Dyson Sphere Program Review (NeverExisted)
I could gush all day about this game. It does so many things right.
It's an automation game. An automation game which does what every good automation game should: Building things. Building BIG things. Even better: sitting back and WATCHING as BIG things are built. DSP is very good at that. Automating a giant factory to make a gazillion hyper-advanced science cubes per second is fine and well, but you know what's even better? Watching HUNDREDS of SPACE LAUNCHERS and ROCKETS all coming together to put the goddamn SUN in a cage made of solar panels so you can squeeze every drop of energy out of it so you can do it MORE and BIGGERER but this time FASTeR until every star in the vicinity is yours
Now you might say "but this looks like something that wants me to use my brain" and you might have a point! Base building games usually feel like putting a logistical puzzle together, but if that's not your thing, fear not. Just paste some blueprints from the internet for the parts you don't want to do and you'll be good to go. Don't let anybody tell you you are playing the game wrong. Programmers copy code all the time and they still get paid for it
I regularly find myself stopping whatever I'm doing and just watching my screen in amazement. Be it the dance of the celestial spheres, my hundreds of drones flying gracefully around the factory, or my half-complete dyson sphere rising over the horizon. The game is absolutely beautiful
Framerate remains stable despite having several planets covered in poorly designed production lines. Flying (or warping) from one planet to another is as smooth as it gets. I kept thinking "hah i bet this will make the game start chugging" but it never happened. It's very easy to forget this game is made on Unity. Yeah
MOD SUPPORT. MECHA CUSTOMIZATION. BLUEPRINT SHARING
You can even paint on planets if you want. That's right, write something crude on the surface of a planet in letters so huge its visible from space. You know what? Save it as a blueprint. Save the entire PLANET as a blueprint. That's right, the whole thing. Now you can make every planet look like that. Let them know who owns it
It says "Early Access" but I'm yet to find a bug in this game
This game is going to spoil me rotten and I won't be able to enjoy "normal" games anymore. It's so addictive to play a game made by people with so much passion
I could ramble all day, but I don't think words alone can make this game justice. You just have to experience it. I only wish it had trains