Silica

Growing up playing C&C Red Alert & Tiberian Sun in the 90s as well as Starcraft. This game feels right at home. The atmosphere sound design and music is fantastic. My Son & I really enjoy batting. A must buy.

performance drops from hell game was super fun on release when it was populated but the same issues with building placement, visibility, and just insane performance loss still haven't gone away.

The game is fantastic and severely underrated. The feeling of when you have a large server and people working together it unmatched.

This game is amazing! I can't wait for more updates. I only play single player so I don't care about online, so I'm really looking forward to skirmish updates. It really needs a difficulty setting to make skirmish harder. Thanks for making such a cool game.

Very fun. Really feels like an all out war, sometimes it reminds me of planetside when all 3 factions would be fighting for an area at the same time. absolute mania, especially if you have a friend playing commander for or against you. Also very satisfying to see that it's still being updated.

Silica combines RTS and FPS and fails at both (in my opinion). At least at the time of this review. The biggest issue is the RTS gameplay. It feels like many of the strategic decisions that make RTS games interesting simply don't exist. - There is only a single resource to collect, so there is almost no economic balancing. - Early on, the only way to increase your economy is by building additional resource collection buildings, since you can't simply produce more harvesters. This removes most of the decision-making between investing in your economy or your military. As a commander youre stuck the first minutes until your first and only harvester finally returns. - Buildings construct themselves, so there is no worker management or production trade-off. Overall you likely will never have more than 6 economy units (as human races). - The technology tree is extremely basic, with very few opportunities to specialize your army or pursue different strategies. - Unit control feels sluggish. There are no formations. Building placement is also frustrating because structures require a lot of space while many maps feel very cramped. On top of that, the game still suffers from a number of technical issues. Units regularly get stuck or struggle with pathfinding, especially harvesters. The AI is poor. It's possible to hide inside enemy buildings and destroy an entire base because enemy units often fail to find a path to you. The FPS combat also feels slow because many units are excessively tanky, making firefights drag on longer than they should.

Main points I have noticed: 1- Game is robotic and empty feeling, it's more fun to play as a unit than a commander because of linear pathing 2- Factions are VERY unbalanced. I have tried every way possible but the insects cannot win, they aren't even a proper "cheap but many" type of unit, just weak. 3- AI commanders and units have no "realization" delay. They instantly shoot you, instantly path to resources and instantly pursue the best path in the game. In short: Fun concept, hollow execution. (Also starting to feel like abandonware)

I've been playing Silica off and on ever since it first hit Steam. The game has come a long way since then, and continues to grow as the years go by. I think my favorite aspect of the game is the environments and the attention to detail with all of the buildings. I love the aesthetic of this game. You can even enter most buildings, exploring their interiors. Though not super complicated and will never be relevant in gameplay. One day, when this game is finished, I would love to see the cinematic videos people make about this game. I hope it does well. The Industrial sector is my new favorite map; I really like walking around and checking out all the buildings that were on that map. Unfortunately, some of the SOL structures, like the Radar station, you can’t enter. But that's also fair; there are much higher priorities. I also bet I’m probably one of the few that explores all the buildings. Great work on the modeling. The hover tank is also my favorite sci-fi tank design in a long time. There are a lot of space tanks, and very few are as cool as it or the railgun tank.