Penkura
LionsArt · 2018 · Base Building, Survival, Open World Survival Craft, Sci-fi, Crafting
PC
Very Positive91% · 200
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About Penkura
✦ AI summary
Build and defend your base from a top-down perspective while piloting custom robots to explore a mysterious alien world in immersive first-person missions, where permadeath forces you to adapt and specialize your playstyle. Penkura blends strategic base management with hands-on survival exploration, rewarding creative problem-solving and setting up for cooperative gameplay where your unique skills complement your teammates.
Penkura seamlessly blends a top-down base building system with immersive first-person survival exploration. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the game employs classic death mechanics that strip you of equipment upon demise. To overcome this, players can craft custom robotic companions, essential for base construction, resource gathering, and safeguarding settlements.
It encourages players to choose from a variety of approaches through which to complete their goals. Players will find themselves becoming experts in areas entirely of their choosing. The intention is that, when the co-op is unveiled, players will find that the interaction of their unique skill sets with those of their peers creates capable and rewarding team gameplay.
Penkura offers a range of buildings, machines, bots, and items to construct using the "MMC" (Molecular Matter Converter) or "CCC" (Command Control Communication) for a top-down perspective to build your base. Take control of your bots to explore or perform repairs from the safety of your base. Unleash the potential of the CCC!
Dive into the immersive world of Penkura's campaign mode, offering rich adventures. While currently under development. In co-op mode, you'll have the ability to construct massive stations and explore additional maps outside of adventure mode for added challenges as you tackle the new world together.
Deep beneath Antarctic ice, a Polish research team uncovers an ancient temple, a portal to a captivating new world.
As Earth faces overpopulation and devastation, Project "Gemini" initiates the migration of humanity to this promising planet. For 41 years, pioneers traverse the singularity, until contact is mysteriously severed.
Now, as a mercenary, you embark on a perilous journey through the unstable gateway,
tasked with survival and uncovering the secrets of the unknown world beyond.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Penkura is a survival/exploration/base building game made by a very small team. This is exactly the game that Early access is for. Yes, there have been periods with fewer updates, and there are periods with more frequent updates (just like now). The developers communicate A LOT: they're active here on the forums, and the game has not just a bug reporting system - but you will get responses from the developers directly into the game. (And I got one on a Sunday!) If you read some other reviews, they also talk about this. I will skip describing what the game is about in detail - there are plenty of reviews or posts about it. In my review I want to emphasize this is one of the indie projects made by passionate people, and that's worth supporting.1 found this helpful
Penkura may currently be the size of a demo or an extended tutorial level but it has an excellent foundation. The developer got rid of many infamous components of Unreal Engine 5 and wrote his own solutions from a scratch. When modern AAA studios can't be bothered to tweak basic engine settings and even Epic engineers aren't much help, Lionard as a solo programmer writes custom anti-aliasing, lighting, volumetric fog and navigation systems. All of which allow the game to perform fantastically on low end machines while not looking any worse than most contemporaries out there. These efforts alone are very impressive and commendable. And there's still more to this game. It scratches the nostalgic itch for 1980s and 1990s takes on alien sci-fantasy and the aliens in Antarctica theories. This distant world is an eerie and often gloomy place but it's equal measure beautiful and intriguing. Several mysteries are introduced very early, and the further one goes, the weirder and more unsettling it gets. In a way, it reminds me of the story progression in Phantasy Star Online. The next large update is supposed to take us underground and I'm really looking forward to it. Gameplay systems…1 found this helpful
bloody brilliant game wish to hell i found it years ago1 found this helpful
If you disregard the scant hints the AI (SARA) gives you as to what to do next, the game is pretty good.1 found this helpful
Amazing game. Really polished and well made. Good atmosphere and UI. Big story and map unfolding while you learn to use more technology. Good combo of open world and level-based game as you gradually progress. It requires some reading, but it is worth to do this. Play it slow and immerse in the story. Overall a very good impressive game - after 23 still hours not sure where it leads, but I am enjoying every step of it. I had one suggestion in the feedback screen and the developer replied instantly. (what I asked for was already in the game). It seems well balanced in regard to time pace and amount of resources. There is no hurry, so you can do it all in your own pace. The content that I have seen so far is well made, with a high level of detail. This is clearly made with dedication, instead of rush. I have not encountered any bugs yet and the game runs fine on my old RTX-2060. This game hits the sweet spot for me in many areas and I absolutely recommend it.
Coming from Star-Rupture and over 350 hours I was not expecting much from a small team. This Game is a Gem,. Music, Weather effects, decent tutorial. Only 7 hrs in here so far, but going to do a lot more I hope.
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