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Genesis Alpha One
Explore a vast universe in this roguelike, ship building, FPS Genesis Alpha One mixes thrilling roguelike mechanics with a deep ship builder and fast first-person action, putting you in the role of an interstellar pioneer. As the Captain of a Genesis starship, you journey into uncharted space on the ultimate mission. Build and manage a space vess...
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The universe of Genesis is vibrant, with distant systems lighting the ship with a beautiful sci-fi glow, and the aliens representing a full intriguing gamut from cockroach-like beasts through to humanoid aliens. This is the kind of game that people who dream of crafting their own space exploration stories, without being dragged through any particular forced narrative, will absolutely love.
Genesis Alpha One is an ambitious sci-fi ship-builder with FPS and tower defense elements. It's also a rogue-like. It's a lot. And it just might pull it off. Check out our Genesis Alpha One review to find out.
If there's one thing that Genesis Alpha One has taught me, it's that I need a CRISPR kit. I also need a wealth of genetic material from a variety of sources, including material from stowaways that happen to come onto my spaceship and start laying eggs and god knows what else, clogging the whole damn thing up. Maybe I need a bit of bug spray too.
With the exception of its amusingly redundant name, Genesis Alpha One is an ambitious melting pot of genres that gets a lot of weird and out-there ideas right
Genesis Alpha One has more in common with Farming Simulator than No Man’s Sky, offering a more grounded take on exploration than most. The smattering of gunplay is enough to stop the game becoming a grind, but you’ll nevertheless find joy in the game’s moments of stillness. And it’s a testament to the game’s staying power that, even when your ship has been destroyed, you’ll come back for more. Just don’t go sticking your face in any oversized eggs.
Genesis Alpha One has some really cool ideas going for it, unfortunately they’re outweighed by repetitive busywork that you easily get bogged down in. Sure, it’s an interesting strategy game at times, but the grind is just too damn much!
Genesis Alpha One is a sci-fi game that puts you in the role of an interstellar pioneer, and combines a mix of roguelike, FPS, base building and survival elements.
Genesis: Alpha One is a great roguelike for those looking for long methodical sessions. The in-depth simulation shows off great care from the developer but quickly becomes tedious as you try to meet everything's limited conditions at once.
Great concept and premise derailed by bad game design and a terrible graphical presentation.
In its voyage to the stars, Genesis Alpha One gets waylaid in some empty place in between.
It's a shame that a game of such promise and ambition ends up in such a questionably lacking state as this, for Genesis Alpha One wields a fair number of interesting ideas, mechanics and spins on such things as roguelike exploration and base-building methodology that work wonders when feeding back into the core premise of managing all aspects of a ship journeying through space. Unfortunately the considerable lack of polish, indecisively wonky aesthetic and utterly dismal implementation of random events both visually and structurally -- of which can leave your six/seven/eight hour run feeling w...
Gathering the necessary resources to fulfill a Genesis mission can take a lot of time, especially if you end up getting pushed back by hostile invasions. There is a base sense of joy to be had from making the numbers go up, but I never completed a Genesis mission and I doubt whatever feeling or reward it gives was worth the effort to reach it. I think it is more than enough to say I have no interest in playing more of it just to confirm what I already know: it's not great.