![]() If you have aliens that want to dance you better have a dancefloor for them, and so on. Not giving any one of the three of these the attention it requires is really bad for business. These decks are your sub deck which houses your manufacturing facilities, med-bays, sleeping pods, etc, the fun deck, and the bio-deck. Your space station is split across three decks so there’s quite a bit of multi-tasking going on. If you don’t screw up completely you’ll get remote access to a real station from there. The first three of four of these are simulated. Why should you expect anything less than utter disdain from your computer, right?Įach level in Spacebase Startopia is a separate mission that will see you having to meet various goals. Well, you are a primitive meat-sack with the mental capacity of a cabbage after all. Even when you’re doing well, something as small as a pat on the back is back-handed. VAL is your AI and to say she’s sarcastic would be a massive understatement. You command a space station on which you have to keep the different species of alien inhabiting it happy and make money for your bureaucratic bosses in the process. With that out of the way, Spacebase Startopia is a building sim that’s sort of in the vein of Dungeon Keeper or probably nearer to the truth Theme Hospital. I make this point because some of you reading might be looking for comparisons and they aren’t going to be there. ![]() I, on the other hand, have no room for comparison, so I’m looking at the game from the perspective of a total newcomer. ![]() If you’re in this mindset I think you’re going to be far more critical than if you’re coming in fresh. This is dangerous because if you really loved the original you’re going to be mightily disappointed if the successor, spiritual or otherwise, doesn’t meet expectations. What I’ve been noticing is there’s an awful lot of comparison going on. This is important in this particular case because Spacebase Startopia is the spiritual successor of Startopia, a title that was released over a decade ago. Whether I agree or disagree with them is entirely beyond the point and they don’t affect my scoring in any way. So I’m not writing from a total void and because I’m interested in what other people think, I read other reviews on the games I’m analyzing. I’m going to start this review with a little bit of a disclaimer. I recently covered this title pre-release so if you want some of this info in a nutshell you can get that here. ![]() We’ll also be looking at whether it’s any good obviously. How do you fancy commanding a giant floating donut filled with aliens? Never been asked that before have you?! Well, this is very much a question that’s being asked by Spacebase Startopia, the game that we’ll be taking a closer look at today. ![]()
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