Planetbase

Planetbase is a strategy game where you guide a group of space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet. In the game you play the role of the base architect and manager, telling your colonists where to build the structures they will need to survive. You have to ensure that they have a constant supply of oxygen, food and water to stay alive.

You get them to collect energy, extract water, mine metal, grow food, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient base. Even if the game is not intended to be a simulator, all the mechanics are plausible, and based on what the expected challenges of establishing a colony in an new planet would be.

The game offers three planets: Desert, Frozen and Gas Giant. Colonists include workers, biologists, engineers, medics and guards. Bots that can be manufactured include a carrier bot, a constructor bot and a driller bot. The colony can be threatened by meteors, sandstorms or solar flares.