Terraria

Portal, FTL, terraria

one for nextcloud, one for game servers (minecraft, terraria, factorio and palworld), one for pihole and lastly one VM for plex + all of the *arr services etc.

The adventure mode is supposed to be far more of an rpg experience. Progressing through zones, killing bosses, creatures and loot with developed lore, more exploration/dungeon crawling, that kind of thing. It’s similar to terraria, and something that Minecraft mods have never been particularly good at replicating.

Those games are much closer to a narrative driven 3D Terraria sort of thing.

Had that feeling after playing terraria, I wondered the wiki once more, seeing everything I picked up and had to learn while discovering niche facts... God I love that wiki... It's like going to your grandparents' cellar after a long time, you remember everything that you did there and see details that were left behind... Why am I even being nostalgic when I can just boot up the game anytime and have my best 50h of gameplay...

Terraria is heads and shoulders above even Rimworld for me

I agree VS is a nice recent example, but let's not forget about Terraria. The game was often sold for 3-4 bucks and it offers hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of content. Really amazing value still!

If I witness a dev with good practices, like how Terraria continues giving free updates all the time for years without changing the price, I will throw money at them. I've bought terraria 9 times, 6 times as gifts for friends.