Planetbase

[KAL 9000]

I've seen a few YouTube videos on it and it looks kinda fun. Do you guys think it's worth it, and what are your thoughts?

[Vanamonde]

What are we talking about, now? Link? 

[Randazzo]

Colony builder game.

I got it on sale but ended up barely playing it. It wasn't awful, it just didn't hook me. The late-game potential looked pretty cool, and I'll probably go back eventually.

[Motokid600]

KSP has got me too involved right now to try other video games, but I've seen Oaktree play it quite frequently and it did look enjoyable. Might give it a go.

[Caelib]

I picked this game up last week and I normally don't really find colonization games that fun ... but this is pretty addicting and fun.  It was on sale on Steam for $16.99 so I picked it up.  Well worth the price IMO.

[Evanitis]

I'm still waiting for a comparative dissection of game-mechanics in Planetbase and Sol-0 form one of the gaming sites. I totally wanna buy one, but can't decide which one.

Though I'm not in a hurry - interesting KSP mods and challenges pop up a lot faster than I can try them.

[Caelib]

19 hours ago, Evanitis said:

I'm still waiting for a comparative dissection of game-mechanics in Planetbase and Sol-0 form one of the gaming sites. I totally wanna buy one, but can't decide which one.

Though I'm not in a hurry - interesting KSP mods and challenges pop up a lot faster than I can try them.

I am almost done with all of the challenges in Planetbase and Sol-0 is next on my list so I'll respond here after I have played it and give you a good comparison.

[Evanitis]

Yay, thanks!

[Caelib]

On 1/27/2016 at 8:19 AM, Evanitis said:

Yay, thanks!

Ok, I put about 10 hours into Sol-0 and my opinion of it is pretty poor.  For a game, it seems to be missing the element of "fun".  There is a lot of usability problems and the game just isn't polished - it feels like something that was built by an amateur over the weekend on Unity with stuff they purchased on the asset store or made themselves in Microsoft Paint.

As far as a gameplay comparison, Sol-0 is very slow paced and you control individual units by instructing them to build things.  This doesn't sound bad, but you spend more time watching your units walk around than actually doing anything fun or engaging.  The game's concept of time is also problematic - upon landing with a full supply of food, you've got less than five minutes of gameplay time to build a whole bunch of stuff before you starve to death even after sending multiple pre-arrival supply drops of food.

The idea of the game is good, but it's got so many usability issues that make it feel more like doing a chore than playing a game.

My recommendation is to save your $6 and try Planetbase or something else instead.

[legoclone09]

I like Sol 0, it's fun and the dev is adding stuff. Now to be on topic, I moght get Planetbase, it looks kind of fun from the few things I've seen of it.