


They build rooms and take out the trash automatically, once you’ve set up the right amenities to enable them. Each of your three decks has bulkheads that you pay to remove, letting you expand into bigger facilities, offering greater varieties of both habitat and entertainment for your expanding clienteleĪll that footfall naturally generates rubbish, disease, and eventual dilapidation, something your team of maintenance droids, called fuzzies, are there to fix. When visitors are happy you also earn prestige, which lets you unlock new rooms, and harder to please aliens, both of which allow you to create bigger, more intricate space stations. Create the right biomes on the bio deck and entertainments on the fun deck, and your xenomorphic clients will feel happy, gracing your station with more energy, which flows freely when they find themselves in a good mood. The sub deck takes care of essential support systems like comms and storage the bio deck is an arboretum that you can terraform to suit visitors and grow useful resources while the fun deck is for discos, casinos, and arcades.Īll those features are built to service the demands of your alien guests, each type of which has their own preferences. You do that by building facilities on the station’s three floors. Once again you take command of a doughnut-shaped space station that you need to make comfortable for a variety of aliens. Spacebase Startopia sells players the galactic dream: managing their very own donut-shaped space station.
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That meant juggling entertainment, environment, and food sources to make your station appealing to as many different extraterrestrials as you could. More content will be added as part of regular updates in the lead-up to the game’s full release. Kalypso Media have revealed their space management sim Spacebase Startopia will launch on March 26th for Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series XS and PlayStation 4/5. It required you to set up and support habitats to attract a range of alien species, each with its own needs and proclivities. Originally published by Eidos, back before they were bought by Square Enix, Startopia was an amusing and surprisingly complex base building game set in space.
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Hot on the heels of Evil Genius 2 though, the sci-fi business simulator has been resurrected by German publisher Kalypso, for both PC and console.

There have been so many unexpected comebacks lately, for even the most obscure video games, that it’s almost impossible to be surprised anymore, but obscure 2001 non-hit Startopia is certainly not a game many would’ve been expected to see again in a hurry. Game and Legal Info Platform: PS4, PS5 Release: Publisher: Kalypso Media GMBH Genre: Strategy Voice: Chinese, English, French (France), German. Spacebase Startopia – what an odd game to bring back (pic: Kalypso)Įarly 2000s business sim Startopia is the latest retro strategy series to see an unexpected return, in what’s basically Theme Spacestation.
