The Crust on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 colony sim 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 2,473 reviews of which 1,904 were positive and 569 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 Colony Sim Space Automation Resource Management Sandbox Strategy City Builder Building Simulation Management Sci-fi Exploration Survival Post-apocalyptic RTS Dungeon Crawler Singleplayer Indie

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System requirements

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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

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Go search for infinite ore deposits mods and weight decrease for items. This will make your experience 1000 times more enjoyable. Playing default game will not allow you to feel progress within the game because you will be constantly running behind your digging sites when they run out just to rebuild them elsewhere. This core mechanic makes all upgrades meaningless since the more you upgrade your factories will only speed up time before you need to replace their placing (and buy all upgrades all over). With infinite ore deposits you actually enjoy the game by building that nasty conveyor spagetti which will be viable until you decide to expand or improve things instead of game pushing you to do it. Gameplay itself is fine, I like the aspect of "ground" and "underground", not sure what's up with planet view though, I guess you can explore some places when you want to chill out from expanding your base but overall it's not something that I did during my game time except of activating research scans for science points. Space drilling units are definitely WIP at the moment, too much manual management required. The balance of skills tree is... mediocre, if you take a look at a patch notes, it actually built based on when it was added to the game instead of logical placement, especially latest one's, that's why you will find "basic light lamp" way in the bottom of the tech tree (???). Weight reduction mod will make contract deliveries so much more enjoyable and well balanced, it's crazy to get contract for 10k smart concrete and you can ship only 300/900 per shipment, you end up losing more money just on the shipment cost itself. Luckly game is relatively easy to mod, the only thing I didn't figure out is how to mod maximum camera distance under ground, I think it's locked because there is actual Z axis ceiling max, since it does work outside. Campaign is new, there is a ton amount of improvements needed, especially with time limited missions. I skipped campaign at the start (ignored quests) and was just building and expanding, ended up having multiple short time limit contracts to fulfill because I moved further in the game than it was expected from step-by-step guide. Time sensitive quests should be at least 10x longer on the time allowance. Also, you can't skip cinematic at the start of campaign even if you have seen it (why?). Anyways, if those two mods would not exist it would probably be negative review, but last save I clocked 30 hours and it's quite enjoyable experience. The last end game is performance issue when you have whole lot of factories and bots, but it is kinda same issue overall in majority of automation games. Keep working on the game, dev's, give players options to adjust game balance at least for custom sandbox and the reviews will become much better. (and make that underground camera go further out, damn it)

Feb. 2025

The game in it's current state is quite balanced and engaging. It was a very short period to become familiarized with the controls and game meta, although the one thing that I have found so far has been the ore ratios. I understand that this game is meant for people more accustomed to factory/resource management, however, there is room for a bit of explanation on optimizing your production ratios a little earlier on in the game so as to have a more balanced and efficient production line earlier on in the play cycle. I also understand that as this is an early look at the game in it's current state, that this may come in later on in the play cycle. All in all, apart from that one caveat, the game is excellent in its current state. It is engaging in all aspects, and especially in the setup to when the story really kicks in.

Jan. 2025

cant say enough about this Game, The Crust. Please keep in mind its still in development , that being said the Devs are listening to the feedback of the community. Game has its bugs, again its EA, but if you like building games, and managing your little astronauts .. ;-P The Crust also has a decent story, ""no spoilers"" , Great voice acting, well most of the scripts there are, again still a work in progress... So far Im really enjoying the game, and come from along list of building games, Satisfactory, Factory, Reminds of those if I had to place another game compared to it... Great game so far!..

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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28.99€

7.4

1,904

569

Online players

312

Developer

VEOM Studio

Publisher

Crytivo

Release 15 Jul 2024

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