Anything like Startopia?

[DeV]

Is it? The name's kinda generic, especially for Double Fine.

[Trin]

I love Startopia - it's a tragedy it didn't sell well enough at the time to keep Mucky Foot afloat, because it was a lovely game.

This game feels similar in tone, and obviously they're both set on a space station, but it's shooting to be a very different game - Startopia was essentially a game like theme park - you were catering to a constant stream of temporary visitors, there was some simulation, but it wasn't too detailed, and there were clearly defined win conditions. This game aims to be more like dwarf fortress (DF-9's a nod to this) - a complex simulation where losing is almost inevitable and your goals are the ones you set yourself.

[Llamedos]

more like space colony from the looks of it

[tintraba]

So i bought it. I really like where they are going with it. I love startopia too. (that you can now get on steam! yay) This game looks really promising. I'm enjoying it. It's still very early but looks liek it's going to be alot of fun.

[Axonteer]

i got space colony on GMG and startopia too, immediately started a sandbox topia mode and played 10h straigt - lol :D This one seems like space colony HD eventough i just saw a video of the game and did not had time to play it :D but i guess im gona get it :D

[Stromko]

I think it's too early to judge how it's really going to feel. It doesn't seem like a game where ever going to be picking folks up and tossing them around, or even items, nothing direct like that, so it's not really the Dungeon Keeper / Startopia lineage exactly. But themewise, yes there are definitely parallels, and that may count for a lot even if the control scheme is entirely different.

I think it already exceeds Startopia in terms of user interface: much better feedback mechanisms, much more accessibility, there just isn't a game here yet at this early stage. So long as they don't mess up the things they're already doing well, and they don't push it out the door to soon, it should be a great game.

[DeV]

So no win conditions? Endless simulation essentially? Or do they at least aim to create a campaign in the future?

[Mansen]

Originally posted by DeV:

So no win conditions? Endless simulation essentially? Or do they at least aim to create a campaign in the future?

I wouldn't hold my breath for a big campaign, but it certainly isn't impossible.

[City Builder]

Originally posted by Commander Methos:

more like space colony from the looks of it

I agree very much this game feels to me more like a space colony game that it does anything from dwarf Fortress or startopia.

My biggest concern is going to be the AI, granted it early access and only alpha but I have seen other games that started out as early access/alpha which had terrible AI in the beginning and people complained about it in the word from the developers were that it would get better as they continue developing the game. The end result was that it really never reached an acceptable AI level

I hope that doesn't happen here as we are very dependent on the AI in this game to play it.

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Please excuse the gramatical errors, this is posted with voice recognition software that seems to suffer from dementia from time to time.