GOG, stop nagging everyone to review games.
So here it is. It's great game. Except for Last Autumn expansion, that is stupidly difficult. Even one tiny misstep at the start and you need to restart the entire scenrio.
Everyone else has covered the pros/cons pretty good.
That being, Startopia is criminally underrated. I bought this game on disc back in the day, and 20+ years later it has aged quite well, so much so I re-bought it on GOG to play on a modern system. Startopia is one cruzy little management game where you play the "Administrator" in a donut-in-space station, building various facilities for both leisure and industry, then sitting back and watching cutesy alien visitors come aboard and make use of them. You also hire these alien visitors to run the facilities. You have virtually zero control over these "Residents", which is both a good and bad thing: Good because it prevents you from being sucked into the vortex of micromanagement, but bad if you like that sort of thing. Game controls are smooth and the graphics crisp, the poly count not so low as to look thoroughly antiquated (especially running on modern video hardware), with a retro-synthy soundtrack and pithy commentary courtesy of your Brit assistant who sounds a lot like the guy from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. In fact some of his in-game gags might be lost on modern audiences... but I don't think so. Conflict with other Administrators on the station is an option... BUT... combat in Startopia is horribly broken, and this is my one gripe with this game. Thanks to the lack of control over your residents they tend to do really stupid things, like make suicide runs so deep into enemy territory their lasers are useless. Sighs. That said, Startopia a great little game if you wish to just burn some leisurely hours sitting back with a nice jaunt on a space station that won't get your teeth grinding.
