The Spatials
Weird and Wry · 2015 · Simulation, Indie, RPG, Management, Space
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Mixed68% · 256
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About The Spatials
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Design its rooms and corridors to make your crew feel at home. Receive hundreds of visitors who are hungry for the most amazing products in the galaxy. Explore 30 star systems and more than a hundred planets -- all randomly generated for every game. Complete missions and discover new allies . . . and enemies! Fight for survival with a unique real-time combat system. Collect loot for your factories and equip your officers with the most advanced technology in the universe. Key Features
- Design a space station and watch your crew as they build it in real time
- Receive visitors, cater to their every need -- and watch the credits flow in
- Experience a randomly-generated galaxy with 100+ planets
- Explore the surface of planets and asteroids
- Find natural resources and items that your officers can equip
- Engage in real-time combat with RPG elements
About Weird and Wry
Based in Barcelona, Weird and Wry is a game development studio founded in 2014 by two brothers: Carlos and Max Carrasco. Together, Carlos (programmer) and Max (artist) share a taste for sims and classic gameplay -- which is easy to see in The Spatials, their first project. Inspired by the great classic sim games of the '90s, The Spatials combines classic base-building gameplay (based on isometric tile room building) with a real-time combat system and an exploration campaign. After publishing version 1.0 in mid 2014, Carlos and Max saw the potential of their idea and developed a much improved second version with Early Access starting in August 2014. In October 2014, the game was approved for release on Steam. In 2015, The Spatials continued to grow in popularity -- featured in Let's Plays from YouTubers and articles in major sites such as Rock Paper Shotgun.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate that the game can be relaxing and works well on Steam Deck, but many struggle with significant technical and design issues including broken building mechanics, poor tutorials, confusing UI with missing tooltips, and unclear game systems that leave players guessing. The game's attempt to blend multiple genres is seen as unsuccessful, with some finding the overall experience boring and repetitive despite occasional moments of potential.
Building orders don't even work half the time. Makes it kind of hard to playa game about building things, you know.1 found this helpful
A game that tries several different genres, and does not succeed in doing any right. You start out on a barren rock (why people would visit this place, I have no idea), with an absolutely awful tutorial system. Only the very basics that anyone who has ever played a management simulator game would know are explained. All of the other systems are left to your imagination, and there are no tooltips when you hover over icons and buttons. There are sometimes tooltips when you click on some of them, sometimes there is nothing at all. I still don't know what several buttons on the side menu in the colony sim area do. The worst thing about building your colony is that your buildings 'stand' up on platforms, and when you go to build you always need to measure one space back and up, or you end up building on top, or to the side, of the structure. It is awful and so annoying. But yes, the main focus of this game seems to be building a space colony, managing the needs of your guys, and getting space tourists to come and visit. That is all well and good, but it is extremely simple and bland, and the money that you make from having people come and visit is extremely low. It takes one of your c…1 found this helpful
Sometimes, it's the best game to just easy game. I don't play it as much as many other but it's quite alright and relaxing and a bit challenging but in a simple way. I think it deserves more play and a better rating. :)
not worth it
Works well on deck. Gameplay though i found it a bit boring and repetitive.
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