This isn't me trolling by the way, honestly curious because I've seen that games like Factorio are very popular. I'm definitely a simulation type gamer, I never really could get into Rollercoaster Tycoon and other similar games and it looks like these indie titles like Palworld as well are an evolution of that. Kind of surprised that these have largely taken over the indie space and it seems it's the 'thing' right now to play.
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I don't know if I could call it a trend but there was a spat of conveyor belt simulators that came out for awhile like Satisfactory among other titles the others were so easily forgetful because it looked like indie studios that had gone and clobbered together a survival clone with conveyor belt systems everywhere. It seems as though Factorio is the one true conveyor belt sim for most people these days.
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A better example that people might be more familiar with would be some of the over the top automation setups people sometimes do in Minecraft. IE with hoppers and pistons iirc.
This is also probably where a lot of people started developing such an interest in conveyor belt type mechanics. Even more-so if you delved into any of the mods like IC2.