Disclaimer: I've played the playtest, hence my playtime is quite low in demo.

Dawn Apart is a very promising game that mixes colonybuilding with factory automation, resource gathering and so on, without too deep colony management (so far). The focus verges more on the factory side of things. The colony aspects aren't too elaborate, which I do personally prefer that way if there's higher focus on automation itself.

It also has very distinct visual style. The swaying effect in particular seems to be achieved as some sort of animated voxel displacement. It looks really cool. Be warned though, the higher graphical settings are very taxing on GPU. You may want to disable shadows in particular. This is not because developers are lazy or anything like that, it's just challenges that voxels present especially when used to this degree.

I actually got a very specific answer in the Discord when I asked about performance, something I was quite positively surprised by. While voxels of this resolution have a significant cost, they also do have benefits in terms of how you can deform and destroy terrain or objects / buildings. So they're not just here for aesthetics.

Now the real reason I like in particular this game: the developers actually are quite transparent in Discord and they seem to have very sensible approach to things in terms of what specific things to focus on, with rather clear design goals or at least the general direction. This seemingly trivial thing unfortunately is not always a guarantee, as there are even popular games where decisions aren't elaborated at all and you're just left to deal with them.

Why this is a big thing? Because I tend to look games not only in terms of present but also the future. Transparency and communication is pretty good for the future health of a game that is being actively developed, as is actually sensible and realistic plans for future. So this is a definitive recommendation from me.

Disclaimer: I've played the playtest, hence my playtime is quite low in demo. Dawn Apart is a very promising game that mixes colonybuilding with factory automation, resource gathering and so on, without too deep colony management (so far). The focus verges more on the factory side of things. The colony aspects aren't too elaborate, which I do personally prefer that way if there's higher focus on automation itself. It also has very distinct visual style. The swaying effect in particular seems to be achieved as some sort of animated voxel displacement. It looks really cool. Be warned though, the higher graphical settings are very taxing on GPU. You may want to disable shadows in particular. This is not because developers are lazy or anything like that, it's just challenges that voxels present especially when used to this degree. I actually got a very specific answer in the Discord when I asked about performance, something I was quite positively surprised by. While voxels of this resolution have a significant cost, they also do have benefits in terms of how you can deform and destroy terrain or objects / buildings. So they're not just here for aesthetics. Now the real reason I like in particular this game: the developers actually are quite transparent in Discord and they seem to have very sensible approach to things in terms of what specific things to focus on, with rather clear design goals or at least the general direction. This seemingly trivial thing unfortunately is not always a guarantee, as there are even popular games where decisions aren't elaborated at all and you're just left to deal with them. Why this is a big thing? Because I tend to look games not only in terms of present but also the future. Transparency and communication is pretty good for the future health of a game that is being actively developed, as is actually sensible and realistic plans for future. So this is a definitive recommendation from me.