The Crust
VEOM Studio · 2024 · Base Building, Space, Automation, Colony Sim, Resource Management
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About The Crust
Build and automate a thriving lunar colony by mining resources, researching tech, and managing colonists with unique skills across three research trees. Shape humanity's future through strategic trading with Earth while exploring the moon's mysteries and navigating political intrigue.
Mine resources and automate their production processes
Mine lunar resources, craft processing machinery, and power up your base with satellites and batteries. Unlock scientific advancements across three research trees to enhance your technological capabilities.
Automate resources with conveyor belts and drones.
Streamline your resource management as you deploy conveyor belts and drones for seamless automation
Explore
Embark on lunar expeditions to unearth the moon's hidden secrets, deploying your rover to various locations and delving into the mysteries of humanity's newfound lunar habitat.
Trade Resources
Engage in resource exchange with Earth through contracts, where your decisions have the power to shape their political landscape. Choose a faction to support or navigate the field strategically for maximum profit.
Assemble a team of colonists
People are your most valuable resource. Keep track of your colonists' health, mood and needs. Hire the best experts and make sure they work as a team: it’s their unique traits and skills that will allow you to truly optimize your production and research!
Key Features
- Build a lunar colony
- Mine and automate resources and production
- Explore the moon
- Play through a rich, story driven narrative
- Trade with Earth
- Influence politics
- Manage colonists and their needs
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 1 of 1 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Excellent game. Lots of positives, some negatives. Overall very good
High quality!
This is a good base builder game as far as I can tell, there are a few sneaky bugs remaining as of the time of this review so save often. However I want to... 'Downsize' my companies chief of finances, if ledger assigns me one more *Expletive deleted* contract without prior approval I will eat his skin, I had plans for all that steel and titanium you suit wearing little *Expletive deleted* . There are rockets, I can get to him from the moon, I have done the math.
I very much enjoy this game
Absolutely loving this game so far :)
I am a huge fan of automation games and colony sims. This one at first glance looks like a promising Satisfactory and Occupy Mars hybrid. But after 15 hours of play I just can't enjoy it - it's too clunky and unpolished. For instance, I finished researching a programmable splitter but just couldn't find a way to actually make it work. There's no tutorial entry for the splitter or even any helpful tooltips. I got a feeling the dev team has a massive backlog of really cool ideas, but just lack the resources and/or abilities to deliver. Satisfactory had been in Early Access for almost 4 years. I guess The Crust team just don't have that amount of investors money. Will give it another try after v1.0, but for now it's thumb down. P.s. [spoiler]At some early point in the game you are given an unskippable timed mission. Failure to complete it is a game over. Completing it in turn starts ANOTHER timed quest chain with VERY steep requirements. This feels totally unnecessary and rather cheap attempt to create artificial suspense. Timed missions are ok in automation games, BUT only if they are optional. I prefer to carefully plan my factory, not to rush it just because the devs couldn't i…
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