It’s your job to set up a system that handles all these things for you, automating the act of mining, refining, and distributing each resource, while keeping the whole thing powered. It’s not your job to do everything by hand, or to do the grunt work yourself, even if that’s how you begin. And you have to make sure all of those buildings are connected, in the right order, so there is one smooth path for the materials to be processed.Įfficiency is the entire point of the game, in fact. Imagine being in charge of a space mission with manuals that only kinda explain what you have to do.Īt first, you’re stuck collecting resources manually with your mech, until you can climb the tech tree a little bit and build factories to mine the supplies you need, then refineries to turn them into usable raw materials, and storage facilities to keep everything until you’re ready to use it. The game relies on you to do just about everything, and the in-game tutorials are only slightly helpful. The opening hours are tedious, especially when you’re trying to figure out what’s going on. You crash-land on a procedurally generated home world with a few supplies and a robot to explore the planet, and then you begin to gather resources. Dyson Sphere Program is a PC game about strip-mining a planetary system, and it turns out that ransacking planets for their sweet, sweet minerals in order to make a power source for a supercomputer really makes the real-world hours fly by.

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