The Crust

This game has come a long way and there's a lot of potential. Excited to see where it goes for sure. Still figuring it out but its definitely kept me engaged.

GREAT POTENTIAL, BUT... I just started and 15 minutes in drones were getting stuck and nothing was building... In the TUTORIAL. I had built 4 solar panels, 4 batteries, lined them with power lines, and got a game stopping bug building my first power line tower. Two drones carrying materials just got stuck looking at each other...can't send more over...tried to build again, more drones got stuck. Game is too pretty and too developed for this to have gone unnoticed...especially if I noticed it 15 minutes in. Please have one person play test your stuff as you go...please? I'll even do it! For Free! There comes a point where some flaws are grossly indicative of "We need money, lets polish it later and put it on sale now." This is one of them. Drone pathing/collision should have come about 50 steps before shiny and polished building assets. Pair that with lyrics in music in a game designed to be ambient and engrossing for hours...Sorry, there's a reason music has no vocals in games like this. I'm not trying to have a half-♥♥♥♥♥♥ song stuck in my head after hour 7 of playing. If you insist on keeping it in game, MAKE MUSIC SELECTION A THING. Until the bugs get ironed out, I'm not gonna listen to some lady drone on about being in space while my drones are staring at each other with bricks in their drone-hands doing absolutely drone-nothing. Working game + some amateur vocalist on repeat is one thing...but a barely working game + lyrics repeating over and over. Might as well be singing "The Song That Never Ends" while laughing that you took my money. Seriously, feels like someone trying to impress someone else by including their mix tape in the game. MUSIC. SELECTOR. Will check in on bug fixes, like I said this game looks great and has great potential. I'm not going to play against the difficulty and the developer at the same time though. I would LOVE to write a follow up review talking about how mean I was and how great the devs did shaping things up! - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD - MUSIC SELECTOR IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO SOMEONE SING. Could you imagine a 12 hour Stellaris session with the same song being sung to you over and over? Yeah. F that. For now this is a No on the recommendations from me. I ran into a game stopping bug 15 minutes in...on the TUTORIAL. Imagine what happens when the game gets complex.

The Crust has plenty of interesting systems and has the potential for quality depth. However, the execution is not great. Namely the cost of creating conveyor belts and the fact they cannot be stacked breaks the game. Its 2026, a factory sim that does not allow for any conveyor stacking is not in any state for even EA. Experimenting to figure out a decent floorplan is expensive, as is wiring your base. The cost of researching is rediciously high. There are too many menus you have to go through in order to get to where you want. There is also too much downtime between trying to accomplish different things. It shouldn't take 5 min for drones to load up a shuttle while I have no funds to add any more conveyor belts and can't build anything. Nor should each research tree cost multiple research types. Blue research shouldn't be a requirement for anything on the orange tree, and green should only be used for projects on the green tree. Currently rn, starting at midtier, research will start to cost multiple or all research types, irrigardless of which of the three trees you are working on. Overall, the game is in a very unpolished state, but I can see the core philosophies and the goal the devs are trying to build -and I do not like it. Not enough thought has been put in, and certain design choices feel far too video gamey and break any logical reasoning.

It's a really interesting game—you can build and automate a fully-fledged lunar enterprise. The music tracks are just awesome, and the story is intriguing. Now I just have to wait for the full release to find out how the story ends.‍

An addictive strategy game. Primarily economic, but not limited to that. The key is to get a handle on the game mechanics (during the first 7 hours or so); after that, fans of the genre won’t be able to put it down.The story’s variability makes the game replayable.I hope development and refinement continue so I can play through this masterpiece again, but in an updated version.‍

Most my time is spent trying to figure out why the game will not work properly and have to look up how to make things happen could be a really awesome game if you didnt spend most of your time on google

Видео по игре на одноимённом ютубчике! Главная мысль тут в том что есть атмосфера враждебной среды, здесь всё подчинено не банальному обслуживанию потребностей колонистов, а поэтапному развитию и освоению территории луны, да мне не очень понравилась луна с "вопросиками", но только в части технического исполнения. Общее впечатление после текущего возвращения в игру отличное, многое поправили и играть было комфортнее, ждём что будет дальше. Хотелось бы конечно компанию побольше ну есть что есть уже хорошо, лучше чем играть в тупые пустые песочницы. Если вы любите градостроение и производственные цепочки, торговлю и прочие... то вам однозначно сюда. Это прям Anno только на луне ну без куче дебильного народа для массовки!