MewnBase

You know,
I remember when I came across this title when it was in early access.
It was pretty straight forward survival sandbox. There were no enemies at that time or rocket to fly away with.

I eventually found the title even on steam and well, Here is my honest opinion.

If I would be able to design games or code I would be proud if I could make something like this.
It's simple it's fun, the game loop always revolves around you surviving certain amount of days while you manage your hunger and oxygen.

Once you find out that you can take out the enemy creatures with even the basic shovel, you become an unstoppable killing machine.

Unfortunately the game also suffers with lack of sustaining the player for longer time. The reason is primarily due to lack of more enemies, biomes and tech to obtain.

The only difference you will experience is when you play with longer night or 24/7 night time mode. But it will just take you longer to finish set missions.

I would recommend this as a good starting point for survival genre for new comers to gaming.

The game does not need 5090 to run, it's pretty straight forward and also getting the 21 achievements is natural and there are no extra things you really need to do, as you will get them during the with the game.

I would suggest picking this up during a sale.

Beautiful and well crafted. Short and sweet. I would love to play more

Is it bare-bones? Yes. Is it basic? Also yes. Does it have surprising depths? No, not really.

Mewnbase is a chill, relaxing survival game. Yes, there are threats. Yes, you can die. But overall, it's just about gathering resources and expanding your base as you survive for a set amount of time (about an in-game month), then building a rocket and leaving. There's no surprising plot twists, no secret agenda to uncover. Just a randomly generated map and cute graphics. It's a relaxing way to spend some time, easily worth the $10 price tag, but it's not the next Subnautica if that's what you're looking for.

This game looked like it would be fun, so it being on special I decided to buy.

And then.. right from the get go a minute into the game there are constantly issues - issues that seem very big and should be fixed as this is not a beta or Early access..

There is visual bugs where any of the following happens - the screen randomly flickers or goes black, or more annoying when moving the mouse some screen/hud elements disappear or flicker or becomes blocks. The game also crashed when switching to other apps.

Perhaps I'll buy again later if I spot an update.. good luck

Fun little space exploration/building game. Not too stressful but the survival mechanics still require you to stay focused if you want to stay alive. The only issue I've run into with it is that the sound can sometimes be a little bit weird, sometimes stuff will just randomly stop making noise and then start again randomly.

I love playing this game very much.
It has a lot of elements I like in survival games such as solar, wind, nuclear, backup batteries, growing food, collecting water, weather, crafting, building & achievements.
The game is simple and easy to play and has a good tutorial.

The biggest challenge I had with this game is driving the buggy around the rocks. Maybe if I had a foot pedal I could limit the speed.
I also had some sound issues that some sfx did not play like the alert low on food or the humming of the buggy. But this could be related to playing the game on Steam deck or Linux.

You can finish the game in probably 10 hours, but for getting all the achievements it will take longer.
I'm sure you can add loads of extra content to the game like extra missions, aliens, disasters, extra stories.

It's interesting, the way things change over time. "No, I am your father" was a groundbreaking twist back when it came out, now it's almost a joke. MewnBase has been in development for 9 years if I understand correctly, and it was conceived in 2015 - and the developer's been working on this game in his spare time.

And, yknow, maybe if this indeed came out in 2015, it would've been fun. It's not awful even now, it did manage to hold me for 3 hours which is quite impressive, but I noticed that I'm getting bored roughly halfway through.

And that's the problem. It's just boring. Slow. Clumsy. The components of the game don't work together too well, and some features - such as things breaking - seem to serve no purpose other than to give you something quick to do.

It's hard to even give legitimate criticism here. The randomly generated planets are, well, randomly generated, which almost always makes them uninteresting - we've known that for years now. And you need to walk around quite a bit, because you need a lot of resources to get a base going. That's not a bad thing if collecting the resource is fun. It isn't.

It's strange. All the elements seem decently polished, it looks neat, I love the art style, and it definitely feels like there's some design philosophy to it. But... not quite, or at least I don't see it. Perhaps most importantly, the game doesn't really flow. You know? There are just too much tedium between the interesting moments, and when they're interesting, they're not even that interesting.

God, this game's turned my brain into mush. Even this review sucks. Oh well. Perhaps that's a good sendoff to this whole thing.

(To the dev: I'm so sorry for such mean words. I can see how much work went into this, but I really found the game very boring. I hope that at least you had fun while developing this.)

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A good game, but a little on the thin side. The tutorial isn't really much different from the regular game except for starting with a few more resources and being extremely limited on which achievements you can unlock there for some asinine reason. I picked this one up in early access and came back to it about a year after it went gold, and honestly the difference between the beta and the finished game was a lot less than I was expecting. Even with the addition of all the technology trees that are involved with getting off-planet and completing your mission, you're just looking at a couple of extra days of work and much of that will be spent just waiting around waiting for light, power, construction, or research.

It is a good game but it should has more content. Still, it's worth buying.

Cute little top down open world explorer with an anthropomorphic cat on a different planet filled with other creatures. build a habitat for yourself, grow your own food, find lava geysers, and discover nuclear power via a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG).

I really like this game. It's actually pretty difficult to keep up with hunger while still making progress, finding research items, in the beginning. But once you get some stuff set up, it's more fun.

You might think this was meant to be a game for children, but unfortunately, it isn't really. I find the UI and controls not INTUITIVE enough to recommend this game for a 7 years old kid.

A few minutes in the tutorial and then in the 'sandbox' mod (no need for food, oxygen etc) were enough to realize that you have to LEARN how to play this game. You might think that in a game like this you have to control everything using just a single mouse button. Not in the case of Mewnbase - you have to learn when to use LMB and RMB, where to click to use food and so on.
It's not hard for an adult, but it is clunky. And it is complex for a kid - you'll have to teach how to operate this game.

Given all this I wonder - what was meant to be the target audince of this game? As an adult I'm not interested to play this, and I could recommend this only to a teenage girl who has no game experience thus she wouldn't be too unimpressed.

What devs were thinking? It clearly had to be the one-button game, but it isn't. It looks and feels as an Adobe Flash game with the shaky walking animations; nothing 'cat' there except for the head.

Give me a game with the simple graphics like in this, but with the simplest, intuitive controls - I'd grab it with both hands.