Utopia Colony

So, I understand why others don't like this. It's a little hard to work out the different bits, the story is still a bit rough, there's some things that still need working out or fleshed out. That said, it's a great base for what it is. I'll be interested to play future updates as it continues. As the page currently says - Early Access - and I've judged it accordingly. It's a good game with solid bones. It'll be interesting to see where it goes. My biggest criticism is the various nonsequiturs the player character makes at odd points. Sometimes they work, most of the time they don't.

I love the idea of simulating mining and chilling on Mars. There would be so many great possibilities here. But this game is very far from being a simulator. Currently it looks more like a pre-pre-alpha or ~10 year old tech demo. The graphics are terrible, there is absolutely no "I'm a miner on Mars" or "wow! I'm on Mars" feeling. It feels more like a walking simulator. There are exactly 2 foreign bases that can be visited. Both are looted and explored in 5 minutes. At the larger one, there are a handful of missions to complete. They run as follows: - go to point A - press E (except for a mission to collect a pair of fruits and one to collect ore) - go back Then there are a few places where resources can be mined automatically. There you put a miner/extractor on and that's it. Nothing more to do... No repairing, no recalibrating (e.g. after sandstorms), no checking, nothing.... There are also very few places where resources can be mined by hand. If they are empty you have nothing more to do. There is nothing else to explore. Mars is simply dead here. There are currently only 3 NPCs. I would rather call them characters than real NPCs. Maybe they can be compared to NPCs from 10-15 years ago. Also there are almost no animations, awefull computer interfaces (looks like copied from Star Trek but totally loveless; Of course reused for many different kinds of interfaces), no eye candy or nice details. Nothing. No animations like getting into the rower, you just despawn and <poof> you ride the rower. Why can't you manually open the doors on the rowers? Why can't you explore the rowers or enter them normally? Why is there no inventory? Just a Backpack where ore goes in and finally beams over to the base when entering it... If i were a Miner on Mars, my backpack wouldn't unpack itself. No nice animations of building the buildings (just a boring video of rowers driving) - nothing. There is not even a day/night cycle - it is permanently day. What happens to the SOLs? Sandstorms also just spawn around you instead of slowly approaching. Every now and then sandstorms spawn relatively fast one after the other. I would have many other criticisms (senseless marketplace, pointless base upgrades, useless refining, etc) but I think it's enough to get a feel for the current state. The only reason why I played 7h at all is that I wanted to see how the buildings look like. Sorry Guys but this Game needs much much more love!

GridSky Software has 3 games out as of today. I did look at game update histories and user response/activities in forums so I had very low expectations when I bought a heavily discounted "package". With a cost in line with renting a movie the economic risk was minimal. Sadly I got exactly what I expected. Create a standard set of assets, make some nice looking models/skins and rip off some basic features from other games and you have exactly what you find in the games - Alien AI, Belt Colony and Utopia Colony. I get a distinct feeling that devs hide behind the "Early Access" label to avoid to much focus on how empty the games actually are. There is no reason to expect anything more than some basic error fixes when/if a full version ever is going to be launched. It is much more likely that there will be yet another new game launched in to early access - more or less a straight forward reskin of the previous ones. So how bad is it? I will use the newest as an example as this was the only one I decided to finish regardless as it was the newest of the developers games and as such should be the best. Utopia Colony can offer approx 10 hours of light entertainment and the main reason it takes so long is that you travel with some very slow moving rovers and you have rather long treks to make. It is not really bad, it is just so incredibly generic and empty. This is what I would expect if devs used AI to pump out new games based on a standardized set of assets.

Do not buy this. I have not been this disappointed by a game in a while.

The game is not ready for release. When you got out walking the view keeps shifting to straight down. So it is very hard to orient to a point ahead of you. Very boring to play.

Un juego de supervivencia y gestión espacial en Marte. Se trata de minar recursos, expandir tu base y poco a poco terraformar el planeta. El early game se hace muy lento y el planeta muy vacío, pero poco a poco se descubre una historia y el propósito del juego se expande. No está mal de precio para las horas que puede aportar y el futuro contenido que tendrá. 6/10. Recomendado.

Really happy to see this game is still under development! I am just about to re-install and check out all the new exciting features. Will probably get Belt Colony this week, cause I am just a sucker for any game that has farming and or building elements.

Peresonalmente me parece un juego que esta muy bien. Unas buenas fisicas para los edificios estructuras etc y tener diferentres catastrofes planetarias como tormentas solares esta genial. Quiza algo verde aun pero lo que ofrece actualmente ya es mucho mas que otros juegos tras años en early asi que lo recomiendo SI