Developer: System Era Softworks
Publisher: System Era Softworks
Release: Out now
On: Windows
From: Steam, Humble, Microsoft Store
Price: 24/$30/ 28
If Peggle-era PopCap (Gawd rest its consumed soul) had survived into the era of survival, I reckon they’d have made something a lot like Astroneer. Where other sci-fi don’t-die-’em-ups are soundtracked by the angry buzz of e’er-encroaching death, Astroneer’s is all endorphin-inducing rising notes, delightful popping noises and the happy whirr of toylike tractors.
Slowly asphyxiating to death in an unforgiving alien wasteland has never been so joyful.