Solarpunk™

Fun game with a lot of interesting features. Managed to 100% in 22 hours!

平平无奇

So, I will be reviewing this as a SOLARPUNK Game, which this is not. There is nothing Punk about this. This is just a solar cozy farm game with an airship... You're still doing extreme resource extraction, you're still exploiting every single resource, and you barter resources for blueprints with a robot who chills on a floating platform. With the name you would expect more, but clearly the devs saw solarpunk as just a random vibe they could make money off of. Which they were correct.

Ho aspettato questo gioco per ben tre anni e l'ho acquistato subito al day one. L'idea di fondo basata sulle energie rinnovabili è ottima e l'atmosfera è davvero carina e rilassante. A livello di gameplay puro non inventa nulla di nuovo — si parla della classica formula alla Minecraft o simili — ma funziona bene. Il limite principale attuale è la longevità: ho completato tutti gli obiettivi in appena 20 ore e, una volta finiti, non resta molto altro da fare se non "curare" la propria fattoria. Non ho riscontrato particolari difetti tecnici o punti negativi evidenti, se non appunto un'esplorazione che al momento risulta un po' limitata. Essendo il gioco uscito da appena un mese, spero vivamente che gli sviluppatori possano offrire molti più contenuti con i prossimi aggiornamenti futuri. Ha comunque un ottimo potenziale. Mi riservo di dare questo voto ad oggi. Voto: 7.5/10

I do like this game, it is peaceful and relaxing, no fights, no struggles, no excitement, if you like this kind of rather boring development of a progression the game is for you, but if you look for something more challenging you should not buy it. This game is about getting resources on islands that you can't reach without ship upgrades, decorating your home, a bit of farming and crafting. "I played it on singleplayer and was done within 2 days with the basic content." It might be more interesting in the Coop, but probably it would be even shorter. To be honest the price tag is totally bold considered the short gameplay. I am glad I bought it only for a few Euros, otherwise I would regret it. Maybe the game gets better later on in development, but for now there is just far too few content. Other than that it is already a beautiful game, but except to lightning that can strike you, it is rather for children and older ladies ;) Would I recommend it to some random player? No, not for it's price.

This game has my favorite build system of any that I have tried to date. It has all of the flexibility of Minecraft yet with a ton of assets and all of the finishing touches needed to make it look as beautiful and realistic as a base in Subnautica, The Planet Crafter, etc. I think the devs understood an important thing that is often tough to accept as a software developer - it's always more important to let the users do what they want to do than it is to make a pristine bug-free system. To this end, the build system definitely has a few minor bugs in it and it sometimes takes a little finesse to work around them. But I never found myself in a position of not being able to create what I wanted. And the fact that you can always rebuild things without losing resources means that you can always recover if you come to see a certain build decision as a mistake. Also, I have been searching for a game with energy mechanics like this for a long time. Electric load balancing is a real challenge in the world we are headed towards and to show people that solving it can be fun and creative is a nice way to nudge the world in the right direction.

Heavily enjoy the concept, the art everything. I have been playing with my wife and it has the perfect mix of our roles when we game. The only issue, we can't use the same airship, why? Adding a seat to it or something so you could take another person would be fantastic that's it. That little bit extra would go so far. I am making this review negative so that hopefully it gains traction and the developers can fix this oversight. Not everyone games independently together, a majority of couples have roles in games and it sucks when you can't fully fulfil those.