The Universim

Loved this game, but the devs abandonned it like they do with all their games. Really sad, it had a lot of potential and was quite unique. Lost gem

Game got released in a worse state than the last Early Access build and got abandoned right away. It's an interesting take and has some nice ideas, but a lot of it was left poorly tweaked.

This game has been abandoned by the developers, they announced it in their discord. They made a promise to never abandon this game and to finish it. They abandoned it to work on a Stardew Valley ripoff. Do not support these developers, do not buy this game, or any of their games.

The idea behind the game is solid. The game is beautiful, narrator is also supreme. What makes me put a "No" - it's the game is extremely slow and eventually boring. Main problem is, there's no way to permanently boost research. Something like building universities would make sense and would incentivise people to grow population faster, etc. But no, the devs decided that entire progress of your civilization is simply time-locked. You play for 10 minutes - you get another upgrade. You play 8 more - here's a new building for you. Sure, there's a way to speed up the game - 2 times - which is not that much making you wait for 4-5 minutes for everything you research. There's also temporary 30% boost to research via elections. But that's literally it. So you build every building available, you already looked around the planet for all asteroids (free lootboxes), it does not really matter if your nuggets are reproducing or not at this point, you just sit there starting at the timer to unlock yet another building. Periodically there's a disaster, sort of like in Rimworld which are pretty fun. But other than that - you just sit waiting for things to finish researching. Finally I looked at the research tree, calculated how long it will take me to reach anything interesting, and just gave up.

Came back to the game after quite a while, played it in EA and found it awfully cheerful. Now I have come back to look at it again and enjoyed it up to the point where I travelled to other planets and it seems the game is still unfinished. There are robots that don't charge. So if you are planning to travel to a planet that is i.e. a frozen planet, your people will freeze and the bots discharge and can't be charged other than with your god powers. Other Exile nations keep attacking even though they are neutral or even friendly. Which is somethign I do not understand either. And so far I am running out of resources before I manage to get anything going... so not sure the balancing is done that well... The earily game is fun and interesting but midgame it starts getting too frustrating...

Dead Game. Dead Dev work. Hopped for a lot from this game. Do not buy. Especially at the price point. As others have stated, bugs are everywhere and there has been no update since December of '24.

I don't usually write reviews but this one royally pisses me off. I've been a supporter of this game since before it was on Steam. This was one of my favorite games. I recommended it so many times. It's been over a year now since Crytivo has abandoned it. Doesn't make any sense to me. They had plans for it and now they've left it unfinished. I'll never buy another Crytivo game again after this. Don't bother buying this or anything else from Crytivo.

Game was awesome during early access, passionate developers listening to their community and updating often. After it exited EA, the devs just abandoned the game after hyping and making money. It's a shame as it had major potential.