Astrobase Command
Salvage the remnants of your civilization by starting anew in uncharted space, with a small crew and the beginnings of an Astrobase. Grow your base by constructing modules on all three axes, put out fires both literal and metaphorical, and send characters with real personalities and emotions on non-linear text-based adventures across a procedural galaxy.
The only mode is ironman and every section, module, deck and crew member added to your Astrobase comes with implicit risks and reward, so choices matter. How long can you keep from succumbing to the dangers of space?
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Grow - Expand your Astrobase in all three directions.
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Nurture - Build a home for your crew and their daily lives
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Design - Layout the Astrobase to counter crises such conduit leaks, compartment failures, explosions, fires, personnel issues, and more
The Astrobase can be constructed along three axes. Your crew can expand the base by building modules or contract it by salvaging them. They can add or remove functionality by building up or tearing down sections in the modules. They can even build ships that lets you explore the galaxy.
You choose what to build and when to build it. The crew needs to rest and they need to breathe, do you rush the construction of the Enlisted Quarters or the Air Pump first? What’s the optimal placement of the new module? Is it better to have the Plasma Reactor closer to storage or to the crew’s quarters? Keep the station well maintained and stocked with supplies or disastrous consequences may result.
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Characters - Your crew make their own decisions as they interact with each other and the world around them.
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Full AI lifecycle - They work, eat, sleep, use the bathroom, relax, and socialize all as part of their daily lives.
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Morale - Your crew can get exhausted, or suffer from low morale which affects the quality of their lives and how they perform tasks.
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Relationships - Your crew form personal, professional, and romantic relationships. The relationships can be either positive or negative based on how their personalities and actions align.
Your crew live their own lives on the Astrobase. They have things to do and people to meet. Exactly how well they perform depends on how good they fit into their job, what adventures they’ve had, and what horrors they have survived; even how well matched they are with their peers matters, some will become romantic partners while others become bitter work rivals.
You will run into stumbling blocks, maybe your crew is exhausted because you’ve pushed them too hard, or low morale makes slacking off more enticing, or maybe Jenkins and Rodriguez spend too much time arguing while the Fission Reactor goes critical. Figure out your problems and fix them!
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Explore - Build and dispatch ships across the galaxy to explore planets, fight killbots, extract resources, and interact with other civilizations.
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Delegate - The ranking officer of each ship will make decisions based on their personality, and take recommendations from their team.
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Overrule - Change the decisions in the logs they send back, or let them make their own mistakes.
The procedural adventures of the crew assigned to your ships can be read and interacted with in the logs they send back. Carefully handpick the crew for each ship you send out. Monitor their progress or leave them to their own fate. Whatever you choose to do, the outcomes of their adventures will be felt in what resources they get, what injuries they suffer, and in how it changes their emotional state.
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Assign - Choose the best person for each job based on their stats, personalities, and over 50 different skills.
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Manage - Prioritize tasks, clear task blockers, optimize the routes that the crew take during their day.
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Observe - Calculate resource depletion and stay on top of tasks to prevent the reactors from exploding, the conduits leaking, and compartments failing,
The desk is where you design the Astrobase into a functioning home for your crew, promote leaders, manage tasks, monitor resource consumption, read reports from your ships and give them your input.
Running the station means manning your desk. Be efficient, and use your time wisely or take a break and play some Asteroid Shooter.
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Individuality - Characters maintain emotional memory, and experience psychological growth over time depending on how results align with expectations.
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Expression - Each character’s personality is expressed in their conversations, thoughts, and ship log entries
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Story - Over 100 personality traits and 42 intertwined emotions combine to author narratives that reflect how the crew are actually thinking and feeling.
The Astrobase’s crew will have conversations with each other, or insights about their lives. Crew members join the Astrobase with revealed personality traits that drive the emotions that effect their job suitability, choices and actions. More traits become unlocked as they experience emotional growth.
Ensure that your crew’s psychological needs are met and they have the ability to grow as people. When you’re processing recruit applications you’ll want to keep an eye out for personalities that might clash with your existing crew, or will be compatible and create lasting friendships.
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Nova Genetics
F - ind Ressources.
E - xterminate Monsters.
A - ccept and solve Quests.
R - aise your Outpost.
T - ry to craft items to maximize your Chances.
H - arvest everything of need.
E - xplore the World.
D - efend against Monster Waves.
A - ctivate Upgrades for Weapons and Buildings.
R - aise yourself to a higher Level.
K - eep one thing in Mind. SURVIVE!!!
Welcome to NOVA GENETICS.
The NOVA GENETICS CORPORATION. They found a Stargate to an unknown but earthlike planet and send Teams to explore this Planet and mine ressources. But after Years suddenly the Contact to each of the Outposts broke up and remain in silence.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
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Opening/ Information
Reading a review is not enough? Want to see some footage? Check the link and watch some game footage for yourself and decide if this game is worth your time:
Nova Genetics is a PvE survival and crafting game, including a basic Base building. IT comes with the typical issues game guru games have but more about it later.
This is the first game created by Reside who is entering the world of survival genre on Steam.
Gameplay / Story
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Space Commander: War and Trade
Very fun game that plays alot like a simplified single player version of Elite Dangerous. Game is new and a work in progress with easy to use controls and it definitely has alot of potential and I cant wait to see what new stuff gets added in the future.
As you progress through the campaign you are given a handful of ships for free to use and as you gain credits from doing jobs on the job board or from trading goods back and forth from planet to planet you can buy more ships and upgraded them. Jobs can range from transporting a prisoner to a location, to smuggling weapons or transporting some other goods, to destroying a band of pirate ships plaguing a system or take out a pirate space station or even fighting a large capital ship. As you do jobs and trade with planets and space stations you gain reputation that increases the amount of money you receive for completing a job and get better deals when buying and selling goods from trade. Also as you do jobs and take part in battles with pirates or trade goods you will slowly level up and get skill points that you can put into things like lowering the cost of gas or ammo, lowing your ship repair cost, doing more damage, lower the cost of buying and upgrading ships, and lower the chance of being detected and attacked by pirates while trading and so on.
– Real player with 96.0 hrs in game
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Edit 15 DEC: I made a beginner’s guide in order to explain some confusing aspects of the game. I still recommend this game after playing for many hours.
Edit 2 DEC: This is a REALLY fun game and it’s very expansive (not expensive). I have been playing it for a while now and I wanted to edit my review. I have come very close to automating making money (thanks to a viewer who posted some great advice), the ship upgrades DO matter, there are three campaigns, etc. I bought the mega-pack, which is basically the pay-not-to-grind-for-eight-dollars thing for $8:
– Real player with 72.2 hrs in game
The Island: King’s Order
The island is a combination of an RTS game and an RPG game where you play as an army commander and as a hero of your choice.
You will have to build the base, expand your army and defend the settlement at all costs.
Fight the nearby monsters in the name of King Actus,
And kill any monster that crosses your path.
But be careful with each passing day the monsters get stronger and more vicious.
Select your hero
Build the base
Manage your resources
Conquer new lands
Brave Path
Very Roguelike difficulty, with progression through a base that you build up as your various heroes venture forth, with turn based strategy and crafting with a lot of depth.
– Real player with 23.5 hrs in game
So far so good, I quite enjoy it. It’s tricky organizing your items at first but once you have the architect table you can make chests and bookcases to hold your items (and find them there when you die, too!) Wish I didn’t have to hold recipes individually though, they take up so much space for such a small piece of paper! :p
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Elements
Elements is a beautiful 3rd-person open-world adventure RPG about two siblings fulfilling their destiny. Go in search of 8 Elemental Stones in a fantastical world to uncover magic and mystery and restore balance to the Elemental world and ours.
The 8 Elemental Stones are scattered throughout this fantastical world. Gain Elemental magic and abilities as you recover Elemental fragments and stones. Use weapons and gear you find, gather, and craft to help you on your journey. Remember the stones are linked to the Elements of Earth. You hold the fate of two worlds in your hand. This is your destiny.
EXPLORE
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Elemythia is yours to explore. Choose your path wisely.
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Ensure your mind is as sharp as your sword. You will encounter puzzles along the way.
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Many creatures you encounter are tameable and mountable. Have fun exploring!
COLLECT
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Collect resources and elemental fragments on your journey. Use them to craft gear, build, and enhance your magic abilities.
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Mix and match your gear, abilities, and elemental magic to customize your character and find the most powerful build.
BUILD
- Build a homestead to store items, farm, or just relax by the fire. Use homesteads as fast travel points and customize them to make it feel like you are home.
FIGHT
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The Elemental stones will be protected by powerful guardians. When you are ready, challenge them for a chance at legendary Elemental gear.
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Melee, Magic, or Ranged combat gives you a choice on how you defeat your enemies.
PLAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
- Play local split-screen co-op and go in search of the Elemental stones with family and friends.
JOIN A GROWING COMMUNITY
- Join our Discord community to share ideas and help shape the game. We want you to get lost in the game while searching for the stones.
Guilds Of Delenar
This game harkens back to the OLD school Isometric games of yester-decade. The music gives the listener the whistful feeling of older JRPGs, and classic anime from the 80s, the character models for the size given are rather well done, actually seeing the clothing change to me is AMAZING for a simpler game.
The strategy with ability/spellweaving is an interesting take on “powering up”, combining powers from different classes is a good touch as well.
Paying attention when you create/hire on people is a must, warrior types want STR/STAM, Caster types want INT/SPIRIT, so choose races wisely unless you want more of a challenge.
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Strong framework in place for a high quality game.
Active developer who is working hard to add new content.
Had no technical issues, no crashes or lock ups.
Will appeal to strategy gamers who like turn based combat. Also many different character build options - and is free respec available at any time to try different skill trees. Stacking and combining the skills is a must as with any high quality turn based combat game.
Also really cool magic items system with the ability to make slight modification to items in the forge.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
Legendary Hoplite
- Play as Dio, a young commander who slays waves of monsters storming to the city using familiar weapons like spears, swords, shields.
- Our enemies are the beasts and mythical tribes from Greek Mythology, extremely cruel and have a deep hatred for humans.
- Weapons with deadly power and artifacts blessed by gods can be collected by killing the most vicious monsters. Pray for Tyche – The goddess of luck will smile.
- During the battles, Dio must lead his army. Use the right strategies, to counter the diverse enemies in great number.
- They are legendary mythical creatures that caused so much agony for mankind. Now, they will wield their primordial impetuous strength to pierce through our defense line.
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More than 100 levels designed in A-RPG style mixing with Tower Defense.
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More than 60 kinds of monsters with hundreds of variants.
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Many bosses from the original Greek Mythology monsters like Cerberus, Hydra, Gorgon, Minotaur…
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Huge variety of items to collect and equip in your endless hunts.
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Many kinds of armies with dozens of special skills for you to freely build many strategies.
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Blessing from God’s system to aid your battles.
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And many more secrets lie under achievements waiting for you to discover.
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1273100/Builders_of_Greece/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442450/Monsters_Domain/
Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action adventure RPG with city-building elements, where we will take the role of a classic hero, who fights against the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. As Robin, we’ll fight, hunt, craft, steal, and of course - help the local community grow in spite of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s regime – all within an open world environment that can be freely explored.
Robin Hood is a famous hero of medieval English folk tales, believed to have traversed the forests of Sherwood with his companions a long time ago. In the game we’re going to meet those legendary characters as well – such as Lady Marian, Little John, Friar Tuck, Allen a Dale, and Will Scarlet.
The main task is to help a young, growing community of refugees and rebels improve and expand itself. Starting with what could be described as a small forest settlement, with a bit of care, luck and work, it can end up as a town full of people. Recruit local villagers, rebels on the run from the law, and even the citizens and guards of Nottingham themselves.
We will start our adventure with building a forest camp, which we will be able to develop with the arrival of new residents. We will be responsible for choosing the right place in Sherwood Forest to build the village.
Another important part of taking care of the settlement will be to manage the community members’ professions and tasks and training them to become craftsmen, hunters, or guards, and to manage the settlement’s resources, either gathering them yourself or stealing them from convoys and aristocratic estates.
The main goal is to build a community large and meaningful enough to trigger a revolution in the ranks of Nottingham, ending the tyranny once and for all.
Can Robin Hood and his company make it and put an end to injustice? Their fate is up to you!
Gaia
STORY.
Amanda is your main character. She’s a tough explorer, a treasure hunter. There is character customization, so you can design something normal or crazy looking !
AI.
The Artificial Intelligence of the animals in Gaia is very advanced. They react to each other, some will attack everything, some are more cagey. If you play your cards right, you can let predators fight it out and collect the loot later!
OPTIONS.
There are three separate “Storytellers” that create a very different game experience. Then there are the traditional difficulty options, resource and predator levels. You can dial in a very easy, exploration-type game, or make it super-hard in Ironman Mode.
– Real player with 387.6 hrs in game
Please note: Several of the negative reviewers seem to have missed the clearly labeled and easily accessible options menu. The developer, Radu Saghin, is very quick to respond, and has already fixed several of the issues people had in less than a day after the complaint was made.
This game is clearly Early Access, and if you don’t know what all that entails then this game is not for you. (Another point that some seem to have missed)
My first play through: I set everything to what I assumed would be the easiest possible setting because the reviews terrified me. I was surprised at how slowly the meters dropped. I actually had to get a snack and a drink in real life more often than the character, Amanda, needed it. Luckily that play-through was cut short by a bad trade deal and my base was destroyed by an orbital strike.
– Real player with 29.7 hrs in game