The Spatials

Okay but got a bit tedious, after a while.

The sequel is not great, but this game still holds up. There is elegance in its simplicity.

There's a kind of... something, that makes the game somewhat fun. But the truth of the matter is that it's way too repetitive, the planet missions are incredibly slow and boring. That magical something couldn't carry it past a couple of hours for me.

combat sucks and the whole game does

Not a bad game, just pretty unpolished. You build a space station on some asteroid, plan out all the different rooms so that your peeps can easily find a path to fulfill their needs. Then you have the galaxy screen where you send away teams of five to battle with creeps. The combat is not ideal. In essence you move a group of 5 and tactically use their abilities to chip away at the enemy from afar or dive deep and spam the heal ability. You get stronger by leveling up your peeps through missions and by getting higher level loot drops from missions. If you try to advance too quickly you get tougher opponents and then you gotta go back and replay old missions on higher difficulties to get exp, better weapons in loot and also double or triple your resources from planets. Also the tutorial is not detailed enough, so you will need to figure out some things about room placement, the effect of decoration on object use. Developers claim that their next game Spatials Galactology is closely based on this game but upgraded a lot. Haven't had the chance to try it, so if you wanna buy this game, perhaps it's better to pay a bit more for the potentially superior experience.

It's a stupid little low risk low mental involvement game that's good to veg out to after a long day of work/chores/school/life, and it occupies that space very well in my opinion. The station building aspect is a nice little creative outlet, giving you enough freedom to build a pretty station while still having enough restrictions to feel like it matters what you do. The on world missions are a nice way to switch up the mood, again giving you just enough pressure to feel like you're accomplishing something without having a 'real' risk of failure. I also appreciated the humor and subtle jabs at the Star Trek franchise. Just a chill, fun time.

not worth it

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