Pretty soon after that a nutrient extractor is required to harvest the local flora to provide food, or you could build a space chicken farm for meat. Once you have your domes placed you’ll need to provide a place for colonists to eat and sleep. Though I suppose in this scenario the humans are the aliens being attacked by local creatures.īase building and maintenance is the key to survival and you need to manage the finite resources available. This is all done while trying to fight off the elements of space and the planet you’re on, including alien attacks. On either path you’ll need to reach a financial goal through mining and trading, as well as other goals involving the happiness of the employees. In Story mode you have the choice of taking the company down a military contractor route, or one that focuses more on the needs and wants of the wider civilisation. This plays out in a few different modes including a Story mode and a Galaxy mode.

In fact it was one of the games that got me into the strategy genre, mixing the needs of the individual colonists with the quest to meet the demands made of them by the company. Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remastering of Firefly Studios’ Space Colony which released in 2003, and was a game I played quite a lot. Space Colony: Steam Edition focuses on that scenario, putting players in charge of a group of Blackwater Industries employees, with the focus of maintaining their well-being while trying to meet company goals. Undoubtedly, following those footsteps there will be a number of companies whose main aim is profit, and in trying to find resources will send out their own teams to extract such items. After all, the universe is full of planets and moons that our descendants may land upon and begin exploring, changing our understanding of many subjects with every step they take.

Space is often called the final frontier but I like to think of it as the path to millions of different frontiers.

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