Startopia (PC) Reviews

Startopia is a game that I greatly admire because while it wasn't a huge commercial hit, it fared very well with critics and with the audiences who did buy it. It takes the well worn cliches of the sim genre and turns them on their head, allowing you to manage a spaceport, while imbued with a very unique sense of humour that's as witty as the ...  Read the complete review

Power, yes POWER! Oh sorry, I was just expressing my love for management games, honest. Well funnily enough, Startopia is not one management game, but several "all rolled together, shoved into a rocket and flown to a donut!" That donut is a space station (a Torus if you want to be technical, a dump if you don't), that has been ...  Read the complete review

I feel I must begin with an apology, or rather an excuse for not doing many ops for a while, but I’ve been busy doing stuff and learning what sounds “good” from a guitar. One speciality of which I’ve come to a conclusion I cannot perform, the other reason is I’ve also been getting into Franks Herbert’s Dune ...  Read the complete review

Where do I start with this game, Startopia has to be one of the best games of the year by a long way. It combines the city building of Sim City with real time battles of something like Red Alert and resource management. This game play combined with superb graphics, sound and features make for a very addictive game indeed. ** Game ...  Read the complete review

While obviously inspired by building simulations such as SimCity, Startopia owes much of its gameplay and solid mechanics to another wildly fun and hilarious simulation, Dungeon Keeper 2. Instead of being stuffed in a claustrophobic dungeon, players graduate to the more complex high-tech world of space station construction and the high-tech ...  Read the complete review

When I first saw the review on startopia in a gameing magazine I instantly wanted to buy it. I love simulations and even more space sims. The screen shots that the magazine showed me all that I needed to know. The only problem was that I had to wait 8 months until it came out in the shops. I had forgotten about the game until several of ...  Read the complete review

Startopia is a cross between Dungeon Keeper, Simcity and Theme Hospital. You play the role of ‘Galactic Administrator’ and are assigned missions by the various alien races. Initially I had a terrible time just getting the game to play. As soon as it was loaded it informed me that I didn’t have the correct color to play ...  Read the complete review

With Startopia we're given in management a Spicchio of an old star base, with the purpose to arrange all the equipment better to accept the various extraterrestrial races of passage. The title of the Eidos is a building game, so how in many other preceding (from Sim city and Theme Park) we'll be we to install the very ...  Read the complete review

Promoted as the game of the year by some this game has many top atributes. For those who like management games like me it certainly is a good game. It has a good learning curve where you are lead through the games many features step by step by a computer which is at times quite ausing. Also the graphics are excelent and the gameplay is good. ...  Read the complete review

Theme Park and Sim City meets Theme Hospital, with a bit of Settlers in Space thrown in, that’s about the best way to describe this excellent and just released game from Eidos Interactive and Muckyfoot. The game is immense, and has plenty of options, which include online playing capabilities and is tipped to be THE next big strategy ...  Read the complete review

Startopia has a good chance of being game of the year because its utterly superb. This real-time stratgy game takes place in the vast-ness of space after the apocalypse. It is your job to rebuild and maintain the many tube like space stations through-out the galaxy and generally re-build the empire. In the process you'll ...  Read the complete review