Dream Engines: Nomad Cities similar games & best alternatives
Dream Engines: Nomad Cities
2024
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Quick resume
A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.
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Pros
- Unique blend of city building, automation, and tower defense
- Engaging cyclical gameplay with exploration and progression
- Polished for an early access game
- Flexible difficulty and customization options
- Dedicated and responsive developers
Cons
- Combat can feel repetitive and shallow
- Some ui and quality-of-life improvements needed
- Early access with missing content and polish
- Single-player only, no multiplayer or social features
- Some grind and balance issues in late game
Analysis
A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Violence, Survival, Cooperation. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Status.
How to use the graph
Similar games map
Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.
- Purple star: the game you are viewing on this page.
- Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
- Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
- Hover a dot for a quick preview; click to compare it in the panel on the right.
- Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.
Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.
Motivations
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Autonomy4
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Competence4
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Competition
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Continuation4
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Cooperation
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Creativity3
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Domination
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Escapism
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Expectation-4
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Experimenting4
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Exploration4
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Expression2
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Fantasy4
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Fellowship-5
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Growth4
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Health-5
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Idle-3
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Intimacy-5
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Leadership3
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Progression5
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Relaxation1
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Sensation2
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Status-5
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Story2
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Strategy5
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Thrill3
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Value4
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Violence2
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Survival4
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