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Posted March 07, 2019
By this I mean science-fiction settings where the technology has regressed, or is antique (using old copies). Spacecraft and spacetravel is common, but politically, economically, culturally, technologically, society has regressed, old knowledge of science has been forgotten.

EDIT: Excluding Warhammer 40K, of course.
Post edited March 07, 2019 by Crosmando
Posted March 07, 2019
It's not really how I see Dune. There are no computers (no "thinking machines"), but the rest is pretty high tech.

Anyway, try out Rimworld, maybe. Spaceships, but the rest feels quite low tech.
Posted March 07, 2019
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Telika: It's not really how I see Dune. There are no computers (no "thinking machines"), but the rest is pretty high tech.

Anyway, try out Rimworld, maybe. Spaceships, but the rest feels quite low tech.
There's a huge Taboo about making and using machines that can substitute or make what a biological organ can. Although most of the low tech feeling in Dune comes from personal shields being so common, as they stop bullets and tend to go nuke when hit by a laser. So battles are usually back to cqc.
Posted March 07, 2019
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Crosmando: By this I mean science-fiction settings where the technology has regressed, or is antique (using old copies). Spacecraft and spacetravel is common, but politically, economically, culturally, technologically, society has regressed, old knowledge of science has been forgotten.

EDIT: Excluding Warhammer 40K, of course.
Everything set in the Battletech universe (including the Mechcommander and Mechwarrior spinoffs)
Emperor Of The Fading Suns
Homeworld starts that way
Posted March 07, 2019
Caves of Qud
Post edited March 07, 2019 by tremere110
Posted March 07, 2019
*takes breath*
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thefifthhorseman.229: .
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Emperor Of The Fading Suns
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Err... what he said.
Posted March 07, 2019
Kharak, the planet on which the events in Homeworld - Deserts of Kharak are talking place is more or less a desert planet and has always reminded me of Dune/Arrakis. There's no sandworms or spice, but plenty of ancient (as in ancient advanced technology) artifacts on it.
Post edited March 07, 2019 by WinterSnowfall
Posted March 07, 2019
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Crosmando: By this I mean science-fiction settings where the technology has regressed, or is antique (using old copies). .... politically, economically, culturally, technologically, society has regressed, old knowledge of science has been forgotten.
Somewhere in the near future, they"ll call that "NOW". :-P
Posted March 08, 2019
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Telika: It's not really how I see Dune. There are no computers (no "thinking machines"), but the rest is pretty high tech.

Anyway, try out Rimworld, maybe. Spaceships, but the rest feels quite low tech.
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Nerevar.220: There's a huge Taboo about making and using machines that can substitute or make what a biological organ can. Although most of the low tech feeling in Dune comes from personal shields being so common, as they stop bullets and tend to go nuke when hit by a laser. So battles are usually back to cqc.
You've also got the fact that even the Great Houses can only raise armies which are quite small by "our" standards. It's mentioned that when House Atreides left for Arrakis, all their army and frigates could fit inside a single Guild ship, in fact they only took up small fraction of the ship's capacity.
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