Project AURA

If you tasked a very smart person to make a colony/ builder/ with some Civ flavor into a deep functional game, and described how each game looks, sounds and feels in great detail to them. But they have never seen any of those games, and said "Eh, just wing it. It will be fine", you have AURA. I want so badly to find its redeeming features but its UI and interactions... it feels like driving a car, but from a chair duct taped on the roof with broom sticks and rope to run the controls. The building system took a fresh idea, and made it feel aggravating and disappointing to understand. That alone was impressive. Having to right click buildings twice to select them. Its a chore to even interact with anything. I want to have a good time playing this and leave a better review, but it is what it is, a disappointment. They have put years into this game, I hope they keep going and all the negative reviews reconsider. There are the parts of an amazing game here, the puzzle pieces don't fit together yet

interesting idea but didnt really seem to go anywhere. for me anyway, i like to build a city in a city builder, and here you're just filling up already existing slots. its more a management puzzle sim where you need to find the ideal setup, and it took me about 6 hours to figure out that nothing else was coming beyond what i'd already seen.

SUMMARY: This is game is two things. It is really good and perhaps incredibly underrated. It is also a very niche experience that requires a certain amount of effort to learn. This is resource management boiled down to its most central component; controlling how much is produced versus consumed to assure the colony can sustain itself and continue expansion. NARRATIVE-COMPETENT: There story is bare-bones and only enough to give some explanation to this universe, with most flavor text being instructional, rather than exploratory. However, it is by no means the focus, and the universe is so simple that you can figure out what is going on fairly easily. ASCETIC-ENGAGING: Despite how trite the narrative and world building is, the way this game looks, both in the UI and in the overworld has a unique and surprisingly interesting look. Nothing groundbreaking per say, but enough to get be to always look at the buildings. MECHANICS-ENGAGING: This is a resource management game in its purest form. There are barely any other mechanics to speak of. That being said, this game executes this EXTREMELY well. Despite this simple premise, production chains are long enough, difficulty is high enough, and there is enough replay value to get your money's worth. LEGACY-UNKNOWN: This game is indie title without even a real cult following, probably due to its strong niche appeal. SUMMARY-7/10: If you want a city building game that is only about managing the production and consumption of a truly wide variety of resources and almost nothing else, this is the game for you. If you need something with a wider variety of mechanics, you should look somewhere else.

its a decent enough game for what it is but i cant recommend buying it as it was never finished

Abandonware.

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A game that could have been GREAT but feels abandoned and unfinished. PROS: Great management of resources. Fun to discover how everything works. Engaging scenario (survival after climate change). CONS: Massive lag builds up slowly, goes away on quicksave and quickload. Gets a little repetitive. Some ideas are AWESOME but poorly implemented. As if the dev team had given up halfway. Overall the game feels like a 6/10 if you love building and managing (hence my thumbs up). Probably a 3/10 if you don't.