Factorio Yall.
i absolutly love this game... it figurativly reaches into my brain with a chopstick and massages the various parts of my brain that are responsible for compulsive nerotic behaviour.
its been so long since a game has really gotten to me like this one. HoN was the last game i really played like this... hours at a time.
I used to play the X3 series- this space sim that was generally mediocre in many areas... EXCEPT the trading and logistics systems.
in X3 you could build these vertically integrated space station manufacturing complexes of enormous size and scope. you would for example... tractor a metal asteroid over to a sillicon asteroid and build mining facilities on both... then connect them to a hub, then build a chip plant and power cell plant that requires both the metal and sillicon, then connect the chip plant to a missle factory... but the missle factory is manned so its needs food supplies, however you need solar power to create food and the asteroid field you built you missle complex in has a shitty star too far away... so you need logistics ships to travel to another system and buy food, or create another food complex in said nearby sysem and ferry the food back and forth... it goes on an on.
come to think of it. i reccomend X3 as well.
anyway, factorio is like that but exponentially more complex and deep. it differs in that there is no trading within the game with other AI's, or other players far as i know.
the game is huge... if you are familiar with strategy games, it has a similar 'research' tech tree to obtain upgrades, and new equipment and facilities. the tech tree is larger than any ive ever encountered.
i know im making this game sound boring... but it isnt. or maby im just wierd.
its like 80% logistics management, 20% tower defense + shooter. its top down sprite based graphics so you get this quaint feel. i get the feeling you could run this game on a graphing calculator, however its optimized to thread out to like 16 cores... so maby theres alot of cpu intensive stuff later on in the tech trees.
i would be very suprised if the shittiest computers could not run this game.
try the demo imho.
https://www.factorio.com/