This is a city builder where you can move a city around. The game is split in chapters where you visit a solar system and basically strip mine it before moving to the next one.


The city-building aspect is well done. There could be some more quality of life features, but the game works fine without them. There is nothing revolutionary in here; you make food, gather and process resources, make sure to have enough workers and power to keep things running, and hospitals to deal with accidents. The city, being the massive spaceship, can move around to simplify logistics; it's useful, but you can sit in one spot the entire time and do just fine.


The story, on the other hand, is utter garbage. The game feels utterly preachy about ecological collapse. It feels like humanity in this story got a moon-sized idiot ball. One that makes Idiocracy look competent in comparison. This is probably the writers fault, they graduated from literature class, and thier entire physics knowledge ended at elementary school. Here's why (spoiler alert):


The final objective is to build tons of energy batteries and ram your massive city ship into an enemy ship to save a planet. WHY? Why would you need your ship to do this? In space, speed is the biggest killer. Send out dozens of small shuttles that can move from one end solar system to another in a day or two and ram them into the big bad enemy. There is a reason Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest man in space. Sadly, the writers didn't get that memo.


The next dumb thing is that everyone on Earth died because... the person who ordered the cityship to be made blew up the Moon because... it was INEVITABLE. Dude, you are NOT Thanos. The only reason the Moon is toast is YOU. The entire nuclear arsenal we have ever built wouldn't scratch the Moon, much less blow up a quarter of it.


So, what's the bright idea everyone has? Find a new world to colonize... Seriously? How about staying on the one we have and build self contained cities and farms? If you REALLY want to go to space, build habitats. Just don't use the company that built the ship player is using, the thing was falling appart after the first FTL jump. The best example of 'made by the lowest bidder'.


Overall, the game could use a sandbox mode where this entire ridiculous story is dumped in favor of just moving from system to system in search of a nice world to colonize and then helping the colony to set up or something, not this 'the world is doomed' crap. If you do not mind the story, it is quite enjoyable to play.

I've tried restarting this game several times ever since I got it and I always get bored within the first 30 min. I love city-building/resource management games, but this just doesn't scratch the itch. I really wanted to like this game, but it just feels tedious.

Basicly zero replayability. :C