Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition

Genesis Alpha One is a horror-flavored sci fi game about a crew of human clones on a growing space ship exploring a dangerous distant galaxy to find a new eden for humanity. It's a first person management game where you control the captain of a corporate-sponsored exploration ship, building it up piece-by-piece, cloning then assigning crew members to run stations independently, occasionally exploring the surfaces of planets to find new ship component blueprints, but mostly grabbing your gun and dealing with whatever threats invade your ship before they tear it apart. The Alpha One galaxy is thick with hostile lifeforms, and every time you bring resources onto your ship, there's a risk some kind of alien stowed away on it. When this happens, at least at the beginning, it's your job to check every nook and cranny of the ship to eliminate the intruders. This is where the horror elements come in, because like the Nostromo in the movie "Alien," every room in your ship has a dark cramped ductwork section underneath where the aliens love to hide out and lay eggs. The damage they do to the ship causes spooky steam leaks, vision obscuring life support failures, flame sprays, and other problems that make it even harder for you to spot them lunging for you in the dark. Let the problem get too bad and entire sections of the ship could literally explode and if you happen to be in one of them, you could be sucked out the hull and spin away into space. As much as I love the game, the downsides include the game being very dry, with your crew almost entirely lacking personalities, and the plot being minimal. When landing on a planet you're confined to a square area around your ship with clearly marked borders. And when aliens get onto your ship they oftentimes just pop into being without any animation of them jumping off the lander's hull or out of a load of ore. UE4 effects can't hid this game's indie origin. It's a wonderful exploration/horror game, and I recommend it!

An ambitious roguelike-FPS-management-tower defense game. Normally when you mix this many elements it can easily turn into a half-baked mess, but here it comes together into a satisfying gameplay loop, as long as you don't mind repetition. I wish I could write an indepth review, but because of the character limit, I'll condense it into bullet points. Good: - Spacebase construction is awesome. You really get a lot of options for how to customize your base for security. You also get a full refund on demolishing rooms, so you can experiment as much as you like. - Playing as the commander and managing everything yourself means the gameplay loop is pretty varied, with base construction, fighting, crew management, exploration and resource management. - Decent selection of weapons, both projectile-based and hitscan. - Tons of unlockables add a lot of replay value. Bad: - Early-game aliens are hardly a threat once you know what to expect from them during resource harvesting. You can set up your harvesting ops to be like a big bug zapper, with no room for escape. This contributes to the repetition a lot of people complain about. - In my playthrough, I managed to win just as I was entering what felt like the mid-game. Though this was probably a fluke, and you can customize the win requirements on game startup. - Repetition. Now personally I have a high tolerance for this, but I can definitely see why a lot of players come to dislike the gameplay loop. Most roguelikes light a fire under your *** to keep moving, and throw all kinds of random events your way. Here, the dominant strategy is to work slowly and meticulously, minimizing risks as much as possible, and there's a lot less RNG. To summarize, the game made a hell of a first impression on me, but the lack of challenge did start to wear me down. That said, I'm jumping straight into a second run with higher difficulty settings and I hope future updates will make the gameplay live up to its potential.

But definitely for me. Action, strategy, upgrades, exploration, resource collection, plasma weapons, spaceships, I like all of these words. I like inspecting a ship I built up from scratch and checking every corner for aliens. I like shooting those aliens when I find them. I like cloning new crew based on the DNA of those aliens. I like finding artifacts and research and resources on planets. Yes, this is an indie game. The production values are lower, the sandbox isn't as infinite as some modern sandboxes, the away missions only have small 2x2 maps in Mass Effect 2 style. If any of those is an objection for you, you should pass or wait for a sale.

Game has a whole 1970's sci-fi feel to it, Not just Alien,but Outlands, The Black Hole and a few more I don't remember. It's a pretty cool base building rougelike/rougelite , I personally like rougelikes and this one has a personality of it's own. I recomend this game if you like basebuilding, crew management,exploration and rougelikes.