Startopia

Startopia has far too many positives to talk about in such a short review, but let me say the game is at its best when you're done actively playing. Taking in the sights and sounds of a bustling space station is an incredible spectacle, one that hasn't diminished in the decade since the game's release. A must buy.

Masterpiece!

I have played this game for over 21 hours on GOG's launcher where I also streamed it on Twitch and uploaded it via YouTube: https://youtu.be/t566yIlznS8 This was a real delight to play as a fan of such management sims as Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper and so on. In this game you play as an administrator of a starbase, however, you are often not the only person in charge of the starbase and there are others out to take over and take your place. In this situation, you have to take over sections of the base aggressively with the use of security staff and robots to hack the gates shut. Every mission of the campaign explores one or more of the specialised rooms, starting with incredibly useful ones like the recycler (turns ANYTHING into energy) up to more advanced things such as the Research Lab and the Bio Deck which is used both as a place of meditation and relaxation, but also a place to grow plants you can harvest for resources to either research or sell to trade ships, including a reoccurring character, Arona Daal who often sells you items that he obtains in a suspicious manner. The Hospital is also vitally important (joke intended) because certain illnesses are akin to the xenomorph from aliens and an alien visitor may die and out of their corpse comes a giant insectoid creature rampaging around the station! There is a lot of fun to had with this game, not to mention the humour in both character descriptions, but mostly in the AI who enjoys poking fun at you "organics" and often warns you about situations on the station that can happen such as deaths, traders, bomb placement and so on. Those are some big stations out there and they need an administrator to straighten it out!

I loved this game when I was younger so much, I just had to buy it when I saw it here and it actually is still extremely good and fun to play. I'd recommend it to everyone up for a space-station.sim that doesn't take itself too serious.

I played this game way back in the day as a demo and it has not last an ounce of the gameplay that was so addictive to me. Buy this and call your loved omnes and tell them you'll be back next week because this game will suck you in