Cosmo’s Quickstop
This is my GOTY 2021, and frankly it isn’t close.
Cook, Serve, Delicious, except it’s a 3D runaround with Among Us Tasks, except it’s a decidedly charming and hilarious time, except it’s SO HYPE. What is otherwise a very solid and enjoyable experience is cranked up to one of the most surprisingly awesome skill expression games on the planet (or off of it.) An amenity upgrade system that both requires and greatly rewards playing with all of your options and finding what setup works best for you, and an excellent variety of tweaks to the formula and post game content, combine to give this game way more replay potential than I’ve ever had from something in the same genre. What was literally an accidental stumble-upon one night has turned into one of my top 5 games of all time, in the span of a week. I cannot recommend this game enough.
– Real player with 53.6 hrs in game
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I have been waiting for this game to arrive since it said was coming out in 2019 after searching for coop games so I am glad to see it finally out. The art for the game immediately drew me in, and could tell it would be a great co-op experience.
After now playing for only 9 hours, I will say they poured love into every fibre this game and polished it well for the release as I have yet to encounter an issue. It is fantastic for a couch co-op game, while not as frustrating as overcooked can be while still leaving me overwhelmed in chaos.
– Real player with 45.2 hrs in game
Orbit-X
I love this game, it’s new and it’s incredibly fun. I just got lost in time for over an hour building satellites and generating substantial income. I’m super excited to see where this game goes in the future and I’ll definitely be playing more, definitely recommend!
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
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This game is awesome fun to play no matter your interest on space and rockets! it fulfils the need to learn and experiment with different rockets and stratergys to launch rockets into orbit. im not so good at it :) but have had a good laugh trying my best to have a successful satellite internet company.
would highly recommend for any space and economy enthusiasts and any gamer looking for a cool, casual and chill space sim!
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
Not looking good, Captain. That holo-influencer you sent Matias to guard has been “upstaged”. Putting a former drag queen before every camera in the verse? Not the best idea. And the anti-sentience rally we sent Aylah to… that’s a riot now. Not saying it’s entirely her fault the audio drones were hacked but, you know. Probably didn’t help.
On top of that Truly and Denny are nowhere to be found. Any chance of keeping a low profile is out the airlock. Now there’s an incoming message from… your ex?
All in all, a quieter day than most.
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End is a narrative focused Space Opera that’ll have you flying around the universe assembling an unruly crew from an eclectic cast of characters and taking any job you can to keep one step ahead of your abusive Ex. The twist: you’re not just piloting a ship… you are the ship.
Supplies don’t come for free in the verse, doubly so for outlawed sentient spaceships. Every planet, moon and space station is a valuable source of jobs and their precious rewards. Assign crew tasks based on their skills, and help their decisions along the way. If everything pays off you’ll have what you need to escape, and if not…well, you can call in those favors you’ve been saving.
A Long Journey to an Uncertain End presents a unique vision of the future, a universe of inclusivity and diversity tainted by uncertainty and fear. Build a family within your crew. Every crew member has their own story, every planet its own history, and even your own adventure remains unfinished.
Sentient ships have been outlawed for centuries. With the help of your holo-companion C.O.R.G.I. and your (mostly) loyal crew, you managed to evade capture. Now there’s an entire galaxy between you and freedom.
So…where to next, Captain?
Features:
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Fly across a unique galaxy, from the dust-bitten badlands of the Rim, to the techno-industrial megacities of the Core…and Beyond.
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Recruit an eclectic crew from a diverse cast of characters with their own stories and varied skill sets.
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Explore planets, moons and space stations as you put distance between you and your abusive ex. Match your crew to jobs and decide their actions along the way. If all else fails, you can always rely on a favor or two.
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Manage your resources to keep your crew happy. Boosting between worlds can take its toll, as can failing at jobs. A happy crew is a productive crew… most of the time.
Astero Inc.
Beautiful game. After the first hours of game, feels very addictive and funny situations with the characters and gameplay. It maintains tension at all time on the asteroids! Highly recommended
– Real player with 50.0 hrs in game
The game felt fresh, fun and challenging. If you skip the tutorial you will suffer punishment, but you will feel acomplishment as you make your way through the game and master it step by step.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Under Domain - Alien Invasion Simulator
This game feels like the creator made a unique and interesting system to play this game but then refuses to teach anyone how to use it. The tutorial even states it’s a LIMITED tutorial and you will learn the more advanced parts of the game with play… except the game play is totally static with no learning curve, so the advanced functions and parts of the game are impossible to reach. At first I figured I was playing the game wrong or just not getting something, but after going to find some kind of guide online (there are none at the time of writing this), or looking at the game’s web page for more information (the game’s page is only a landing page with screen shots, logos, and PR/Sales Hype), and then finally the game reviews/comments that all have the same problem with the game play and then some… I am now pretty sure this game isn’t finished and there are commands and graphics missing to advance the game play. Glad I got this on sale for like $2 since even $6 for this game is over priced as the game currently stands.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
The game is really good-looking, definitely an interesting idea. The art, graphics, sound - top notch! And there are a lot of possibilities for further update, which, judging from Antarctica screenshot from “About this game”-section, might be coming (
! I didn’t see a way to build Earth, Moon or ocean bases ).
Basically you play as an alien race that, for a good reason (from their perspective), wants to invade the Earth. And with maximum of 12 decades (from year 1900) and 10 turns per decade you can invade the Earth by 2020 (yep)!
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
The Final Earth 2
Build a great city in this vertical city builder in space! Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
The Final Earth 2 offers a relaxing, creative city building experience with exploration elements and an optional story. There’s always something new to build and discover!
Features
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Build a huge city with thousands of inhabitants, all fully simulated!
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Over sixty different buildings to discover!
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Great, fully original music by Stijn Cappetijn!
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Discover the story in scenarios, or go wild in Free Play or Creative mode.
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Gather, manage and balance various resources
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There might even be a secret society…
Build What You Want!
With many different buildings, you can design the city you want. Will it be a green hippie paradise full of gardens, a huge party, or one big factory? Will your colony be a single, enormous building or will you spread it out over hundreds of worlds? Does your transport consist of efficient teleporters or a chaotic mess of landing pads? It’s all your choice!
Plus, there will be modding support to give you even more freedom!
Sit Back and Enjoy Your City!
After you’ve built a huge city, sit back and see it in action for a while. It’s like watching an ant colony! You can also follow any citizen to make this even more fun. Find the person with the craziest commute, or discover hidden details like a stargazer.
Story
It’s 2142, and earth is a wasteland because of devastating climate change. You built a space ship, but now your food is running out. Fortunately, you see a world just in time. It is a bit small, but certainly better than nothing. You build some farms and houses, and fulfill the basic needs of your citizens. Then, it’s time to build the true city of the future! Research advanced technology and make your city grow to a huge metropolis. When your tiny world gets too small, fly to other worlds with space ships, or even build teleporters.
Galactic Merchant
Galactic Merchant is sci-fi business simulator (aka space tycoon game). Starting from small startup with single cargo ship you can grow your company to intergalactic monopoly.
To do so, you could trade, prospect, produce goods, smuggle, rob, give bribes, engage in politics, save lives and use many other options.
During the game you will learn many economical concepts and built-in calculation sheet will help you to use them in practice.
Make business in galaxy-wide economic system
Each planet is unique market and all of the markets are interdependent.
All of them are influenced by your decisions, actions of other market players as well as events, which happen all the time.
The economic conditions are dynamic and you have to adapt in order to be profitable.
Manage your company
You can achieve your strategic goals by growing company assets: ships, factories and personnel.
Not always more means simply better - with upgrades you can get better margins on your trades and make a good profit even on lower trade volume.
At some point your company may be too big to mange by yourself alone. In such case you can hire managers and directors to run parts of your company on your behalf. However, you still bear responsibility for company and you need to evaluate your leadership team and make changes to keep up to speed.
Still want more?
At the moment you become intergalactic corporation you will be able to acquire other companies to grow even faster.
Plan your investments and cut costs
There are multiple options for you to make profit over time.
You need to balance short-term and long-term strategies. What brings money now, may have bad consequences in future.
Sometimes you have to spend money at present to get profit in several quarters ahead.
Make profit
To help you explore different options there is fully functional calculation sheet to aid your decisions.
There is also comprehensive help, which will help you to sharpen your economic skills and apply them in practice.
Hyperspace : Andy’s Adventure
Bonus mode doesn’t unlock when you complete the campaign
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Fun game with nice drive mechanics & interesting bonuses. Levels are a bir challengy but still like the challenge. Also great musics, you can feel the hype.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
Nihariely’s Spatial Adventure
A unique approach of gameplay that mixes resource management and old school arcade features, explore the asteroid belts in the solar system of Aldebaran.
Story
In the Aldebaran solar system there are the remains of a civilization fading away, with the survivors barely being alive thanks to prolonged hibernation capsules activated in all of their planet. However, the state of decay will make those eventually fail; Nihariely must awake the survivors before is too late, since no one else has been able to rescue the last memory of a forgotten civilization.
Key features
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You can choose the order of the progression for the main levels.
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Each main stage has a different arcade or puzzle challenge to solve while the exploration for resources features procedural generation levels of asteroid fields and starships to loot.
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The exploration part consists of three phases that use a variation of gameplay:
1. Preparing the stats’ strategy of the exploration: Here, Action Points are used to upgrade resources for the ship and for the character; You will get more action points the farther a destination is.
2. Exploring the asteroid belts: This is a 2d top down perspective of an asteroid field, with decent range level of difficulty; the shields protect the starship from collisions and the speed amount makes faster the discovery of all resources in the zone, but at expenses of being more dangerous.
3. Looting an abandoned cargo starship for resources: Once it is found, Nihariely will have to explore it by her own, the movement consumes calories and those are also crafted in the first phase exploration. The more caloric unit she has (water and food units) she will have more range to explore, however, if you miscalculated the strategy she could be trapped inside a doomed starship!
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A big part it is focused on collecting loot to progress in the game and getting upgrades to make easier the advance in the main campaign; some will help you in the explorations or make certain tasks faster to perform, those are optional too.
The best feature
The music! the OST took a lot of investment; the price of the game does not represent all the work that went into it. The use of headphones is recommended to capture the audio effects intended.
Gameplay structure
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There Is just one Level of difficulty.
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The duration of the game is very unclear since it depends on the skill set of the player and the understanding of the game; the media is around 4 hours. The best dev speedrun for this game is 2:29 (using the best paths and combinations).
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The main puzzle theme for the game is “memory”; a lot of the development is based on memory skills. For example, there is no inventory system as such but limited counting information that usually has to be keeping in mind before plaining an exploration.
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Game over means that you will lose all unsaved progress and the game does not have auto-save; you will need to collect diskettes or energy to make save files, which is part of the gameplay: If you feel “confident” enough there is no need to do it at all, of that way, the permadeath is relative (depending on if you saved or not).
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There are no enemies to fight (instead you had to calculate times and making decisions).
The Station: Escape Room
I don’t even know where to start, so let’s go with more technical stuff. Controls are bearable, definitely not enjoyable, but bearable. Glitches here and there, as a lot of people noted, the fastest way to escape is to fall through something, because falling into starry sky is more fun than this. You also can’t save your progress so you have to replay it all over again, but don’t worry, most of the time you spend will be on running the infinite corridors and not solving puzzles.
The worst part is that your partner won’t see things the way you do. And if you get to the last puzzle you won’t be able to finish it properly because of that since even if you do complete it, your partner doesn’t and vice versa. Oh well, the ending consists of “The End.” so either of you won’t be missing much.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Puzzles weren’t awful but the game is terrible. Multiplayer doesn’t work, and some of the functionality is too difficult for use. Don’t buy this game. Sorry.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game