The Crust

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

The Crust is a early access, base-building and automation game developed by VEOM Studio and published by Crytivo.
Released on July 15th 2024 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Italian, Spanish - Latin America and Japanese.

It has received 2,204 reviews of which 1,678 were positive and 526 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Crust into these genres:

Early Access Base-Building Automation Colony Sim Resource Management Space Sandbox Strategy City Builder Building Simulation Management Exploration Sci-fi Survival Post-apocalyptic RTS Dungeon Crawler Singleplayer Indie

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or newer
Processor: Inlel i5-4590K or equivalent AMD-Hardware
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 960 or equivalent with 4GB of video RAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 8 GB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

Early game impressions after 10 hours in sandbox mode: TL;DR: Crust is an easy recommendation and stands strong among Factorio alternatives like Dyson Sphere Program and Satisfactory. The early game is slightly more complex compared to similar titles. It introduces a lot of mechanics right away, including byproducts, which might feel overwhelming. One aspect I didn’t enjoy is that early buildings require resources produced by those same buildings, forcing you into a specific build order. This creates a hard limit on how much you can construct without risking resource depletion or getting stuck. While this issue can be mitigated by unlocking resource trading early on, it was a bit frustrating to notice initially. The contract system is excellent. However, in the early game, it generates a lot of contracts that feel unrealistic. This might just be to showcase what's to come, as it doesn’t cause any significant issues—you’ll have plenty of factions to interact with, so I was never left without something to complete. The science tree UI is extensive but suffers from wasted space. Adding text under the icons and implementing a search function would improve navigation and help locate specific research more efficiently. The UX is solid for Early Access. Players familiar with the genre should adjust quickly, though there is a bit of information overload, with features visible from the start that won’t be accessible for the first few hours. Perhaps hiding those until they are unlocked through research would streamline the experience. Most importantly, Crust is fun. It requires some problem-solving and optimization of underground space, but it doesn’t heavily penalize early mistakes. Despite the large amount of information presented everything was logical and I never felt that it was too much to handle. Aside from the occasional time pressure when fulfilling urgent contracts, it’s the perfect game to relax with on a Sunday evening.

Sept. 2024

The soundtrack alone is worth it alone. Chill.... First 24 of gameplay in less than a week. Yeah retirement has it's benefits. That first 24hrs, there was no tunnel in sight! Anno forever game, and it's almost endless. Really have enjoyed it, and worth every cent.

Aug. 2024

First I clicked I've recommended this game and I do but with a side note attached. The Crust has a lot of potential and I've enjoyed this game for 105 hours since it released. The development team has been very active and updates have come multiple times in a day first couple of weeks of release. Updates have slowed but at least one update a week has been maintained. The developers have been engaging via their discord in responding to questions, crash reports, etc. Here is my side note, If you roll through the research, create a massive base with large infrastructure there are many bugs associated with large bases. I have completed all research, tore my base apart twice and working on my final version of production lay outs and logistics streams and as I got close to completing the new lay out I'm unable to save the game, every time auto-save runs the game crashes, many features began to malfunction, and FPS drops to below 10, overall the game becomes unplayable. I love this game and I've spent a lot of time on it, the graphics beautiful, concept and story line of the game are very well put together. The game is in early access and so much can be done with this game. My only suggestion if you play it, slow down, don't rush the research tree, don't mine underground too big. If you play it in slow play, take your time, don't build multiple production lines or machines of the same time and you'll enjoy it and allow the dev team to work out the long part of the game. I'm excited to see where this game goes!

Aug. 2024

I got to tell you, I am 71 and playing on steam for over 20 years. Have played Satisfactory {which I like} but am very impressed playing this new game. My hat off with the Dev's quick responses and constant updates and fixes sometimes 3 times a day. This is how you open a new game. When NMS started it had many problems in 2016 but came back hard and fast to make it right to its players {unlike Star Citizen which is constantly disrespecting its player and still not ready after 12 years}. Congradulations for a game I am loving to play with The Crust Team. Thanks

July 2024

Don't listen to the people that are frustrated with the difficulty. Everything you need to do in the campaign is explained to you. It's still intense, don't get me wrong, but in a good way. I only have a few gripes, and those all have to do with the UI. Great game! Amazing atmosphere! Tons of fun! Definitely worth the price! You can definitely see the passion in this title. (And the interface is likely going to get better with a few patches...)

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