Why does no one make comfy buildan games anymore? This genre

>>385649757

Cities Skyline
Banished

And these are just from the top of my mind

I do think that Anno should never have went futuristic and just stuck with renaissance or pirates

Because there objective is mundane and boring and has no real audience at all whatsoever compared to the bigger majority who wants to play something ore engaging. You can deny it all you want and convince yourself that these games are the highest quality fun and excitement but we both know that's a lie. And I don't even mind these games, I think they serve their purpose.

For every 1 person who likes these games, theres 20 people who like something vastly more simple, straight forward, and easy with more engagement.

Just the way it is. You better get used to it honestly. You lost Sim City, that didn't help really.

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>>385651271
those games are ancient at this point and not even very good.

>>385651921
Cities Skylines isn't good? It's basically Autism: The City-Building Game.

It find the freedom too much, my brain is shit. I prefer strictly limited grids like SC2K.

>>385652125
Skylines is really easy to figure out once you've played it for a few hours, once you map down the roads and intersections and get a rough layout going it becomes stupidly easy. The hardest part is restricting yourself at the start and not over-expanding.

>>385649757
I would like city builders if there were more that let me defend my city from invaders and such

>>385652936
this, I would love to play a city builder that lets you kill barbarians at your gates as a side activity to do in between building comfy city centres and stuff.

>>385649757
>>385652936
Kingdoms & Castles is comfy as fuck and does have a defense aspect since you're constantly invaded by viking armies.

Unfortunately it doesn't have enough content which pretty much kills replayability.

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>>385651271
Banished has so little content it's boring as shit if played longer than 2 hours.

>>385649757
Same reason RTS stagnated. Graphics improved but AI remained braindead requiring the player to constantly hand hold. Instead they just threw more and more mechanics into the genre which only pleased competitive PVP while the comfy single-player crowd just moved on.

Strategic building games for the past few years have tried to attract the micro-loving crowd, and the types that enjoyed something like SimCity for the guiding-hand aspect either lost interest because EA or moved on to the Sims.

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>>385654112
>city building games
>competetive PvP