You need to go check out this game. It’s like the No Man’s Sky situation all over again but on a MUCH, WORSE scale. To put it into context, imagine Bethesda promised Starfield, and delivered Asteroids, but it only sometimes worked.
What Fntastic put out is borderline criminal for the price they asked you to pay.
It’s cool that it’s in first personview, but it’s a lot more difficult than Factorio given that you don’t get a topdown view and will struggle to understand factory layout once it gets to the more complicated recipes.
There’s also a LOT of running around looking for resource nodes or trying to diagnose inevitable power issues.
XCOM: Original allows for insane strategy. It’s dated, I don’t disagree, but it had so much more strategy and immersion than atleasr the first modern XCOM. You could build your own bases, you got raided, you had to find enemy bases and maintain funding throughout world map. The game was legendary.
One of the most fun being, use flight armor and 2x alien grenade launchers. Breach top most point on battleship to expose command center, and then nuke the ship commander and body guards with second launcher. Swoop in with forces. Win.
Ignore the LoZ. I forgot it was PC games only. Whoops lol
Thanks!
Also, that list is terrible. Where the fuck is Elden Ring, Polygon!? No LoZ, any of them? XCOM: UFO Defense is the first and the absolute best of all XCOM entries…by far.
Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Subnautica? These aren’t even old games…
And Satisfactory beat out Factorio? Lol, m’kay Polygon…sure.
So, so besides the story, what’s the difference between this and the Divinity games? It appears that it’s pretty much the exact same engine, doing the exact same thing, using the exact same functionality. The Divinity games were okay, but it’s not like they raised the bar or did anything ground breaking…how is this any different?
That said, have we just not had a good turn-based strategy game in so long that people are like, holy fuck this is so new and refreshing!
Maybe Techtonica? It just came out on Gamepass. It’s like Satisfactory but in a cave and you can’t just build anywhere… honestly, it’s just another factory game though.
You play Dyson Sphere Program yet? It’ll scratch a lot of itches. Riftbreaker was pretty fun as well. A little meh at the higher levels though.
I refuse to even touch No Man’s Sky. I’m sure the game is fine at this point, but I refuse to support a company that thought they could get away with what they attempted to do. Just like KSP2 - sure, they labeled it “Early Access” but they charged full game prices for that thing back in February. It’s been half a year later, and there has been literal zero movement on their release roadmap.
Here’s his full review:
https://youtu.be/I4Pv_oERvwk?feature=shared