Notrium

Notrium is a game I played extensively 12 years ago. I played it for hours as a kid because it was quick fun, had exploration and crafting and a vibrant community with extensive mod support. I taught me the basics of modding which later got me interested in programing. The game is still as fun as I remember, but the community is quite gone -- which is where Steam comes in. I can only imagine what kind of mods steam users would make. Until then the base game and original mods will keep you busy!

A hidden gem of the early indie game scene, Notrium has finally come to Steam. This game was doing survival in a hostile world long before Minecraft popularized the genre. Crafting, alien landscapes, multiple playable races, solid modding community, the works. An incredible game, more so for the time it was released, it still holds up today. For the incredibly low asking price, this game is highly recommended.

Notrium is a survival game from a time when survival games wern't really a thing. You get multiple difficulties, multiple races(Each race has its own playstyle) and multiple ways to go about your survival adventure each time you play. It's been many years since I've put a lot of time into this game so it's difficult for me to break down each element in the review but I'm sure someone else will do that later. I just want to let you know that this is an upgraded version of an already quality game that I spent many hours enjoying in the past. It's also fully moddable with some impressive mods already existing.

Notrium. I don't have words for this game. Probably one of my most favoured games of all time, I can't believe it's on Steam! I dropped the $1.99 in about a second! Notrium is a survival game. You play as one of 4 characters from a crew that crashlands on an alien planet. Your goal is to survive, be it that you find a way offworld, or take presedence over the locals and become ze' ubermanche. There is the Human, Alien, Android and Psionic. I personally prefer the Human and Alien to the other two races, because of the amount of gameplay each presents. Notrium hits the "Survival" Part right on the money. You constantly have to moniter your temperature and hunger, as well as focusing on the whole NOT DYING part. I sincerely hope Ville releases workshop for this game, due to the huge amount of moddability. Someone modded this into a side scroller guys! How crazy is that? Insanity aside, $1.99 is a small price to pay for a game with this kind of content. Definitely worth the time you'll s...

This classic game is definitely worth playing to any survival game enthusiast. In fact, when it comes to futuristic survival games, this one is a pioneer. It covers multiple races with distinct gameplay strategies, crafting, a nicely written back-story and loads of aliens to kill... or be killed by. It's also moddable to the point enabling the creation of expansions to the original game, or just something completely different. Although its introduction to Steam and the improvements available in the Special Surprise Edition (™?) are a fresh breeze to the game, this version brings the same spirit of the freeware versions from 2003 and onwards. In fact, one of these earlier versions of Notrium is open-source. Hence, my greatest inclination of buying it here is to support the (very) nice developers behind it. It's still worth every cent.

>Be me. >Very bored. >Suddenly remember notrium, the game from almost two decades back, you used to play as a kid and maybe even one of your very first pc games. >Google it in hopes to play it again. >See it's actually available in steam. >Joyfully pay the 1.99€. >Literal tears of nostalgic happiness.

Notrium is, quite possibly, one of, if not the first modern survival game. It predates every other game in the genre that I know by a few years. Everything is here: You've got to eat, keep warm, or keep cool. You have to explore, and find resources to craft things with. The environment is hostile. There are different biomes with different challenges. Notrium does everything Don't Starve, The Forest, Subnautica etc. do. And it did it way before anyone else. And it was free. This is just part of the reason why I don't understand why nobody ever seems to have heard of this game. How does one game predate the rise of an entire genre, do it this well, but is so obscure? Because if you're reading this, and you don't know what Notrium is, all I can tell you is that it does everything you expect from a survival craft-em-up. In fact, it does more. It has several wildly different classes to play, and it has multiple endings. So yes, it's a little rough looking. It's been 15 years, and it was f...

This game, in a way, changed my life, because it influenced how i perceive games in the first place. I became an indie dev and developed my own game based on the inspiration Notrium and few other games gave me. So i really owe a lot to this game, and hope Ville is up to make many more great games!

Notrium is a top down survival game that was originally freeware (you can find the free version [url=https://gamejolt.com/games/notrium/3799/download/build/211998][b]HERE[/b][/url]. The developer Ville Mönkkönen re released this commercial version back in 2015 as a special edition on Steam. I played the original Notrium for months when I first got a copy of the freeware version. I loved the variety of environments you could explore with Notrium and the challenge of surviving by scavenging for food and supplies as well as the crafting aspect and the day and night cycles. Another interesting aspect to the game was deciding which character to play because each has its own strengths and weaknesses, for example the captain relied heavily on weapons, partly because he was the weakest of the characters. The androids characters were really strong, but couldn't heal themselves until they found healing units that were scatted when the space ship crashed. The alien was a...

tl;dr Small cost, lots of fun. No brainer, !tl;dr This is a great game, and for the price versus the amount of gameplay you're likely to get out of this is a great fun-to-cost ratio. It feature 4 different 'races' to play with, that actually have vastly different playstyles (well perhaps two of the 4 are not vastly different, but still focus on very different items for scavanging). Its maps are randomly generated to a large extent, meaning that even if you play through all 4 races you will not feel like you are simply trudging through the same world in a different set of shoes. Disclaimer: I originally played Notrium back in 2005, and it kept me entertained for quite a while. So I am probably wearing nostalgia glasses to some extent. But at the same time there aren't many games that caught my attention like this over the years.