One Lonely Outpost on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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 farming sim, colony sim and indie game
developed and published by indie.io.
Released on March 06th 2025 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 556 reviews of which 363 were positive and 193 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 8.32€ on Steam with a 55% discount, but you can find it for 5.19€ on Instant Gaming.
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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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edit 10hr in: I still stand by this review! This game can be very slow to start & a little confusing. It doesn't help that all the guides are from before the 1.0 launch and not always accurate (for example, all the guides read that ore doesn't spawn back on the overworld, but they do for me! They totally do. Very slowly, but they do.) It's very slow but also very chill. Other life sim games are sometimes very... "let's automatize this, let's automatize that, let's make tons of money", this isn't the vibes I'm getting there. It feels like a lot of lonely, hard work for now, and somehow I like it-- it is how I imagine life on Mars or elsewhere to be. Eventually, the plot starts to pick up the pace. Anyway, if you aren't worried about a little confusion and taking things slow, this is a nice little life sim game, with a few interesting twists that you will enjoy if you like terraforming games like Planet Crafter. Especially on a big sale, I paid around 8 euros for this game and I feel very good about it so far.
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i really like this game though its missing a few things like a talked to icon to show you have talked to the people and other small things and the bloody wiki needs to be updated but other then that i really like the way the game is going and i hope it continues in this way. so if you like games like stardew then pick it up or at lest wish list it if your not one for early access games
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I'm gonna start by saying not enough people have given this game a fair shake. I know the release was last June, however, it is EA and though the road map wasn't *entirely* accurate, they still delivered on Act II before the end of 2024 which I say is a HUGE win considering the amount of content that was expected vs dropped. I played the game when it originally released and can agree that I was frustrated with the little amount of content that was available and the AGONIZINGLY slow story progression. One thing you need to take into consideration when playing this game is you are a STRANDED ASTRONAUT waiting on communication from a very unhelpful galactic organization. HEAVY ON THE WAITING. Your game can only progress as fast as it progresses and truthfully it means waiting for the communications and just farming the days away on a barren planet. TIME FOR PROS AND CONS may contain spoilers (I'm not very far yet, but farther than start) Pros: The games style is very cute and warm. The pixels don't hurt my eyes and there aren't any harsh patterns or flashing images that I have come across. Collecting "intelligence" is very easy and only requires obtaining the new thing and telling the corresponding person about the new thing. Not very involved, but a nice easy mechanic. The controls aren't complex. Even after unlocking bug catching it's not bad. I think the only complaint here is on Deck things are a little more difficult because you have to use the mouse to click on the bug and both joysticks are taken up already. Cons: Aside the obvious WAITING there are really only a few small things I can find at current to nit pick. Character dialog. I get the same like 2 sentences for each person. I know I know, but honestly a little more variety would be nice. I hate having to talk to them every day and it's the same sentence over and over. Mining. I. HATE. MINESWEEPER. I've never understood how it works and despised it as a child. Little did I know it would come back to haunt me in a cute space farming game. I hope there is a new mining mini game in the future, but doubt they will change the whole mechanic. If you like minesweeper then you'll love mining, but as for me I'm just gonna delay having to mine as much as possible LOL EDIT: I found another con I'm not too fond of...When interacting with other characters on deck you have to be a certain distance away from them to be able to talk to them and in the case of some characters *cough cough* Sally *cough cough* there isn't enough space in their habitat to do so. NOT A GAME BREAKER, but annoying for sure. That being said I definitely think it's worth revisiting the game or giving it a shot if you had your eye on it :)
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Underrated und underappreciated title in my opinion. It's still EA mind you so don't expect everything to work perfect or a complete main campaign. Also I don't know anything about the state of game before its big update but I don't agree with all those doom mongers in other comments. The start is a bit of a slow burner. But the more the colony grew and the story began to move forward the more I enjoyed my settler life on a remote planet! The blend of 3D backgrounds with sprites is really charming (reminds me of those old PS1 RPGs but with better resolution). I like the characters and their artworks. But the stills need more variety. Only one artwork for every character isn't much to convey their emotions during their quests/interactions (room for improvement). Also if you played Stardew Valley (or one of the clones) you know a bit what awaits you in terms of game mechanics. But there are differences. Wouldn't be surprised if some complaints stem from that because I relied too often on my knowledge from SV so I made a few mistakes in the beginning. Here are a couple of things that might help you if you decide to play the game: - Until the mine opens ores are quite limited so don't waste them - Until terraforming kicks in to refill your water tank you have to destroy those íce crystals with your laser. - The mine itself is just mine sweeper with levels. Your gust tool removes the gas threat, your spray tool cools down lava. - There is no ore to make glass, you have to refine silicon (took me a while to realize it) - I prefer pad controls but for the bug catching mini game they never worked for me. So I use the mouse instead. - Fish catching was a bit confusing in the beginning. Your drone snaps fish to catch them. So try to memorize the snap reach/direction. The snap also has a cooldown. - (Robo)chicken eat seeds of certain plants, (robo)cows eat plants (you can look those things up in their respective log data) - You get animal goods (milk, meat) by interacting with the animals (keep an eye out for the exclamation mark). - you can save anytime. But since load/save are the same option I happen to load instead of save a file when I was too much in a hurry. Maybe just me, still wanted to mention it. I really hope more people give the game a chance because it deserves it.
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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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Online players
21
Developer
indie.io
Publisher
indie.io
Release
06 Mar 2025
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