/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12184075
tetris makes your brain bigger, search it up

Kerbal

>>12184075
Portal 2 is cool. Some community made maps are very clever

>>12184075
Baba Is You

>>12184134
only this desu

>>12184075
Duskers

>>12184075
outer wilds was aiight

Pikmin

>>12184075
>nobody's posted the obvious yet

>>12187300
>>12187300
>>12187300

Postal 2
Sven bomwollen
Carmageddon
Guts and glory

All /sci/ approved. Pic rel is under construction by some lone czech anon

>>12187660
>askenazi
>105 IQ
doubt

Kerbal space program
Universe sandbox 2
Space engine

Getting into VR there are tons ranging from space stuff to chemistry

>>12184134
is it still super spyware?

>>12184134
this
KSP is the best way to learn basic orbital mechanics that's ever been created in the history of mankind

>>12184075
4D Toys for VR

>>12184075

>Every science fan's favorite

>>12184075
Killer 7

>>12184075
This. Its 10/10. Really fun and tons of different scifi concepts

>>12188243
What isn't?

>>12184075
children of a dead earth I little hard to get into but making nukes and power plants and casaba howitzers is pretty fun

Cellular automata if you're autistic, party games like uno and semi-realistic simulators in any simulation genre if you aren't.

video games are a cancer upon the minds of the populace

>>12190536
Groundhog's Day in space?

>>12184075
SPORE.

>>12184075
Dwarf fortress, children of a dead earth, and aurora 4x.

doom WAD's

>>12191644
Children of a clamped earth.

>>12190849
>>Cellular automata
my man. Find any good patterns lately?

>>12191734
I've been looking at wireworld style rules and generalisations of them, no progress really - the whole concept kinda sucks outside of ordinary wireworld desu

>>12187586
I second this. How could you forget about Steins Gate?

>>12188243
why you say that

>>12185863
nice game but not necessary /sci/ tier

>>12187300
based

>>12190852
video games are a form of art and scientific progress and you should kill yourself immediately

>>12191639
also very based, plus it's also full of Dune references like spice mining etc.

>>12192096
Agreed but tf2 is peak cringe

>>12192074
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/ksp.html

velocity raptor
https://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html

>>12184075
These are absolute chad CS meme games.

>>12184075
Fallout New Vegas.

>>12184134
It's amazing how a few hours of Kerbal can make you understand orbital mechanics to a better degree than undergrad physicists

>>12184075
spacechem

>>12193202
zachtronic is more programming than sci

>>12184075
minecraft

>>12188547
>gf always rape her
what does she mean by this

the fuck, I thought this thread died the minute I made it

>>12184075
the new tetris
the incredible machine
picross/nonograms
nethack

>>12187586
>>12192069

garbage harem for incels

Cataclysm: dark days ahead
Opus magnum
Shenzhen I/O

current /egg/ thread is here (Engineering Games General)
>>>/vg/309051368
There's a lot of programming in there, but if you have the kind of mind that likes to pick apart problems and solve them with trial and error, there are gonna be some good ones there.

>>12184075
If by /sci/ approved you mean problem solving i gotchu senpai this is my shit.
Off the top of my head

Puzzle (emphasize finding a solution)
>Talos Principle
>Portal
>Turing Test
>Q.U.B.E 2 (dont play the first one)
>Swapper
>The Witness
>MagRunner

Puzzle (emphasize creating a solution)
>Infinifactory
>SpaceChem / Shenzhen
>Literally any zachtronics game

Logistics/Process/Engineering
>Factorio
>Satisfactory
>Kerbal Space Program
>Poly Bridge 2

Logic / Misc
>Return of Obra Dinn
>Stephens Sausage Roll
>Cosmic Express
>Braid
>Baba is you

What kind of games you like?
Logic and wit will get you games like Talos Principle or Return of Obra
Open ended problem solving? Zachtronics and engi games like Factorio are sick
Maybe youre a sokobon weeb? Baba or Stephens Sausage ;)
Maybe you hate puzzles but still want to use your brain a bit? Hitman 2

>>12194890
cont.
>Maybe you hate puzzles but still want to use your brain a bit? Hitman 2

>rimworld
>prison architect
>strategy games
>games with learning curves like sekiro or FTL or evena racing game like Assetto Corsa

Am I the only gamer on /sci/?

>>12184134
It's plebbier than orbiter however, If you want a grown up version of kerbal space program then try out Orbiter

>>12188538
I bought this game and then spent 30hrs on it without sleeping and i havent toutched it since. It scares me how into it i was.

Ctrl+f "portal"
wow

>>12193464
>incel
Go back to Arbie's, roastie.

>>12184075
Fortniteeee

>>12184075
endless space, or any grand strategy (with friends not ai)

If you dont have friends dont play videogames

>>12184075
Elite:Dangerous

Gave me a new appreciation for gravitational lensing and the spacing of the galaxy.

>>12184075
Any game can have its merits, doesn't have to be science related.
>>12187586
>>12192069
>>>/a/
>>>/trash/
>>>/reddit/

>>12185910
>Duskers
I've never heard of this before, but I admit it looks intriguing.

Euclidea app is pretty cool, it turns learning basic geometric constructions into a game. You start by making 60 degree angles with a compass, then go on to do angle bisectors, 30 degree angles, etc. and build off things you've already made.

>>12190536
GASP

Interestingly the job in SS13 that is the least /sci/ is the scientist, but most of the other jobs are at least somewhat based on reality. Atmospherics, electrics, and to some extent botany and chemistry are all quite involved processes.

>>12185858
portal 2 < portal

>>12184075
no

>>12194890
>no opus magnum

>>12191645
Insanely Based.

>>12197607
>literally any Zachtronics game

Twitch-reflex platformers are pretty based

>>12194890
>Puzzle
>No Stephen's Sausage Roll

Are you an engineer, or just a brainlet?

>>12198025
literally blind

>>12197557
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vG4Be1Ci8

>>12184075
dirt rally 2
It's /sci/ approved because I approve it

>>12184075
Fallout 3.

>>12184075
Chess

>>12184075
Play La-Mulana

I've played well over 50,000 minesweeper games the past 3 decades.
I've yet to find a game that is a waste of time. One of my friends is a literal millionaire through investing and they attribute that to being a merchant in Runeacape but they're a financial genius...

>>12197555
Yeah but it has the autism of requiring you to get all stars to progress which would be fine if it wasn't for the retarded thing with minimal usage of the extra tools like the bisector.

>>12198025
Anon

Dwarf Fortress

>>12184075
I remember when EVE Online collaborated with a bio lab of some sort and you had to mark cells or some shit, it's pic related if someone into this meme subject can actually understand it
Anyway the rewards for grinding the fuck out of this were very rare cosmetics so my mind did the typical EVE player conclusion and I immediately began writing a bot to abuse it so I can sell the cosmetics while everyone's looking out for them. A few hours later I had a working script that allowed me to maintain enough of a guess rate to keep me above the primitive bot-detection level that they had, so I ran it and went to sleep. About 10 hours later I already had enough points to buy TWO of the rarest costumes, whereas no one else had even one of them. So I did and sold them for an absurd price one by one until people slowly caught up on my 5th sale and another seller appeared, then on the 10th sale a second one and so on. I don't remember the exact price that I sold them but I remember that I made 20 billion isk when one month costed about 1 billion or so, and that my first contract was so absurd that it was a meme in Jita local for a few days.

The moral of the story is, thanks for wasting ~50kcal on engraving my blog into your brain.

Literally any game can be "cerebral" with effort and analysis

>>12194890 is an acceptable list to start
/thread

>>12193464
>harem
but he's a guy!

>>12199948
Its literally the only game more autistic than Factorio and Space Station 13

>>12201067
>he doesn't know Aurora 4X
It's orders of magnitudes more autistic.

>>12187300
This

>>12184075
Is civilization (5 with addons) /sci/ approved or is it only for /his/ memelords?

>>12185858
Portal is THE example of a shit game that makes you dumber.
It often defies physics so that it's easier. Plenty of sticky paths and zones.

>>12184075
Proof assistants, e.g. https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_game/..

>>12187300
dangerously based, also 2 is mandatory

>>12193202
>>12193237
>>12193473
Shenzhen I/O I think would be up /sci/'s alley, tons of fun and very vaguely related to real life programming of simple devices

>>12194920
Just use Real Scale Solar System, maybe even with Principia. Orbiter is a completely different genre.

>no A Slower Speed of Light
>no Hyperbolica

>>12197571
I tried ss13 several times
It's worse than DF and RO/RP-1 mods for KSP to get into
I no longer have the time to learn something like that again

>>12184075
Skyrim and Vermintide 2

>>12185910
Probably the most immersive sci-fi horror game I've ever played, but outside of its logs about galaxy-wide disasters, it's not really a strong /sci/ game.

>>12184075
Factorio and Satisfactory.

>>12195967
>Only 30hrs
My first play through I played 6-10hrs a day for a month.

>>12203177
dubs of truth

>>12184075
Etterna

>>12184075
link the fire

Antichamber

as far as video games I normally play grand strategy games like any of the paradox or total war games but besides those I dont really play games. I'll play poker, chess, learn about hacking, trading, play guitar, and been getting fit recently. Life itself is a game

if there was an indie puzzle game that was literally just disguised stick diagrams it would be /sci/ and I guess also /g/ approved

>>12204557
Used to pay wow a lot but mainly cause I was interested in the in game economy

>>12204564
But what about the race and iq

>>12201777
Hm yes I wonder why nobody's mentioned a game that hasn't been released yet

>>12188538
>Autism Simulator
Based.

>>12190536
dangerously based

>>12187828
>average means lower limit

>>12205899
I mentioned it to bring interest to a soon to be released game that implements non-euclidean geometries in its mechanics, which in my opinion makes it relevant enough to this thread.

>>12199765
Sure, that is a problem. Maybe someone should rip it off and make a fully free version

>>12192454
lame

>>12184075

Among Us has several sciencey tasks which the players have to complete whilst playing the central mind-game regarding the impostor/s.

Tuber Simulator

>>12201475
>defying physics makes it dumber

You realize abstraction and hypotheticals is the hallmark of intelligence. right?

>>12204675
well fucking played I kek'd so hard.

>>12211039
True, it's way more g-loaded to be exposed to, and having to work with, a set of unintuitive, previously non experienced set of rules as opposed to what you already know.

If you've managed to have children, they could start on The Incredible Machine from the 90's

>>12184075
Do you guys actually play games related to your work? I find myself craving for adrenaline inducing games to cope with the nature of studying

>>12204617
I've noticed that the type of interests like that are a result of living by the nothingness in your heart - when you have no ideals, no hopes, no ideology to push and so on - you gravitate around vacous things like that.

Only saying this is because I've been there and then I keep noticing it. It's not a pathology - it's strictly about the moral compass inside us, the values we live by and stuff we have faith in.

>>12184075
All vidya, by virtue of being technological is /sci/ approved.

Foldit.

Video poker at the bar

Tic-tac-toe for iOS