Startopia

I can't believe I missed this game back when it came out. It's wonderful. And the subtle jokes are just great.

BUY THIS GAME. ITS AWESOME. ANYONE WANNA ASK THEM TO START A KICKSTARTER FOR STARTOPIA 2?

I still have the disc. This game is fantastic. It's smart, unpredictable, and witty. Every entity has its own personality. You can interact directly or indirectly. It was a game way before its time. So glad it's released on GoG!!

The good: It is fun Diversity of tasks and situations good Interesting twist The bad Never got a good feel for the interface and the controls However, all in all I feel its a "theme hospital" type game done at another location. If you loved theme hospital, you'll like this one as well, but in the end find theme hospital better.

Without a doubt, this is my single most favourite older game. Quirky characters, chucklesome voice-acting, interesting missions, addictive station/layout editing. Everything hangs in a great overall balance and a silky-smooth difficulty ramp. Even the arcing station rotation feels fresh. I can only wonder why more games weren't made with such imaginative, polished, experimental themes such as this. The best way to describe this to someone who has never played, would be to ask them to imagine Theme Park, but in space, with aliens as staff and as visitors... and that your theme-park is also a hotel, a research centre, a hospital, a prison, a shopping district, a garden, a shrine, and a military base. Yep! This game does so many things right. Even managing your cargo by hand is a little joy. Rather than simply buying your desired items from the UI, you buy the blueprints (or sometimes pre-fabs) from traders, and then pick their various colour-coded crates out of a big automated rack for deployment. A big automated rack that you must also build, and can organise by hand, I might add. Maybe I am picking on all the dumbest things to talk about, but really, this game is just stuck in a giant happy haze in my mind. Man, I kinda want to go reinstall it and play it AGAIN now...