLC, as I don't think any other developers have made grand strategy games with anywhere near as much content.

 

[Brian Boru]

Not my cuppa, but that crazy Inscryption game seemed pretty unique:

Inscryption on Steam

Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

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Other possibles:

Death Stranding
Papers Please
Super Hot
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
The Stanley Parable
Twelve Minutes