Sky Base Venus
Rara Avis Interactive · 2024 · Colony Sim, Space, Simulation, Strategy, City Builder
PC
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About Sky Base Venus
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Sky Base Venus is a colony simulation set in the upper atmosphere of Venus. You have been sent to manage a floating research station there, but political turmoil will soon cause your support from Earth to diminish over time. While still pursuing your original research mission, you will need to make self-sufficiency a priority if you want to survive in the long term.
Fortunately for you, your station is designed to be able to harvest and process resources from Venus’s atmosphere, which you can use to satisfy your colony’s needs and even to manufacture needed goods. But providing for yourself won’t be the only challenge. Disasters, defects in your equipment, and changing priorities on the part of your Earth-based sponsors will all require you to adapt.
But if you can handle all of these problems, you may even be able to grow your colony, expand your operations, and make this station into more than anyone thought it would be.
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It began as a research station, but it became so much more…
Sky Base Venus is a colony simulation set in the upper atmosphere of Venus. You have been sent to manage a floating research station there, but political turmoil will soon cause your support from Earth to diminish over time. While still pursuing your original research mission, you will need to make self-sufficiency a priority if you want to survive in the long term.
Fortunately for you, your station is designed to be able to harvest and process resources from Venus’s atmosphere, which you can use to satisfy your colony’s needs and even to manufacture needed goods. But providing for yourself won’t be the only challenge. Disasters, defects in your equipment, and changing priorities on the part of your Earth-based sponsors will all require you to adapt.
But if you can handle all of these problems, you may even be able to grow your colony, expand your operations, and make this station into more than anyone thought it would be.
Key Features
- Based upon real-life science – Gameplay draws upon real-life research that suggests a floating crewed station at altitudes from 50-61km is feasible.
- In-Situ Resource Utilization – Gather materials from Venus’s atmosphere and process them in order to provide your colony with things from oxygen and water to plastic products.
- Budget Resources Wisely – Buy new machines to harvest resources, or buy the resources themselves. Pursue research projects that require lots of resources but give significant rewards, or economize and stick with cheaper projects that yield less. And be especially careful with resources that have to be shipped from Earth – at great cost.
- Randomized Research – The research projects available to you are randomized, and their feasibility, time, and cost may vary from one playthrough to another. You also won’t always know the time or cost of these projects at their outset – you’ll have to balance the risk involved versus the potential reward.
- Disasters and Design Defects – Your colony may face serious accidents. But even worse, your colony’s systems may have randomly-determined design defects that are unknown at the start of the game and whose effects may last. Each playthrough will bring different challenges.
- Altitude Matters – Should you float higher to get more solar energy, or float lower to be able to carry more weight? It’s up to you.
- Space Logistics – You can order new equipment and goods from Earth, but these things can only be shipped during realistic transfer windows, and can take over a hundred Earth days to arrive. You’ll need to plan your shipments carefully to avoid shortages.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I enjoyed playing the previous demo of Sky Base Venus for dozens of hours over the last year, After purchasing the full version and playing it for an hour, I can see that I will enjoy it even more. This game gives you the sense of a realistic scientific simulation with an algorithm that accurately portrays the results of your equipment, resource, and operating mode choices in terms of resource inventories and mission successes. So it is easy to spend hours lost in the quest to guide the base's construction and operation toward success while making it your own. Different levels of time compression keep the game right in step with your needs. There is a lot to learn and mastering all of that is part of what makes this game rewarding, but the new pop-up goals at the beginning of the game, get you off to a reasonable start while stepping you through most of the logistics. But it is always up to you how you play. Multiple game saving also gives you the flexibility to restart from one of your saved points if you encounter a "game over". In the earlier demo version I've tried unconventional strategies just to see what happens and how to compensate. I've also learned wh…11 found this helpful
This game provides value for the price. It is a technical puzzle game. I found it interesting but not fun. Good things: bug free not GPU intensive unique setting Things I expected to see from other games but didn't: getting to pick your crew so you identify with your intrepid Venusian scientists. an immersive experience in the clouds of Venus challenges which were more than "You just produced 1000 Kg of food, now grow 5000 Kg" ability to make your platform larger or make new ones3 found this helpful
Tl;dr: very underrated, great quality gameplay, and super fun and satisfying. In full honesty, when I first opened this game I was concerned it would last a few hours and then get tiring or I'd reach an end game stage. Well after playing for over 5 hours (Steam's counter is wrong) in a single sitting, I'm writing this review to express my total wrongness, and because this game is now living rent free in my head. This is a game where you can quickly understand the core concepts, but to actually apply those concepts and create a functioning, self-sustaining, or just constantly reliable base of your dreams takes the perfect amount of difficulty. If you wanna break out a spreadsheet to be perfectly optimized, you can do that. If you're more chill and just want to play with different base configurations to achieve a result, that also works. The best way I can think of to describe the core gameplay is if the research and resource optimization (and space since it's Venus) aspects of Kerbal Space Program were combined with the optimization and logic aspects of factory games like Satisfactory and Dyson Sphere Program. It activates all the right parts of the brain to be really logical,…
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