Post #3039171

2026-06-02 05:15 UTC

What’s that about falling asleep 14 times in a day? What do you mean? That’s not how it works… Anyway, here’s the Wonderwall: Terraria, Minecraft in 2D. Luanti, it’s basically open source Minecraft. Moddable in Lua, which is easy enough to pick up. Subnautica. Stranded alone on an underwater planet. Not ‘relaxing’ in the original sense, but there’s a sense of discovery few games can replicate. Aside from maybe… Outer Wilds. Explore a mini solar system in a rickety spaceship. Everything else would be a spoiler, but you owe it to yourself to play it someday.

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@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2026-06-02 14:54

Multiple leviathan class creatures detected…are you sure what you’re doing is worth it?

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@pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2026-06-02 16:36

I’m just going to plug here that Luanti is best referred to as “Luanti plus Mineclonia.”. My aologies for the Stallman reference. I find that whether folks enjoy their first outing in Luanti tends to highly correlate with whether they know to try Mineclonia inside of Luanti.

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@kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 2026-06-02 15:37

Not OP, but I’ve tried getting into Stardew multiple times and the fatigue mechanic absolutely ruins the game for me. “14 times” is an exaggeration but what it feels like. People describe it as a cozy game but it is genuinely one of the most stressful games that I’ve played. As in I start clearing the land and then after a very short time my character is exhausted. Either I sleep it off and I’m worried I’ll plant late enough the crops will die in winter or I work through it and end up in the hospital with a bill. Sometimes I’ve used the time to explore the town (as it seems the game mechanics are telling you to do), whereupon I find the shops are closed and I collapse on the way back home. The one or two times I’ve played long enough to harvest crops I end up eating all of it just to get to the end of the day. Most of the money I make is from selling actual literal garbage I’ve found lying around. The result of that mechanic is that the game is basically telling me the most cozy part of the game (farming) I’m not allowed to play until I’ve invested enough time to stock up on energy drinks. I’m left with fishing, which just isn’t my thing, and mining, which is what I’ll mostly do until I get bored because it’s honestly kinda mediocre on it’s own. I just can’t get into this game. (I’m aware that the main pull for the game is the characters, which if you enjoy that that’s good. I’ve just never had much of a reason to be invested in them)

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@OhShitSon@lemmy.zip 2026-06-03 06:38

Terraria really cannot be compared to minecraft honestly. Terraria is much more focused on bosses for progression, and it isn’t really a sandbox like minecraft is. Absolutely fantastic though, and IMO much more enjoyable than Minecraft.

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