There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.

Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.

What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?

          • naught101@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            I haven’t. I’m less interested in videogames, because I find I prefer the social interactions of physical games more, and I also suspect that videogames fall into more of a one-to-many style communication, rather than many-to-many (I have played them a lot in the past, just not so much these days).

            I had a quick skim of the wikipedia page, but it mostly seems pretty focused on the narrative (aside from the dice pool mechanic, which sounds a lot like Psi*Run dice mechanic discussed on this podcast). Was there something in particular about it that I’d be interested in?

            • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              7 days ago

              Mostly the fact that it’s very class and socially conscious, and is using games as a way of teaching deeper truths. The mechanics aren’t super interesting, though they are solid. It is definitely a one-to-many thing, though

    • Aequitas@feddit.org
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      8 days ago

      I want to know more. Part of my job involves teaching lessons on climate change in schools. I have often wondered how I could incorporate games like Minecraft into this.

      • naught101@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Edited a bunch in. Would be interested in your Minecraft thoughts after reading that. I don’t immediately see that Minecraft specifically would be useful for climate change. I’m a climate scientist, but I haven’t played the game… There are a few other games out there that do tackle climate change, some in useful and interesting ways.

        Edit: one of the games I know:

        • Daybreak by Matt Leacock et al.