Genesis Alpha One Reviews
Genesis: Alpha One is a great roguelike for those looking for long methodical sessions. The in-depth simulation shows off great care from the developer but quickly becomes tedious as you try to meet everything's limited conditions at once.
Great concept and premise derailed by bad game design and a terrible graphical presentation.
Overall, this game is fun to play and brings you into a new world of FPS and shipbuilding to engage its player base. It is a single player game that will test your building skills as you create this massive starship that will take your people to a new world for colonization. Releasing on January 29, 2019, this game promises to be one of the more fun first-person shooters out there this year. It launches for $29.99 USD on the Epic Store.
It's a shame that a game of such promise and ambition ends up in such a questionably lacking state as this, for Genesis Alpha One wields a fair number of interesting ideas, mechanics and spins on such things as roguelike exploration and base-building methodology that work wonders when feeding back into the core premise of managing all aspects of a ship journeying through space.
Genesis Alpha One is a fun space simulator/roguelike experience for players who enjoy resource gathering and crafting, ship management and first-person shooter mechanics – and want to play something where they're all bundled into one package. It's not the biggest triple AAA title on the market, but it's definitely one of the most unique games to release and kick off 2019.
Genesis Alpha One has more in common with Farming Simulator than No Man’s Sky, offering a more grounded take on exploration than most.
Genesis Alpha One is a game that I love coming back to for both short and long bursts. It's got an absolute ton of replayability with some really interesting designs and mechanics to boot.
Genesis Alpha One mixes many elements from different genres together to create a whole new experience, but even if there were no shortcomings in other sections like visuals and sound design, which there is, GAO is still not mature enough to be considered a revolutionary title it is trying to be.
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In conclusion, Genesis Alpha One is a decent way to spend a weekend, but it will wear out its welcome not long afterwards. Building, upgrading, and defending a starship is compelling enough. There are also those times when a large-scale invasion generates some real excitement. However, a lot of time is going to be spent performing mundane tasks. Although this does an admirable job of streamlining most of them, boredom will eventually set in. Still, the unique premise might be reason enough to check it out.
The universe of Genesis is vibrant, with distant systems lighting the ship with a beautiful sci-fi glow, and the aliens representing a full intriguing gamut from cockroach-like beasts through to humanoid aliens. This is the kind of game that people who dream of crafting their own space exploration stories, without being dragged through any particular forced narrative, will absolutely love.
Genesis Alpha One has an interesting idea but it ends up failing on not using them in the right way. Simple graphics, not so gripping story and weak gameplay make the game even more boring. Even the exploration, that should be one of the highlights of the game, isn't enough to catch the player's attention and will to play. Genesis Alpha One is not the best choice to start exploring the games in 2019.
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Genesis Alpha One is full of innovative and interesting ideas but hasn't been succeed to execute some of them well. Although fast first person action and charming 70's Sci-Fi-like cutscenes can make the game interesting for a while, but after a few hours, it has not much new content to offer.
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Genesis Alpha One is a game with some good ideas but no elegant way to execute them all. The merging of ship building and exploration is quite good once you understand how to do it. DNA splicing is also a neat little touch, but it doesn't fix the fact that the clones are as dumb as bricks and about half as useful. Planetary exploration feels fine, but the gunplay is undercooked. All in all, there's a decent title here if you're able to overcome all of its issues.
Genesis Alpha One is an exhilarating sci-fi experience unlike any other.
Genesis Alpha One won't be for everyone, but the ones that like it will certainly find this addicting.
Genesis Alpha One is merging different genres like roguelike, shooter and base building succesfully. The game is creating random universe, so the game is changing every time. Of course it has some flaws but if you like sci-fi games, you can give a chance to it.
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Genesis Alpha One is the Frankenstein concoction of many different genres, and I love it! When you’re not trying to expand your ship with new and essential components, you’ll be micromanaging your crew of clones or down on an alien planet harvesting materials. It’s all very unpredictable and you’re always on the edge of your seat, especially when you start to hear sirens and see a bunch of red blips appear on your map! The combat itself isn’t the greatest, with sensitive controls and an ‘off feeling’ non-iron sight mode, but you’ll eventually get used to it and it will begin to feel much better. For a rogue-like title, I found the time spent on each ‘run’ was quite long, this made getting eliminated much more intense and impactful.
I guess my main issue is that it doesn’t excel in any of its pursuits. It’s not a strong shooter, nor do you explore with any freedom. As a shipbuilder, the variety of modules is slim, and as a rogue-like, the repetition far outweighs the game’s limited randomness.
Overall there is not really a lot here that I can recommend, especially with the price point there is just not much enjoyment or longevity to be had here for £25.
Right now, Genesis Alpha One is a mixed bag, but it's a gorgeous and well-made bag. Further updates could make this game a must-have.