This was overall enjoyable but had a few issues. With a bit more balancing this would be excellent.
The good:
- Nailed the theme!
- Very playable, anyone familiar with the classic Sim games should immediately grasp what is going on.
The bad:
- The game did not quite fit on my laptop’s display, cutting off a bit of the mood status.
- I quickly got the game into a steady state where I didn’t need to do much besides click maintenance buttons. The alerts requiring a fixed amount of resources to prevent other effects didn’t occur often enough to actually cause resource pressure, and population status indicators don’t seem to affect each other or cause spiraling effects if not attended to.
Rating Notes:
- Gameplay: Everything works, intuitive UI. Gameplay became monotonous once a steady state was reached.
- Graphics: Looked fine overall, the growing and shrinking suns was a nice touch. Actually seeing the buildings outside of build mode was a bit hard.
- Audio: Background track was great. I’m not sure if it was just my volume level, but other sound effects were compartively very quiet.
- Theme Interpretation: Story and gameplay both a perfect fit! Can’t ask for more.
- Innovation: A classic base-builder, but the lunar setting is a nice twist.