Spacebase Startopia

After liking this game, I checked the base game. Now here's my rethinked review in a nutshell What i like: -nice music -loads of decors with purpose -somewhat cute graphics -reviewing system of the aliens -look of the fuzzies (better than scuzzers) what i dont like: -laggy mess -buggy mess -expensive as fu- -lazy graphic solution -security system -combat system -MA GOD LOOK AT THE GREYS, LIKE LATEX CREATURES!!! -VAL's new voice (why did you had to replace the chill bri'ish guy???) Note: Based on the difference of price and quality (compared to the first game and when it was made), only buy this game if it's heavily discounted, like around 90%. Otherwise, just bay the og Startopia. Doens't worth it playing with this game, trust me!

As a kid I played at least 100 hours of Startopia. This game desperately wants to be Startopia and for the first 4 missions it feels similar. Suddenly in Mission 5 and onward the game has incredible problems with the camera and simply clicking things in game. It seems to specifically be an issue with handling more than 3 bulkhead sectors. It also has a ton of bugs and the robot advisor lacks any charm. Not to mention they didn't put in the General Trader with the Cockney Accent. Two Point Hospital did an amazing job of taking in the best of Theme Hospital and running with it. Spacebase: Startopia is when a game studio tries to make a spirtiual successor but misses most of the things the original did well. There's little charm, everything feels sanitized, and the humor doesn't hit. I bought this for less than $1 and got my money's worth. If you LOVED Startopia, buy it for $1 or less. If not, pass on this

I was looking for a nostalgic update to the original and sometimes it feels good. But, there are some serious bugs that make playing rather annoying. The various controls sometimes get turned off or the bumper button is always on and I have to quit the game to reset. Not optimized for the Steam Deck as is claimed. Needs work and it won't get it apparently. Last update was 2021...

Long story short the devs are Hacks. Never ever buy this game at full price as they couldn't be assed giving you a full game. I am a massive fan off startopia from back in the day. Space base is borderline just cashing in. Basically you could get AI to overlay the old graphics and then strip out the games soul. Everything that set it apart from the rest, is gone. The economy is junk, the research is worthless, the biosphere bloated and generic. You'd think with everything they killed from the classic original they would atleast have some innovations but there is little to be impressed with. Star quakes and solar flares are just a 'oh i guessed it happened' pop up. Research is now little more than a upgrade station for skuzzers. And their blueprints suck.. spewed across my screen instead of empty for me to fill and undeleteable garbage. There is a bug where the sound drops out and you need to open the menu and close it to get it back.. They couldn't even be bothered fixing it. Consider yourself failures. A disgraceful adaptation. As i said, never ever buy this game at full price. Thank god I knew they would suck. If you've never played startopia you'd be happy with the game, the glados style voice is fitting and you wouldn't mind the almost generic play. If not for the very few things of the original they left in. 3.5/10 And the levels are just the original too, I do like the original levels but again they show no innovation. They could have done so much with this, instead it seems they did as little as possible. The things I loved most about startopia were scrapped in this version and for what...? Oh and who was the idiot that thought locking out zoom when trying to build was a good idea And. You want door? Door? I place door? Here, door? Door

First of all, this is based on startopia, but its way different, bio-dome generates goods all the time on its own, but the bots can't keep up with your processing. and you are required to actually grab things and clean up even though there are garbage bots. And it seems like the game can't handle its own mechanics. Unlocked maybe 1/6th of the station and its stuttering alot, going into any menu to search for visitors freezes the game for a second or two, it miscalculates guests and employees, and the experience is way different than Startopia. Which is a shame, as i hoped to see original game upgraded and maybe expanded, not re-thinked entirely, on top of that, the questionable performance so early on in sandbox experience is a deal breaker for me, do not buy for full price.

It's tough, reimplementing a game that will be compared to the original. As a lover of the original, I really tried to enjoy this. I tried to treat it as a new game. But unfortunately it failed to deliver, and halfway through the missions I installed the original StarTopia and played that instead. A major problem was that I couldn't finish a mission in one sitting without some serious memory leak making the game unplayable. Over a half hour it would slow down massively and the UI would bug out, failing to register clicks in the right place. I don't want to relaunch the game 3 times to finish one level. The comedy is a big miss for me. Instead of a helpful but judgemental companion, you get charmless and annoying robot who just insults you all the time. They did try a few changes that I think were well intentioned, and a few QoL features, like the biodeck harvesting itself. They mostly dropped the money=power system. But the trading and cargo bays don't work together and slow things down, the crafting and mech systems are a slog, and some easy UI features that improve hiring and promoting staff are missing. The blueprints system doesn't save across games, making it pretty useless, and the merging of sleep, food and cleaning systems felt unnecessary. Either drop it all and just have one system, or keep the separate buildings. The rooms all feel clunky, and it's much harder to customise with small decorations due to the large equipment. Combat was probably the worst part of the old game, so trying to replace it with a new system was in theory a good move. But the new system is buggy and hard to control, and mostly comes down to just lining up all your mechs (assuming they can navigate correctly) and letting them duke it out. There might be a little more to get out of it, but with the play issues it was pretty basic. Ultimately, it felt like it was trying to be StarTopia without the love or understanding of what was (and wasn't) fun about it. It fails as a remake, and it's not really good enough to succeed as its own game, so I'd say stay away!

This game has more bugs and issues then a bug farm.

I wanted to like this, I tried real hard to. but its a wish version of the original. the humor falls flat, the tech advancement is boring compared to the original, the controls are awkward, the employee management is barley there, the mech security is so out of place. who wants giant robot battles on a space station. Save your money and go buy the original on GOG.

Compared to the original, this game is such a disappointment. All of the charm in the previous one is lacking here. Not wrothy of purchase at anything less than a 90% discount.

So I really enjoyed the classic Startopia game, and I thought this was going to be its successor. It's not. It's absolutely awful. The game has so many bugs, I don't mean complex things. Audio Cuts out entirely. The buttons stop working. Yes, as in click this button to build a room. So now I can't build any rooms. The FPS tanks to 1 frame every few seconds, and no, I'm running a solid PC. and more that I can't remember. Please note for any of these game breaking bugs to stop, you have to completely restart the game. Then there is the controls which are terrible. I mean sure there are some improvements over the original Startopia's controls, in which you can collect trash all a broad vacuum area instead of click on each piece of trash. But every other control is terrible. Finally you don't even have a real voice actor, its all computer generated speech. And its not even a good one. Save your time and money and just get the original game.