In my mind, this is one of the greatest games ever conceived of. The art style was plucked from Prison Architect (and the developer has attributed it as such.) The music is a fantastic "Firefly" style that will stick in your head and fits the setting perfectly. The amount of mods and the ease of installing them makes this infinitely replayable. But the best part about this game is the stories you'll tell. It's a story generator. And when I say "you'll tell", it's because you'll have things happen to your colony in this game that will make you want to share it with friends and family. There are so many ways to play this game. Each "storyteller" (selected at game start) brings different styles to the game, and within each you have multiple difficulty levels to select from; so you can really tailor it, quite simply, to the kind of experience you're looking for. This is the kind of game you can just boot up and play a new colony for a few hours, enjoy it, go to bed, forget about them. But it's also the kind of game you'll pour a week into each evening, really fine-tuning a good start that you got. If you're like me, you'll even load up a great colony you built two years ago just to visit old friends and reminisce over the battle scars. There are a couple of expansions for this game, and I don't own them. Because I've barely scratched the surface of what the base game (with mods) offers. For instance, you can travel around the world map and do quests, but I never bother. That's not the game I want to play. I like to start a new game every month or so and see how quickly I can get a lone colonist and her dog to a viable level of stability to survive the coming winter. And each biome has its own challenges! It's one thing to make it through a winter in the temperate forest, but the tundra? The ICE CAPS? If this game had a monthly subscription to play, I'd pay it in a heartbeat. Some of the stories have become family jokes or legends. You'll laugh, you'll cry. Buy it
