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Spacebase startopia aliens11/4/2022 ![]() ![]() There's a filter for employees only, but it's not very obviously flagged and I can't help but think a separate screen would be better. The menus are a bit opaque, especially if you want to tell at a glance which aliens you've employed, or are in need of a promotion. The thing with betas is that it's hard to tell what other, more nebulous problems might need to be solved. Here everyone is furious because I laid out my rooms terribly. Spacebase Startopia adds a few more modern game sensibilities into the mix, such as a research tree to unlock access to new rooms and objects to build - but that, too, is not fully implemented in the demo. Either that, or the entertainment deck is cursed to be one giant disco and nothing else. SPACEBASE STARTOPIA ALIENS FULLAnd unless I missed something, the beta doesn't provide access to all the rooms you'll be able to build in the full game. Your spacebase is divided into three decks: a sort of general living area, an entertainment deck, and then a big alien garden on the top floor. The basic premise remains the same, though: balance the needs and wants of all the different alien species wandering around your big Space Butlins, while also hitting some other goals. The beta offers the tutorials, the first two campaign missions, and a "Skirmish mode" that just had a basic economic win condition, so clearly more is to come there, as well as behind the tantalising 'multiplayer' button on the home menu. It's clearly not in a complete state, though. I really want to know more about the Leviathans. But once I got over that weird "déjà vu but not" feeling, I found Spacebase to be in good shape. The tall, slim archetypal Grey aliens who served as doctors are now. Communications arrays on your space station used to be manned by Targs, squat little beetles with spacesuits they're now run by Bugs, squat little beetles without spacesuits. You have a sarky AI, but it has a feminine robot voice. When you first start, everything seems very similar to, and yet slightly different from, how it was when you played before, as if you've gone into Aldi and bought a box of CHOCO WEETIES CEREAL HOOPS. ![]() If you're a Startopia fan, Spacebase Startopia feels like an off-brand version of the original. So what else could I do, but suit up and go back into orbit? Honestly, every time I get out. ![]() Last year Spacebase Startopia was announced, a sort of remake-slash-sequel to Startopia made by a different studio, and this weekend it went into a closed beta. If you are unfamiliar, it was a weird management game where you were in charge of running a port on a big, donut-shaped space station. ![]()
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