Planetbase

Came to this store page when I saw the announcement for Planetbase 2 and noticed that the recent reviews are mixed, which is undeserved imho. Planetbase is solid game, where building your base requires some thinking ahead to maximize production. The game is almost 10 years old and is was the first game made by this dev, and it shows in some places. But I never experienced any game-breaking bugs, which is not something that can be said for most AAA-titles these days. Also the dev continued to release updates through the years - last one was September 2024. That counts for something in my book. TLDR: Solid game. Solid dev. Deserves a better review score than "Mixed".

Genuinely the worst game I have played this year. Boring does not even come close. Planetbase is the kind of game that makes you wonder how something with such a promising premise ended up so mind-numbingly dull. What should have been an engaging colony sim devolves into a lifeless slog within the first couple of hours — assuming you can stomach the sheer absurdity of its mechanics that long. Let’s start with the lack of content. You’re sold a vision of building a thriving base on a hostile alien world, but what you get is a paper-thin sandbox with all the depth of a puddle. Once you've placed the same handful of structures in the same optimal layout, you've essentially seen everything the game has to offer. There’s no meaningful progression — no techs to research, you have to trade them (why, how?) no compelling goals beyond the same rinse-and-repeat "survive a few dozen days" monotony. Nothing new to unlock, nothing to strive for. Just an empty grind. And that grind is made worse by the tedious and nonsensical building placement system. The layout restrictions feel arbitrary and counterintuitive. You’re forced to wrestle with a bizarrely rigid and awkwardly implemented grid system that serves no real purpose other than to irritate. Instead of encouraging creativity, it punishes it, funneling you into bland, robotic layouts that are more about appeasing the game’s bizarre rules than about building something functional or interesting. Even if you suffer through the placement agony, you’re still left managing colonists who behave like lobotomized Roombas. The so-called character management is an utter joke. You can’t meaningfully influence individual behavior, task prioritization is nonexistent, and watching your colonists wander around doing the dumbest possible thing at the worst possible time is more rage-inducing than entertaining. Resource management? If you can call it that. The game routinely creates things out of thin air or makes nonsensical jumps in logic — one moment you’re low on metal, the next it magically appears because some nameless drone got around to "processing" it without ever explaining what that even means. There's no feedback loop, no sense of economy or realism — just arbitrary timers and unpredictable AI that make long-term planning a cruel joke. What you’re left with is a boring, frustrating, mechanically broken experience. Planetbase has no soul, no strategy, no joy — just a relentless barrage of design flaws dressed up in minimalist aesthetics. Avoid it unless you enjoy watching a badly designed system collapse under its own pointlessness.

An enjoyable colony sim, with reasonably deep mechanics, without being overwhelming. Easy to pick up the basics with a high skill ceiling.

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It was an enjoyable game for the most part. But still buggy, notably medics choosing to be idle over making medical supplies. Just wait for PlanetBase 2 at this point, dont buy this one.

great game, many hours enjoyed . not to over the top! great for new players to the genre

Not a bad game, but it feels like the events are scripted in a way that requires you to play a specific way. For example, when you are at the last objective with 300 colonists, you get a bunch of outsider attacks that push your population below 200 until you have over 25 security. When you get the objectives, it's not clear whether you can build more or try another planet. Did I win?. Also, after a few hours, there are fewer different buildings and things you need to build, and you have to wait for the last tech and population. Also, would the devs stop spamming ads for the new game in the update news for this game.

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