Space Haven - Procedural Open Galaxy Sci Fi Colony Survival 

Hot Tip: if you put different types of machines in their own walled-off rooms you can avoid problems like the water vapour produced by your hydroponics. In a separate room you can set the temperature and light they need without worrying about their effect on other machines. The crew also hates noise from industrial machines, so you can put those in their own room to improve their comfort level. If you select the view mode menu on the bottom the right (hotkey RP) it brings up a selection of overlays so you can easily see what needs to be in it's own room and what is causing a problem.

I feel like this game has mastered the anxiety of slow decline. In games like Rimworld it’s all crisis based, but this game you struggle to survive under the normal circumstances, but not so violently that it’s fight or flight. It’s like a slow sinking feeling with a dash of hope. I can’t describe it well.

You’re spot on - Rimworld is the gold standard and it’s hard to make any comparisons without referencing it.

This was one of the first games I watched you show off, and it was a key factor to me buying it :) Keep up the amazing showcases

"That's the scrubber, it gets rid of smoke and CO2 and toxic gases and turns it into O2... And that's just a lightbulb." Welcome to the post-apocalyptic future in outer space. Where technology has advanced so far that we have warp travel. But a lightbulb is still just a lightbulb. LOL

Splat needs to be careful about his pottable water. It needs constant maintenance via frequent repotting and separating and trimming the roots, else it'll get root-bound and asphyxiate. The simple truth is that water never meant to be potted, and should just be planted in the ground.

I much prefer it when you skip the tutorial/setup for survival and colony building games like this. I feel that 90% of those games have the same exact start so it's refreshing to start out at a point when the game can start to differentiate itself from other titles in the genre. Keep on keepin' on Splat!

What a pleasure it is is to have you cover this again. I bought it, I love it, and I love hearing you talk about it.

This was a nice revisit thanks Splatt' ! Great summary with "post intro" gameplay, I like the pace of the game and the nice polish on the power system.

I like overall concept of the game. I played something like 80h, but this game still lacks "the purpose". At the beginning it is fun to build and manage thie ship, but after a while there is nothing else to do. So I still have a mixed fealings about this game.

Thanks for coming back to Space Haven, and bringing that splatter summary to your revisit

Heeeey you got me into this game a while back. Glad to see you show it some more love. It's mad a lot of progress

You should put the Recycler in it's own room. Just build walls around it and make sure you put a Air-Scrubber in with it and give the room a Airlock door.

Love the additional play vs the repetitive openings. It’s why I sub’d. I’m not much of a PC gamer, but I completely dig the content you dish. Kudos and keep it coming. Perhaps I’ll see something I’ll invest in!

I do hope this is a game you'll be streaming. Really enjoyed watching you with this one Sir Splatticus

very interesting. This Game has tons of potential. Would love to see different Races with different needs implemented.

Love Space Haven! Thanks for the reminder, it's been a long time since playing!

I bought this last time because of your video! This game is great.

Thank you, Splatt, for your in depth reviews and taking the time and effort to show us further into the game!

Iv been playing this for a year obsessively.The latest update adds a lot to units skill development.I beat one set of enemies until I get through all the systems then I continue past the end "win" and continue play the next all new group of systems but add an additional enemy faction to make it harder each time.Eventually as its developed the game will change and so may my goals but for now Im happy doing what Iv described to keep it interesting.

40:00 I will say one of the things that annoys me is that the best ship you can make is literally just a square, engine row in the bottom right, double airlocks on the bottom left and pack the rest of the ship as you need.

This game has the best title screen song since Halo!

I am watching this game for some thime.... Building you own spaceship in sandboxy style caugh my eye some time ago. They made good progress so far, still cant wait for the more developed product

Yo 40 minutes of splatter on haven!? People should usually have to pay for such loveliness haha

Years ahead of ya, fantastic game

My man! Keep up the great work sir.

This game is great. Totally worth the price if this is the kind of thing you like. I especially like to first 20 hours or so.

This actually looks amazing, my first time seeing it. Especially if a lot of it is procedural. checking it out!

Well Splatty, this game may start slow but as you leave your starting system you come across dangrous situations more and more often. As you progress you also come across many moral dilemmas etc...

31:06 the hull scrap went up because you salvaged furniture attached to those walls

Space scavenger survival games are few and usually poorly implemented, this isn’t one of them; a gem of a game in an unwarrantedly small niche.

Thanks Splattercat, loving this game! It was a shame that Spacebase DF9 discontinued (and sold as broken game), this game remedy my craving of that kind of game.

Thanks for the vid Splatt

Can't wait for this game to be finished. Looking forward to a good late game. I enjoy building in this game quite a lot.

This looks really fun!

Toilet in the open area doesn’t hinder work? Damn XD

I wonder if one of those androids was killed by being thrown out of a window of a high-rise office building in LA?

Looking forward to your coverage of this after their next big update, I've had several dozen hours in this, but I found that it lacks a late game, and whatever late game content it does have, is heavily unbalanced. It's got so much potential though, so I really wanna see it keep getting updates

Space Haven looks cool

This game looks amazing, thank you so much for sharing such interesting gameplay!

Thanks for showcasing! ^^

I agree with your take on RimWorld mechanics, and it made me think of classic books and how some of them feel really dated and cliché filled- because other people took the great ideas and expanded on them but left the bad ones! ^^.

These characters follow by the work/life balance. I like! Unlike real life.....

12:55 Hypoxia (from hypo + oxia) already means low/too little oxygen lol I know, it seems all Greek to many, because it in fact is Greek ;P Hypo means low, under, too little. A hypodermic needle goes, like many words, hypo (under) the derma (skin). Hyper an the other hand means over, too much. Being hypocritical (hypo, under + krinein, to sieve, separate, discriminate, distinguish) means s/o is under-critical, in the sense of he's not critical equally or not thorough enough. Being hypercritical (hyper, over + s.a.) means s/o is overly critical, criticizing too much or is in a too critical, serious state. Last example: Hypertension means too much, high stretch, (in this case blood) pressure. Hypotension means too little, low stretch, (in this case blood) pressure. PS: hyperoxia and oxygen poisoning is a thing and happens mostly in hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to mainly treat divers with decompression sickness. Hyperbaric (hyper + barys, heavy, baros, weight) btw means over (atmospheric) pressure. The unit bar, as well as barometer comes from barys, the first denoting, the second measuring the 'weight' of the surrounding atmosphere (atmos, vapor + sphaira, sphere).

It feels quite Firefly-esque to me.... and that's not just because the very first datapad log I ever found was basically a Firefly easter egg 😀

You just had to mention Space Hulk, did you? I was actually thinking of playing something more modern today but I guess it's back to the 90's again for me ffs!!

Space Pontoon... no no no. Space Catamaran = Space Cat

Can’t believe it’s been more than a year since you covered this!

3-4 day effort -well only if you salvage it entirely, not when you just go for the stuff you need and move on - for you will not discover further loot when staying in a place for too long.

Space Haven: Only get if it is on sale. I wouldn't pay full price for this game. If you got it on sale, you won't have to feel bad about the many glaring issues this game faces. Has potential, but not quite there Space Haven has the basics it needs to qualify for the Dwarf Fortress/RimWorld genre, but a simple lack of depth and variety hamper its ability to play in the same league as its predecessors. When you aren't sending the same away teams to clear an abandoned starship of the games two monster units, you are engaging in ship-to-ship battle with the same two starship weapons and/or performing your standard set of colonist operations (mining, crafting, researching, etc). You may also opt to board a starship with your away team and enslave the crew, but your colonists will do so armed with one of the only four weapons in the game (the pistol, SMG, assault rifle, and shotgun) and a single helmet slot which does not appear to serve a purpose. Perhaps the latter will be utilized in a future update. Outside of this, there really isn't a whole lot to do other than try and survive the game's two random events: solar flares and meteor showers. Even the colonist mechanics/operations fall short of what you'd expect from the genre. There is no equipment quality/durability mechanic in Space Haven, much less an option to craft equipment/furniture using different materials. Resource types are very limited as well. Heck, even the number of existential threats seem pretty limited. I think I've had four or five total colonist tantrums in the many hours I've put into the game. Beyond that, most threats are external. I am sure that mods exist to help cover these gaps, but in its current state Space Haven falls short. I do enjoy the game and will admittedly continue to play it for a while, but it has a bit of a ways to go before I give it the attention I gave RimWorld. I do hope that the devs continue to support though. It definitely has potential. ~DavidAdas

ThankYou SirSpla77

I played this game for a good while a year or more ago, but there came a point where I wanted to build the biggest ship possible, and because of limitations in sum of ship size over the fleet, the only way I could do this was to build a small ship which could support my sizeable crew, dismantle my (by now rather large) starting ship completely, and only then could I start on the big ship. I got bored in this process and dropped it. Has this flaw been fixed?

It's not Post-Apocalyptic, but more Post-Earth Apocalypse. In short, the eco-nuts were right, and we littered too hard in Chernobyl and broke earth. so, now the crew of the ship must leave the earths so that humanity can survive, somewhere else? it isn't quite clear on that.

"Rimworld but you're building your own space ship". Have you ever tried the Rimworld mod Save Our Ship 2?

Well done not picking up anything at all in that alien ship....

maybe the weird AI behavior is what caused the apocalypse. everyone got too attached to their calendar

This game needs co op srsly

Hey Splatty, just an FYI the pot in potable is pronounced more like potent.

now I want to play rimworld again

As a good note I don't think you mentioned in your video, most derelicts cant be reclaimed. Only ones marked as *claimable* can be claimed

I am neither early or late. I arrive exactly when I mean to.

a man named nana

just looked at some older screenshots, does look like they did a graphics upgrade.

As I understood the plot, Old Earth collapsed under ecological disaster and there was no new government to take control. So humanity is kinda wandering the stars without a home, since we had recently discovered space flight.

Great game:)

Eh, the simplicity of the electronic system seems a mistake, but the continued support is a good sign (cant say I see a noticeable difference at a glance however).

A great game, but if that did not change one with a huge miss in my eye. On release It was impossible to leave people on a station and come back later or build a second ship and go separate way / switch between them. I hope that is a new feature or one that is planned for later releases

Just bought the game. It fixes tons of crap that i don't like about Rimwolrd. Hopefully it gets some attention as it is a legit contestant to Rw.

Awesome game, but a little hellish to get into it. There are a million teeny details to get down before being able to actually develop.

Going to have to reload it...

Did they put sounds in this game yet? Like footsteps or something.

I think he said rimworld 100 times, gees dude...

i really like the aesthetic of this game, but I'm having such a hard time understanding how to build stuff and really get into it. I think they need to put some serious time into the opening tutorial, because at least for me, their popups dont really cut it.

I've seen you play this game a lot and I keep kinda wanting to try it out but I just don't see enough conflict or threats to make the game interesting enough to me. I want more tension, more reason to buildup, more reason to explore and improve your ship. Its just too slow I think. It needs regular alien threats, pirates, possible virus or mutant infestations in your crew or on your ship, etc.

hi i know im very late to this but I just wanna ask if this is a game that requires you to do daily logging in to maintain the state of your ship/world. because i cannot be available daily and just want a casual game to log in, do some chores/improvements, and visit again sometime in the future to the same exact situation with nothing coming into ruin or needing me to restart from the top.

Splat's Condensed Review of the game: 40:10

Are going to do a deep dive on twitch for this game ?

hypoxic means low-oxic lol

Ok! I am

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I prefer Startopia, been playing it for years!

Also why do you delete old twitch videos. Are you limited by twitch?

I hate being that late

Ah, Monstar... that takes me back... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ql5q4TYxDgs.html I love games with lots of pop culture references.

It's not a colony survival. It's a roguelike ship survival :|

I really wish spaltty didn't spend so long talking about what the UI and stuff is. If I wanted a tutorial, I'd watch a tutorial. I just want to see gameplay. That's the only reason I'm here.

Dude, I understand this game is similar to Rimworld in some aspects, and I also understand that you love Rimworld . In fact, I own Rimworld and I also think Rimworld is an awesome game. But I suggest you don't mention and praise Rimworld that much when doing a review of another game. Now I want to play Rimworld more than I want to play this game. I have nothing but respect for you, man. It's just a suggestion.

great.. now make the game on unreal engine 5, instant goty

Hey Splat, it would be nice if you paid this a follow up. It seems like you're doing allot of follow up videos lately.

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No late game.

How the hell is a Apocalypse happening in SPACE its a planetary thing not universal thing If you want to do a better separation from the engines make separated floors, cause this isn't a ship its a coffin I do not get why so much metal is left alone why not salvage all the metal it makes no sense in resource management games leaving anything behind Wait what is the excuse of your characters not knowing what happened to the world?

I really want to like this game however I find it extremely boring after just a short while. Something with the resource collection, crafting and system jumping just doesn't do it for me.

UFO vibes anyone ?

I really like your content but in this video all u did is talking with almost no gameplay. Sorry but after 10 min the video bece really really boring.

Why are you yelling?

What aesthetic you are talking about your coffin it looks like shit you are not even trying to make it better, you are not even starting to try to improve the design

Rimworld Is kinda a piece of crap. The game just rips off and bastardizes dwarf fortress and dungeon keeper. Worst of all the game lacks any sense of ambition or depth. The influence of Rimworld on magement Sims and similar games has not been a positive one.

I fail to understand how you have so many subs with such a grating voice. i wanted to watch this video a lot but you make it painful.

Crafting ? Not for me. EVER. In ANY game. M 🦘🏏😎