The Universim

Abandonware. Stay away. I bought into this developer a while ago. Was keeping up with it all the way. So many bugs every time I tested it out. Now they've 'finished' and barely achieved anything they promised.

feels abandoned

I'm one of the old timers who longs for a game that scratches the Black & White god game itch from back in the day. At first glance, Universim seems to deliver on that promise, question is whether it holds true. Let's start with the good, the idea of a round planet that you see in its entirety, good animations and colour palette, love the day and night cycle over the planet and the overall vibe of the game. As you slowly unlock more technologies and buildings, you get the option of researching "Ministry of X" that basically can automate decision making for that specific aspect. For example water consumption is a big thing in the game and it can be time consuming managing that, with a Ministry of Water that will be automated so you can focus on other things. The pace of upgrades and sense of progression is quite good. Using your powers feels rather satisfying to put out fires, move objects etc... Where the game falters is on the management side. As the buildings increase, it becomes very difficult to manage the number of nuggets operating in each. Maybe it was just me but I could never get a handle on what needs to be done organically as I would in other management games. It would also have been nice if there was a single screen where I can manage the number of nuggets in each building or type of building. Having to manually search a planet for a specific type of building without using layers is not intuitive especially as buildings tend to look the same from far away in the early ages. Another issue I cant quantify is the game did little to reel me in, yes it was engaging enough to play but not in a way which keeps me coming back. Case in point my game crashed twice and in both times I lost around 30 mins since my previous save, my primary reaction was "Meh", take that as you will. All in all I give Universim a qualified recommendation. It is a 6/10 from me.

This isn't the full product we were promised..

[h1]好玩儿但是存在一些问题[/h1] 好的地方就不说了，说下感觉可以改进的地方 [h1]流民的机制[/h1] 流民的科技似乎是与玩家绑定的，无论多晚开局的流民都是最新的科技水平，这不太好，因为在一个沙盒游戏来说，我最大的乐趣精心培养的文明与这些其他文明竞争，我们跟他们的关系现在过于简单，也许还可以包括殖民，附属等等，而且现在只要敌对，流民简直全民皆兵，都没有平民（征服后的成就感太小, 在这个上面改进我认为很有必要），他们似乎不需要像玩家一样造许多资源设施就能运转。总的来说我认为流民是这个游戏占比很大很大的一部分，现在几乎只有一点 [h1]多星球殖民[/h1] 这个系统目前的感觉似乎为了延长游戏时常准备的，到了另一个星球之后需要重新开始，考虑实际，加载也需要时间，感觉不如先做好流民，或者改成只做本星和几个卫星，能够实时切换 [h1]市政府机制[/h1] 星球很大规模之后很多地方还需要手操，这跟游戏的主旨不符，其实可以考虑给小人们完全的自主（甚至从最开始），玩家只是可选择性的微操，现在的市政府机制的自主性太小了 [h2]总的来说，玩家不应该当保姆，他们应该至少能够自给自足，甚至做出创新，玩家只负责引导，手操是被允许而非必要的 [/h2] [h1]其他[/h1] 还有很多小地方，比如改进和增加法术种类，动植物机制等等 [h1] It's fun, but there are some issues [/h1] [b] I will not talk about the good parts, [/b] and mainly pay attention to the areas that I feel can be improved [h1] The mechanism of refugees [/h1] The technology of refugees seems to be tied to players, and no matter how late they start, the refugees are always at the latest level of technology. This is not good because in a sandbox game, my greatest pleasure is to cultivate a civilization that competes with these other civilizations. Our relationship with them is too simple now, and may even include colonization, affiliation, and so on. Moreover, as long as there is hostility, refugees are almost all soldiers without civilians (the sense of achievement after conquest is too small. I think it necessary to improve on this). They don't seem to need to build many resource facilities like players to operate. Overall, I believe that refugees make up a significant portion of this game, with only a small portion now [h1] The current feeling of the multi planet colonization [/h1] System seems to be that it is often prepared to prolong the game. After arriving on another planet, it needs to be restarted. Considering the reality, loading also takes time. I feel that it is better to prepare refugees first, or change to only do this planet and a few satellites, which can switch in real time [h1] The city government mechanism [/h1] After the civilization becomes very large, many places still require manual operation, which is not in line with the theme of the game. In fact, it can be considered to give the characters complete autonomy (even from the beginning), and players can only choose to perform micro operations. The autonomy of the current city government mechanism is too small. [h2] In conclusion, players should not be nannies. They should be able to be self-sufficient and even innovate. Players are only responsible for guidance, and manual dexterity is allowed rather than necessary[/h2] [h1]Others[/h1] There are many other small areas, such as improving and adding spell types, animal and plant mechanisms, and so on

I spend a little over half of my game time sitting around waiting for research to complete. And I am constantly forcing my nuggets to marry manually in order to keep my population above 100, which uses all of my creator points so I can't really do anything else besides refill the lakes.

Clearly not done, but the devs are done with it