I used to call these sort of games “Bird-chirpers”
Cause you’d start playing and then it would suddenly be morning, and birds would be chirping.
aew360@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This is one of those games where I start playing and then it’s dark outside and I’m dehydrated. 10/10 would recommend
Tathas@programming.dev 10 months ago
rockerface@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ah, Factoriolikes, as I call them usually
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Factorio is exemplary, but hardly genre creating. They’re just base building games.
If anything has defined the genre for the modern generation it’s Dwarf Fortress.
Marsupial@quokk.au 10 months ago
And DF is nearing 20 years old of active development.
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
Factorio pretty single handedly inspired the entire genre of automated factory games. Most of the others explicitly cite Factorio as inspiration or have clear influences from it.
Some credit to be given to the Minecraft redstone mod, of course.