Colony Ship - Review

[HiddenX]

Ye Old Entertainment reviewed Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game:

Colony Ship Review: A space sci-fi CRPG for true RPG fans.A solid Candidate for the YOE GOTY 2023

The year 2023 has been the best year in gaming in a long time. And in a year in which we have seen killer RPGs of all types and brands from massive triple A titles like Baldur's Gate 3 to impressive indies like Moonring, in rides Colony Ship A Post-Earth Role Playing Game, a space sci-fi, CRPG by Iron Tower, the guys who also brought us Dungeon Rats and The Age of Decadence. This is a title that may very well be best classic RPG to come out since Disco Elysium. Heavily influenced by Fallout but also by sci-fi cinema classics like Blade Runner, this titles is here to make some ripples. It is already a personal favorite and a solid candidate for game of the year.

02:31 - Character Creation & Character Progression
10:48 - Gameplay
18:26 - Story & Lore
28:00 - Companions Lorewise
31:18 - Companions Gameplaywise
32:52 - Secondary Mechanics & UX
35:56 - Sound Effects & Mix
38:26 - Voice Acting
38:42 - Music
40:18 - Graphics
43:24 - Performance & Stability
43:45 - Other Considerations & Final Thoughts

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[JDR13]

Weird review. He says "it's one of the best RPGs to come out in recent memory", and calls it a "solid GotY contender", but then he only rates it an 8.5 at the end.

 

[largh]

Weird review. He says "it's one of the best RPGs to come out in recent memory", and calls it a "solid GotY contender", but then he only rates it an 8.5 at the end.

Maybe he's afraid that no-one would watch his video otherwise. Extremes sell...

 

[Redglyph]

Weird review. He says "it's one of the best RPGs to come out in recent memory", and calls it a "solid GotY contender", but then he only rates it an 8.5 at the end.

According to his standards, 8.5 is pretty high. He's very difficult to please.

 

[Morrandir]

5/7 perfect score!

 

[Vaelith]

I finished Colony Ship within a couple of weeks of its release, and I can only recommend it. The difficulty is rather steep if you play in standard mode compared to most similar games, but that's a bit of a signature feature for Iron Tower games.

Without being a technical prodigy, or having the production values of other RPGs, it's been a game that I've enjoyed thoroughly, and I'm planning to play again soon. I coincide with the reviewer in that, if this hadn't been the BG3 year, it would have been a very serious contender for RPG of the year.

Where other dark horses like Dark Envoy or For the King 2 fell short, Colony Ship did a full delivery, and that's the best you can ask from smaller studios trying to leave their mark in the over-bloated industry.

9/10, great game.

 

[Carnifex]

This is still on my must-list to acquire, likely the very next time I see it at a decent discount.

 

[JDR13]

According to his standards, 8.5 is pretty high. He's very difficult to please.

Yet he thinks Colony Ship is one of the best RPGs in recent memory? Idk, I just wasn't that impressed. It seems like a solid game, but one of the best in recent memory seems a bit hyperbolic to me.

 

[daveyd]

I'd say it is one of the best RPGs in recent memory for me too. Almost perfect, except for those goddamn frogs.

I do agree with him that the game could benefit from some more sound effects though it really isn't that important to the experience.

 

[Redglyph]

Yet he thinks Colony Ship is one of the best RPGs in recent memory? Idk, I just wasn't that impressed. It seems like a solid game, but one of the best in recent memory seems a bit hyperbolic to me.

I've only played it a little when it was in Early Access, but I wouldn't call it the best RPGs in recent memory either. That's very subjective though.