Planetbase: First Impressions

For the next week, we are planning on reviewing a game called planetbase. Starting tomorrow we will be taking a first crack at the game for ourselves. For we are just watching some videos, looking up other people's reviews on the game, and trying to build an opinion on it solely from that. The tutorial is apparently pretty quick, so I may just skip it. I feel like I have taken in enough general information already, and the true gamer in me is telling me to skip it as per usual. But anyways, here are the details:

It is a game set in space on a distant planet that you land on and are set out to colonize and build your base on. You start off with 7 colonists all having different jobs, whether they are builders or whatnot, as well as two worker robots(or somewhere around those numbers, might depend on where you start). Over time you are to build different structures, constantly expanding your base. You start out with a limited amount of resources, so it is important to get things set up to be able to generate those. However, the first things you are going to want to build are essential to your survival. You will need to start producing air and power first of all, as well as some housing so that your colonists can collect air and such. Next, it is important to get water and food generation started so that you can keep your workers alive. Dormitories are important as well, so you can give your people sleep. From there, it is a good idea to get resource production started. Mines are good to start collecting ore which can be turned into metal, and the production of bioplastic will be important as well.

There are alot of things you need to consider in the creation of your base as well. Location is important, because that can help determine how much sunlight you get per day, which is helpful for generating power (solar panels are a good way of collecting energy). You also need to consider the idea of the natural risks that occur, such as solar flares, sandstorms, and meteor showers. There is technology in the game that can be built to help prevent some of the harmful effects that these can have, but those look like later game items. It looks like your base can grow pretty quickly as well, and to quite the large size at that, so the risk of meteors hitting your base could become an increasing risk, that could have some devastating effects, so it might be smart to get some defense set up, or even just to simply collect extra resources in case you need to rebuild.

The farther you get in the game, you will achieve some milestones. I don't know the requirements to unlock each of them, but I'd assume that they are just getting certain amounts of items or colonists and such. Once you unlock 5 milestones, you unlock a second level of planet, of which there are three. One basic easy planet, which seems quite comparable to mars, he second being a medium level planet with a nitrogen atmosphere, and the third being much more challenging, with what I'd assume to be high risk of every natural disaster known in the game. However, I have not seen the details on it yet.




From what I have seen, the game looks like quite a bit of fun. There is alot to do and it is key to keeping up with all of your resources and needs. As the colony expands, it may become more challenging to keep your colonists alive, and to keep up with resource consumption, but that is what makes it fun. I have seen other games such as banished, which share the same type of genre so to speak,  where the goal of the game over the long term is generally the same(just set in a different time.) I really look forward to playing this game over the next week, and I am sure I will enjoy it. My hope is to be able to get to at least the second planet by the end of the week, but we'll see how that goes.

Screenshots were taken from a youtube video from a user named Idiotech, whose channel is linked here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YagOInbZxj10gaWwb1Nag

His review of the game is really nice, and also shows more of the late game concepts, rather than just the basics that I have seen a lot of by now. Here is a link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XYaPgJZF4