Galactic Colonies 1.5

Reviews

3 ★, on 2020-09-16
I don't normally review games. This had a great concept and interesting game mechanics. However the levels became repetitive quickly with the same goals for different levels. I thought there would be more depth but this game has potential. I would like to see a timed multiplayer version as playing against others provides the risk factor in strategy games. Overall I found this game to be a little unfinished. And as a note I had a big with the research times not going down

5 ★, on 2020-07-18
On balance, this game I would rate outstanding. I have my gripes (below) but they're later game issues I guess. This is a game you can actually play for free, those that say you can't lack patience. It takes some research and skill points before you start really being able to get into the stride of things. About the only thing you can't do without money, or very large amounts of patience and grinding, is get anything higher than the Tier 2 Ship. It is notable that the existence Skill Points are not well explained. I barely knew about them until I started exploring the menus. The power of them also isn't obvious at first (or some of them anyway). As you start to see the effects of skill points and research, you understand what's important. That's a gameplay aspect in itself. The main issue I have with this game is longevity. Once you unlock all the buildings, every colony follows a similar formula. I started finding this once I got to about level 45 or so. The issue here is, skill points isn't a tangible enough accumulative reward. It doesn't feel like you're working towards much. There's no Home Base or something for your worlds to enrich. It seems a lot like there's a tradeoff, favouring the early game at the expense of the late game. That's sort of OK though perhaps. I have already put many hours into this game, and I have enjoyed the process of optimisation that has developed through it. It's just, I haven't reached the point of any skill mastery levels (I think I'm at level 58 or so?) but I can't really see the point of going for it. With this, you might ask, why'd I still rate it 5 stars? Well, for the time that there is still content, it's outstanding. It is a good balance of accumulation and still applying optimisation. Also Desalination plants are useless. By the time I got them, I'd already maxed my lake skill, and it really raises the question of, why bother? Even if you put an epic upgrade kit on it, and make it +100%, there's enough lakes around at +85% and pairs of lakes occur adjacent enough to each other often enough that you're better off lining those up, rather than building desal plants.

2 ★, on 2020-08-21
Ok, nice solid game. But the reward system if energy cells. Completely totally broken. Not only did it not give me the cells for completing levels, but it took them away, for no reason. Should have over 130, had 70 this afternoon, tonight I have 60. Thank goodness I did not buy any, would have been really upset if the game literally stole money from me. Other perks, and bonus items seem to disappear too, but the cells are the main in game currency

3 ★, on 2020-08-18
Would be 5, but... I really enjoyed the game (kinda turned off it rn). You can put it down and pick it back up. Choose to watch ads for bonuses. My only problem is a glitch that has REALLY bugged me. I had been saving up to buy a ship. Got it. Then, instead of using what I had saved up the game gave me a negative amount. Now, not only do I have to save up again, but I have cover the negative amount. I'll be watching ads for the next 2 months :/ . I've contacted them and still no response.

3 ★, on 2020-07-30
Great potential but stunted by some horrible mechanics. Building a colony is fun, figuring out how to optimize each planet keeps me going. BUT the very poor tutorial leaves you confused and completely leaves out many parts of the game, and that asteroid mini game 🙄 who finds tapping your screen fast as possible any fun?? Great concept, lackluster execution.

1 ★, on 2020-09-14
I wanted to like this game because it looks nice but at the moment it has no (and/or poorly implemented) S-pen support for the Galaxy Note (10). If and when this gains support for the Galaxy Note, I will happily rewrite this review.