Welcome to a look at the top 10 Base Building Strategy and Simulation Games of 2017 and 2018
at number 10, Osiris: New Dawn
Now with these top 10 videos. I like to keep the top 10 slot
as kind of a wild card slot and I like to throw in something that's either
slightly different or a little bit off the wall or that's really big, bold and ambitious and this game fits into the latter category
This is an ambitious game
And while base building is one of the central themes of the game there is so, so much more
the Year is
2078 and the Earth resources have been depleted and mankind has gone off with the Osiris
Expedition in search of another planet to screw up.
You're just getting comfortable on your nice
shiny space station studying potentially really nice habitable planets to land on, when your space station
malfunctions forcing you into an emergency landing on the hostile, nasty, horrible planet immediately below
After crash landing on the surface of Proteus 2 your first job's going to be to explore your surroundings and gather resources and materials.
Now you can start building your face
You start off with a central habitat.
Then you can expand the structures by adding modular units, you can grow food you can build living quarters,
manufacturing labs and you can also build and upgrade your equipment and carry out research which will allow to build Rovers,
Hovercraft and even Spacecraft which will allow you to explore the surrounding planets and moons
Now I said this was an ambitious game, and it's not just a scale of the game that's ambitious.
They've taken the open-world build, craft survive genre and they've mixed in some RPG mechanics.
You can choose to play different classes. You can choose different skills, different attributes
You can play online or offline, you can play single-Player or multiplayer?
you can play in a private universe or in a public universe and
the best for me you can play in first-person or you can play in third-person.
All sounds great doesn't it but before you rush off and buy into the early access on Steam
Just be aware that whilst the early access went well at first
recent Patches have made the game a bit of a grind and
also really difficult especially in the early game to the point where it's taken some of the fun out of it now.
But this is still very early access. All of this may change and the game may get back to what it was.
So add it to you watch list
This is our colony our home
I never thought would come this far
This is not how it started
When the teams came humanity was not prepared
I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the survivors
The apocalypse have begun, but we chose to resist
to rebuild in the shadow of Chaos
We started with a small camp collecting. What little we could we explored a devastated world and even
We had to scavenge
Vital resources
We re-learned forgotten trades
Crafted tools, we constructed buildings
built a economy, forged a new society
Where science failed us we turned to the occult, performing rituals to harness the power the dark arts for our own ends.
Each day we survive as a triumph
every death another tragedy
the gates of hell have been unleashed
But judgment has not yet been passed on us
To survive is to prevail
Will you survived judgment day? Judgment available now on steam
At number 8 its Planet Nomads. Now this game has huge potential
it's currently in early access and
the reviews are mixed and the negative reviews seem to fall into two categories. Either its complaints about the lack of endgame, well
the games in early access, It's not finished yet! Or complaints about bugs and glitches
Yeah it's in early access. It's not finished yet! But
what everybody seems to agree on even the negative reviews is that the game is
beautiful and not just beautiful to look at but the music is great and very atmospheric gets you really immersed in the game
And when you combine that with the building the building features of the game are very, very good
You can build some awesome structures you could build some incredible vehicles
You can even build things like monorails, so I would say this is a game
you should definitely have on your watch list. Keep a close eye on it because this could turn out to be really good
It's out on full release sometime in 2018
What do you get if you take a Victorian steampunk theme?
throwing a big dollop of colony management
add some genuinely engaging gameplay
Render the whole thing in Stunning 4K graphics
And finally load it up with more zombies than you can possibly imagine
you get they are billions and
This isn't some mindless tower defense game. This has got colony management
It's got resource gathering you've got to build all kinds of buildings. You can upgrade the walls and the zombies are intelligent
They smell they listen if you make a noise
They'll come to it if you kill some of them practice of resource deposit 100 of them will come to investigate
But I don't have to tell you about all that just look at it
at number 6 its Mayor
Now to say the Jury's out on this game is an understatement and let me explain why
The surface of the Planet is full of Hostile animals
Which forces you to build mainly underground to ensure the survival of your colonists?
Maya was inspired by games like Dungeon Keeper and
dwarf Fortress and just like those games the mechanics of the game are
Extremely deep and complex the game has been developed by a very small team with only one coder and that coder is
Simon roth who used to be with mode 7 who developed games like frozen synapse
the procedurally generated maps are huge being 2 kilometers wide long and deep and
Generally speaking the systems and mechanics in the game are really good
The fluid Dynamics of things like Larvae and water are particularly impressive
So what's the problem, then well this games been in early access since December 2013?
Yeah, it's been in it's been in early access for three and a half years
And apparently according to the developer. They put it into early access to early like about six months too early
And that has delayed the game they estimate by something like eighteen months, so this going should have been out 18 months ago
and the game has been plagued by
Our performance issues and bugs
Now that doesn't sound very encouraging, but you've got to remember that the developers haven't abandoned it they stuck this out
And they've stuck with it for the last three and a half years and they have been fixing the bugs and they have been improving
The game and optimising and doing all of those things
The question is in the next few months before release
Can the developers finish the polishing if they can this is going to be a really good game?
But if they can't then it could be a real disaster, so this one should have been on your watchlist
Definitely, but Buyer Beware make sure that the games been polished before you buy this
At number five it's Evil genius - now
I wish that this was a trailer for Hebrew genius - it's not it's trailer for Evil genius online
And that's because it only literally just been announced a couple of days ago that there's kind of they're going to do a sequel
And I'm sure that's going to make a lot of people happy because it is a very popular game although
And it was criticized at the time for having too much micromanagement, and it was a little bit buggy
But I've got to say I hold out huge hope for this game because rebellion the developers they
Develop it themselves. They Publish it themselves
they don't have anybody telling them what to do so as long as they learn the lessons from the first game and
Keep the humor that made the first game so good
This could be something very very special
So this is once after you watch list your Christmas list you wish there's every list you can think of because it's Gonna be awesome
Please please be awesome
There can't be many of you out there who don't know about Factorio, but for the very few who don't
Factorial is a game in which you build and maintain
Factories you mind resources you've researched technologies you build your infrastructure you also make your production
And you use it all to kill the local indigenous life forms
And it's really difficult to find anything negative to say about this game. It basically is the best
logistical management simulator ever
You can play single-Player you can play cooperative multiplayer?
It has great modding support and a big modding communities a lot of great mods out there
And it comes with a built in map editor
And it only costs 15 pounds which I find at staggering
So it's this simple if you don't have it buy it
But don't blame me when you get fired from work because you keep turning up late because you've been up all night
saying
Just just five minutes longer. I just want to do this. I just five minutes longer. I just want to optimize that
Yeah, it's extremely addictive and you will lose a lot of slope
You've been warned oh
Yeah, and it's even got an awesome trailer
the goal
Or should I say the dream
is to become
a self-sufficient new world Far away from out
We know it's not going to be easy
but achieving dreams never is
In such an unforgiving environment
The challenges will be many
But as humanity is described we need to succeed
This is why?
only the best most talented people have been selected to this mission the
Picture, I was going to look when it's finished
No
maybe there's one on the box I
Don't think there is a box
Now this is going to surprise some people
oxygen not included is that number two and I bet a lot of you thought this was going to be the number one and
I tell you what I
About it. I applied so much oxygen not included it's not true. I've already done three let's play series
The game is a space colony simulation game
We manage colonists you dig you build and maintain a Subterranean?
asteroid Base and
You need to look after them. You need to supply all of their needs
water warm food
Oxygen but that's just to keep them alive keeping them. Happy is a whole other ball game
the Game is
Awesome. It is truly awesome, and I could easily have made it my number one pick the only reason I didn't is because
We haven't really seen an end game to this game yet
And without an end game as much fun as it is and as much replayability as there is
It's not the complete package
But the game is healed very early and early access and every update that comes out it just gets better
So this one I can recommend wholeheartedly
Buy it you won't regret it
And at number one yeah it had to be rimworld
Now not only is this my number one pick for upcoming face builder, but it's actually my number one favorite of all time
I've got over 560 hours played and three let's play series to my gnome
Now for anybody that doesn't know rim. World is a Sci-Fi colony sim driven by an intelligent Ai
Storyteller now that's according to the developer time and sylvester
personally I think it's driven by an
Infuriating sadistic lunatic of a storyteller, but that's the thing about Rim world, it's challenging
It's sometimes infuriating
It's rewarding and it's tons of fun often all at the same time
You have to manage your colonists move their needs you have to give them medical care
You're engaging small team tactical gunplay you build structures weapons
clothing from metal wood stone or
futuristic materials you fight pirate Raiders hostile tribes
Rampaging animals joy and cuddling insects and ancient killing machines you can tame and train Q pets
Productive fire animals deadly attack beast and you can't let's have complex relationships with family members
Lovers spouses you can build colonies in the desert the jungle Tundra forests
outdoor compounds underground bases what else can I say this game is a huge bowl of
Awesome sauce with a massive side order of cool beans
And it's yet another game like war fortress like prison our depth of proof that you don't need fancy
Graphics to be a great game you just need good
Intelligent engaging challenging gameplay, and that's it for my top 10 base building games. I hope you enjoyed it
I'll catch for the next one peace out