Gaia
Eternal Stardust Studios · 2020 · Base Building, Open World Survival Craft, Exploration, Procedural Generation, Adventure
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About Gaia
✦ AI summary
Crash-land on an alien planet and build a survival base from scratch, managing resources, crafting, farming, and fending off pirates and environmental disasters across dynamic seasons and weather systems. Choose from three AI storytellers that completely reshape the difficulty and gameplay style, from a carefully balanced campaign to pure sandbox chaos.
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You're a treasure hunter on a quest for finding Gaia, a planet said to be the home of the Ancients. It is said to host incredible ancient technology, one which can bend time itself. However, as your ship approached this particular planet, something went bad with its engine, which caused a chain reaction of explosions from which only you survived when you crashed on the planet. From this point, you will decide how the story continues and ends.
A more detailed look at the mechanics of the game:
° Three different AI storytellers: Cora Core, Tranquillio Pax and RNGesus Silvius. Each storyteller provides a different type of game play experience, from a nice curve of rising difficulty, to a chill sandbox experience, to something not even RNGesus can predict.
° Harvest several types of minerals, alien flora and underwater resources.
° Build modular buildings such as assemblers, floors, walls, energy producing buildings and more to construct a base.
° Craft items, vehicles, blueprints and ammo.
° Manage your needs, such as hunger, thirst, rest and leisure.
° Survive raids made of space pirates or wildlife.
° Notable Events:
- Raids: Air or ground, by the local wildlife or space mercs. These space mercs can come in spaceships to rain down fire on your base, or drop down directly on the planet and get personal.
- Nox event: Poisonous meteorite explodes in the atmosphere, enveloping the atmosphere in poison and slowly killing everything that breathes.
- Solar flare: Causes fire tornadoes, spreading fire that can damage almost anything, including animals who in turn spread the fire themselves if they catch it.
- Meteor shower: Mostly visual, but also provides a nice boost to your well being while it's active.
- Trade ships: Trade with the different factions.
° Day and night cycle with amazing weather and seasons. This is not just a visual only thing; it does affect gameplay. A rainy weather will put out fire while at night your solar panels won't work. Wind influences the efficiency of your turbines. In winter, your crops will die if the temperature drops too low.
° Grow your own food.
° Manage your electrical system to make sure all buildings have enough energy to work.
° Gaia contains intelligent AI, such as coward AI (for example, deer) that runs away from you if you come too close, passive AI like most other wildlife, aggressive AI like most monsters and all space pirates, or territorial AI like wolves and sand scorpions.
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Gaia is designed to invoke feelings of adventure, survival and triumph. Inspired from games such as Rimworld, tower defense games, RPG games and even Paradox games, Gaia has a bit of everything. From the sandbox experience of Minecraft, the wave survival of tower defense games, to the beautiful graphics of RPGs like Skyrim and Subnautica, the game will provide a unique gameplay experience.
You have your own needs that affect gameplay, such as hunger and thirst. Make sure you eat prepared food, drink water, rest from time to time, relax by watching the sunset, go to the bathroom when needed and wash your hands. Failure to do so will cause problems, such as decreasing your max health, running speed or mental health, which itself can cause some pretty serious issues.
Choose from 4 different biomes every time you want to start a new game. Your starting location affects your playing experience, as you may start off on a beach near the ocean or somewhere inland in a dense or sparse forest. Each map comes with its own challenges and advantages and it's up to you to adapt to the situation.
Gaia has a complex weather system, containing a day night cycle and a date system, wind, rain and temperature. These factors affect you as well as how some of your buildings work, like turbines. Make sure you take into account all of this when deciding what to build or what to do at any given time during the day. You might also want to prepare for winter time while it’s still warm outside.
Grow your own food and cook complex recipes, some which may require alien flora or alien meat. Every vegetable you grow has its own advantages or disadvantages, such as nutrition, time of growth and amount of harvest. Choose between corn, chili, carrots, onions, cabbage or even leeks.
Explore the depths of the ocean. You will need to build a submersible to reach deeper levels if you want to find diamonds and gold. Watch out for the biomechanical whale and other mysteries you might discover deep underwater.
You're a treasure hunter on a quest for finding Gaia, a planet said to be the home of the Ancients. It is said to host incredible ancient technology, one which can bend time itself. However, as your ship approached this particular planet, something went bad with its engine, which caused a chain reaction of explosions from which only you survived when you crashed on the planet. From this point, you will decide how the story continues and ends.
A more detailed look at the mechanics of the game:
° Three different AI storytellers: Cora Core, Tranquillio Pax and RNGesus Silvius. Each storyteller provides a different type of game play experience, from a nice curve of rising difficulty, to a chill sandbox experience, to something not even RNGesus can predict.
° Harvest several types of minerals, alien flora and underwater resources.
° Build modular buildings such as assemblers, floors, walls, energy producing buildings and more to construct a base.
° Craft items, vehicles, blueprints and ammo.
° Manage your needs, such as hunger, thirst, rest and leisure.
° Survive raids made of space pirates or wildlife.
° Notable Events:
- Raids: Air or ground, by the local wildlife or space mercs. These space mercs can come in spaceships to rain down fire on your base, or drop down directly on the planet and get personal.
- Nox event: Poisonous meteorite explodes in the atmosphere, enveloping the atmosphere in poison and slowly killing everything that breathes.
- Solar flare: Causes fire tornadoes, spreading fire that can damage almost anything, including animals who in turn spread the fire themselves if they catch it.
- Meteor shower: Mostly visual, but also provides a nice boost to your well being while it's active.
- Trade ships: Trade with the different factions.
° Day and night cycle with amazing weather and seasons. This is not just a visual only thing; it does affect gameplay. A rainy weather will put out fire while at night your solar panels won't work. Wind influences the efficiency of your turbines. In winter, your crops will die if the temperature drops too low.
° Grow your own food.
° Manage your electrical system to make sure all buildings have enough energy to work.
° Gaia contains intelligent AI, such as coward AI (for example, deer) that runs away from you if you come too close, passive AI like most other wildlife, aggressive AI like most monsters and all space pirates, or territorial AI like wolves and sand scorpions.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/906790/extras/IronhammerAttack2.gif
Gaia is designed to invoke feelings of adventure, survival and triumph. Inspired from games such as Rimworld, tower defense games, RPG games and even Paradox games, Gaia has a bit of everything. From the sandbox experience of Minecraft, the wave survival of tower defense games, to the beautiful graphics of RPGs like Skyrim and Subnautica, the game will provide a unique gameplay experience.
You have your own needs that affect gameplay, such as hunger and thirst. Make sure you eat prepared food, drink water, rest from time to time, relax by watching the sunset, go to the bathroom when needed and wash your hands. Failure to do so will cause problems, such as decreasing your max health, running speed or mental health, which itself can cause some pretty serious issues.
Choose from 4 different biomes every time you want to start a new game. Your starting location affects your playing experience, as you may start off on a beach near the ocean or somewhere inland in a dense or sparse forest. Each map comes with its own challenges and advantages and it's up to you to adapt to the situation.
Gaia has a complex weather system, containing a day night cycle and a date system, wind, rain and temperature. These factors affect you as well as how some of your buildings work, like turbines. Make sure you take into account all of this when deciding what to build or what to do at any given time during the day. You might also want to prepare for winter time while it’s still warm outside.
Grow your own food and cook complex recipes, some which may require alien flora or alien meat. Every vegetable you grow has its own advantages or disadvantages, such as nutrition, time of growth and amount of harvest. Choose between corn, chili, carrots, onions, cabbage or even leeks.
Explore the depths of the ocean. You will need to build a submersible to reach deeper levels if you want to find diamonds and gold. Watch out for the biomechanical whale and other mysteries you might discover deep underwater.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It is technicly a nice game, unfortunately, it lacks developement and there are major glitches which ruin the games experiences. Starting with building a base, the building system is very limited and quite buggy, often you have to shake your camera right and left in order to be able to place blocks. In the advancing game you have to pick up seashells to progress further, tho its not possible to pick them up. In the forum the developer said that the character will just pick it up when walking or swimming over it, however that did not work. Otherwise the game would have big potential, especially with the raids and random encounters that challange the player, but its just sad to see that the game was developed and then just given up after a more or less "release 1.0". If the developer would invest some time to fix these glitches, maybe make the graphics a bit better, I'm sure it will gain many players and maybe there will be more features in future (space?). So yeah, great potential but unfortunately its an unfinished game.4 found this helpful
Gaia, developed and published by Eternal Stardust Studios, is an ambitious science-fiction survival game that attempts to merge exploration, colony building, resource management, and dynamic storytelling into a single open-ended experience. Set on a mysterious alien world filled with dangers and opportunities, the game challenges players to establish a foothold in an unfamiliar environment while dealing with environmental hazards, hostile creatures, resource shortages, and unpredictable events. Although it does not possess the polish or production values of larger survival titles, Gaia compensates with a considerable amount of depth and a strong emphasis on player-driven progression. The story begins with a disaster. A treasure hunter searching for the legendary planet Gaia becomes stranded after a catastrophic accident leaves their spacecraft destroyed. Isolated on a distant world and cut off from civilization, survival becomes the immediate priority. Rather than relying heavily on scripted missions and cinematic storytelling, the game allows players to create their own journey. The narrative unfolds naturally through exploration, discovery, and the challenges encountered while a…
how i missed this game i do not know could do with a update but cool game hats off to the maker/makers
Worthless game that looks even worse then the trailer... EXTREMELY limited to what you can build, terrible optimization and constantly lags, graphics that would make the 90s want to stop gaming, HORRIBLE UI.... seriously a 9 year old could make a better game then this.... it's not even a real survival game.. straight garbage.
This game has a lot of potential which currently being squandered with bugs and CONS. PROS: You start with a decent weapon, food and water No enemies spawn nearby when you start. (So far untested) Generated maps, no two are the same. Pick your starting location and time. Character creation. CONS: Too much jammed into the menus. Limited character creation. Clothing mesh does not fit on body properly, starting clothing heavy shoulder clipping. Not worth $20, I'd say $10 at most. (that being generous) tutorial can be hard to understand. took 5min just figure out how equip weapons. (highlight and press 1-5) map generation causes clipping and hovering trees rocks etc. animation hard to watch as it is very clunky. feels very robotic, and not a good one. animation has t-poses here and there, easy bug fix, i done it the fix on a different game before so i know it an easy fix. does not feel like a survival. feels more like an mmo, plays like one too. graphics are not as good as the images suggest. I got a high end MSI that runs most every game with max settings. Resources such ores do not stack, thus inv gets filled very quickly. without a box mining can be very challenging. 4/10
buggy game breaking one where you save wont save have to quit out of it gets better now that save wont load gamebreaking not happy limted building options. go play any other game but this one waste of money and effort
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