Startopia

This is a must have for any management sim lover and comes close to the love I have for Theme Hospital. The only gripe I had with it is that that the shortness of the campaign surprised me.

I adore this Game and played it for more than ten years and it never got boring. The loveable details, the different decks and the funny characters like Arona, HAL and the Karmarama. I wish I could play it on my Mac. Is there any Mac-Version!? PLEASE!?

IMHO I think that this game resembles a lot of the old games bullfrog use to make, and I actually think that some of the same team members helped in making this one. Back in the days there were only sold around a 100.000 copies.

You care about the game, and its great. And its cheap, so stop reading these reviews and go buy it you waffler!

The whole experience felt pretty flat to me. This is a light-hearted and humorous base builder with some combat thrown in. Unfortunately, the Douglas Adams style comedy just didn't have that Douglas Adams genius and although I cracked a smile here and there, I think it mostly missed the mark. The pacing is slow at times and I found the interface to be disjointed and clunky, especially when hiring aliens. There is almost nothing provided in the way of in game descriptions of what the various items and buildings do for your visitors (Sick Bay is obvious enough, but how about the Dispenser?) Some of the items that you can place within buildings don't seem to have any purpose at all. The game manual is no help here either. Aside from the space port segments that constrict you from expanding until you've unlocked them, the whole space setting seemed to be just a skin and any other setting would have worked just as well. Or maybe I just didn't play far enough into the game. The best games I've ever played are inexplicably more than the sum of their parts. In my opinion, Startopia does not belong in that category.