Planet Nomads

I played this on Steam years ago. It had a lot of potential, but ultimately fell short of anyone's expectations. I'm actually surprised to see it on GoG now. I really couldn't recommend it as everything about it is kind of half-baked. If the developers had spent another year adding content and polish it would be good. Graphics are mediocre and repetitive. Starting on a colony ship in orbit about to crash the player escapes to a planet and must gather, mine, and craft to survive. Materials are scattered across different randomized biomes forcing the player to roam to find what is necessary. Structures are all created with prefab parts crafted with components and raw materials. The meager story is told through data caches found on in vehicle wrecks and structures. One must gather rare mats to complete the story, and once I did I had no desire to play again. While there exists indigenous lifeforms, there isn't a need for combat at all. The devs reluctantly added a gun towards the end. The best part of this game is the ability to create any kind of vehicle, even though the physics could be wonky depending on your design. There exists an exploit to make flying vehicles really fast by using a wheel mechanism. It's a bug, but it's still there, and because the game is abandoned will never be fixed. If you like building things you might get some enjoyment out of it, but there are far better alien survival games available.

Its a good start but there is really not much to do atm and some of the graphics are a bit glitchy with odd tiling or foliage/object pop-in, and view distances are also quite limited (no beautiful vistas like the screenshots, sadly, YET). Performance wise I would recommend not running it above 1440p unless you have a OC 1080+ or something, and I'd recommend waiting at least 6 months for the game to mature some more. At the moment Planet Nomads works but feels like how Empyrion did during its first release version, like pre-Alpha. +Kudo points to the developer for having a Linux build functional at launch, not many devs pull that odd.

I spent like 70 hours on it. I finished it, every mission. And it was so fun ! So great ! I loved making buildings and vehicles to go away and explore the world. The landscapes are so beautyfull. My favorite activity was seeking rare minerals, in the deserts, the jungles, the meadows, and near the poles. Navigating on my own flying vehicle. All that was great ! The strory is for me a bit weak, a greater animal diversity would be appreciate, and probably some more challanging ennemies. I would like some big bosses. But, it was already so good for me.

Nice draft, I like this idea since this game was officially in early access. I had a pause with this game for two years now, the developers as well? No great changes since then, this game is still a draft. Bigger mobile bases are just jerking, makes no fun to play. Too bad, this game has a lot of potential.

Let's start with there are gamebreaking bugs now, earlier versions didn't have, but the devs are no where to be found, their website isn't available anymore, the bug reporting tool is broken, not even the ressources GOG links to are up to date (external forum is archived, changelog shown in GALAXY is several versions behind even after the latest patch being out for nearly 2 years now). Furthermore the game is trying to phone home in the background. It was a promising game 3 years ago, but now I'd recommend to skip this and go for No Man Sky when that is on sale instead. Sadly with NMS you'll miss out on designing and engineering vehicles.