Per Aspera

As mentioned in the review (like from Slug), the UI in this game is terrible. Nothing not in priority get done. I had assault drones factories to be build for 10min, only built when I prioritized them. THEN for 15min more they didn't build a single assault drone due to lacking input. I had over 125 drones and they are at the main base, factories and storage are 10 tiles away at max.

The story hooked me. Factory style of the game. Great voice acting. Solid game for 18 hours

2 major issues I don't know why they exists: 1-Why no on map building filters, just why. 2-Why I can't see where a product is stockpiled, I have around 1,5k ice stockpiled but can't see where and colonies lack ice unless prioritized, which I shouldn't have to unless there's traffic in sector. These just ruin the game for me as I look at the map %50 of the time and can't find anything unless I go into buildings screen.

很无聊。像个小游戏pro版。

Wie immer habe ich das spiel im Angebot gekauft. Es waren kurzweilige 23h. bei dem Preis den ich zahlte absolut worth.

The main goal is to terraform Mars. You terraform Mars. Mars gets terraformed. I really liked terraforming Mars. Everything else, positive or negative, is just a bonus on top of terraforming Mars, which the game lets you do. Personally, I didn't find the story particularly engaging. It is a sound story with no issues. However, colonizing Mars is the absolute staple of classic sci-fi which likely inflated my expectations to what a strategy game about terraforming Mars can do in that departament. The voice acting is a huge plus to this game. I was looking forward to every new call. The visuals are easily readable and yet very good looking. Not an easy task, considering the scale. The pacing of the game is slow, which is fine in my personal preference: We are working on a planetary scale here and it feels like it. Still, towards the end of the game 16x speed is not enough when the chain of workers randomly decides to transport a sandcorn across the entire planet by driving on the slowest roads they can find instead of sending more steel through the hyper loop. Personally, I found the idea behind the infrastructure growing kinda like a bunch of neurons really engaging. Still, it is unlikely I will continue playing my save after finishing the main mission or come back for another run. Growing bigger and bigger just does not feel rewarding in this game. Combat is another aspect which is in the game and absolutely servicable with a simple, fitting (and well animated) idea behind it, but I would not dedicate a whole tech tree to it in retrospect. The historic and alternative historic "ruins" of previous landing sites are a nice touch but could have provided some form of unique bonus making exploring and connecting them more of a priority. To conclude, I did not find any aspect of the game outright lacking or flawed. It is a good, finished, polished game with some aspects I would have liked more if they were more fleshed out. Especially during sales, absolutely worth it.

Absolute Gem of a game I randomly ran into. I love just about everything that makes this game, especially the philosophical challenges! The only thing that I wish I could make, are roads without the need of buildings and cheesing of powerlines and maintenance. I am circumventing such "highways" by building a ton of very resource cheap glass klin's to get to a specific spot where I want to set up a hyperloop with a worker, a solar farm and a maintenance building, and then I deconstruct all the glass klin's again. I wish I could just straight up build roads and then additionally set up those hyperloops wherever I wish (in a certain reach of a road).