Blossom: The Seed of Life

I liked the video from the store page, but that voice you hear is gone in the game. In the game's story it is replaced by cryptic one line texts and after a while they get boring and monotonous to collect. At its core this is a blatant Astroneer copy. The difference being that game has whole planets to explore and this game has a bland flat world map too small to be fun or interesting. Its only about 1-2km wide away from start and you are only limited from going to the edge by battery life (Astro's oxygen) and the tools to gather the outer recourses which linearly and very artificially get more advance the farther you get from start. If you "were" to use up all the finite starter resources you'd be SOL. Not that you will - there are only soo many things you can make with each before you need to go a tiny bit further from start to get the next type of resource needed. I am also disappointed with the progression; take your suit battery and storage- which maxes out after the first 30 minutes of play. Each new power/terraforming technology becomes immediately obsolete as soon as you get the one above it in the tech tree and needs to be demolished and replaced. The last thing is base building, Base structures were clearly an afterthought and not needed. No way to add power modules to the base structure, etc, besides - the camera isn't setup to play nice with going into buildings. Your base ends up being a random cluster of cutesy workstations scattered across the starting area connected by plugs hmmm... just like Astroneer lol. So yeah if you liked Astroneer's gameplay of running around paying close attention to your oxygen level (battery level here) and your 8 backpack slots (conspicuously similar).... but don't mind not having an interesting solar system to explore and like being confined to a small 2km diameter prison... this game is for you.

Is this game good? Yes. Will I keep playing it? Yes. Okay so why the not recommend? Well quite simply, this is a released product with a alpha feeling to it, its quite fun compared to Astroneer where I felt like the gameplay loop was meaningless. What they need to do for me to give it a thumbs up is fix the following. [list] [*] Redo the sound assets, water asset, and make the ranges logical or consistent (pick one!) [*] Add sound assets to make things more satisfying, for example the rover has no sound? Why?! [*] Make consistent classes for the cables (Why are the sizes all different and depending on the source port?!) [*] Give us a terrain tool (You can flatten with placement, but why can't we do it by hand?) [*] Make a single sided T3 storage, double sided sucks for organization. [*] On storage container view, allow manipulating your inventory too, inventory management is very fiddly. [*] Make printers place-able anywhere, we can already do it with round about ways but why the limitation? At the very least, rethink it, because its annoying. [*] Bug pass. (The mentioned flatten mode is very buggy, and moving constructions between printer zones is painful) [/list]

O jogo é bom, bom ate de mais. Só esse tremor de tela no menu é extremamente irritante, da vontade de bater no desenvolvedor, e a caixinha para desativar esse tremor nao funciona. No mais o jogo é muito bom.

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Hat es Spaß gemacht? Naja, es ist mehr eine ToDo Liste die man abarbeitet und man fragt sich eigentlich ständig, ob später noch irgend was interessantes kommt. Leider bleibt das aus. Würde ich das Spiel weiterempfehlen? Klares Nein, nicht für den Preis von ~17€. Alle Ressourcen liegen auf der Oberfläche rum, es gibt weder Höhlen, noch Biome (dass man in eine bestimme Richtung laufen müsste um eine bestimmte Ressource zu erreichen) - da stellt sich mir dann schon die Frage "was soll das?". Bin ich hier nur der Hausmeister um die Ressourcen von der Oberfläche zu kratzen? Story - naja, dürftig. Stellt man irgend eine Beziehung zur Spielfigur her? Nein Hat der Tod der Spielfigur irgendwelche Konsequenzen? Nein Alles in Allem eine wirklich dürftige Spielerfahrung. Viele gute Ideen wurden von anderen Spielen abgekupfert. Rucksack, Rover, Energiesystem von Astroneer, Planeten-Terraforming von PlanetCrafter Warum das "Startfeld der Blossom-Station" einen blauen Ladebalken anzeigt der sich leert, parallel aber daneben eine Zahl im Sekundentakt hochtickt und einfach nicht fertig wird, macht die Tutorial-Aufgabe "Aktiviere das Startfeld der Blossom-Station" zu einer ewigen Warterei ohne sinnvolle Begründung. Bin nun bei ~53.000 Sekunden angekommen und es ist mir einfach zu dumm weiter zu warten. In meinen Augen, hat man hier versucht das Spiel künstlich in die Länge zu ziehen... absolut sinnlos - Entwickler landet für diese Unverschämtheit auf die Steam-Blacklist und Spiel wird deinstalliert.

Good game but with improvements in many parts like terrain generation, entity's behaviour and more QoA things can be a great game

It's not the longest game. But it's calm, relaxing and gives the warm, happy feeling inside when you do something good. Turning a desolate world of dust and rock into a place people could happily call home - especially with friends or your partner, it's a wonderful feeling.

This is a really great game, really well contained experience and well worth embarking on the journey. The terraforming progression and technology unlocks feel really satisfying, and the story as it unfolds I found pretty interesting, if not a bit predictable. I will say the one thing this game might need a bit of help on is the inventory management piece - it occasionally got fairly frustrating. All that aside though, great game, really good contained experience, absolutely worthwhile checking out.