Startopia 2001

Is it still worth playing?

Mucky Foot Productions' 2001 game, made by former Bullfrog staff, in which you run space stations and turn them into popular hubs, in a comical tone with cartoonish aliens. A series of employers hands you stations, many of them in disrepair after an apocalyptic galactic war. Its aliens cannot be controlled directly. You build rooms and hire aliens to staff them, and each type of alien suits a particular kind of task. Those rooms provide necessities such as food and sanitation, and recreation that keeps visitors on the station and spending money. A sandbox mode is also available. Running a station by setting things up, with aliens you cannot order around, still makes every layout a test today.