Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
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Every market we collect.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4/day in the week to Sep 10 → 42.57/day in the week after.
About
Mine lunar resources, craft processing machinery, and power up your base with satellites and batteries. Unlock scientific advancements across three research trees to enhance your technological capabilities.
Streamline your resource management as you deploy conveyor belts and drones for seamless automation
Embark on lunar expeditions to unearth the moon's hidden secrets, deploying your rover to various locations and delving into the mysteries of humanity's newfound lunar habitat.
Engage in resource exchange with Earth through contracts, where your decisions have the power to shape their political landscape. Choose a faction to support or navigate the field strategically for maximum profit.
People are your most valuable resource. Keep track of your colonists' health, mood and needs. Hire the best experts and make sure they work as a team: it’s their unique traits and skills that will allow you to truly optimize your production and research!
Key Features
Build a lunar colony
Mine and automate resources and production
Explore the moon
Play through a rich, story driven narrative
Trade with Earth
Influence politics
Manage colonists and their needs
Genres
Sums Steam only; Epic publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $20.79−35% | 4.1Kreviews | 77% | — | $4.2M |
| $29.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
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Reviews
Now don't get me wrong, this is a building game which really scratches that itch, but I cannot get over the glaring fact that even though the game is in EA, the FPS tanks dramatically as you progress and build more and more conveyor belts and storage. It's all great having 180 FPS at the start with just the one drone and 1 storage placed, but that's not the entire point of the game now is it and for each conveyor and large storage built, your FPS ticks down until your at sub 30 FPS in game, with CPU/GPU usage in windows being dramatically low for a game and the shadows then flicker causing nausea. If the FPS issue was sorted, this would be a great game - but at the moment with the issues, its a good game and I would only recommend it if you know its going to run like ♥♥♥♥ towards the late stage.
I was going to write a glowing review of how awesome this game is with some fun details, but now believe something else would be more helpful and informative. REVIEW FOR GAME: It is awesome. The dev did what they set out to do, and they did it very well. If you like the genre, the setting, and what the store page describes....you will enjoy this game. MYSTERY OF 76% POSITIVE INFORMATION: I was bewildered by the 76% positive after giving this game a go, until I stumbled upon a vast conspiracy. Actually, only half joking on this one. Found out a portion of "The Crust" community is very limited with how they can interact with the internet due to restrictions from their friendly government. Since they couldn't use the Steam discussion threads to address the dev with their question/concern, they took the next obvious step: some of the smartest among them took the next obvious step. They wrote their question/concern and attached it to a negative review!! Brilliant! A negative review will definitely get the devs attention, and hopefully they will leave their response for what the recommended difficulty is for your first playthrough or the best setting to tweak for improved FPS somewhere the government allows it to be read! I didn't think this could be true. I definitely didn't initially believe enough self centered people would do this to be noticeable. I even looked at other games I thought might be applicable, hoping for an isolated incident. You will have to wait for my Mortismal style 100% review for the answer, but spoiler alert!!! I've lost another chunk of my fait in humanity! Just kidding by the way; about waiting for my Mortismal 100% review (not the [strike] epic [/strike] steam review). That dude is crazy for doing this. He is also super helpful and informative. Wonder if he has gotten a shoutout from an automation game before?? TLDR: If you like what is on Store Page, you will like the game. Chinese government responsible for game only having 76% positive.
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Latest in each market: best AU #49, worst UK #90 · 6 markets collected
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English*, Russian*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Italian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese +1 more
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Hours played at review time, across 1.2K reviews with recorded playtime.
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Yeah they really borked this awesome game. The game. As in the campaign. Starts you off where I would hope to be hours down the road. WHY in TF am I starting out with everything already built? Let me guess I'm assumed to be to stupid for all that. Like everything is already done. You are just asked to start running wires to (thing that's already built) to (thing that's already built) ... how fun!!! It was right there. Just give me a barren moon in which to start this operation. Nope, the whole thing is up and running. You just need to click through...like at the very start you have like 24 solar panels up and running...batteries everywhere...underground? Yeah it's already carved out and stocked with machinery. Oh and don't ever ever forget to send the message that mysogeny is bad mm-kk. Like your FIRST communication with whoever is running the moonbase calls another so-called professional "sweetheart" and of course gets rebuked for it. No Sh*t Sherlok. In 5 decades of life I have NEVER heard another human being refer to another human being that they do not know...as "sweetheart". These are supposed to be professionals. It's a moon base ffs but the one dude who is spose to be the dumb construction guy calls some women "sweetheart" .... like you can't make this up. It's like a GenZ fantasy on how Boomers interacted with each other. They CAN NOT HELP THEMSELVES. They cannot. You will be exclaimed on how professionals in the future don't call each other by ... I just can't Thumbs down. Great concept. Many great features. Made for dumb people cuz of course it is. I cannot put into words how sad this makes me. I bought this game EA and waited...and waited...aaaaand waited...then I waited some more because it looks AWESOME. This could be the coolest gam....and they fkd it. That takes talent. Skill. Nice work guys.
Ein herausragendes Spiel! Die Kombination aus Atmosphäre und Sound ist überwältigend und vermittelt das Gefühl, direkt auf der Mondoberfläche zu stehen. Als großer Fan von Satisfactory freue ich mich besonders, dass dieses Spiel nun auch strategische Elemente bietet. Jede neue Entwicklung macht mich gespannt auf das, was noch kommt!
This is meant to be a hard science thing, right? But the space elevator in the opening cutscene uses a rocket to climb the cable, when the point of space elevators is avoiding the use of rockets and using more efficient fuel sources. An explosion causes a blastwave that flips over rovers and things, despite the moon having no atmosphere to carry the blastwave that way. Some of the character art, if not AI-generated, feels that way. There are indications that AI-generated assets were used during development, but the forum posts imply those would later be removed. However, at the time those conversations were taking place on the forum, people said that no AI disclosure appeared on the storefront. The game's writing is bad. Lazy. During the tutorial a professional lunar colonist is mystified by a baseline technology to convert drones from cargo units to mining units, which another character implies has been standard for years. The emotional atmosphere is one of the player being part of what might be some kind of hostile takeover, but it immediately switches to smiley friendship the moment the tutorial has you plonk down a couple of solar power arrays - and there are dozens and dozens there already. So that emotional flip makes no sense, at all. It comes across as sloppy. And if the game actually used gen-AI during development and didn't disclose that, it makes sense - because those tools indicate that someone believes they deserve our time, money, and attention, but they shouldn't have to put in their best efforts to earn those things. This game, which I'm sure is a ton of fun for a lot of players, does not earn anything. Based on the Tutorial and a quick look around, it's a simple remix of other games without anything original to it, honestly.
Ive finished the game twice, it lags towards the end. However, its one of the most fun base building I've played. And despite being in "early access", the dev have shipped big improvements since I've started to play. Every few months, there is a new big update. I highly recommend the game.
Despite the game being in EA for nearly 2 years, the Devs are mostly focused on delivering Performance improvements and forget about delivering deep content for the game. After almost 2 years, the game feels as empty as moon surface.
目前玩着还可以，提几点改进建议，希望制作组能看得见。 1、玩家普遍反应的数值和流程上的问题就不说了。 2、科研界面滚轮速度太慢，后期科研界面从上翻到下找没研究的科技太慢，建造界面娱乐设施那页也是一样但是它有进度条可以拖（虽然进度条比较窄一不小心画面就往下跑），建议在科研界面显眼位置加一个大小更合适的拖拽条。建造界面拖拽条也适当加大避免误操作。 3、能增加舒适度的家具建议在建造界面就标明能加多少舒适度，同时这些家具建造完成后点选也看不见加多少舒适度建议在点选后的建筑界面内加上舒适度信息，而不是必须建造下来再点击舒适度滤镜才能看见。 4、部份建筑在放置蓝图阶段看不清朝向，比如柜子、小型电脑桌、沙发等，这些建筑即使没有实际使用功能仅是贴图，也请加上朝向，或者让它们在建造蓝图阶段更容易看清朝向。 5、看不见传送带上物品的信息，游戏后期传送带较多且相互纠缠，容易忘记哪条传动带是通向哪里的，物品模型/贴图也不清晰，除非特别熟悉能看一眼就知道上边的是什么。建议在点选传送带或光标停留在传送带上时显示其上的物品。无人机同理，建议增加点选无人机时显示该无人机当前携带物品的功能。 6、同样是传送带问题，后期传送带相互纠缠，尤其是大量使用地下传送带时，很容易忘记裸漏在地表的某一段传送带是从哪里通向哪里的，按住shift点选也只能选中一段。建议在点选传送带界面显示所选传送带的初始起点和最终的终点，或者其他方式能够直观看见一条传送带是从哪里通向哪里的。 7、地下传送带问题，当两条地下传送带在同一直线上的共同生效范围内时，传送带的入口和出口会不按你希望的方式匹配上。比如：A、B两条地下传送带在一条直线上且两条传送带范围重叠，我希望实现的是A进 B进 A出 B出，实际建造完成后会自动识别成A进 B进 B出 A出。这种问题导致在上述条件下要建造两条地下传送带时，必须让A、B两条传送带错开不在同一条线上。建议增加出口选择功能，当发生上述情况时让玩家自己选择哪个出口和哪个入口对应。 8、优先级问题，当前游戏只有3个优先级，根据我玩过的“Rim World边缘世界”和“Oxygen Not Included缺氧”，3个优先级有时并不足够，建议增加到5个优先级，默认优先级是0级（没有箭头），其上有1级（1个向上的箭头）和2级（两个向上的箭头），其下有-1级（1个向下的箭头）和-2级（两个向下的箭头），这样能更好的分配工作。最好能够用不同的颜色区分优先级的高低。调整优先级功能也需要改进，建议在玩家点击调整优先级按钮后先让玩家选择想要调整到的优先级再去选择需要调整优先级的建筑，而不是直接选择建筑然后循环调整直到达到玩家想要的优先级。殖民者工作也建议增加优先级，比如某个殖民者同时擅长医疗和厨师工作，我希望他优先进行医疗，当医疗工作无法开展时再进行厨师工作。这样建筑优先级和殖民者工作优先级结合，就能实现更复杂的工作计划和安排。还有建造房屋的优先级无法调整，有时我希望无人机在空闲时再进行房屋建造工作，只能通过调高其他建筑优先级的方式实现，如此一来就有好多建筑处于3级优先级，那就等同于没有优先级。将优先级增加到5个等级，且可以调整建造房屋的优先级后，我就可以通过仅设置建造房屋为-1甚至-2优先级，而不用调整其他建筑的优先级，实现“仅空闲时建造房屋”的预期了。 9、殖民者工作安排问题，目前手动安排殖民者工作只能先选择建筑，再从殖民者列表内选择殖民者，同时殖民者名字无法修改或备注，游戏后期需要殖民者工作的建筑很多还要从40多名殖民者中选出想要的那位非常痛苦。建议增加殖民者改名功能或备注功能方便玩家在招募殖民者时能够，参考“Timberborn海狸浮生记”把所有生产建筑以简洁列表的形式统一到一个界面内，方便玩家统一安排殖民者工作，或者在殖民者管理界面增加安排殖民者到哪个生产建筑工作。 10、游戏目前没有框选功能很不方便，比如游戏中期使用大型太阳能板替换初期的小型太阳能板，需要拆除小太阳能板时，虽然可以按住shift连续选择，但是没有框选方便。建议增加框选功能，或者类似“Rim World边缘世界”的一键多选附近同类建筑的功能。 11、殖民者/无人机选择问题。当殖民者可以升级时，玩家点击屏幕上方的提示并不会直接选中可升级的殖民者，而只是屏幕跳转到该殖民者位置，还需要玩家再次手动点击选择殖民者。但此时殖民者大概率正在使用某个建筑，模型/贴图是重叠的，首次点选大概率会选中建筑而不是殖民者，非常不方便操作。导致我游戏后期有殖民者可升级时，必须先按下暂停键，然后点击屏幕上方的提示跳转画面，再放大画面仔细的去点击。无人机同理，也是模型/贴图较小且通常与建筑模型/贴图重叠。建议当殖民者可升级时点击屏幕上方提示跳转画面的同时直接选中该殖民者。而且建议给光标下的建筑/人物/无人机增加高亮描边。 12、路径显示问题，建议增加点选殖民者/无人机时显示该殖民者/无人机当前的路径。 以上建议希望制作组能够看见并考虑，祝愿“The Crust”越来越好。
Update 6 29 2026. I figured out what I hate about this game. The beginning. I legit can't get past playing 3 or 4 hours at most of this game before getting frustrated and bored beyond measure. Last time I'll be trying this game. I wanted to like it so much. Original review: The game looks so beautiful and I'm sure the devs put so much work into it, but holy crap starting out on the story line is the WORST experience I've ever had in this style of game. It tells you...kinda...what to do, but not really. And the drone logic is DISASTEROUSLY bad at times. No, I can't recommend it. I can't even bring myself to get to the 25 hour mark with this one. Sorry :(
Textures are blurry no matter the settings... and can you PLEASEEE, either normalise the Alices dialog and make her professional and a normal WOMAN, or simply remove her from the game..... she's utterly annoying and off putting... who wrote this dialog?!?!?!!?! Just add the setting to remove her completely, at least from sandbox mode. I will play the game more of course and might change my review to positive since I really like the concept, but so far, just because of the Alice, it's a NO... sorry, I just cant support this "im superior to everyone else" attitude... so incredibly idiotic... EDIT: Had to edit Engine.ini file to remove all of that blur... here are the lines I added to the bottom of the file if anyone has the same problem: [SystemSettings] r.MotionBlur.Max=0 r.MotionBlurQuality=0 r.DefaultFeature.MotionBlur=0 r.PostProcessAAQuality=0 r.Tonemapper.GrainQuantization=0 r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0 r.LensFlareQuality=0 r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0 Original article & author of these config changes: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3290088076
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