Alpha Lyrae Discovery

Alpha Lyrae Discovery

xe2050 · 2019 · Colony Sim, City Builder, Tower Defense, Sandbox, Casual

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About Alpha Lyrae Discovery

This is an open world game with no boundaries, including survival, battle, capture, strategy, construction, exploration, mining and other game elements. In a vary far future, human technology has reached an unimaginable state: maximizing resource utilization and recycling, using robots, and industrial efficiency. All science and knowledge has reached its peak and has begun to explore the distant universe. It starts with the galaxy closest to the earth: Alpha Lyrae.

Story:


When you come to this distant galaxy, you bring all the technology and some robots to build. The only thing missing is resources. However, this discovered planet is rich in resources and almost unlimited, it is a combination of beauty. The planet has various terrains: grasslands, ice fields, snow, rivers, lakes, seas, mountains, valleys, hills, forests, volcanoes, swamps, deep pits, deserts. There are also various resource points: stone rock, clay, petroleum, magma ... etc. Different resource points can be mined and used in different ways. For example, water resources can be pumped, nuclear power plants can be built, and large pumping stations can be built. Metals can be refined next to magma, geothermal power can be generated, and obsidian bricks can be made. Players can also change or expand the terrain through some equipment. Different terrains will also affect each other. For example, the river flowing through the magma will change the magma into obsidian rock, and the magma flowing through the ice layer will melt the ice layer. Digging a valley allows magma or river water to flow through.

However, abundance of resources also means that there are many competitors. It is not just us on the planet. Abundant resources also cultivate countless and huge creatures. It is known that these creatures usually live underground and are very sensitive to industrial noise and can cause aggressiveness. When increasing industrialization, higher noise will attract stronger and more enemies. They will be drilled from the ground, so it is important to build a hard floor, because you do not want it to drill from the ground of your base. Swamps and pits have stronger enemies, and monsters tend to emerge from these places.

Guide:


Players are advised to be cautious and strategically expanding. While taking resources a little bit, it is also necessary to establish security defense measures to resist monster attacks. The player's task is to search this planet, collect the necessary planet information, and finally build a large communication array to transfer your survival experience and information back to Earth.

Features:


This game is open to the greatest degree of freedom. There are no level settings. The game mode and progress are dominated by players. Players can play multiple characters on the same map, and each character is a new beginning. Each character can transfer resources by placing resources on the map.
  • Works will be finished by drones. Player can make more drones to increase working efficiency. So, the role need not to finish work one by one.
  • The world has no boundary. It means there are infinite resources. Player can build anywhere, even to build a super huge base.
  • For exploring the world, there are sea, plane, mountain and hills. There are also underground area for mining.
  • We update weekly.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Alpha Lyrae Discovery is an abandoned Early Access survival game that players find conceptually interesting with decent gameplay and soundtrack, but suffers from significant technical issues and poor execution. The retro pixel aesthetic divides opinion, though the main problems stem from game-breaking bugs like permanent freezing, clunky controls, and an incomplete UI that makes the experience frustrating rather than enjoyable. With no developer updates in nearly two years despite Early Access promises, the game feels unfinished and lacks the polish expected of modern PC releases.

Not recommended Oct 12, 2022
Alpha Lyrae Discovery is an abandoned Early Access 2D retro pixel top down survival game... laughably badly made, clunky as all hell. You land on a planet and bumble around trying to decipher the craptastic retro pixel UI. The game is incomplete and basic things just don't work. The game was abandoned roughly 18 months after launch and hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. It blew past the developers commitment to complete the game without any acknowledgement from the developers of their failure to meet their commitment to gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for game…
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Not recommended Apr 4, 2025
I created my character and when the game started I clicked randomly on the map. My character walked to the point I clicked with very loud footstep sound effects. The character stopped moving. The footstep sound effects kept going. My character wouldn't move again, no matter how much I clicked. The footstep sound effects kept going. The footstep sound effects are still going. Nothing else is happening no matter what else I press. It's just footsteps forever.
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Recommended Sep 19, 2021
Gameplay: 9/10 Graphics: 5/10 Soundtrack: 8/10 Variety: 8/10 No bugs and problems: 7/10
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 19, 2021
A simple gameplay that any player can handle. For me, the graphics are a little unusual, but you get used to it quickly. In general, I liked the game I advise you
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 19, 2021
A cool open world game. In the distant future, you find yourself on a planet in a distant galaxy and begin to develop, extracting various resources and building your colony. I liked the game, I was carried away for a couple of hours!
Recommended Sep 19, 2021
thx for the game. go purchase!

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