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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN FEBRUARY 2025?
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:13:31 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>On 3/5/2025 7:55 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:57:14 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
>> <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>>> The Planet Crafter.
>>> I've been playing this for a while.  You are a prisoner dropped on an
>>> airless rock in space with minimal tools.  Terraform it or die.
>>> Some call it a "cozy" game since in regular mode you can't actually die.
>>> Its a LOT like the Subnautica games so if you liked those you will
>>> probably like this.

>> Yeah, it sounds like yet-another-survival/crafting-game to me.

>It is.  But I like a lot of those so there!  *pffffftttt*

I'm not complaining or judging. I've been known to play those games
too, and besides, anyone with hundreds upon hundreds of hours invested
into a boring truck-driving game has no right to look down upon other
people's genre's-of-choice. 

I do have a bit of an issue with so many survival-crafting games often
feeling like simple reskins of what's popular (same way I look askance
at the proliferation of truck-driving sims) but that's more of my wish
for more novelty and originality in the industry.

I mean, I do personally find a lot of the 'search for rock and twigs
so I can build Tool' mechanics of survival-crafting sort of tedious...
but again, this is coming from a person who thinks that carefully
driving along the highway at a modest 80kph and making sure to always
use my turn signal is engrossing entertainment. ;-)