At last I can farm someplace other than a rural Earth valley in this space western farm sim
Every year it gets tougher for me to differentiate from the bounty of new farm sims being developed, which usually range from pastoral to fantastical in various shades of green, but One Lonely Outpost is a rarer specimen: a sci-fi farm sim. Developers Freedom Games shared a new trailer for the extraterrestrial life sim during today's Guerrilla Collective showcase, and it reminded me just how much of a sucker I am for space westerns.
One Lonely Outpost boasts all the usual farm and town sim features: crafting, fishing, cooking, mining, romance—oh, and terraforming, which is what really caught my attention. «Rise up and overcome unbreathable air, inedible food, unfertilized ground, and inaccessible water sources,» Freedom Games says. That is a siren song to a map-completionist, fog-of-war-clearing gremlin like me. «Discover the plethora of fish, bugs, and other flora and fauna living in this otherwise lifeless world, chronicling every new material or creature in the Omninac for future reference,» it adds, which is even more juice for my checklist-loving brain.
On top of that, I'm just very into the space desert full of clunky ships, drones, and a retro-future looking blend of analog tech. You can fish with an underwater drone, set up floating space-y sprinklers, mine and terraform with a multitool gauntlet.
But One Lonely Outpost nearly hid its coolest feature: gene splicing and plant tending. If I had a nickel for every sci-fi farm sim with genetic crop science I'd have two nickels (which isn't a lot, so I'd like more of them). In last summer's trailer for OLO you can spot splicing together hybrid Strawmatos with blight resistance and a cute little activity of pruning and tending to your smiley tomato plant.
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