Thread 723162732

What are the best modern falling sands games?

>>723162732 (OP)
noita

>>723162732 (OP)
Pyrosands was my favorite.

>>723162781
Hmm, or rather it was a modified version of Pyro sand 2 perhaps. It had way way more types of sand and interaction. Would be hard to find it now, I think it was just in a post on some forum back in the mid 2000s. Maybe on waybackmachine it can be found

>>723162780
/thread

>>723162732 (OP)
powder toy

>>723162780
Yeah, this.

Apparently there's a bunch of them, and some dude managed to save them all.

https://androdome.com/Sand/

>>723162780
can you build a shaped charge in noita?

>>723166650
Noita doesnt have pressure but it does have directional rebound of force so it depends on your definition.

>>723162732 (OP)
the powder toy. People build nuclear plants and shit in that

>>723162780
I know Noita's world behaves like a falling sand game but it isn't a sandbox to fuck around in like the old flash games.

>>723167406
it is if you get a good enough run

>>723162732 (OP)
Probably The Powder Toy its on steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148350/The_Powder_Toy/

>>723167406
I mean, you don't have to do anything in the game. You can choose to not go down and just explore the surface, or if you get the right spells you can work your way back up.

>>723162732 (OP)
been following this guy making a cool physics/fluid sim for years now and only just checked to see he's actually made a steam page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3289350/Fractala_Sandbox/
he posted saying that he'd be making some kind of noita-esque game with it but looks like those plans fell apart
oh well, I kinda just wanted to dick around with it like a falling sand game anyway

>>723162732 (OP)
TODAY, I WILL REMIND THEM
https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/

>>723170830
This but stick ranger.

NOW COMBINE THEM

>>723169953
It has that soft, slightly gooey OE-Cake look. As opposed to the usual pixel physics. Nice to see someone keeping at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ZWL7aKRrA
>All videos are nearly two decades old

>>723162732 (OP)
The powder toy

>>723162732 (OP)
firing a gun into your brain and watching the blood drain out of it

Burning Sand 2 has a very large number of elements to use and it supports modded content that's available in the game itself.

The Powder Toy has good wind physics and entities (Little NPCs).

>>723169953
maybe he noticed it doesn't scale very well with having a world 100 times bigger.
You have to respect that old games like on gba reset everything that was offscreen. Noita persists the whole world including projectiles and everything

>>723170857
>combine them
you know power game lets you place controllable stick figure characters and it can shoot every element it touches.

>>723167406
It has a lua modding API. You can turn it into a falling sand godmode editor if you want.

the sandbox for mobile

>>723175195
looks comfy
I wish there was a Terraria clone with sandbox mechanics or just a modern Clonk that isn't so fucking clunky

>>723175195
How does one even play this in Current Year?
I tried opening it on my phone a few months ago and it doesn't seem to play nice with modern phone screen resolutions. Half the screen is cut off.
>>723169953
That's funny, I've been following an entirely separate dev from X that's been doing literally the same thing. I guess that's 2 games in the near-ish future to look forward to now.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3343970/Simulario/

>>723175951
Craftlings feels like a mix between Clonk and Lemmings. Doesn't really scratch the Clonk itch, but it's as close as I've seen in recent years.

>>723175195
>>723176704
they ruined these games with terrible monetization iirc
tried playing it recently and it was just gone