Published: 27 Aug 2024
- Developed and Published by: Bay 12 Games
- Released on: 2006 (PC), 2022 (Steam Edition)
- Genres: Colony Management, Sandbox
- Rating: 5/5
- Originally written: ~17th September 2023
No review could do this game justice. It is a product of a lifelong ambition to create one of the deepest, most all-encompassing colony management simulation games, with all manner of bells and whistles and quirks and unnecessary detail that only a labour of love could produce. I’ve sunk hundreds and hundreds of hours and I have barely scratched the surface of the surface of this beast.
Now that the 2022 Steam Release, adding graphics and a sane(r) UI exists, there is no better time than ever to pick this up.
Even if this is not the game I have sunk time into the most (there are many alternate universes where I sell my soul exclusively to this game), it is certainly the most artistically ambitious game I have ever seen, and I struggle to see how it could be ever topped in the near-distant future, and the game is still nowhere near “done”.
