Recent reviews by Omap

I really like the art direction and overall story of the game, and the survival elements are never annoying.

It's very good, but oh man is it unoptimized. There's no reason I should be able to run Cyberpunk at 90fps and this only at 50 on ultra.

Sony tongue my anus.

The game needs a lot of work. Maybe in a few years it will run like it should. My biggest gripe is the scale of some of the buildings. High school is like 3 city blocks, graveyard is immense, I can understand certain buildings needing a lot of space like the trainyard, but the only train station being a 4 track behemoth is insane.

The game has some weird behaviors too. As far as I can tell, Low rent high density buildings are just broken. No one will move in (and then having empty buildings will tank the demand for residential.) Public Transit never seems to get any passengers unless it's traveling between distant cities or different districts. Inter-district travel buses or trams will get Zero passengers (Pedestrians will happily walk all the way across town in the same district, but will take the bus 2 blocks from one to another.) Taxis, however, will stack hundreds of people deep to go within the same district, but those same people will ignore the bus. The only use for buses is if you're playing "Multiple small towns" instead of "one big city" and having the buses act like greyhound or charter buses.

Hydro stations will take hours (IRL) to fill and never reach past 5% generation because they start dumping water before they fill all the way up. It's a trick to even buy them.

Really my biggest complaint is that most of the ploppable assets and service buildings are about two or three times larger than they need to be and without mods there's no fix for this. CS1 had "Small middle school" etc etc, but those are gone. The biggest crime is the train station as I mentioned before. I just don't know who thought it was a good idea to make the only train station in the game be 4 platforms deep. Don't even bother using it to make connections to the outside world, because in my experience you will never get any passengers (maybe 10 per 800 person train). Maybe this changes once you start doing tourism? outside connections seem bugged, both for passengers and for cargo. Shipping is the same.

This game needs at least another year or two in development, and that's incredibly sad. I hope, but seriously doubt, that Colossal Order will invest that much time in the game to fix all their broken ♥♥♥♥. I do expect DLC within the next 4 months though.

UPDATE: I was right, they didn't fix anything and made DLC instead. Eat my ass CO.

Update 2: The economy update fixed a lot of things wrong with the game finance wide, and the latest patch fixed the huge comically large buildings. The game still runs poorly, but it's in a much better shape than launch. I still recommend waiting, it's not quite there yet but it's close.

It's X3 series but with fancy graphics and not even 1/10th of the stuff to do. Netcode is pretty bad as well.

If you didn't grow up with this game you should kill yourself. This ♥♥♥♥ is the best.

You need to take it for what it is, a simulation game developed by one guy. the graphics aren't anything special but they're charming and all the systems in your little station are well thought out and important. Manage your resources like air and water and food and get some stuff done. A fun little game, don't expect to be sprinting around and stuff, you walk slow in your space suit.

Beautiful game, but inverting the camera doesn't work. you can only invert the vertical axis, not the horizontal. Fix this and it gets an EASY thumbs up for such a pretty and fun game.

Devs gave up on it.

It runs like ass, there's not enough unit types, and somehow it's 10 times less fun than forged alliance. why? I wish someone could tell me. you never seem to have a lot of units at the same time and it's so easy to planet turtle.