diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d9c990e..85dc024 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -36,31 +36,31 @@ All games have at least "Very Positive" overall reviews on Steam, meaning >= 80% - [Factory Management & Automation](#factory-management--automation) - - [Factory Building](#factory-building) - - [Puzzle & Casual](#puzzle--casual) + - [Factory Building](#factory-building) + - [Puzzle & Casual](#puzzle--casual) - [Vehicle Building](#vehicle-building) - [City Builders & Civil Engineering](#city-builders--civil-engineering) - - [Modern & Near-Future](#modern--near-future) - - [Rail & Sails](#rail--sails) - - [Medieval & Fantasy](#medieval--fantasy) - - [Sci-Fi & Far-Future](#sci-fi--far-future) - - [Theme Parks & Dungeons](#theme-parks--dungeons) + - [Modern & Near-Future](#modern--near-future) + - [Rail & Sails](#rail--sails) + - [Medieval & Fantasy](#medieval--fantasy) + - [Sci-Fi & Far-Future](#sci-fi--far-future) + - [Theme Parks & Dungeons](#theme-parks--dungeons) - [Transportation & Route Management](#transportation--route-management) - - [Realistic Route-building](#realistic-route-building) - - [Metro/Train Station Management](#metrotrain-station-management) - - [Puzzle & Casual](#puzzle--casual-1) + - [Realistic Route-building](#realistic-route-building) + - [Metro/Train Station Management](#metrotrain-station-management) + - [Puzzle & Casual](#puzzle--casual-1) - [Survival & Settlement Builders, Colony Sims](#survival--settlement-builders-colony-sims) - [Open-World Survival Sandboxes](#open-world-survival-sandboxes) - [Bridge-Building](#bridge-building) - [Rube Goldberg Machines](#rube-goldberg-machines) - [Hacking, Computer Science, Logic & Automation](#hacking-computer-science-logic--automation) - - [Automation with Coding](#automation-with-coding) - - [Electrical Engineering](#electrical-engineering) + - [Automation with Coding](#automation-with-coding) + - [Electrical Engineering](#electrical-engineering) - [Job Simulators & Unique Themes](#job-simulators--unique-themes) - - [Ship Crews (Space or Naval)](#ship-crews-space-or-naval) - - [Space Operations & Orbital Mechanics](#space-operations--orbital-mechanics) - - [Construction & Demolition](#construction--demolition) - - [Vehicle Operations & Physics](#vehicle-operations--physics) + - [Ship Crews (Space or Naval)](#ship-crews-space-or-naval) + - [Space Operations & Orbital Mechanics](#space-operations--orbital-mechanics) + - [Construction & Demolition](#construction--demolition) + - [Vehicle Operations & Physics](#vehicle-operations--physics) - [Narrative Storytelling Games](#narrative-storytelling-games) - [Everything else](#everything-else) - [Contributors & Credits](#contributors--credits) @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ its driving behaviors. Some have combat, while others are peaceful. | Year | Title | Tags [?](#ratings--tags-explained) | Curator's Thoughts | Steam Description | |------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| -| 2023 | [The Last Starship](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1857080/The_Last_Starship/) | | +| 2023 | [The Last Starship](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1857080/The_Last_Starship/) | | | he Last Starship is a space ship construction game, currently in Alpha. Pick a ship hull, kit her out with engines, life-support, sensors and railguns and start your galactic adventure. Expect free updates every 6 weeks as we flesh out our vision for the game. | | 2023 | [Mars First Logistics](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1532200/Mars_First_Logistics/) | 🛠️❤️👥🎮 | | Build physically simulated rovers and transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the surface of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op! | | 2023 | [Juno: New Origins](https://store.steampowered.com/app/870200/Juno_New_Origins/) | 🎮 | | Bring to life anything you can imagine from rockets and airplanes to cars and more. Automate them with a visual programming language. Explore 3D planets and make your own. Share your creations online. Complete contracts, conquer milestones, and unlock technology in the newly added Career Mode. | | 2023 | [Brick Rigs](https://store.steampowered.com/app/552100/Brick_Rigs/) | ☁️🥊🎮 | | Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs! | @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ resource management aspects. | 2020 | [Empyrion - Galactic Survival](https://store.steampowered.com/app/383120/Empyrion__Galactic_Survival/) | ☁️👥🥊🎮 | | Empyrion - Galactic Survival is a 3D open world space sandbox survival adventure. Build powerful ships, mighty space stations and vast planetary settlements to explore, conquer or exploit a variety of different planets and discover the mysteries of Empyrion! | | 2018 | [Subnautica](https://store.steampowered.com/app/264710) | ❤️👍☁️🎮 | Curator's Choice (arcataroger): Build your own underwater homestead on an alien planet, with lots of exotic flora, fauna, minerals and machines. | Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive. | | 2017 | [Stationeers](https://store.steampowered.com/app/544550/Stationeers/) | 🛠️☁️👥🎮 | | Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times! | -| 2016 | [Astroneer](https://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/) | | | | +| 2016 | [Astroneer](https://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/) | ☁️👥🎮 | | A game of aerospace industry and interplanetary exploration. | | | | 2013 | [Project Zomboid](https://store.steampowered.com/app/108600) | 🛠️☁️👥🥊🎮 | | Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite.. | | 2013 | [7 Days to Die](https://store.steampowered.com/app/251570/7_Days_to_Die/) | 🛠️☁️👥🥊🎮 | | 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits! | @@ -303,23 +303,21 @@ of actions rather than resource inputs. Some are graphical, while others require | Year | Title | Tags [?](#ratings--tags-explained) | Curator's Thoughts | Steam Description | |------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| -| 2021 | [Comet 64](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1397290/Comet_64/) | | | 2021 | [ComPressure](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1528120/ComPressure/) | | | Design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam. From switches to steam based computers, all in a world of analogue pressure devices. Use previous designs to solve further challenges, unravel the mystery of the missing steam and discover a new field of science. | | 2019 | [Baba Is You](https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/) | ❤️🎮 | Well-regarded logic puzzler that forms the basis of how programming languages function. | Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions! | | 2019 | [while True: learn()](https://store.steampowered.com/app/619150/while_True_learn/) | 🎮 | | You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works! | -| 2019 | [NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division](https://store.steampowered.com/app/544390/NITE_Team_4__Military_Hacking_Division/) | | +| 2019 | [NITE Team 4 - Military Hacking Division](https://store.steampowered.com/app/544390/NITE_Team_4__Military_Hacking_Division/) | 👥 | | NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios. | | 2018 | [EXAPUNKS](https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/) | ❤️ | | The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life. | | 2018 | [7 Billion Humans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/) | | | Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. A thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans! | | 2017 | [Silicon Zeroes](https://store.steampowered.com/app/684270/Silicon_Zeroes/) | | A puzzle game about CPU design using a variety of simple components, like Adders, Latches and Multiplexers | Build hardware. Solve puzzles. From the creator of Manufactoria, a new open-ended puzzle game set in Silicon Valley's first startup. | -| 2017 | [Grey Hack](https://store.steampowered.com/app/605230/Grey_Hack/) | | -| 2017 | [Mainlining](https://store.steampowered.com/app/454950/Mainlining/) | | +| 2017 | [Grey Hack](https://store.steampowered.com/app/605230/Grey_Hack/) | 👥🥊 | | Grey Hack is a massively multiplayer hacking simulator game. You're a hacker with full freedom to act as you wish on a vast network of procedurally generated computers. | | 2016 | [TIS-100](https://store.steampowered.com/app/370360/TIS100/) | ❤️ | | TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for! | | 2016 | [The Witness](https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/) | 🎮 | Puzzle game which teaches the player a visual language of interlocking rules, similar to a programming language. | You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you. | | 2016 | [Screeps: World](https://store.steampowered.com/app/464350/Screeps_World/) | 🥊 | Open-source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you. | Screeps: World is an open source MMO RTS sandbox game for programming enthusiasts, wherein the core mechanic is programming your units AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript which operates 24/7 in the single persistent open world filled by other players on par with you. | | 2015 | [Hacknet](https://store.steampowered.com/app/365450/Hacknet/) | ☁️ | | Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports. | | 2015 | [Human Resource Machine](https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/) | | | Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno. | -| 2016 | [Mu Complex](https://store.steampowered.com/app/383690/Mu_Complex/) | | -| 2001 | [Uplink (Hacker Elite)](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/) | | One of the earliest "hack the Internet" games. | +| 2016 | [Mu Complex](https://store.steampowered.com/app/383690/Mu_Complex/) | | | Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ... | +| 2001 | [Uplink (Hacker Elite)](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/) | | One of the earliest "hack the Internet" games. | You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people. | ### Automation with Coding @@ -336,11 +334,11 @@ you would actually write "code" (either real code or via graphical coding blocks Similar to programming games, but at a lower level in the machine. Wire circuits instead of writing code. -| Year | Title | Tags [?](#ratings--tags-explained) | Curator's Thoughts | Steam Description | -|------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------| -| 2022 | [Electrician Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1080020/Electrician_Simulator/) | | | -| 2021 | [Turing Complete](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/) | ❤️ | | Learn CPU architecture with puzzles | -| 2016 | [SHENZHEN I/O](https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/) | ❤️ | | BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM. | +| Year | Title | Tags [?](#ratings--tags-explained) | Curator's Thoughts | Steam Description | +|------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| +| 2022 | [Electrician Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1080020/Electrician_Simulator/) | | | Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes! | +| 2021 | [Turing Complete](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/) | ❤️ | | Learn CPU architecture with puzzles | +| 2016 | [SHENZHEN I/O](https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/) | ❤️ | | BUILD CIRCUITS. WRITE CODE. RTFM. | ## Job Simulators & Unique Themes @@ -409,10 +407,13 @@ These games defy easy categorization, but were "engineer-y" enough in some way t Thank you to everyone who's contributed to this list: -**[@Sch1nken](https://github.com/Sch1nken), [@TimothyFothergill](https://github.com/TimothyFothergill), [@cybrox](https://github.com/cybrox), [@Papawy](https://github.com/Papawy), [@dotvhs](https://github.com/dotvhs), [@pmarks-net](https://github.com/pmarks-net), [@abeyer](https://github.com/abeyer), [@uwu64](https://github.com/uwu64), [@maxwofford](https://github.com/maxwofford), [@twiclo](https://github.com/twiclo), [@ritog](https://github.com/ritog), +* + +*[@Sch1nken](https://github.com/Sch1nken), [@TimothyFothergill](https://github.com/TimothyFothergill), [@cybrox](https://github.com/cybrox), [@Papawy](https://github.com/Papawy), [@dotvhs](https://github.com/dotvhs), [@pmarks-net](https://github.com/pmarks-net), [@abeyer](https://github.com/abeyer), [@uwu64](https://github.com/uwu64), [@maxwofford](https://github.com/maxwofford), [@twiclo](https://github.com/twiclo), [@ritog](https://github.com/ritog), [@jweather](https://github.com/jweather), greg-h, disintegore, idoubtit, naet, derrikcurran, RA2lover, [@arctenis](https://github.com/arctenis), [@mathieubruguier](https://github.com/mathieubruguier), [@cardinal23](https://github.com/cardinal23), -[@bhamiltoncx](https://github.com/bhamiltoncx), [@bdomars](https://github.com/bdomars), [@neuron-whisperer](https://github.com/neuron-whisperer)** +[@bhamiltoncx](https://github.com/bhamiltoncx), [@bdomars](https://github.com/bdomars), [@neuron-whisperer](https://github.com/neuron-whisperer) +** And extra special thanks to: