Very soon, you will want to see a lot of additional continuation of the plot and development of your colony.ġ.3) Many standard controls and functionality are missing, such as accessing controls from within the game or changing the volume of the game.ġ.4) Odd UI decisions which do not seem optimized for a good experience. You will have to go back to save files repeatedly.ġ.2) Not much content. You will spend a lot of nerves and time, because the AI will be extremely illogical to perform your tasks. You will surely have a lot of wishes for improving this game.ġ.1) Terrible AI in the game.
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You will definitely die a huge number of times before you figure out how to survive.įor me this is a virtue for the game. Here you will have to think a lot and build development strategies. It really is survival in difficult conditions.You will really feel like the conquerors of distant planets. Everything is very similar to real space.
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Favorite space theme by many players: The development of your settlement of colonists on a distant planet, where you have to get resources, grow food just like in the movie "Martian" and survive natural disasters.Thanks to Madruga Works for providing the review code. Patrick spent sixteen hours on the game before writing the review, earning 190 Gamerscore. While watching colonists die several times before you master the game isn’t for everyone, it offers a decent option for those looking to expand their horizon. If you do get the hang of managing your resources and dealing with hazards, the survival aspect becomes far less dominant, and it turns into an almost relaxing experience. Score: 72% | Planetbase is a base building game where you need to deal with the harsh environment. I wasn’t exactly over the moon about this. Sometimes your colonists or robots choose the wrong building to construct or repair, even if you did set priority to the right In one game, this caused me to phase a power failure that ultimately killed everyone.I’ve had this pop-up inform me that one of my processing plants was low on oxygen, but every time I looked there was nothing to see and nothing wrong. Allowing player customization would have helped here. A big colony looks like links of buildings that look rather similar. There isn’t much variation in the visuals.This can ultimately make it somewhat boring to continue after a certain point. You just need to repeat the appropriate expansion steps, and you’ll be golden. Once you get the hang of how to expand, there isn’t much excitement to be had.That said, Planetbase is not very expensive, so you do get what you pay for. While it’s fun to play those challenges, I don’t see myself replaying the ones I’ve beaten. You have the main building game, on four different planets as well as a small challenge mode with only four scenarios, one for each planet. Content wise there isn’t a lot to dive into.Just don’t get too attached to your colonists. Prepare to give it a couple of goes before you manage to get a healthy sized colony. While the tutorial does get you going, it does fail to mention a couple of important things you’ll run into during your first game.When I was in control of my colony expansion playing was almost trance-like. Despite this being about colony survival and mistakes will see your poor colonists die from starvation or asphyxiation or even gunned down by intruders, on the whole, playing Planetbase is rather relaxing.It adds to the relaxed atmosphere of a building game like this where you spent a lot of time watching your little colonists march like ants around the screen. The soundtrack is generally pleasing to listen to.If you fail to do the above correctly and stay one step ahead, your colonists will die, usually resulting in a chain reaction, wiping out your precious planet base.You will have to balance building resources, power (wind and solar), water, food and such. There are some very simple yet interesting mechanics in place that you need to get in control of.Let’s see if the game survived the transition to the console. This planetary builder and survival game was first published on the PC. Review Planetbase | Madruga Works brings Planetbase to the Xbox One.