One Lonely Outpost
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
One Lonely Outpost is a early access, farming sim and colony sim game
developed and published by indie.io.
Released on June 26th 2023 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 505 reviews of which 338 were positive and 167 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.4 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 9.24€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD R9 290 or greater
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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A little laggy on my system, but a great great new play. Very happy I finally bit the bullet and purchased this - resource and mining heavy, but like, very, very charming in a way that it's not sold - very impressed, definitely knows how to pull on your heart strings a little and has great ways of teaching so many different things with the episcolary story telling - it's definitely a game you will like more if you read
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First, just from the progress this game is making, I recommend it but only to those who can be patient and endure periods of slow game progression. Let's Start with the bad: A very very slow start that feels boring, not lonely Controls could be better - playing most of the time with a controller And for now, there is not much dialogue Robocat is either in the way when placing stuff or taking care of the plants or too far away if you need that extra inventory The Good the passage of time is great, and doesn't cause anxiety and feels cozy Interesting take for the farming, base-building genre Mining is fun, and it reminds me of Minesweeper - if the controls don't mess it up for you Terraforming is visually pleasing to watch even over 12 in-game days I like the research/discovery documentation part, even so, “Research Story” does it better “duh” After the first people settle game gains speed and progressing is satisfying Now Spoilers ahead - What I would wish for the game: The feeling of loneliness comes from having accomplished something but nobody to share it with. - The game is trying to get this across with two early event scenes but after that nothing, besides the boring wait If you are the only one around, you are going to need to occupy yourself with something, Like Robinson Cruso, Build a friend “snow/stoneMan” out of stone with the fabricator place it and get a cut scene the next day how you talk to it to keep yourself sane. Give the player mini-games a space with different coloured dirt and/ or a stick to play tik tak toe with yourself or your robocat- A frozen sea or pond, where the player can toss stones on too and see who gets the closest to the emerald in the centre or something like that. Or the ability to talk to the broken robot cat in your Hub even if it doesn't respond, like telling how your day was or that you miss it Important is that those things become obsolete as the game progresses, keep one thing like playing tik tak toe with the other colonists, to get the you are not alone anymore part across and if the player wins the mini-game let them get an automated message from PGP congratulating them for winning or being concerned about your mental health, which sells that you´re not the first person we made do this, risking their health for our cause. Give the player more seemingly pointless things to build ( you can sell them later for good money) and I'm serious I like that you can build stuff for no good reason besides placing it somewhere to look at because, you are all alone, with an abundance of resources and nothing better to do, nothing. Besides if you can dream about new things to cook you can dream about new things to build, And even better if Aaron for example comments on the strange blueprints you came up with while you were all alone after finishing the repair of your terminal. Just some ideas to make the beginning of the game more playable, while getting the feeling this game tries to sell Beeing “one lonely outpost” across, as it is now I really hate the idea of replaying or restarting the game from scratch
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Do you like Harvest moon, or Stardew Valley? Do you like space? Then have I got a game for you. The game play loop is a cool twist on the pixel art farming sim. Terraform a planet, collect bugs, grow a colony. I like it
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I love this game so much. As soon as I started playing, I couldn't put it down. I'm sort of heartbroken at all the negative reviews, so although I have never left a steam review, I'm writing this one. First, since everyone else has addressed Stardew Valley: SV is eight years old, and has received constant updates for those eight years. At time of writing, One Lonely Outpost is about eight moths old. So yes, there is a lot less content, and less polish. I think that's as far as the two games need to be compared. They are different games, this isn't a Stardew Valley clone. If that's what you want to play, go play Stardew Valley. If you want something different, play this! The concept of this game is great. Farming sim meets city builder, you are tasked with terraforming a new planet and building a colony there. I thought that stage of the game moved a little fast, if anything. You're only alone for about a week, and by one month in you've built up a little town of 5 or 6 others. I'm not sure if this has been sped up as a result of earlier reviews, but I was expecting more loneliness! I like the characters, the art style is great, and the dialogue is charming. The gameplay starts out very basic. It's a deserted planet, all you have is what you brought with you. As the planet is terraformed, and as more people show up, you will unlock more things to do, such as mining and catching bugs. The mining is based on the old computer game Minesweeper, and it's actually pretty fun. Bug catching is a timing based mechanic, which I'm bad at, but it's easy enough that I'm catching some bugs. The basic gameplay loop is solid, though. It's very chill, and despite being responsible for all life on the planet, I never feel stressed or pressured. Speaking of bugs: it's an early access game, but I haven't run into anything terrible. Some of the characters seem to walk to places that have nothing there - future building sites? The calendar is weird, and the system for counting the days is confusing. Sometimes a line of dialogue will reference an aspect of the game that hasn't unlocked. It seems a little too easy to slip into flirting with the "single" characters. Sometimes I have to spin in a circle in the doorway when I want to exit a room. No actual problems yet, and I'm about 16 hours in. I've played this game exclusively on Steam Deck. The font is a little small, especially in the Calendar, sometimes it's hard to tell whose birthday it is. The controls run well. A few things took some experimenting, but I adjusted to the controls very quickly. The graphics seem smooth to me, although I know that a lot of people have higher standards than I do with that. I love this game, I'm so excited to see how it develops! But honestly, even if it was never updated again, I feel that the experience I've had so far was worth the price I paid for it.
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It's a very engaging and relaxing game. The combination between 2D pixelart and 3D environment is really well made, and the pixelart in general is just wonderful - especially the characters and your cute companion Qwerty. Space theme adds another layer of a nice, chill vibe for you to experience, and if you like FarmSims similar to Stardew Valley, this one will definitely be to your liking! :)
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Online players
13
Developer
indie.io
Publisher
indie.io
Release
26 Jun 2023
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