To open this door of the RPS Advent Calendar, you must first build a complex chain of production lines, each of which will feed into more production lines on other planets to facilitate the create a solar powered automatic door opener. So.
Operating at peak performance, it Dyson Sphere Program!
Ollie: The automation game has really started to develop, hasn’t it? It’s been a few years and I can only name Factorio, and I wouldn’t think of calling it a category. Now, there are dozens of automation games out there, more released each year and each one trying to perfect its own format. I’ve played many of them now, and I can safely say that the Dyson Sphere Program comes closest to knocking the almighty Factorio from its throne. On certain days, depending on my mood, it could even usurp Factorio altogether.
A new game from the Dyson Sphere Program that lets you control a mech suit dropped onto a friendly spherical planet, reminiscent of the world of The Outer Wilds. Your aim is to gather resources, build factories, research technology, spread to other planets in your solar system and finally to other solar systems in the galaxy created by hand. your custom. All with the noble purpose of creating a Dyson Sphere – a superstructure that can harness the full energy of a star – that could power your species’ virtual reality home forever.
It’s an incredibly ambitious idea, but it’s not just an abstract goal. Some of the elements I just mentioned also introduce some of the key features and mechanics that make Dyson Sphere Program an automation game unlike any other. For starters, everything is done through the mech suit, which you have to further power by adding various fuels to the Fuel Chamber. And if you want to expand your horizons (literally) you’ll need to upgrade your mech suit so it can fly around and out of the atmosphere to travel – literally travel, real time, no loading screen – to different planets.
Then there are the planets. In the Dyson Sphere Program, planets orbit their stars in real time, meaning that sometimes the planets are close together and other times they are very far away. That becomes important when you start setting up the transportation of resources across different planets. You’ll also need to pay close attention to each planet, because it’s not just their ores and available resources that set them apart from the rest. For example, some planets have better solar or wind energy than others. Some are larger than others, giving you more room to build. Some planets are neatly locked, which is great for solar farms because you can place them on the sunny side where they will generate power 100% of the time.
Dyson Sphere Program gives you a lot of new things to think about even for veteran players from other heavyweight automation games. It all comes together and is amazingly refined, and it takes after Factorio carefully leads the player from one problem and solution to the next without ever feeling like a game. holding in your hand.
This is definitely the coolest automation game I’ve played. Bright colors and soft lighting combine with real-time sunrises and sunsets, fully simulated to give the game a truly beautiful and peaceful atmosphere – far from the mood. Factorio’s perpetual gloom. How has such a small team of developers been able to create such an incredibly solid and fun game with so many great new ideas, and make it look this good, and keep everything running smoothly even while simulating many large factories spread across star systems, I will never get it.
