Planet Nomads : Pt1. Poisonous Antelopes and Swarms of Bees! (Steam Single-Player PC Gameplay)
Channel: LIFE RPG
Date: 26/08/2017

Planet Nomad is a space sandbox similar to a few games we've played in the past, but the trick with this one is that settling down will probably lead you to an inevitable death, hence... Planet Nomads!

The amount of customization in Planet Nomads is gigantic, and once you've learned to build all the basic components they can be strung together in a huge amount of interesting ways... This game is gonna be awesome!!

While the first few episodes are mostly spend bumbling and unlocking the necessary parts, eventually we are able to get on the road and become the Planet Nomad explorer we were always meant to be!

Check out Planet Nomads on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/504050/

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Planet Nomads is a sci-fi sandbox game of survival on alien planets through block-style building. You are a lone astronaut scientist crash-landing on a strangely captivating planet. Keeping your wit together and securing your basic survival needs that include food, water and building material is the best start towards figuring out a way out of this messy situation.

Planet Nomads delivers a unique gaming experience by combining building, survival and exploration together to make you you feel like a true survivor.
Building
Building is the cornerstone of Planet Nomads. What you build determines your survival chances and increases your action radius. Building helps you to progress further and uncover advanced materials. Close to a hundred blocks await to let you create nearly anything your imagination can come up with.
Exploration
You may have explored your immediate surrounding, but a couple kilometers North or South, things are radically different. Multiple biomes cover the planet from pole to pole depending on the climate. Sandy engine blends the biomes naturally, making sure the journey to the North pole is an epic and everchanging adventure.
Survival
Surviving on an inhabited planet is no easy task, but with careful planning, caution and a healthy amount of curiosity, you can do it. As long as you overcome poisonous plants and curious beasts, avoid being slashed to pieces, frozen to death, eaten alive, starved and generally ended.

Planet Nomads has been successfully Kickstarted, is now going through its Early Access, and it's being developed and improved together with our growing Nomadic family. You are most welcome to join us.

Gameplay
The tutorial relies more on still images than a step-by-step procedure in real time, yet the barebones stuff gets explained even if it’s expedient. It was a wise choice, adding the option to craft and modify a land roving vehicle to survey the planet’s surface in both an efficient and safe manner. When I said that the wild life is less aggressive than in previously played crafting & survival titles, I didn’t mean it as if you’re going to pet space puppies and kitties in Planet Nomads. On the contrary, the animals shall leave players alone provided they keep their distance. Get too close and that cute alien deer will try to transform you into an easily opened tin can.

Speaking of the exosuit, I enjoy the features it allows such as the jetpack and the option to play the game from a 3rd person perspective. It’s like you’re playing Mass Effect Andromeda but with less stiff facial expressions. Can’t tell if “Character” (seriously, he/she has no name registered in-game other than that) has a tired face or not since that helmet can’t be removed. Terraforming implies that the atmosphere doesn’t contain sufficient oxygen to support human physiology yet, so that is perhaps the reason why sending a larger survey team is not part of the plan. Less mouths to feed or consume oxygen and purified water. The structures you can erect resemble a research station along with a small biodome for creating a sustainable environment for a small team of pioneers. Perhaps our lucky astronaut is just setting up the foundations and scouting for his future colleagues.

Verdict
Even if I shall refrain from offering a rating and summary containing strong/weak points, I can point out to Planet Nomads’s flaws and still consider the game promising if it shall continue receiving constant support from the dev team. The crafting system and the harvesting options won’t disappoint the true fans of this gameplay. You obviously need little to no convincing from me or anyone else, if you’re both experienced with the subgenre and willing to sink several dozen hours into just building a proper base and the auxiliary vehicles to warrant the expedition in the first place. -UNOW3N