Let’s be honest for one moment. A building simulation title gets announced more often than the news of Katie Price starting a new relationship. Consequently, you never know if you are on to a good thing. As such, I usually wait until others have reviewed the game to get a lay of the land. However, the announcement of Dawn Apart caught my attention. This space colony base builder ticks all the right boxes from the off.
With a scheduled release date of spring 2024, we have some time to wait to play it. Yet, I couldn’t hold off any longer. I instantly fell for its Factorio automation and the dystopian Rimworld setting. Accordingly, this game has some big influences that should create a deep and fulfilling experience.
What is the story behind Dawn Apart?
Set on the distant planet of Aurora, you must control a colony of fortune hunters as you appease a corporate overlord. Furthermore, you are expected to protect your assets from angry and aggressive natives. Subsequently, things rarely go to plan as you try to fulfil the relentless orders. The horrendous contractor will stop at nothing to make a quick buck. As such, you’ll either work tirelessly to complete each quota, or you’ll rebel and do your own thing. Either way, you’ll enjoy a rich and challenging experience filled with twists and turns.
Set in a gloriously destructive voxel world, you are free to blow up everything you see. However, you won’t waste what you find. No, instead, you’ll use it to complete each contract or increase your structures. After all, you won’t want to lose your business to a bunch of ill-educated locals with a grudge. Dawn Apart attempts to break the mould. Therefore, it boasts such features as.
- Automate: Build vertically and erect sky-high factory complexes with assembly lines stretching over multiple floors.
- Colonise: Manage a growing number of engineers, mercenaries, and civilians who have left their homes behind to start over in a lush but hostile world.
- Destroy: Everything you build and encounter can be pulverised down to the last voxel.
One for the future.
A year is a long time to be patient. Yet, I can’t wait to see this in early access. With an interesting theme, some phenomenal influences, and a few unique ideas, this is bound to pique many gamer’s interests. If you are sold on the idea, why not click here to wishlist it?
