I feel like I've exhausted the list of good "true" soulslikes, but I've recently really enjoyed stellar blade and the Nier games. I was wondering if there are any other ARPGs that have a similar feel without being actually soulslikes that y'all have enjoyed.

Holy is the first boss so overturned. Even just his first phase alone felt too difficult for a first boss. Throw in the second phase and he took me two less tries than mallenia. I understand that part of his difficulty comes from having to learn to play in first person instead of third, but that's still unjustifiably difficult imo. Maybe it's just something about me, but he felt wayy too hard to me. I have beaten him now, but it felt more like a relief than a satisfaction.

I loved ACT and I was simply wondering if there's anything else out there like it. Just a more lighthearted soulslike. Or even something that's not quite a soulslike but gives a similar feel.

Games I've Played:

Factorio
Satisfactory
Dyson Sohere Program
Foundry
Techtonica
Captain of Industry
Modulus
Motemancer
Shapez
Shapez 2
Star Rupture
Alchemy Factory
Outworld Station
Oddsparks

On my Radar:

Factory Town
Factor Y
Desynced
The Crust
Belts of Iron
Microtopia
Final Factory
Factory Planner
Icaria
Orebound
Cubetory
Rivertown Factory
Little Rocket Lab
Fortresscraft Evolved
Eden Crafters
Astrocolony
Mindustry
The Riftbreaker
Star birds
Mine mogul
Tower Factory
Autoforge
Kubifaktorium
Atrio
Refactory
Mycelium Conquest
Sintopia
Learning Factory
Big pharma
Facteroids
Megafactory Titan
Middenmoon

Exciting and Upcoming:

Fortresscraft: Phoenix
Brave New Wonders
Skyrig
Pistonica
Kardashev
Arcaneering
Deep crafter
Factory Town 2
Biofactory
Factomancer
Iron Inc
Infinitory
Potion pipeline
Snacktorio
Fractal foundry
Substructure
Swarmdustry
Exofactory
Main Sequence
Fluxwerks
Sandustry
ASEMA
Fakutori
Botlings

I just figured it would be nice for some people to see them all in one place since AFAIK there's no real place to see an exhaustive list online.

Currently I'm looking at final factory, outworld station, desynced, or cubetory next. Any other suggestions are welcome. Just want to know what people think of these games?

Games I've already played:
Shapez
Shapez 2
Factorio (including many modpacks)
Satisfactory
DSP
Alchemy Factory
Modulus
Factory town 2
Star Rupture
Foundry
Motemancer (super underrated)
Techtonica (briefly)
Oddsparks (briefly)
Captain of Industry
Builderment

I just bought Motemancer which is a 2D top-down factory game similar to Facyorio, but rather than being engineering themed, it's alchemical and magic themed. Furthermore, it's on a hex-grid which actually changes the game A LOT. I'm not very far into it, but I foresee myself sinking many many hours into this game and I cannot recommend it enough. On top of all that, it's got a super active dev who is extremely active on the game's discord server AND it has a free demo on steam. I don't know how no one is taking about it.

Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation in the factory/automation subgenre. I loved Satisfactory, Factorio, and Foundry, but found that DSP and Techtonica didn't quite click for me. I'm not sure why to be honest. But I'm mostly curious if anyone has any underrated gems for me to try out! I'm always looking for more games in this genre

Edit: I'm also happy to try out base building games without a focus on automation, but I do want something with more clear goals. Timberborn felt too aimless to me unfortunately

I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the Paradox game, Foundry. It's honestly my second favorite factory game after Factorio so far and it's still getting plenty of updates. For those of you who may not know, it's basically Factorio in a voxel 3 dimensional, terraformable world. It usually gets compared to satisfactory since they're both 3D, but the gameplay is honestly a lot more like Factorio than Satisfactory imo(the existence of something like inserters and science packs being the two biggest things). Overall, I don't hear this game talked about nearly enough and I cannot recommend it enough to fans of the genre!