Recent reviews by GrilledCheeseSandies

Relatively easy for the first playthrough. Beat it in four rounds :)
Just fly everyone to the region near the sun and produce whatever secondary resource it has available;
End of Round 1 - I produced ~50 stasis
End of Round 2 - Produced ~ 25 Alloys + 100 knowledge
End of Round 3 - Produced ~25 Elixers + 200 knowledge
End of Round 4 - Produced ~100 Elixers (had a 9 action region + unlocked space elixer production and had a methane zone)

Thoroughly enjoy the amount of planning that goes into each round before you depart, but not overly difficult with some minor optimizing :)!

In its current state, I have never turned off the game to end a session, each of my sessions have ended in the game crashing.

I love it, it's incredibly complex, but it's so frustrating to play at the moment.

Can't recommend in its current state.

Some updates to improve the UI for researches (and make it clearer why you would want certain ones) would go a long way. Tutorial is severely lacking in direction. For how expensive it is, it certainly needs a lot of polish!

"Political simulator" isn't quite an accurate descriptor for this game.

It is a decision maker where there is a LOT of text that the decisions seem to have little to no impact, and then a few MAJOR decisions, which are clearly black and white.

Played enough to realize it isn't a "game" but more of a "choose your own adventure" novel. Which is great if that's what you are looking for, but based on the one photo of the split of who was in the government, I thought it would have some game mechanics other than choice based outcomes.

The game is fantastic, would highly highly recommend it, it was a ton of fun and has lots of replayability!



UPDATE: This bug I think has been patched, but I'll leave the report here in case someone has the same error.
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FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Other Event: User Defined 14
for object obj_loc_conv:

trying to index a variable which is not an array
at gml_Object_obj_loc_conv_Other_24
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stack frame is
gml_Object_obj_loc_conv_Other_24 (line -1)
called from - gml_Object_obj_map_loc_Mouse_10 (line -1) - <unknown source line>

This was a great game for my wife and I to play together

Good for steam summer sale!

Take down your screenshot that shows poker 2k-20k tables, that doesn't exist in Dark Seas!

Give us updates! When does blockading unlock :D?!

I don't really feel I've played quite enough to give this game the full review it needs. at less than 1000 hours, there is still much playing to be had.

Advice for players who may be on the fence about buying this game, it's definitely got a steep learning curve, but having an experienced player teach you helps a lot (or you can try to force your way through it on your own like some of us :3!)

If ANYONE who is looking to learn this game wants help with the basics, don't hesitate to add me and I will hop on skype or steam chat to lend a hand!