Really great game from the Mechanicus devs. There honestly aren't that many story-driven colony managers that have a beginning, middle, and end. The mechanics are solid; if you like colony management it'll be right up your ally, the only thing they dont really emphasize is that you REALLY don't wanna waste space to keep things easy. I played about 10 hours then just restarted because i knew I could do much better.
The 2nd run though to be honest was pretty easy. I might in the future try the harder difficulty and see how it goes, but the base game on "normal" is pretty easy to get through. There's SO MANY resources in every sector to keep everything going; No chance of running out of ice, iron, or or carbon. Once you have your recycling set up to produce stuff as well it gets even easier to meet demands.
The only thing they don't really inform you is that by the time you get to the final chapter, there's a time limit in it, but its not really displayed. You kind of just have to infer it and you can lose quite a bit of hours if you're not ready for it. It seems like an upcoming update is reworking how chapter 5 works though so I'm excited to see where it leads because that was the only downside here.

TL:DR:
Great colony manager with interesting story and fun flavor text (via science vessel exploration).

Really great game from the Mechanicus devs. There honestly aren't that many story-driven colony managers that have a beginning, middle, and end. The mechanics are solid; if you like colony management it'll be right up your ally, the only thing they dont really emphasize is that you REALLY don't wanna waste space to keep things easy. I played about 10 hours then just restarted because i knew I could do much better. The 2nd run though to be honest was pretty easy. I might in the future try the harder difficulty and see how it goes, but the base game on "normal" is pretty easy to get through. There's SO MANY resources in every sector to keep everything going; No chance of running out of ice, iron, or or carbon. Once you have your recycling set up to produce stuff as well it gets even easier to meet demands. The only thing they don't really inform you is that by the time you get to the final chapter, there's a time limit in it, but its not really displayed. You kind of just have to infer it and you can lose quite a bit of hours if you're not ready for it. It seems like an upcoming update is reworking how chapter 5 works though so I'm excited to see where it leads because that was the only downside here. TL:DR: Great colony manager with interesting story and fun flavor text (via science vessel exploration).