Dawn Apart

Great concept, but needs some more time and love. Performance sucks and needs allot of work. Storage could use some reworking, its pretty frustraiting atm and not in a fun way. Half my colony is storage. Allow me to speed up the gameplay please. Releasing the raid update was weird, it just gives the game another oppertunity to crash atm (and there is plenty) Looking forward to the future of this game but im gonna let it cook a year or 2 more.

Very nice factory builder / colony sim with voxel graphics. What I like about this game is the weather dynamics that has real effects on your factory and workers. It really adds to the gameplay - in fact I suspect this will likely be copied by other similar games going forward. Dawn Apart has less sophisticated factory automation that other games, like Satisfactory. The lines are easier to balance, but there is still considerable complexity of various items (some require 3 inputs to make). This game strongs encourages (if not forces) you to construct factory buildings and living quarters, not just placing belts and machines. You'll need to add heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting and also bathrooms. There is also the need to manage your crew's well-being or they will quit. I played without combat, so can't comment on that. Even without combat the game forces you to automate to fulfill increasingly demanding delivery requests from your parent corporation. In turn you will get resources, weapons and additional workers. You can also barter with other NPC companies. The artwork and style is quite nice, too. The user interface is pixelated to match the game world, but quite readable. Contrary to other reviews I had zero crashes in my 40 hours of gameplay. Game ran at 40-50fps on my dated system (GTX 1080 8GB VRAM, 3.2GHz CPU). Framrate became somewhat choppy once during the course of a game, but went back to smooth 40fps somewhat later. All in all, the game is already enjoyable as is and features are still being added. Hotfix for one issue I reported dropped the next day. I think this game is a good example of an early access title that is well playable but still being developed further.