The Spatials: Galactology
Weird and Wry · 2018 · City Builder, Colony Sim, Base Building, Management, Sandbox
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About The Spatials: Galactology
A new adventure for The Spatials!
Five thousand years into the future humanity has made contact with other civilizations and has settled into new worlds. The Human Federation along with their friends the Crusantian Bunch are looking into expanding into a new area of the galaxy, and have elected you as their station manager. The Spatials is the name of your faction, and your mission is to build the most successful colony of the galaxy, at any cost.
You will make friends and enemies along the way. Run your station as a well oiled production machine. Don't forget living quarters and providing all the vital products and facilities your staff needs. At some point you'll be so famous that visitors from all over the galaxy will want to stay in your station, for sweet filthy lucre. Build your space ships and explore other worlds to find valuable resources and purchase them from your friends. Or invade their planets and take them by force, it's your choice. But be prepared for the consequences...
The Spatials: Galactology is The Spatials reimagined as a deeper, more rewarding simulation game. Greatly expanded content, systems and AI make the game more detailed.
Key Features
- Design a station and watch your crew as they build it in real time
- Colonize a planet surface
- More freedom for your designs: use any room with any objects, color the floor tiles as you wish
- Destructible walls
- Reinforce your station with new buildings, management decisions, and staff
- Assemble robots to assist with station chores
- Explore a detailed simulation with many systems to play with -- including manufacturing, research, healthcare, disease, emotional breakdowns, combat, hunger, thirst, cleaning, decay, security, noise, aesthetics, FIRE!, and more
- Handle complex logistics, requiring restocking and inventory control
- Earn in-game cash by growing your station’s hospitality business
- Designate staff for your bar or your research lab
- Visitors and officers have a mind of their own. Make sure their needs are met!
- Build hospitals to care for the wounded and diseased
- Secure your station with cameras, scanners and turrets
- A randomly-generated galaxy with 100+ planets
- Build spaceships and explore the galaxy
- Explore the surface of planets and asteroids
- Engage in real-time combat to forge alliances and make new enemies
- Find natural resources and civilizations
- Invade the planets of your enemies to secure their resources
- Establish trade routes with your allies
- Develop and download gameplay mods from the Steam Workshop
- And more, much more is coming!
About Weird and Wry
Weird and Wry is a Barcelona game development studio founded in 2014 by two brothers: Carlos and Max Carrasco. Carlos (a programmer) and Max (an artist) share a love for simulation games and classic play -- which heavily influenced The Spatials, their first project. Inspired by the great classic sim games of the '90s, The Spatials combined classic base-building gameplay (based on isometric tile room building) with a real-time combat system and an exploration campaign. The Spatials was released on Steam in March 2015 and took off! Thanks to its success and growing fan base, The Spatials spawned a sequel -- The Spatials: Galactology, which updates the original concept with deeper gameplay and a whole new take on the space station management business.
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What Steam players say
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The Spatials: Galactology is a space colony sim with engaging mechanics that can be enjoyable at smaller scales, but it suffers from significant performance issues that severely limit progression—players report stuttering and poor optimization on both modern CPUs and Steam Deck as stations grow medium-sized. Beyond performance, the game has numerous bugs affecting resource collection and character behavior, overly simplistic graphics, and tedious micromanagement elements that detract from the experience, though some appreciate the lower price point and variety of mechanics for casual players w
Man, I want to love this game - but I hit a wall every time I play it. Not because the game is bad, but because of performance issues. It appears to do most work on a single CPU core and, as soon as you have a "medium" station, you start getting stuttering that makes the game unplayable. I came back to give it a go with my Ryzen 3600.. it didn't fair much better than my previous Intel 3770k. Performance issues were also seen on Steam Deck. I love this sort of game, and I am just sad that with 70+ hours played, I have never been able to build a full station.10 found this helpful
I liked the previous version of this game but the 'new' one has a bug that stops me from getting through the tutorial. Seems to be a Mac only bug.
With a small station the game plays fine but I'm sure certain devices will get performance issues with larger stations. This is pretty fun in a semi-casual package. I haven't had any raiders yet but so far even visiting the nearby planets has gone okay, so long as I don't let my people get swarmed.
There are numerious game breaking bugs. Such as resources are not collected from planets, characters stay in low "Mind" even though issue with payment was solved. Also music is so annoying and buggy.
The Spatials: Galactology – More Like Galacti-nahhh 🤦♂️ The Spatials: Galactology promises a fun space adventure where you build and protect your colony. In reality, it’s a frustrating mix of outdated mechanics and tedious micromanagement. You’ll spend more time fixing power outages and malfunctioning systems than enjoying the supposed galactic exploration. 🚀💥 The graphics feel too simplistic for the game’s ambitious premise, and the lack of meaningful progression makes the whole experience repetitive. Exploding homeworlds sounds cool, but it quickly becomes shallow and uninspired. 💔👾 If you’re after a complex and engaging space colony sim, The Spatials: Galactology misses the mark. There are better ways to explore the stars. 🌌🚀 Score: 4/10 Created with <3
Had a lot of fun playing this colony sim several years ago. Very much enjoyed the amount of content and the different mechanics at play, though in some cases half the fun was figuring out how it all worked. If you're into colony sims and don't mind a bit of combat and are capable of braving the unknowns of space, it's certainly a game worth playing (especially at a price point below $15!).
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