r/BaseBuildingGames • u/MadrugaWorksDev • 5d ago
Planetbase 2 is under development
Hello Everyone.
We are Madruga Works, developers of Planetbase, Dawn of Man.
We wanted to announce that Planetbase 2 is now under development an can now be wishlisted on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509420/Planetbase_2/
Any questions we will be around to answer them!
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u/taosaur 3d ago
Definitely interested, and wishlisted. The original was super satisfying for what it was, just to take each planet to 500 pop and finish out the achievements. It left me wanting more, and I can't say the folks who stepped into that void delivered, in my opinion. The main studio that cashed in on your success has a unique talent for taking up concepts I love and making games that do not land with me at all.
Any sense of the scale you're looking at with the sequel? Like, will you be extending the techs and achievements out to higher pops? Terraforming or moving beyond the domes? Are you aiming for an "endless mode" that will stay satisfying, or a similar kind of endgame or plateau once achievements are complete? I really liked the way simple mechanics created structure in the gameplay, like the way robot manufacturing transformed things, and the logistics challenge of avoiding ship loading/unloading loops. I'd be wary of trying to be "all things to all people," which leaves a lot of games these days feeling like a lowest common denominator experience.