Indie game suggestions?

[Kalmah]

I just spent a week playing Game Dev Tycoon furiously and now I'm burned out on it.

I guess I'm kind of interested in strategy/puzzle/simulation... something where you design or build something. Or a business game.

Something along the lines of dungeon keeper, evil genius, fast food tycoon 2.

I don't know. Something that I can go OCD with micromanagement.

Any suggestions?

 

[aaksheytalwar]

A new tycoon game?

 

[PowerYoga]

If you're playing on a mobile platform, all of kairosoft's games are great. I'm actually playing dungeon village right now and it's way too addicting. clocked about 5 hours last night unlocking stuff. :awe:

 

[SMOGZINN]

dungeon keeper, evil genius, fast food tycoon 2.

These three things go together

As for a micromanage game, maybe give Stardrive a try. It is a 4X space game. Basically micromanage to your hearts delight, then go blow up entire worlds.

 

[irishScott]

Not quite along the lines you mentioned, but SpaceChem is the best puzzle game I've seen in years.

 

[TheSlamma]

"Something along the lines of dungeon keeper"

Try this demo

http://store.steampowered.com/app/200550/

 

[wanderer27]

Not quite along the lines you mentioned, but SpaceChem is the best puzzle game I've seen in years.

+1 for SpaceChem

Cogs is a nice little puzzler as well.

World of Goo is a bit of puzzler with a touch of levity.

Osmos has some puzzle elements too it as well as a little action.

Probably quite a few I'm forgetting about.


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[Craig234]

Chocolatier? Recceter? Another is Restaurant Empire.

 

[AFurryReptile]

Leviathan Warships just came out on Android. I don't really know anything about it, but it looks cool.

 

[Craig234]

Legend of Grimrock is an outstanding puzzle dungeon game.

 

[Zenoth]

Definitely World of Goo (and its soundtrack is fantastic), Trine and AudioSurf (superb time burner in my opinion). There's many others though but those three are always installed for me. I play AudioSurf regularly and occasionally try to complete World of Goo puzzles in different ways on a rainy day. As for Trine it's just plain fun and simple although I must say I haven't touched in a quite a while, it's still very fun though.

 

[JamesV]

If design/build is a big plus to you, try Kerbal Space Program. Addictive rocket/plane building and space sim. Eighty hours in, and I have a small space station and visited two moons... so much more to do. But, no real game to it yet, just sandbox play atm.

Binding of Isaac - Zelda-like on LCD.
Space Pirates and Zombies - Asteroids/Star Control-like fighter/builder.
Terraria - Minecraft in 2D with a real 'game' behind it.
FTL - space rogue-like
Dungeons of Dredmor - Rogue-like dungeon crawler

 

[Dacalo]

I would recommend Capitalism Labs, it is not a direct sequel but evolution of Capitalism II. Awesome game. Harvard business school uses this game to emulate some concepts of the economy.

http://www.capitalismlab.com/

 

[WiseUp216]

Prison Architect is in alpha but looking pretty good.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/233450/

 

[darkewaffle]

Recettear!