Sphere - Flying Cities

A cool idea, with bad, grindy, boring execution. PROS + cool idea CONS - too few buildings - the game drags, it is too grindy, and gets boring too quick - balance issues - looks quite bad - whoever though that having 500 jumps (and even just 250 is too much) is a good idea, deserves to be fired ... I wont even 100% this as I dont have another 10h just to click map and watch unskipable unbereably long bad looking animations

An interesting idea, badly-designed. Unintuitive menus coupled with an inability to search the in-game manual. Tutorial omits key details like how mining works in enough detail. Random spikes of colonist illness when you're not in a 'bad weather' zone and your hospitals are close to the colonies. Best until last, the ultimate piss-take that had me uninstall the game: The "map the moon fragment" mission, with no clue given about how the fragment is actually mapped. Good luck finding useful info online about that ("there's a button on the side", apparently) - the manual doesn't mention it either.

It's a fun game, and I like the idea of floating in space on an asteroid. It's a 99.9% mouse-controlled game with no hotkeys except for Escape. Some basic user convenience features are missing, like if you select a building, you need to hit Escape before you can select something else. It also seems to have some issues if you tab out of the game and back; I need to restart the game to fix it. Replayability is, IMO, very limited as you only have one asteroid layout and can't change your starting asteroid size. If you can get it on sale for a euro or two, I'd say it's worth it.

games starting missions are really bad at telling you what you need to do just telling you to research a tech but not telling you you need to build radar to gather the research points needed and if youre not quick all youre colonist quickly become ill and your power fails

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In a market full of games like this, this one is at the very lowest layer. Gameplay is nothing weird or amazing, the gimmicks are boring and shallow. The hud and sound design are rough. Whatever the price it has, any other game of the genre at the same price is better.