Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week it’s space station build-and-manage-’em-up Meeple Station.
Developer: Vox Games
Publisher: Modularity
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows, MacOSX, Linux
From: Steam, Humble, Itch
For: 15, $20, 17
Meeple Station is a game about building a space station and keeping its residents alive, a task made all the more challenging by those residents having each been cursed with simulated emotional states, which can become so fraught that they ll hurl themselves out of an airlock rather than face another second living aboard your creation. So, more accurately, Meeple Station is a game about convincing little pixel people not to fatally catapult themselves into the void.