If you liked Subnautica, you will very likely like this.

Interesting spin on survival games. Fun and rewarding game play.

I enjoyed the demo in 2022, but I only find the first 10 hours of the final release compelling ( during the struggle for survival, based on the lack of food and water ). The first 10 hours are like a starvation simulator, but once you stabilize food and water, the game turns into an idle clicker, where you watch an in-game monitor, that shows the terraforming numbers going up ( you do that for 20+ hours, while exploring ship wrecks, which wore out its welcome after the first 10 hours ).

Buildings are extremely energy intensive, so your ability to speed up the terraforming process, is dependent on energy production. There is a low ceiling on energy production, because of rare minerals such as aluminum ( needed for solar panels ) and uranium ( for nuclear reactors ). Extremely thin content is stretched out to the maximum.

After exploring most of the map, I gave up on the game out of boredom, because it became a waiting simulator. Disappointing. Greatly overpriced.

You receive in-game messages that could have had an interesting narrative, but the messages just dwindle over time. The last message that I received was a partial message, where some of the text was garbled ( to simulate electromagnetic interference ). The developers could have poured some creative juices into the narrative; it just smacks of laziness.

Better games that I recommend:

- Subnautica ( the first one ).
- Surviving Mars
- Ocean World: Eden Crafters ( based on the demo ).