![]() Fortunately, the skirmish mode, in which you will likely spend most of your time, lets you just play the game without scripted “funny” messages from your AI assistant. One could consider that funny, but it really builds up and builds up, and at some point, it was just emotionally destructive, regardless of your performance. When you play the campaign, a “story mode,” if you want to call it like that, your AI assistant VAL talks to you like you’re the dumbest piece of meat that ever walked the station. The last thing to criticize is more of a subjective observation. Image: Realmforge Studios / Kalypso Media The graphics are certainly better and improved over the 2001 release, but almost 20 years later, you just have to aim for more, in my opinion. While that gives PC gamers with lower specs on their machines also a chance to play the title, it’s a bit unfair to everyone with high-end specs and next-gen consoles. I know this is a simulation and management game, but the graphics are “okay” at best. One other thing is that I expected more visual fidelity and overall graphic experience from a release in 2021. Looking for more remakes? Why not check out Defiance 2050 or Resident Evil 2? You might learn to handle this faster than I did, but I think there is room for improvement here. I spent a lot of time arranging the blueprint of a room, just to cancel it altogether and do it again from the start. The setup of the menus and how you manage everything on your space base is also not what I would call intuitive. While you can use a combination of mouse and keys on PC to control and maneuver the viewport camera, the cursor on consoles is locked to the center of the screen, and you need to keep “flying” around to engage with objects in the game. For one, I find that the controls on the console version are a bit clunky and not as sophisticated as they maybe could have been. If didn’t encounter many negative aspects when testing Spacebase Startopia, but I still want to share it all with you. Image: Realmforge Studios / Kalypso Media All gold on the metal donut that is Spacebase Startopia? I’m confident that if you enjoyed Startopia, you would also have a good time playing the remake Spacebase Startopia, now even on consoles, which wasn’t possible before. Personally, I preferred the robots’ old designs, but this is not something to rant about. ![]() ![]() Some of the alien races have changed, partially introducing new ones, and also the design of your robot workers and police robots is now different than it was before. The game feels pretty much like the original Startopia, but naturally, after 20 years, some things have changed. ![]() What’s different between Spacebase Startopia and Startopia? There are some combat elements as well, but the primary aspect here is building and managing the station, and the game is not intended as an RTS game. Naturally, you can also just play skirmish and not bother with deadlines and hard targets. The single-player campaign includes ten missions, and Kalypso expects an average playtime of about 20 hours to finish all of them. Later in the playthrough, you will be busy with R&D, manufacturing, and refining goods, as well as trade and some random missions that pop up even in skirmish mode. You just hire staff, and they will automatically do the work that they are able to carry out as long as there are enough open positions. But you also won’t need to worry about matching. ![]() Every alien race has something they are good at, so you can’t just mix your employees as you like. In order to run the station and the buildings within, you also need to hire some of the visitors, which will gather experience and improve over time, unless you fire them before. The aim here is to run a successful and popular station so that you gain visitors and so that you can build amenities that support the visitors with their needs. There are three levels available which are separated into an industrial zone, an entertainment zone, and a natural area for terraforming and growing flora. In Spacebase Startopia, you are the newly appointed overseer of a space station that looks like a giant donut. So if you ever wanted to enjoy managing your own space base on a console, this is the right time for you. Unlike the original title, the remake is now also available not only for PC (Windows, macOS, Linux) but also on Xbox and PlayStation, as well as the Switch. The release for the title is today, the 26th of March. Spacebase Startopia has been developed by Realmforge Studios (Dungeons series) and was published by Kalypso Media. So, what’s the new Spacebase Startopia like? Is it anything like the predecessor? I really enjoyed the title for countless good hours and was excited to hear that someone is working on a remake. I played the original Startopia by Mucky Foot Productions when it came out after Eidos published it in June 2001. ![]()
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