Posted on: January 31, 2019

BarbVBarus

Spiele: 49 Rezensionen: 2

Aven Colony - Spoilers may follow

The Good, the Bad and the Awesome. Game rendering is awesome. A world made of mold yet beaustiful. Complex in fascinating ways and not the easiest to learn. Be prepared to make serious mistakes and having to start over. Even played on "Cakewalk" there were some surpirses. Twice I had to reboot the entire game, but no lags or stutters. To lift a saying from GOT remember "Winter is Comng" so plan for it. Like Sansa Stark, get those supplies in storage. I know nothing about video game music, but in general I hate it, so I played with the music off but the speech dialog is essential. Listen carefully to everything. It probably does not have enough slaughter for the players who like to chop, slash, and blow things up. However both defense and offense are important. Study the landscape (mold scape?) carefully. The bad is the save mechcanics. I found I had to repeatedly delete all my saves so that I could maintain a clear direction to where I was in any senario. THe awesome -- the story, plain and simple. Unable to put the mystery to one side . The urge to fnd out just WHAT is going on and the WHY. I played the game through three -3- times. NOw going for my fourth time through at an ever increasing difficulties. And I will be sorry when it ends. I adore sims games and city building. I have bought and played every one every published. Aven Colony is by far the best.

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Posted on: November 7, 2023

streetyson

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Spiele: 51 Rezensionen: 32

Polished but conceptually poor builer

I liked how the game has a proper tutorial and how it's integrated into the game (they don't insist but ask you to practice in the holo sim before going down to the planet). This deserves a mention as many games do a bad job of tutorials. I also liked the graphics, and how easy the game was to install. And I like the keybinding - eg though they use WASD they've also preconfigured the arrow keys to do the same (old gamers like me have only used arrowed keys since the 1980s - that WASD nonsense only started in the late 1990s). The game looks polished, is nicely paced, ok music and not taxing. Anyway, sadly, things go immediately downhill from there. I find it totally silly (and simplistic) that though building units might be contiguous (such as your starter base with all it's units joined in a line), you still have to connect them via an external series of tunnels for them to operate! People can't just walk from one unit to the next (let alone from one end to the other)! No you have to build snaking tunnels and connections joining each and every one. Aven rationalises this as being because the tunnels also act as power conduits. Huh? Can't they even connect power between two buildings that are literally joined together? Nope. The only reason I can see for this is so you can click on the tunnels, zoom in and thus click on your settlers! In any rational game they would be safely walking between joined buildings and not taking wasteful and relatively risky exterior tunnels everywhere. Oh look there's Jim walking to the drone hub and mumbling about coffee.. Oh, really... This concept could've been done much better - eg click on a building and select a damn settler if you want to see their cartoony photo and have one say hello or moan about the power supply. Have some buildings with domes to see the little blighters walking around sometimes. The only exterior folk should be suited or in vehicles, not plodding literally everywhere in silly glass tunnels like mice.

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Posted on: December 15, 2023

Oniren

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Spiele: 146 Rezensionen: 3

Fun, Casual Colony Builder

Rounding up to 5 stars because this game is what I needed in the moment. Fun, casual colony builder with beautiful graphics and fairly simplistic gameplay that is easy to digest. There are harder modes and harder maps, but the baseline is easy to get the hang of if you're a more casual player like myself. The campaign is the perfect way to start as it eases you into the different concepts, buildings, and map types. By the end you'll be an expert on how to quickly and effectively build your new colony on any terrain type. There is also a moderately interesting story that expands at the end of each mission, but doesn't distract from just wanting to build. I was getting major "just one more turn" syndrome, but since it's continuous play where you can modify the speed, I found myself trapped in the game for longer periods than intended. Recommended for fans of SimCity and similar sim management games looking for a nice Sci-Fi flair.

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Posted on: January 10, 2019

SpicyInternets

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Spiele: 111 Rezensionen: 3

Neat & Repetitive

Its well made and designed but there is no feeling of progression. While the story is the only motivator for you to play the campaign maps, it is not told very well. (They could have used the situation to enhance the gameplay) The campaign maps will have some limitations thrown in but they play out in the same manner unfortunately. I would say the game starts to feel grindy after the third or fourth campaign map. As far as the building goes, making an aesthetic city layout is more difficult to do. The citizen travel distance and the function of travel tubes that connect buildings isn't really clear at the start. Atleast there is a commute overlay to kinda give you an idea. All in all not too bad & def worth 10$, but needs a lot of improvement.

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Posted on: October 7, 2023

Chiricana

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Spiele: 288 Rezensionen: 30

Chill, small city builder

I completed the Campaign on Normal, and did 2 Sandbox maps on a Custom harder difficulty in about 60 hours total. It was really pleasant, but I think I've done everything there is to do. I might come back to the game in a year to chill out again. One very strong point: there were no immersion-breaking mechanics. Everything about colony building was simple and worked the way you'd expect. (Surviving Mars is a deeper game, but it has a couple mechanics that I find obnoxiously unrealistic. Aven Colony is simpler and more intuitive.) Worth buying, and a great deal if it's on sale.

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