Startopia is a real-time strategy/city management game. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, it is your job to rebuild the once-thriving network of starships and space-stations. You must compete against several other enterprises, using economic and military means to expand your power and restore life to the war-torn planets of the galaxy.

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Alternate Titles

"星际乐土" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"Startopia: Space City" -- French title
"Spacestation" -- Working title

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Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Startopia (Jewel Case)	Windows	$6.50
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User Reviews

Highly addictive, if not as original as some claim.	Ola Sverre Bauge (236)
A rare gem.	El-ad Amir (110)
An excellent game... with ONE fatal flaw!	Dr.Bedlam (53)	unrated

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The Press Says

Gaming Age	Sep 24, 2001	A	100
Gamer's Pulse	Aug 16, 2001	91 out of 100	91
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Jul 05, 2001	9 out of 10	90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Sep, 2001	87 out of 100	87
GameSpy	Jul 23, 2001	85 out of 100	85
Game Revolution	Jun 01, 2001	B+	83
GameSpot	Jun 19, 2001	8.3 out of 10	83
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Oct, 2001		80
Gamekult	Jun 22, 2001	8 out of 10	80
ESC Magazine	Aug 30, 2001	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Development

The game originally attracted the interest of publisher Psygnosis, but the team settled with Eidos based on their chemistry with that company.

Mucky Foot was founded by ex-Bullfrog members, so it's not too surprising to find a lot of Startopia's features borrowed from another Bullfrog game, namely Dungeon Keeper 2.

Easter egg

If you zoom up on the Workstations in the Laboratory, you can occasionally see the "Blue Screen of Death". The Turraken scientist will shake with anger and bash his fist against the screen, getting the Workstation back on track.

Movie reference

Slight spoiler: the speech given to the player during the end scene may sound familiar. It is based on the speech Darth Vader gives Luke Skywalker after their battle on Bespin in the Star Wars movie.

Patch

The English voice acting of the in-game AI adviser VAL, which was voiced by William Franklin, was considered so good that shortly after the German release a "patch" was made by fans, which replaced all the German voice acting with the English one. The file is about 300MB, which was quite a large amount back in 2001.