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Archean

87% positive of 241 Steam reviews

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Released
2024
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Platforms
Steam

Made by batcholi, FloDKSM.

About the game

Gather resources, craft components, build vehicles, and code their logic in a physics-driven engineering sandbox and full scale space sim.

Tagged by players

  • Programming
  • Science
  • Space Sim
  • 6DOF
  • Building
  • Immersive Sim
  • Crafting
  • Sandbox
  • Space
  • Open World
  • Physics
  • Inventory Management

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Very Positive

What players say

  • Not recommended
    Interesting game idea plagued by pisspoor performance and an annoying electricity system I understand an RTX3060 isn't a top of the line card by any means, but for a game that's built around raytracing and is using it to its fullest, you'd expect good optimization. Not to mention, just generating new terrain scatter (rocks) tends to cause lagspikes which is insane to me. The electrical system is also meh. I can see…

    3.1 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    take the programming/logic of stationers/Plasma, add a pinch of Stormworks game direction, and the raw physical potential of SE's physics (but on a whole new level of awesome, and you would have something like this awesome game! Archean is like a sandbox where trial by fire is king! This is not for the faint of heart, its for those who enjoy making something not because the game told you to, but because you think…

    36 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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