IXION - space station sim by Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus developer

[Parsimonious cook]

I recently grabbed this and played for some 12 hours so far - I like it a lot tbh fam. Its kinda annoying that you have to manually control the transfer of resources between individual sections of the Tiqqun and there are some technical issues still (had to reload a save recently because a cargo ship that was supposed to deliver supplies to a planetary colony somehow got stuck and never brought the supplies), but in general the game is in a good state.

Gameplay-wise, I love the constant tension (the Tiqqun keeps falling apart, the crew keeps going crazy, you have to be on your toes since things can go from "OK" to "FUBAR" very fast), the city building aspect is fine and the space exploration (done through CYOA events) is p. gud. The tone of the game in general is very dark, a really good take on the post-apocalyptic genre. This game does the Frostpunk thingy much better than Frostpunk ever did.

 

[Cyberarmy]

the crew keeps going crazy

That is the part that I don't like about the game. Crew keeps going crazy even when everything is friggin alright...
That easly fuck up a lot of things, especially in fully developed sectors and when you are low on alloys...

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Yeah, the devs came up with this "dead Earth syndrome" which makes people go crazy regardless of what the actual situation is. It is indeed annoying, but I appreciate that the devs try to explore the psychic strain of the space travel (after all this is very much debated even in connection to the flight to Mars) as well as of being the few survivors of the actual apocalypse.

In a way I guess that the game is more of a social sim than space sim.