
Hell yeah! Thank you so much.
Then there’s eternal classics like Stardew Valley, Balatro, Terraria,FTL, Into the Breach, Slay the Spire or Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Did you check my installed games? Sure, I’ve replaced FTL with Void War (same game tbh) and play Slay the Spire on my phone (and laptop via screen mirroring) but that list is ~80% of what I’m looking to move on from!
I’ve found success with static backgrounds and turn-based games. I have made due with 1600x90 at 50% texture rendering for CK3 but that’s different. I’m not sure if they’re on sale but for the sake of listing more laptop friendly games: Across the Obelisk, For the King, Tales of Maj’eyal, Loop Hero and Project Zomboid do well.
Minecraft and Rimworld depends on modlist. I tried to downsize my 150-odd Rimworld mods and ended up with 200, c’est la vie.
Will investigate you list tonight and keep you posted!
RekMod is an excellent balance pass and similar to the popular LekMod from original Civ5. There’s also mods for the expansion rules/content; Gods & Kings and Brave New World if you prefer to stick to RAW.
Ancient Civilizations and Community Maps add a TON of civs and quality maps, though I must mention that vanilla UnCiv provides very granular control over map generation already. CM does have really sweet “pre-constructed” maps though.
DeCiv Redux and Alpha Frontier are complete overhauls and have little to nothing in common with Civ5 aside from basic gameplay. DeCiv is fun, I haven’t tried Alpha Frontier yet though.
Graphics-wise there are tilesets as well as alternate unit art. I personally have 5Hex Tileset and AbsoluteUnits. Looks like some mods have FantasyHex as a dependency as well.
There’s many many mods besides these, but this is the list I’ve personally curated over ~100ish? hrs playtime.
Did I mention there’s multiplayer?


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Which is absolute batshit evil drug dealer energy. I bet they rolled that promo out while the CFPB’s corpse was still warm.
I do and will share via PM if you promise to seed!