Need a sandbox game with direction

DEL 707 · 18 Jun 2012 at 13:26

I'm currently bored with Anno 2070 and I'm playing Theme Hospital for the 100th time, so I'm feeling the need for another game.

I'm in the mood for another sandbox game, but my problem is that I like this type of games with a campaign mode. Simcity and Open Transport Tycoon are great, but without a set of objectives, I get lost and bored. I know it goes against the word sandbox, but I don't like to be thrown into a game and told to have fun. I like to have my hand held at the beginning, fufilling objectives and earning new tools and unlock.
This was the main reason why I prefered Rollercoaster tycoon no.1 over no.2, it had scenarios that gave you objectives with new toys on each different map.

I was looking at Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion since I own the original game, but since I have no interest in MP, I not sure it'll be providing anything new, especially since the single player seems to just be MP with bots again.
The Civ games are another franchise I've been interested in, I've played various demos but it was all a bit too much, too soon for me and I became lost and confused.

I appreciate any recommendations, give me something else to do besides cure bloaty head.

DEL 707 · 18 Jun 2012 at 13:35

I have them all, getting close to installing no.3 again.

DEL 707 · 18 Jun 2012 at 20:03

Well I just bought Endless space, saw the deal on steam and watched a preview of someone playing it, so thought why not.
I needed a break from Open TTD, after 2 of my trains had a crash...

Still open to some more suggestions though, very tempted with rebellion, but hopefully this will give me my space building fix.

DEL 707 · 19 Jun 2012 at 22:03

Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming if you can, always something to look out for on a steam sale

Sunk some time into Endless Space last night, got my arse kicked in the 1st game buy a band of pirates with a fleet power 6x the best that I had. So i decided to lower the difficulty for the next game. Quite enjoying it though, suffered at work all day dues to 5 hours sleep.

DEL 707 · 23 Jun 2012 at 15:32

Well Endless space was fun for a few games, but it's not kept my interest, not much in the way of tactics when it comes to space combat.
Was looking on steam at Fray today, which perked my interest, but seems to have no single player, let alone a campaign.

Reinstalled X3 to have another go.