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[NJW2000]

Toribash might be good. Once you get the controls down instinctively, there's no reading required to interrupt the podcast.

[Man of Paper]

I'm in the market for a game to play whilst listening to podcasts. Preferably, it should be fairly repetitive and monotonous, with the option of turning off the volume, something to mindlessly play along to people chatting.


Examples that I've played:
Minecraft
Kerbal Space Program
Euro Truck Simulator
Oolite
OpenTTD

Please, no MMOs or multiplayer games as my current internet is too unstable.

I use Aurora and CK II to fill my play-while-listening needs.

[Niveras]

I'm in the market for a game to play whilst listening to podcasts. Preferably, it should be fairly repetitive and monotonous, with the option of turning off the volume, something to mindlessly play along to people chatting.


Examples that I've played:
Minecraft
Kerbal Space Program
Euro Truck Simulator
Oolite
OpenTTD

Please, no MMOs or multiplayer games as my current internet is too unstable.

4X games. Civ4, Civ5, GalCiv2. Any of a number more recent ventures in that field (Warlock 2, Fallen Enchantress).
City builders - both SimCity style (SimCity4, Skylines) and the Anno series (1404/Venice/Dawn of Discovery, 2070, 2250)
Roguelikes. DCSS, Tales of Maj'eyal. Risk of Rain. Maybe Binding of Isaac (but I find audio cues sometimes useful).

[Delta Foxtrot]

I'm in the market for a game to play whilst listening to podcasts. Preferably, it should be fairly repetitive and monotonous, with the option of turning off the volume, something to mindlessly play along to people chatting.


Examples that I've played:
Minecraft
Kerbal Space Program
Euro Truck Simulator
Oolite
OpenTTD

Please, no MMOs or multiplayer games as my current internet is too unstable.

Just Cause 2 (though I suppose any open world murder-thon should work). Play on an easy difficulty (whether that's "easy" or "normal") and just run around blowing stuff up. Hunting that 100% completion becomes almost palatable when you're concentrating on something else. I've found it works just fine if I turn game music to 0% and other audio to around 10-20% so I'll hear necessary combat cues while still being able to concentrate on podcasts.

[Krevsin]

Wow, thanks for the response. Should keep me well entertained.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I'm in the market for a game to play whilst listening to podcasts. Preferably, it should be fairly repetitive and monotonous, with the option of turning off the volume, something to mindlessly play along to people chatting.


Examples that I've played:
Minecraft
Kerbal Space Program
Euro Truck Simulator
Oolite
OpenTTD

Please, no MMOs or multiplayer games as my current internet is too unstable.

Elite: Dangerous! Bloody good time.

[Jopax]

So I'm looking for something where you can design/heavily customize your units. Something real time is prefferable. Note that I've played Warzone and the Earth series, so I'm really wondering if there's anything like this out there that I haven't heard of yet.

[EnigmaticHat]

Impossible Creatures is perhaps arguably not a good game, but it fills your requirements.

[puke]

Galciv 2 and 3 have heavy ship customization.

Distant Worlds has ship customization as well (as do most space 4x games) but no fancy custom visuals like in GC

The new xcom games let you play dress-up with your soldiers. 

Doorkickers is all about tacticool gearporn.

Spore?

Not so sure about the RTT or RTS type games.

[Shadowlord]

Star ruler 2 has good ship design and is a real time 4x. You can finish games in a few hours depending on map size etc, or test things in a testing environment if you want to.

It also has multiplayer and is moddable.

[Jopax]

Mmyeah, tried IC a couple months back when it got the Steam release, it really hasn't aged well, tho even the first time around I spent most of the time in the editor since the gameplay itself is rather boring for the most part.
I'll give doorkickers a look since I played the others or haven't found them interesting in the first place.
SR2 seems nice, I liked the first one.
Tho in the end I went back to Warzone for the time being since it's free after all XD
Should tide me over for a few days I reckon.

[puke]

I'll give doorkickers a look since I played the others or haven't found them interesting in the first place.

It is a pretty light weight turn based tactical shooter.  the android version seems to be setup for cosmetic microtransactions, but you can grind a little and get all the same crap.

It isnt super interesting or super polished, but there are billions of cammo patterns and vests and pouches and lights and scopes and trigger assemblies... and on and on.  some of it has modifiers associated, lots of it is just cosmetic.

It honestly isn't that great, but if you play paintball or read TFB or ENDO every day, it might be your kind of thing.

[pikachu17]

is there a game where you play genuine bad guy, and try to take over a city(or the country or the planet) preferably with a fantasy feel.

[wereboar]

Dungeon Keeper
Overlord
Evil Genius
Black & White

[Reelya]

Evil Genius is basically Dungeon Keeper in a James Bond style universe, with you building the typical secret volcano island lair for evil deeds. The guy who made it was ex-Bullfrog (i.e. Dungeon Keeper), but Evil Genius is sort of flawed. Fun for a while, but it's glitchy and some of the game mechanics don't feel fleshed out. And then getting to the endgame becomes a long slog where you've already built up and you have to grind missions and research items to complete the story. Plus, super-agents blow up a lot of things and this is cool but means more time rebuilding. Additionally, while you can send agents to interfere on a "world map" that looks like a "risk" style board-game, there are only two island maps to play on (which is where you actually build things)

The same studio also made Republic: The Revolution, a "take over a country" game that's also flawed. You play as a revolutionary against a Soviet-style dictator, you can choose between three "paths", one of which is the violence route (which would make you a bad guy I guess). It has an agent-scheduling thing similar to how you do things in Liberal Crime Squad. But Republic is built around a pretty constraining set of pre-written plot points that you have to trigger, and this rapidly becomes a drag with scheduling everything just right to hit all the mission criteria, and you quickly hit a point where you have already explored all the actual game mechanics and it's just a process of ticking of a really long list of plot points to see the finale.