Solar Settlers

[code] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36948155-Card-Game-KING/] FOR MORE CARD AND BOARD GAMES FOLLOW US [b]CARD GAME KING [/b][/url] [/code] Solar Settlers is a resource management game with mechanics distilled to its simplest form. Your job is to settle colonists in a set number of turns, while managing resources for moving and keeping them alive. One of the main gimmicks is to maneuver colonists so you efficiently activate planet effects which differ based on the number of colonists present. Not much else to it, unfortunately. Once you played your first game, you would have seen everything and the challenge is to do it even more efficiently on higher difficulty levels. The card aspect only comes from drawing planet cards which can be used to upgrade planets, but there is no deckbuilding or card play so it's card aspect is quite minimal. Essentially it's a resource management efficiency puzzle game, that's also easy to pick up, but it struggles a lot with variety. The...

Not for me.

It's cheap-looking and ugly, clearly the product of someone with an art budget of "3 sodas for their 19-year-old cousin to please knock this out for me" But it's also a fascinating card-based 4x simulator that has hard cutoffs for winning and losing so games are 30 minutes or less, with a lot of interesting decisions and combos. Not to mention, there's multiple races to unlock each with their own superpowers. I've spent a lot more on prettier games that sucked and I am super happy with my purchase here and keep coming back to it because Solar Settlers mixes that one-more-run itch of roguelikes with the grand strategic planning of sprawling 4x'ers. Grab this game!