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[Il Palazzo]

Things like Kenshi or Amazing Cultivation Simulator count?

[Zangi]

Ah, I've already played both of those, so they didn't even come to mind in my search. 

EDIT: I guess I might also be looking at the ability to control a character directly and not having to baby the NPC once sustainability is setup.  (Kek, not really knowing what I want yet.)

[Il Palazzo]

Ok, look, there's this EA game called Soulash 2. It's a traditional-ish roguelike murderhobo simulator. You can start a settlement, and invite families of npcs to work in it, or marry one and later play as children. However, I kinda hate this game for how empty the systems turn out to be and for how it wastes your time. So I wouldn't recommend it, but mention it for completeness.

Another game that comes to mind is the, old-ish now, Thea: The Awakening. It might not entirely fit your bill in that you're not as much picking and choosing npcs, as finding/rescuing survivors, so you want to take everyone in. There was Thea 2 as well, with similar mechanics, but it wasn't as good.

[Folly]

Elin certainly fits your definition of kidnapping randomly generated NPC's and making them work in a self-sustaining base, or accompany your controlled main character on adventures.

[Jopax]

There's also Matchless Kungfu that recently left EA. It's something between Kenshi and Cultivation Simulator I'd say. Building a following and a settlement isn't the focus but it can certainly be done. It's got lots of weird systems going on and is a Chinese made game so there might be some translation problems when trying to figure out the systems but it's been fairly well received so far and it's got a free demo so it can't hurt to try.

[Akura]

A couple of months ago, a game called The Leviathan's Fantasy, which I've mentioned before probably in this thread, was de-listed from the Steam store. My information on this is unreliable because it's based on various posts and comments, but apparently it was because they were using assets they didn't have the rights to and the publisher didn't want to let them fix that, so it got pulled. They've since parted with the publisher and seemingly redid the assets and re-released it as "Celestial City Fantasy", though the store page labels has it as "The Leviathan's fantasy"(note the "f").

The developers are offering free keys to previous buyers if they send a screenshot of their purchase to them. I haven't played it so I don't know what assets were changed.

[martinuzz]

Oh nice, Triangle Wizard is not only still in development, it has become Triangle Wizard 2! Now made with Unity.
It's a freeware single dev real time roguelike that has been getting updates for about 17 years. It's fun, addictive and replayable. Expect many YASD

https://www.trianglewizard.com/downloads

[Jopax]

Endless Legend 2

One of my favourite takes on the 4x genre is getting a sequel. Still has one of my favourite visual styles to boot, and it looks like they're sticking with interesting approaches to mechanics here as well. Except this time around it won't be endless winter that's threatening to end you but the receding oceans and whatever is left when they're gone.

[Il Palazzo]

I do hope they manage to improve the AI, though.

Hmm, looks like Hooded Horse took over from SEGA as the publisher. That's gotta have a positive effect on the end product.

[Jopax]

Orb of Creation, incremental clicker type of game that starts off with you throwing mana and simple spells at a magical orb in the void of space, before quickly evolving into this intricate mess of systems and resources with space, various physical energies, crafting, transmutation and whatever else is around the corner.

Hasn't been updated in a couple of years but tbh for the price and the amount of stuff in it I'd say it doesn't really need anymore content to be worth the couple of bucks they're asking for.

[Jopax]

Double posting for great justice because Monster Train 2 is a thing!

Was announced this week and a demo got dropped immediately. Direct sequel in terms of story/setting, after being kicked out of hell the angel leader gets desperate and strikes a deal with titans which leads to heaven getting taken over by horrible things. So now you lead an uneasy alliance of survivors from both heaven and hell in order to reclaim the former.

Basic gameplay is the same fun stuff from the first one but with some twists and tweaks to the formula. Buffs work differently now it seems (at least in terms of whats available in the demo, other factions might have the old approach), you get equipment cards which are one time uses per unit but the bonuses are bigger, plus you can apparently merge those to get some cool hybrid stuff going. You also gain access to rooms, which are like floor-wide modifiers, pretty powerful from what I've seen in certain cases. There's also unit abilities you can activate with a cooldown and some new keywords, like shift, which triggers when a unit changes position.

Two factions are present in the demo, Pyre, which has a dragon theme in this case, gets the Pyregel debuff as their gimmick which is basically extra damage per stack on the target, can get real nasty if you can cheese the stacking procs (and the damage is triggered by any instance of damage, so cheap 1 damage spells can quickly turn into nukes), plus some extra stuff based around gaining and spending gold because dragons are big into greed. Second is the Banished which are survivors of heaven from the first game, led by one of the previous bosses. They seem to focus on positional gameplay. Their big keyword being Valor which gives them damage per stack and if they're in front the same amount of armor at the end of combat. Spells that shuffle things around are present as well as ones that focus on certain positions.


Played a couple of runs so far, actually beat it in a damn close finale one time too. Still super fun, more of the same if you enjoyed the first one, but with enough freshness to still be interesting. They also seem to be working on curtailing the absolutely insane stat numbers you could pull off (and in some cases were required to pull off) in the first game.

[AlStar]

I've been having some fun with a game called Path of Achra recently. It's basically "Stacking Bonuses, the Game."

Spoiler: A basic overview of the game (click to show/hide)

You control a singular hero (of a chosen race, class, and god) going up against fields of enemies - the only way you're going to win is by becoming so ungodly powerful through combining your starting abilities with skills and magical items that you cannot be stopped.

The game's turn based, and each turn you can do one of four things - stand still, move, attack, or pray.

So where the stacking comes in is that, for any given race/class/god/item there will be triggers. These range from 'on attack', to 'on movement', or 'when standing still', 'when entering a new level', 'on enemy/ally death', 'when attacked', 'when you pray', 'when you deal x damage' - all kinds of things.

So you might create a close combat warrior that swings their weapon half a dozen times each time they attack; or a wizard who automatically fires bolts of magic whenever they stand still.

My latest win was with a summoner, who, upon entering the level, summoned (skill level * 3) cultists, and, due to my prestige class, each of those cultists summoned a follower. I also had a bonus where, for each summoned creature, I would be buffed with +10 damage * skill level; but that buff was halved if my character took a step. The staff my character was wielding inflicted 50 points of poison damage to the nearest enemy, and a pair of pants that inflicted 25% ice damage whenever I inflicted poison. Anyway, long story short, as soon as I'd enter a level, the screen would flood with cultists and followers, each one triggering a buff, then zapping the nearest enemy with poison and cold damage; enough that I was able to win most floors on turn 0.

Minimalist graphics and music, but it works.

[DukeFluffy]

Just hitting alpha with my vampire-flavored multiplayer game, Lacrimosa.  Been poking at the thing for years, but more-so since stepping down from Towergirls and that one simulation game my lawyer insists I don't talk about.  Lots of placeholder programmer art.  Incidentally I'm looking for testers.

Spoiler: Screenshots and stuff (click to show/hide)

[nenjin]

And lo, did he step forth from the Warp once more.

Would you say it's closer to an aRPG like Diablo or an MMO like WoW in how it plays?

I'm sort of between games so if you need someone to poke at it I can.

[DukeFluffy]

And lo, did he step forth from the Warp once more.

Would you say it's closer to an aRPG like Diablo or an MMO like WoW in how it plays?

I'm sort of between games so if you need someone to poke at it I can.

Closer to League or DOTA, it's unashamedly a moba.  Been shilling it for like a day everywhere and gotten zero bites.  Any help would be very appreciated.  Here's the playtest document with the Discord linked within.