I played a bit more Baldur's Gate 3. I started a fight but promptly got my character knocked into lava, so I reloaded my save. I then cast two buff spells (I should maybe get a few more) and tried again, but it was still a struggle and Shadowheart ended up dying because of a critical hit by the last enemy. Luckily I have several revival scrolls, so I just got her up again.
Thank you for the recommendation. I saw both Factorio and Planet Crafter have a demo available as well. Both seem very interesting, but also like games that I might burn out on very quickly, so it'll be good to try out the game before buying it.
TLDR Planet Crafter: To avoid burnout, adjust the speed of terraforming and look at the other adjustments when you are creating your game. Look for a couple of mods (mentioned below), and pick out a good spot for a large base (area suggested below)
TLDR Factorio: If you don't love making factories, you're going to burn out, but you can improve your chances of making it to the end by adding the infinite resource nodes mod and by automating everything and doing little to no hand-crafting.
As for Planet Crafter, I love that game. There is a lot of good exploration. You have to do a lot of crafting to terraform the planet, but the good thing for people who don't love crafting is that you can adjust the speed of terraforming when you set up the game, which I recommend you do. The base speed the game wants to go is very slow. You can also set up how fast your oxygen, food and water deplete and whether you drop your inventory when you die, so you can make the "survival" part as hard or difficult as you want.
I also recommend checking out mods for Planet Crafter. Mods that increase the storage capacity and let you craft from your storage really take some of the sting off of crafting so much stuff.
Also, you need to find a convenient and largely flat area to put your base, which is going to be very large before the end of the game. My suggestion is to put it in between the aluminum area and the iridium mine, which is very close to where you spawn. Keep in mind that many areas are going to flood during the terraforming process.
Whether you get burned out in Factorio depends, at least partly, on how you play. If you are new to it, it might seem that the best thing to do is to hand-craft "little stuff" like inserters, tunnels and conveyors, but those are actually critical to automate because you are going to need an ungodly amount of them. And by the time you are reaching the mid-game, you are going to be sick of standing around and hand-crafting. Except for the very early tiers of these things, I would try to automate pretty much everything. A little more work on the front end leads to a much faster and more enjoyable mid-game and end-game.
If you are concerned about burning out on it, definitely get the mod that makes the resource nodes have infinite resources. Otherwise you'll have to rebuild everything multiple times.
However, if you don't love factory making, you're going to burn out eventually. It's a big game and it doesn't get easier as you go. The battles against the locals really don't amount to much, so they won't help you keep interested. The last game I played I had a wall all the way around my massive base and turrets of every kind all along the wall. I might as well have turned enemies off at that point. In fact, I didn't have my factory attacked the entire game. Early in the game, before the wall was finished, I aggressively sought out and attacked any enemies camped too close to the base. That was pretty fun, although the combat itself is actually pretty terrible.
As for Planet Crafter, I love that game. There is a lot of good exploration. You have to do a lot of crafting to terraform the planet, but the good thing for people who don't love crafting is that you can adjust the speed of terraforming when you set up the game, which I recommend you do. The base speed the game wants to go is very slow. You can also set up how fast your oxygen, food and water deplete and whether you drop your inventory when you die, so you can make the "survival" part as hard or difficult as you want.
I also recommend checking out mods for Planet Crafter. Mods that increase the storage capacity and let you craft from your storage really take some of the sting off of crafting so much stuff.
Also, you need to find a convenient and largely flat area to put your base, which is going to be very large before the end of the game. My suggestion is to put it in between the aluminum area and the iridium mine, which is very close to where you spawn. Keep in mind that many areas are going to flood during the terraforming process.
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