What a delightful citybuilder game! I also can't believe I missed this video only to fid it is already 5 years old. After the first 10 minutes of this video I was already sold on how it looks and feels to play and so I purchased it on PS5. The campaign is a delight to play through also and I find the embedded story through your city-building progress nice as a loosely fitted overarcing setpiece. I think this game has climbed straight to the top as my favourite citybuilder now.
He basically looks like Mr Bevins, the many eyed, eared, nosed character in Lincoln in the Bardo. The egg crate just saves us from seeing his true horrible self.
Jon PLEASE play Fallout: Dust, its a mod for Fallout: New Vegas that takes place 20 years after where Tunnelers have invaded, the Strips fallen, and a massive sandstorm settled, it feels like an entirely new game.
+Jack Spence Huh, I had never heard him talk about it before, must've been one one of his livestreams that I missed, either way I hope he does it in the near future.
LOL! been watching this game for a couple weeks now, love that Jon picked it up, and love how everyone who streams it calls it "po-tash", Arumba was getting abused for several vids and uses a funny voice every time he says "pot-ash" now! XD
Why do i get the feeling that you could have no food, no power, no homes and poison pumping into the air supply and all these brown nosing, overly happy colonists would still say possitive things when you inspect them.
Huh, quite a few things this game does remind me a lot of Tropico, like the whole "food growing more efficiently depending on the area" stuff, and that's a very good thing.
Impossible challenge: take a shot each time he says "bloody hell", "flip" or "I've had my eye on this for a while now..." I'm gonna do it boys see you on the other side
I also had to think of this. Aven Colony is when the Andromeda mission went without a hickup :) I like to think of that you play Andromeda and when you've set the foundation for a town like prodromos that you start up this delightful game and built a damn metropolis on Sandy Gulch.
Sooo, are people in the future asexual and are there only off-planet baby factories or does your population also grow incrementally without immigration?
I didn't see any natural growth occurring - maybe as this is a centrally planned colony, population is controlled via de-cyro-ing up in the Colony ship, and there's contraception in all the water or something.
I'm sure if it's this sci-fi, they can just grow babies in-vitro if need be. No horrifying painful births required. Sex is probably allowed though, especially if they have contraception water, yes.
"I'm pretty sure geothermal will keep working in Winter" Oh Jon, you and your science... Never change! Also I'm loving your pronunciation of potash po-tash, it comes from pot ash.
I think, whoever starting this game, was like... hey, remember Cities Skylines, Tropico and Anno 2070? They were fun huh! Let's merge all 3 into this game. I can see, design elements from each, and I have to say, that actually sounds kind of fun. Might have to pick this one up at some point.
Jon, I hate you. You make me want to go back and play the games I watch you play. I put 20 hours into Skyrim the other week because you uploaded the Benor Adventures. I played Stellaris after watching Space Rome. Now I want this game. Jon, thank you for being so much fun to watch. Out of all the games I've watched you play and all of the play through you've done, I think my favorite is the You Only Live Once Fallout 3 run. That one popped up on my suggested feed after youtubing the music from the game and my only thought upon seeing YOLO Fallout 3 was, "I hope he dies horribly. I hope that the game abuses him. I hope it crashes a lot." Because I hated the phrase YOLO so much, I wanted to see you fail. Then I started watching it and I began to cheer for you. By the end of the run, your channel became my favorite. You replaced Team Four Star. I like how you explain what you're doing. You're not saying 'my way is better'. You don't sound like a prick when you're right, and you don't give off a falseness when you're wrong. You seem to really enjoy what you're doing and that makes watching you so much more fun.
If Sci-fi city builders are your thing then i can recommend Anno 2070. If you can get past having to use U-play then its a pretty good game in my opinion.
Food surplus: +0.3 "We're still losing food" ... Food surplus: +0.3 "Let's just get that (farm) slightly higher priority please" Food surplus: +0.3 "There we are. We're now in a slight surplus of food" Really Jon? I'll just lower the perception score once again.
I was THIS close to buying this game yesterday, decided on Elite Dangerous instead and having heaps of fun. Jon, you should totally play ED so we can all watch you get lost in space and find the snail people from your Stellaris playthrough
Yeah, this game looks super shallow. A lot of the games Jon's been playing seem like they'd get boring after an hour or two. I'm not sure Jon would be capable of handling E:D with his -1 Perception... he'd be crashing or getting shot for not requesting docking and blame the game. lol But yeah, I think if he took the time to learn it he would LOVE Elite.
An actual colony building game that reminds me of the super old game Outpost? The game was quite buggy and unfinished, but I loved it as a kid. They made a sequel, but it was a mediocre RTS instead of a colony building game and that disappointed me greatly. There have been many buggy messes, casual games, little projects of colonizing like the moon and stuff, but not a full fledged colony building game like this. There has been Sol 0, Planetbase, and some others that are kind of survival game + pathfinding simulator mixed with colony building on other planets, the excellent RimWorld, which is good in its own right, but nothing quite like this. Sure, Anno has progressed to 2600 or something now, but I find those games a bit too unfocused with the combat, trading, and city building all thrown together. Also not a fan of how a lot of the mechanics work in it. This looks pretty good though, count me interested.
+1 for someone who remembers Outpost. I remember building Tokamak reactors on Sigma Draconis. And of course, "The colony is abandoned, commander. No one is alive, except for you."
