Planetbase

The game has an interesting premise but is poorly designed. Pioneers and even robots can become so fully preoccupied with things that even high-priority constructions are ignored for a period of multiple days and will not be advanced, even when the lack of the structure causes conditions to deteriorate. I wouldn't recommend this game to my worst enemy, based on my current gameplay experience.

Though the game is fun, and genuinely challenging even at the lower levels. It's missing a lot of personality. Everything functions, but nothing excels. You'll find fairly quickly that once you understand the mechanics, the game is neither particular deep nor particularly wide in scope. Your buildings are soulless perfunctory bubbles where you need build only what is strictly necessary for survival. What few decorations exist are so minimal they ultimately highlight how little there is to design. Your colonists are soulless automatons, performing basic functions without personality or desire, their deaths go unmourned, and they're forgotten as soon as their little models sink below the terrain. This game is fine, but it has been done better.

Stepan Xolera - спасибо за детство. Он внес большой вклад в продвижение игры в СНГ комьюнити. Так пусть же память о тех светлых временах, когда вышло его прохождение, останется на страницах отзывов.

Used to play this a lot years ago and wanted to give it another go now. It's a fun and chill game (until your colonists start doing something mysteriously dumb and cause your whole colony to die, then it's less chill), I like it and would recommend

This game is pretty rough around the edges. the way buildings connect, terrain generation, not that helpful 'help' screens. its an interesting experience sure, but most of my time was spent waiting at 4x speed for colonists to do literally anything. one of my saves had me spawn in a little surrounded alcove. rocks all around, no room for growth at all, which is fairly common, and this is the starter planet. You are only allowed a single base, no seperate connections, anything you have built past a certain point cannot be changed at all. lets say you build Oxy->Dorm->Water->Elec. you cannot remove, change the size of, or generally do anything unless everything other building in the line is also dissasembled. Personally Id give this a 6/10, and tell you to wait for their 2nd game and buy that one instead of this. This is a complete experience, and by no means am i telling you to not play, its just rough. updates have almost entirely stopped and they have shifted focus to their second game. so i would recommend keeping an eye out for the release of PlanetBase 2 around.... *looks at wishlist page* 2027 ish

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**WARNING: THIS GAME TAKES SOME GETTING USED TO.** There was a period about halfway through my playtime where I thought to myself, "Am I playing this all wrong? Why are things not working as I intend them to?" I was just coming off of "Dawn of Man," saw many similarities between the two, and figured the same general rules applied here. I had successfully established large colonies on the first three planets, the whole time fighting with the efficiency of said colonies. I don't have enough ores or starches for metals and bioplastics -- oh, wait, now I'm producing wayyyy too many of both and still don't have enough processed materials coming out the other end. Clearly, this is the game's fault, not mine. Then it clicked. Energy conservation is the key here. Energy -- your base's, your workers, your bots -- is the second most valuable resource in the game. The goal is to create the shortest possible path between production chains, to increase the efficiency of your colonists while also giving them time to eat and rest. A well-managed colony of 20 astronauts, with clean paths and well-managed production chains, will be far more efficient than a poorly-managed colony of 100 with inefficient pathing and badly-planned production chains, no matter how many mines, bio domes, and processing plants you have. The most valuable resource, besides food and water, is the colonists themselves. It matters how many you have of each, since that spread will affect how efficiently your colonists work. For example, as one mine can handle a maximum of three workers, and a small processing plant can handle four workers, an efficient starting production chain for metals (and bioplastics) would include at least seven workers. That's not including the biologists, who have to grow the starch for bioplastics, or engineers, who then turn that metal and bioplastic into new structures, or more complex resources via the factory and robotics facility. Also, building too many components in internal structures too soon, without having the colonists to support those components, can greatly affect the efficiency of your colony. All of that said, if you can deal with the crushing anxiety of a mid-night power outage that threatens to suffocate your entire colony, the impending doom of a radioactive solar flare, the relentless devastation of methane-fueled lightning storms as you wonder on behalf of your colonists why you chose this life, or a couple of hooligans somehow mowing down your population of 80+ people, then is is the game for you.

Compared to Dawn of Man, the game has issues regarding how the AI works. The astronauts will refuse to grow food if they are sad and they'll starve to death. I find that mechanic bad because it's unrealistic, and I feel it adds unnecessary difficulty, given that in special-themed situations, astronauts are supposedly supposed to be more resistant to a minimum amount of stress. While the game has an interesting level of difficulty, I wouldn't recommend it because it feels old compared to Dawn of Man, which has much more intuitive mechanics.

Very fun, I love to come back and play this game once a year or so. Ignore all the "poor AI" reviews and take some time to learn how to play. However, there is room for improvement. Please devs implement a way to avoid overproduction of resources in Planetbase 2. Also the game gets repetitive at some point.