Posted on: May 29, 2021
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Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 1799 Rezensionen: 5
Enjoyable, if lightweight colony builder
The game evokes the likes of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Off World Trading Company, Aven Colony, Surviving Mars and other colony builders. I'm admittedly only a handful of hours in, so haven't seen the full extent of the tech tree, but it doesn't seem like it'll get quite as deep as any of the others mentioned. There's a need to balance population happiness, energy consumtion and environmental impact, maintaining your colonies with repairs and cleaning, with occasional disasters/events if you let structure conditions drop too low or pollution go too high. It does not feel like there's an underlying model as much as a handful of bars moving up and down though, but it's enjoyable enough, even though it doesn't get close to the simulations of some of the competitors. On a technical level, the game runs decently, with a fairly clean interface and good graphics. I've been getting occasional lockups that last for a few seconds, but the game resumes afterwards. The lock ups got me worried enough to make lots of manual saves, but it never fully crashed, so I didn't have to revert to them. The tech tree has both permanent research and "licenses", which only last for the current mission and uses a separate currency which you get during specific events in the story. You figure the system out quickly enough, but I still wouldn't mind if the tutorial was better at explaining it. The tutorial also glosses over some pretty important mechanics on how buildings interact with each other and need to be adjacent to each other in order to be upgraded. Thankfully they're easy to relocate after they've been built, so errors can easily be fixed, but if the system was explained better you wouldn't make these mistakes in the first place. All in all, I think this is a good game. No glaring flaws, but nothing that stands out as great either. It's cheap and worth the money if you enjoy the genre or are interesting in trying a simpler one out before diving into the more complex titles.
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