Solargene

"Discover the expansive reaches of our solar system—from scorching Mercury to the icy Kuiper Belt." quote from store page I played 2.7 hours and discovered the expansive reaches of... building a toilet. In 2.7 hours I managed to build three rooms, a corridor, and a toilet. This "game" is a room based base builder. You place specialised rooms on cubic grid and put pawns in it. Problem is, game forces you to summon junk props out of thin air in every (!!!) room. To summon items you must have about five different raw resources for every single object — even a bench or a waste bin. To get these resources you must order them and wait for delivery. For some reason you cannot place a blueprint and then fill it with resources like in other base builders. No — you must order delivery before you build. Then you [strike]build [/strike] summon, and SUDDENLY you need another resources to summon another prop. Then you wait a couple of minutes for delivery, and yay — you have a summoned prop. Congratulations, now you must repeat this over and over. All while fighting with UI, camera and weird props. What takes seconds in other games takes minutes here. To make things worse, you have no real …

This needs more time to cook, the UI is awful and the tutorials are really terrible due to the UI. Theres a good game in here I think but the UI really holds it back

Like Space? Like Systems? Can Deal with an almost mandatory but poorly thought out tutorial? Want to Delve into the brain of a NASA Architect? Want to Play a Game where even Microsoft Copilot Fails to understand the mechanics properly? If the answer to ALL of these questions is yes, you will LOVE Solargene. I nearly Refunded this game, but it was because I was out of sorts and wasn't in the headspace to do complex stuff...once I calmed down I decided to cancel the refund and I haven't regret it. Admittedly the demo only lets you play through the (3) tutorials, but it will help you get a feel for what's involved, even if it's badly designed and poorly thought out, it is perhaps the worst part of this game, and the demo because it's limited to that doesn't do the game itself justice.

really good game !!!

5/5 Special notes to music <3 Long time with updates, but it is worth it! Espcially with some of the workshop content to add additional places to go to. They added the extra hard difficulity to not leet you cheese with shuttle shipments! I remember making that suggestion a long time ago. Hard sci-fi, casual, amazing.

The interface is the game's biggest obstacle; it is clunky, inconsistent, and actively gets in the way of playing. Menus are unintuitive, font choices and layout make important information hard to read, and basic actions frequently require more clicks or hunting than they should. The tutorial is passive and poorly signposted; it hides critical information in tabs and prompts that do not correspond to what is actually on-screen, leaving you to figure things out by accident rather than learn them intentionally. That would be forgivable if the controls were solid, but the nighttime camera and mouse movement feel buggy and awkward. Camera glitches and inconsistent movement repeatedly interrupt exploration. There are strong systems under the surface and satisfying building and resource mechanics when they work, but the overall experience is weighed down by quality-of-life issues: clumsy inventory management, finicky mouse controls, opaque AI, and excessive micromanagement for staff that can end disastrously if you miss something. These rough edges make the game frustrating instead of immersive, which is especially disappointing because the world and core ideas are clearly well crafted…