Planeticus

Honestly, right now it is an empty game, almost completely. Moreover, it requires Epic Games account linked to steam, and actually even after I linked them, menu still didn't work as it supposed to. In fact, I was so interested to try it out that I bought in on epic games, too, mainly because there was a "Single Player" tag on it. Do not be fooled, there is no single player at all — it is purely a PvP game. You can get dropped onto map solo, but there is nothing to do — I captured every planet in 2-3 minutes and quit the game. If the look of the game causes an itch you really want to scratch, go play Eufloria or something similar. I'll keep my eye on this game in case if there will show up actually playable content, but right now it is literally empty. Refunded on both EGS and Steam.

[quote][b]Warning: Dead PVP Game[/b] This game has no single player content, and no playable PvP servers. There is no functioning PvP population, it's a dead game, and cannot be played in the way the game was intended to be.[/quote] Planeticus is an abandoned Early Access ripoff of the mobile app/Flash game, Galcon, but multiplayer only. There's a couple of gimmicks that make this look like a much deeper strategy game but these don't really alter the core premise, so it's no surprise that gamers avoided this like the plague. See below for the player count. And I do mean player, not players. The focus of the game is pure PvP, there's no single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the game. The vast majority of PvP-only games fail because they don't "go viral", and without players, or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for adding content to a game. The game was abandoned roughly 4 days after launch and hasn't been updated in 8 months. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any notification or admission of failure from the developer. The game will never be completed. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak player count was only ONE player. That's right, only one person ever played this at a time. When I played this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak player count for the game. OUCH. The only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. The funny part about this only having one player and being a PvP game is that it never got played at all on Steam as a PvP game, because, you know, then there would be two players. What a joke! Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state (because there's no players and no single player content). It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, or the population dies, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly defective products. This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, not just because it's a direct and intentional attempt to scam people, but because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience. Unethically, the developer sold keys to this abandoned Early Access game into cheap, nasty game bundles, where they knew it would be advertised and sold as a complete PC game. This seems to have been done in an attempt to mislead gamers into buying a knowingly faulty, defective and incomplete product. When a developer does this for a game they have zero practical intention of completing, this is essentially a scam, an intention to get paid for a broken/unfinished product. Often this is done as an exit strategy, as the developer takes the money and runs. No refunds have been given, the developer kept all the money they took from gamers. Another unethical act of this developer, knowing full well that this game is abandoned and they will never complete it, they are deliberately trying to scam gamers into buying it by offering it on discount and selling keys to the game from third party key resellers. It's impossible to "accidentally" discount a game. The developer looked at their abandoned game, and instead of doing the right thing and removing it from Steam, they instead doubled-down and tried to scam even more people into paying for it. Greedy, and completely unethical. Doing the wrong thing, on purpose, for money. This is not okay. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? The developer is deliberately and unethically trying to scam gamers into paying them the ridiculous, laughable price of $7 USD for a game they know is broken. Don't give it to them. For comparison, the $7 asking price for this game could get you games like "X-Com 2", "Shadow Warrior" or "Batman: Arkham Origins". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote] One other note is that the game launched my web browser and tried to take me to Epic Games (which is thankfully blocked due to the harm that business can cause to gamers). This action from the developer is highly suspicious and unethical. As always, be warned that developers usually don't take the gamers interests at heart... so be safe out there.

This game doesn't have a functioning menu, nothing functions. unfortunatly i bought the game but didn't install right away and steam refused my refund.....so its a rip off.

I'm not a big fan of strategy games, but I liked this game. Pros: - Nice 2D graphics. - Very cool/convenient main menu and lobby. - Fun to play with friends. You can try different tactics. - You can try playing alone with bots. They are not super smart, but if you don't defeat them at the beginning, then it will be difficult later. The developer said that he would add a level of difficulty to them, I will definitely try them again after that. - The game is quite dynamic and you need to constantly monitor the actions of enemies, which does not let you get bored. - Every game the map changes and there is a lot of element of randomness. - The server can be customized for yourself. You can adjust the spawn time of units, block some game functionality (to get a new experience from this game). I also recommend adding unit speed adjustment! - There is a bit of customization. You can choose any color using the palette, invader skins, three map colors (I liked red the most). I'd like to see more customization options in the future! Minuses: - So far, it’s rare that we don’t come across other players’ servers. It will probably be better for the full release. But this is not the game's fault, but the lack of players. Playing with friends is no problem! - The game cannot be saved yet (in order to later load a map with all the initial states). I advise the developer to add it! - There is no command mode yet (the mode is not activated), but since it is in the list of modes, it will probably appear in the future. For a game in early access - very good. Beautiful dynamic strategy. Huge growth potential. I will definitely be following the project. It’s strange that I didn’t see any positive reviews (I’ll be the first, hehe). I wish good luck to the developer and a lot of players!

Ранний доступ! Если у вас есть дух соперничества, то игра вам зайдёт. В противном случае спокойно посидеть и потыкать не получится.

x3 на месте разработчика я бы сделал новую игру

打开了游戏连鼠标都用不了，我现在连游戏里面的界面还没看到过

感觉有点可惜，相当于游戏目前的进度是只有新手教程，没有其他任何内容，不看文字教程也就最多5分钟也能弄懂游戏玩法。还是挺期待这种休闲小游戏的，但是不知道作者以及他们团队还有没有更新计划并进行更新。这种游戏的进度甚至还赶不上我们这边同样玩法游戏的小程序游戏或者充满广告的游戏。但是抢占资源在这里有创新，但不多，这个资源为何只局限于刚创建时才有。以及游戏团队为啥不优先做单机的内容，毕竟本身玩的人就很少就不要谈联机了。