Space Haven

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Characters in Space Haven are the crew members on the player's spaceship. The player must keep each character in a good mood while they travel through space. Characters have needs, moods, health, and skills, and can develop relationships with each other. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews. Space Haven Guides XINFINITYX's Guides. Space Haven Basics. By XINFINITYX. An introduction to the basics of Space Haven. A spaceship colony sim placing you in charge of a ragtag civilian crew in search of a new Earth, designed by and for fans of RimWorld. Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of.

The Earth is dying, ravaged by decades of calamity. As humanity abandons its burning homeworld, you and your crew are among the privileged few with access to a temporary haven and a chance at survival. Build your ship and gather your crew to carry you between the stars. Choose whether you'll be heroes or villains as you struggle to survive, or watch your ship become a tomb for other, more successful crews to loot. Whatever happens, it is up to you to chart your course.

Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, andexplore the universe in this spaceship colony sim.

Space Haven combines the emergent story telling components of RimWorld with a tile-based gas-simulation system seen in Oxygen Not Included. Other inspirations are Spacebase DF-9 and Dwarf Fortress.

Survive your own way. Choose to act like a pirate, slave trader, alien hunter or a force for good. Want to be a pirate and attack and steal from anyone you meet? Maybe you want to be a slave trader and capture crew members from other factions and sell them on the market? You could be a notoriousalien hunter, fighting aliens aboard derelict ships and scavenging their meat. Or perhaps you're the good guy fighting pirates and helping civilians? Space Haven aims to give you the freedom to role play.

• Customize – Complete freedom to build a spaceship or station of your own desire. Place every piece of ship hull, wall, door and facility wherever you want.
• Functional – All facilities serve a purpose. Crew members will sleep in beds, use toilets, be disturbed by a noisy room and praise you for an arcade machine.

Space Haven is a space colony sim allowing for a lot of freedom regarding building. A functional spaceship can be built tile-by tile, giving you the opportunity to shape a spaceship of your own desire. It can be symmetric and streamlined, or an asymmetrical whimsical looking thing. It does not have to look like a conventional spaceship depicted in sci-fi literature, you are free to design your own, the choice is yours!

• Oxygen and CO2 – Keep optimal Oxygen and CO2 levels by building life support modules for your crew members.
• Hazardous gases – Certain facilities and explosions can release hazardous gases. Build scrubbers to purify the air.
• Temperature – Build temperature regulators to maintain ideal temperature for your crew members.
• Power – Build power nodes and set up power distribution throughout the ship.
• Comfort – Building a bed right next to the ship core will disturb sleep. Design your ship for crew comfort.

The isometric tile-based gas system simulates various gases, temperature and crew comfort on your spaceship. This system is very similar to the one seen in Oxygen Not Included. Humans, plants and facilities react to the conditions surrounding them, giving meaning to how you design your ship and the living conditions you create. Secure facilities, optimize crew survival and well-being, but also think of possible future accidents and chaos generated from crew combat or environmental hazards.

• Skills and traits – Every crew member has their own set of skills and traits. A wimp might get scared shooting a gun, while an iron-stomach can eat anything unaffected.
• Mood – A happy crew member needs food, sleep, comfort, safety and friends. Take something away and their mood will be affected.
• Conditions – Crew members might feel adventurous, suffer from starvation, feel unhygienic, or they simply ate too much. Various conditions affect how they feel.
• Mental breaks – When the stress is too much for a crew member they may suffer a mental break. Some will vent themselves out of the air lock, while others might start a fight.

In Space Haven characters aren't mere robots. The game takes inspiration from RimWorld and Dwarf Fortress regarding the simulation of crew members. The game simulates needs, moods, health and skills of your crew members and they develop relationships with each other. Their past life occupation and hobbies will affect their skills and know-how, and they have both positive and negative traits. Witness joyful moments, depression, and drama surrounding different crew members as you journey onward seeking a new home.

• Away missions – Equip your crew members and organize away teams to explore derelict ships or visit stations or spaceships of other factions.
• Draft – Draft and move your crew members to attack enemies and save their friends.
• Inventory – Each crew member have their own unique inventory. Equip them with pistols, rifles, grenades and more.

Equip your crew with space suits and weapons and organize away teams to explore derelict ships and stations. Explore and salvage resources and items, find activated cryopods with someone frozen inside. Visit spaceships or stations of other factions and find data logs telling stories of past spacefarers searching for a new home.

• Crew combat – Engage in combat with enemy factions or an alien species.
• Aliens – Watch aliens incapacitate your crew members and capture them alive. See them suffer in the alien lair and decide if you want to try to save them or not.

Aliens capture your crew members and cocoon them against walls in their base. See them suffer in the alien lair and decide if you want to save them or not. Explore derelict ships and discover someone from the original crew of the ship captured by the aliens. Events like these create interesting back stories to new arrivals to your crew.

• Battlestations – Watch your crew take battlestations as you engage the enemy in ship-to-ship battle. See your crew load turrets with projectiles, put out fires from explosions, patch hull breaches and repair vital facilities in midst of battle.
• Tactical – Target the enemy ship engine and stop them from fleeing. See them do the same to you. Engage their turrets directly or try to focus the enemy ship core and see their ship go pitch black. Build shields to protect your most vital segments of your ships.

Build turrets and engage in tactical ship-to-ship battle, where a hit and explosion could cause a snowball effect of fire, smoke, hazardous gases and even hull breaches for either party. All crew members need to work together to win the battle.

• Cryopods – Crew members can be put into stasis to freeze the progression of a disease or to await rescue.
• Medical – Treat crew members for injuries, wounds and diseases. Medical conditions affect crew members in various ways.

Your crew members will become wounded in battles and might catch a serious disease. Set up a medical room, scan for diseases and foreign masses and have your best doctor tend to illnesses and perform surgeries. Hope that your doctor is not absent minded and leaves a surgical tool inside.

• Gain a new crew member by finding a activated cryo chamber aboard a derelict ship.
• Have a space burial for your fallen crew member to let other crew members say good bye.
• Grow plants with bio mass and water recycled from toilets.
• Eat the meat from a fallen crew member or an invader if desperation is high.
• Watch aliens capture your crew member and cocoon them to a wall in their lair. Will you go save them or leave them there?

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Do you ever wonder how in your favourite sci-fi movies and games, how the colony's built upon space stations came to be? Well, Space Haven not only answers that question but allows you to manage its progress, growth and success with you at the helm.It terms of how this one plays. It has many similarities to hit indie title FTL but also borrows a lot of assets from colony management titles such as Rimworld or Dwarf Fortress. It's the concept of the former with the enhanced and expanded scope of the latter. Offering a brand new and interesting experience.

The final frontier

The gameplay is exactly what you would expect based on this. The core gameplay revolves around keeping your inhabitants happy, productive and most importantly alive. All the while, trying to grow and expand operations to create the most sustainable and powerful vessel in the galaxy.It soon becomes a game that is more or less Sims in space. You are constantly managing the wellbeing of all your personnel, with considerations such as morale, comfort, noise and being able to provide life essentials such as food and water dominate your thinking and make you second guess every decision you make.

Meanwhile you have to be constantly on the lookout for raw resources to build and expand or simply maintain your vessels functions. Though, in case you haven't been to space, its not exactly chalked full of goodies and loot to plunder. Resources are scarce and how you choose to use them is vital to your survival.

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Alien Invasion

Alien Invasion

So, with this need for resources, the core gameplay loop has you ransack derelict space hubs and asteroids for anything useful. This will usually lead to fighting off terrifying alien abominations and have you introduced to the combat for this title. It's a competent but pretty standard RTS format that serves the title well. The focus is placed elsewhere and that is to the games benefit.

The game also features space dog fights because it wouldn't be a game about travelling through space without them. These play out much the same with other added caveats such as targeting weaker areas of enemy ships and also bargaining with them for prisoners when they have chosen to surrender.

Overwhelming detail

Although we as game enthusiasts love nothing more than a detailed and thorough presentation. Space Haven seems to take this to the extreme, providing a wealth of superficial and inconsequential information that only serves to confuse and alienate players. Though other details seem to suffer when really they deserved more time and thought to be invested. Things like living quarters being coupled with toilets like in a prison cell and the whole colony simply allowing this as if it's normal. It's a small detail but one that is hardly immersion building.

Shoots for the moon, reaches the stars

Space Haven is by no means a bad title. In fact, for what it is, it achieve a lot of the things it sets out to do. Though the main question to ask is was achieving these goals necessary. The joy of FTL, a game that Space Haven clearly takes inspiration from, comes from its quick and replayable nature. Though this one feels sluggish, offers a wealth of detail and the action is sporadic at best.

If you are looking for a slower-paced and less high stakes FTL experience, Space Haven provides just that. Though if you are looking for a well-constructed colony game which ticks every box and ties each faculty together symbolically, I'm afraid you'll have to look elsewhere.

Pros

• Decent art direction
• A wealth of things to do
• Fun resource management

Cons

Space Haven Review

• Overwhelming details
• Sluggish pacing
• Lack of self awareness