Great game, just crashes every 5-10 minutes. Very frustrating. Save after every battle.
This game seems criminally underrated in my opinion. It's got a lot of amazing things going for it. I love the soundtrack. It's got all the elements of a great science fiction story buried within a simulation/city builder. I also enjoyed all the scientific options it presents you with for terraforming Mars. I don't want to spoil any, but if you've read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, or play the board game Terraforming Mars, likely you'll have heard of a lot of them and you get to implement them yourself and see them in real time. And when you make mistakes that end up in all your base being flooded or on fire, you'll kick yourself for not realizing that ahead of time and want to try again. Really looking forward to another of these games!
I would give this 4 stars if I didn't have to spend hours googling and experimenting to get KG8 to run. It will NOT work out of the box. Here are some tips. The most difficult puzzle of the game was getting it to run on Windows 10. Here's what I had to do... First move the game folder to your root C:\ because the GOG's default folder has too long a pathname for it to run. Next google "King's Quest 8 shim" and follow the instructions there. Next google "king's quest 8 indeo video codec" and grab and install the IV5setup there in order to watch the cutscenes. Finally change the draw method in the graphics settings to one of the options that doesn't crash for you. Phew! Worth the effort though.
