Solarpunk™

My partner and I started playing Solarpunk because of its cozy atmosphere and inventive crafting system. I'm a big fan of cabling and logic gate systems, and combining it with a "clean energy" aesthetic seemed like a perfect recipe for a good time. We've learned that the airships are a little clunky to control at first, animals can randomly get stuck and be unable to move (restarting the game is the best fix for this, btw), and inventory space is incredibly limited, but overall the game feels fun in a sort of "take at your own pace" kinda way. I even got used to the fact that you can't actually pause the game, even in offline single-player mode (for some reason). But I can't, in good conscious, recommend the game right now. Because of the save feature. It doesn't actually work half the time. There's no way to manually save the game, which is already a bad sign in my opinion, and the autosave can randomly break, either not saving your file properly or somehow making it impossible for the game itself to recognize and load your data. After spending hours playing by myself today, seeing the Steam cloud save auto-sync and getting the in-game notification that the world file was saved, I tried logging back in to find that the game just... doesn't recognize it anymore. I can find the .sav file on my PC, but I can't get the game to load it. Hours of work, just... gone. So, no. I cannot and will not support this game until this gets fixed and there's some sort of information as to recovering saves that your game can't even save and load properly. This is game development 101, there's no excuse for this.

I don't think this game used to have a ™ at the end of it's name. I have no idea how they could trademark the name, either. Either way, that's the least solarpunk thing they could have done. The game itself really isn't solarpunk either, it's extractionist sci-fi with potted plants. The game has you start by uprooting berry bushes and leveling forests, and it never stops. Do not buy.

I was really looking forward to this game but it is incredibly boring. It has all the topes you'd expect in a survival sandbox, but no story, no combat, and other than an interesting concept for visuals, nothing special. I more often not found myself waiting for crops to grow or ore to be smelted before I could make any progress in the game. I shouldn't have to wait to play the game, while playing the game. it is more of a simple decoration game and worth about $5. Do not pay full price or even 50% off.

While Solarpunk certainly delivers the coziness it promises, it still feels more like a demo. There are "a few" islands—but considering the vast worlds offered by some modern survival games, you unfortunately see everything there is to see here in a single evening. The building system isn't innovative, the resource grind often feels like mere filler to pad out playtime, and there is simply no discernible purpose behind the animal husbandry. It saddens me to write this, as I had really been looking forward to Solarpunk and was excited when it was released. That said, looking at the price, I have to say this: it’s almost an insult to charge over 20 euros for a game that offers a fraction of the features found in other modern base-building games. Furthermore, the core element—creating a cozy home space—is expanded almost exclusively through decorative items; there is a lack of varied materials, complex building components, and innovation. Games like Windrose cost roughly the same, yet there, too, I can build a cozy spot on the beach, deep in the jungle, or atop a cliff—complete with numerous decorations and a "coziness bonus" that increases with each level. I’m not saying Solarpunk is inherently "bad," but the content is laughably sparse. The building system causes frustration rather than fun at times, and the repetitive loop—fly to an island to fetch something, unlock an item, fly to the next island to fetch something else—quickly becomes tedious. In some instances, certain materials could have been moved to one or two later islands to make room for genuinely exciting new ones. A great deal of potential has been squandered so far, and I hope the developers step up their game soon—otherwise, Solarpunk will remain nothing more than a catchy name lacking substance in the crowded genre of base-building games.

The world is ending and somehow I’m still worried about where to put my furniture. Beautiful game, nice vibes, great exploration. Spent 3 hours building a house just to realize I hate the house.

飞船开得头晕，建了三个档都没飞出初始岛，已经超过4小时退款时效。为了不亏继续玩，结果发现大降价了！首发88购入，隔了一个月降到58，加上折扣到手46.4,合着我就是一个大怨种

баганный оверпрайс, но пойдёт.

首发购买，玩了六十个小时，现在你告诉我不给补差价？那我只能说你路走窄了

In the current era of survival crafting games, asking me to refill my watering can is tantamount to a war crime. What seemingly sets this survival crafting game apart from others is 1) A wide variety of machines that help automate tasks and 2) A wide range of building options. However, getting to either one is a slog. Its truly very boring trying to progress through early game. Where other games would alleviate this by allowing you to just mindlessly explore while machines did their thing, This game limits you to a tiny amount of land masses with no Points of Interest. It seems the intent of this game was the house building and decorating, but all that fun stuff is so out of reach for early players. Hopefully some updates will rebalance things or improve the early game, because I am interested in this game. But with the current boring state of mining, farming, wood gathering and "fishing" (worst implementation of fishing I've ever seen), I cannot recommend this game until they change some stuff around.