Starting with a couple solar cells and a farm. Expanding your colony through mining, trade, milling, reserach (albeit not much), chemical creation... Creating a small buzzing city with fusion-like generators, skyscrapers and plasma cannons. You have not only have to feed everyone but also provide for safety agains crime and alien spores, make sure the oxygen levels are fine, provide consumer goods and (some) entertainment and later on you can expand outside your colony using 2 bigs ships for short "sidequests" (dialog) and creating mini-colonies that support yours. There some nice mechanics, but unfortunately some downs, too.. * The main issue on my rig is the very low performance. It does not start good, even on reduces settings FPS are quite low and the game itself feels always sort of sluggish, even after playing with the settings a lot. This increases with the population which you will increase for the missions; 300+ and the game really starts to lag around. Both can be found in many forums, where some people have a decent performance, while many others struggle to get 20fps even on high-end gaming rigs. Unfortunately sounds just like really bad optimizing so far * Quests throughout the level are usually "get X" or build "Y". This is fine for the first tutorial level, but as soon as you know what you are doing it is not really helping, as sometimes you have to build a lower level tech building even though you have the better one already * There is also not (yet?) a real challenge. While Colonizing Mars had different late game catastrophies and different faction traits you could use, here you only have a single perk as a difference, that's it. Missions try to make you build differently (i.e. one ice level where you have to mostly rely on trading), but in general that is still nothing challenging TL:DR Some neat features, mid-level graphics. Content and difficulty wise it could use some extras. Unfortunately the performance issue is killing it for me.
