Spec me a slow paced game

Messiah Khan · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:13

I haven't played any games for years, but im tempted to find something to kill some time with. Any suggestions for fairly slow paced, singleplayer games (My brain is too old for FPS now, lol) Something like a space trading game, sim city type game or something like the total war series would do nicely. Anything recent that fits that bill?

Tefal · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:16

X3 terran conflict.

space sim, combat, building and trading.

you start off with a little fighter or cargo ship and can build up to an empire of factories, stations, capitol ships etc.

thread on it with some good info here

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17931219

the pace is however fast you want to go.

Ucof · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:17

Crayon Physics

Its, very, very clever.

http://www.crayonphysics.com/

krooton · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:17

Kings Bounty: The Legend <--- Heroes of Might & Magic-esque
Defense Grid: The Awakening <--- tower defence game
Sims 3?

Raumarik · 26 Jun 2009 at 13:18

There's a new Anno game out (Anno 1404) not actually played it yet though but the previous one was nice and sedate mostly, would get hectic but the best bit is you can always pause!

X3 games are fantastic too though mate, both are building and trading, but completely different styles so both worth looking into.

Although I'm a huge fan of the Total War series, I hated Empire, so I'd personally not recommend it.

Souness · 26 Jun 2009 at 14:24

Anno is well slow. Got it yesterday and am loving it

Dicehunter · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:01

X3 Terran Conflict, steep learning curve but the graphics are so awesome you'll want to learn everything you can and then some

Raumarik · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:04

Souness said:
Anno is well slow. Got it yesterday and am loving it

My chill out game, nothing better with a beer, some music on and the telephone unplugged

uv · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:12

Eve Online is about as slow as it gets

m@rty · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:14

Oblivion? I know its a sort of FPS, but you can take it as slow as you like.

PinkFloyd · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:15

Another vote for X3 Terran Conflict

Darg · 26 Jun 2009 at 16:49

X3 is good, I played it for about 3-4 months straight then just as my trading empire was flourishing and the millions were rolling in I kind of got bored, it just turned into "lets wait 2 days until I have enough money for big thing 'x' then after I'll wait until I can buy big thing 'y'"

Very good for a while though and might be more interesting if you go through the missions, I went through the merchant path so maybe that's why I lost interest.