Project Astra Dominium

this is an hidden gem of an game, its an factory game with an hoard tower aspect. if you like them both its worth an get for sure.

327 Stunden, absolut Geil. Insane Automation, mit geilen Tower Defence Elementen... ein Genuß ^^. Und es kam ein neues Update raus, mit mehr Maps ... klingt geil ^^ . Wenn man Automation und Tower Defence mag, ist das Spiel, fast schon Pflicht :P .

Great game, I had no experience with factorio or such games, but found that aspect quite enjoyable too. Could probably use some refining here and there as a game, but well worth the money as it is.

Loving the mash-up here. Factory-style base builder, resource gathering, and Tower Defense games synergize well. I hope the team continues to build it out.

A nice mix of classic Tower Defense and Factory Management. Relatively easy to get into and hard to get out off, even if you normally avoid TD Games. Graphics and Style are crisp & immediately recognizable, not once have I struggled to find or mistook something. What I really like is that Towers have their own full Skilltree, makes it so much more engaging than simply "Build next Level of Tower", now I have to actually think about what I want to upgrade and do. Very much going to keep playing!

What a great little gem! Do you like TD games? Then get this game! Do you like factory/automation games? Then get this game! Do you like TD and factory/automation games? Why are you still reading??? GET THE GAME ALREADY!!! TL;DR: Fun and simple with the possibility of complexity under the hood. ****EDIT @ 1.0 LAUNCH MID JAN '24**** Battle to collect resources, automate to battle! Run a battle to collect resources for your factory. The factory creates modded weaponry to improve your chances in battle, and creates packages to send back to earth to gain AI Accelerators used for tech research trees (upgrading factory and tower attributes). Progress the factory as you progress the battles to ensure you don't end up like me with a huge build up of materials you need to deal with. I've prolly only had about 50-80hrs actual play time (Steam reads 300odd), largely due to letting the factory work through everything (the other issues causing me to leave the game running while afk for considerable time have been fixed by the devs). [I've still prolly got another day or two before things are cleared out.] ****Most of the rest of this review is outlining current negatives, but don't let those little niggling issues, that are likely to be solved by the devs, put you off - if they concern you just don't play through till late game until resolution.**** Great development progress in recent months. Balance is pretty good (can get a little wonky very late game, particularly with grabber and belt speeds) and I'm not aware of any severe bugs.. Still needs a few more late game maps, interstellar bases and modified recipes for certain tower components, to feel complete, which I'm sure will come. Once all the Precision Crafting upgrades are unlocked, the player's in a situation where automating the end tower components is too complex/time-consuming to justify it, and the removal of achievements for them completely disincentivises the player to do so. Manually make 5 items and it's sure to result in at least 1 max rolled item. As a result, late game factories can be kept pretty small. You'll still likely want to automate basic modified components for them though, like ingots and steel, as you'll need a lot of them. Mid-game it becomes critical to tailor your loadout to beat a map. Unfortunately tower loadouts are still in the works. Late game currently is all about the recently added Portal battles - pretty good, but is still a bit of a work in progress..

After many hours, for me at least, Astra Dominium is a best in class TD factory game. Yes it has some warts, but the concept and the direction its going is commendable. Support the game and send a copy to friend so we all can enjoy more content like this. Now if only the developers weren't so stingy with alien orbs and would add another dozen or so levels :) and a few QOL features after more levels of course. Throw in more work on the tower crafting part upgrades and you have a outstanding TD factory game. Enjoyable and relaxing.