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  • Welcome to a look at the top 10 Base Building Strategy and Simulation Games of 2017 and 2018

  • at number 10, Osiris: New Dawn

  • Now with these top 10 videos. I like to keep the top 10 slot

  • as kind of a wild card slot and I like to throw in something that's either

  • slightly different or a little bit off the wall or that's really big, bold and ambitious and this game fits into the latter category

  • This is an ambitious game

  • And while base building is one of the central themes of the game there is so, so much more

  • the Year is

  • 2078 and the Earth resources have been depleted and mankind has gone off with the Osiris

  • Expedition in search of another planet to screw up.

  • You're just getting comfortable on your nice

  • shiny space station studying potentially really nice habitable planets to land on, when your space station

  • malfunctions forcing you into an emergency landing on the hostile, nasty, horrible planet immediately below

  • After crash landing on the surface of Proteus 2 your first job's going to be to explore your surroundings and gather resources and materials.

  • Now you can start building your face

  • You start off with a central habitat.

  • Then you can expand the structures by adding modular units, you can grow food you can build living quarters,

  • manufacturing labs and you can also build and upgrade your equipment and carry out research which will allow to build Rovers,

  • Hovercraft and even Spacecraft which will allow you to explore the surrounding planets and moons

  • Now I said this was an ambitious game, and it's not just a scale of the game that's ambitious.

  • They've taken the open-world build, craft survive genre and they've mixed in some RPG mechanics.

  • You can choose to play different classes. You can choose different skills, different attributes

  • You can play online or offline, you can play single-Player or multiplayer?

  • you can play in a private universe or in a public universe and

  • the best for me you can play in first-person or you can play in third-person.

  • All sounds great doesn't it but before you rush off and buy into the early access on Steam

  • Just be aware that whilst the early access went well at first

  • recent Patches have made the game a bit of a grind and

  • also really difficult especially in the early game to the point where it's taken some of the fun out of it now.

  • But this is still very early access. All of this may change and the game may get back to what it was.

  • So add it to you watch list

  • This is our colony our home

  • I never thought would come this far

  • This is not how it started

  • When the teams came humanity was not prepared

  • I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm one of the survivors

  • The apocalypse have begun, but we chose to resist

  • to rebuild in the shadow of Chaos

  • We started with a small camp collecting. What little we could we explored a devastated world and even

  • We had to scavenge

  • Vital resources

  • We re-learned forgotten trades

  • Crafted tools, we constructed buildings

  • built a economy, forged a new society

  • Where science failed us we turned to the occult, performing rituals to harness the power the dark arts for our own ends.

  • Each day we survive as a triumph

  • every death another tragedy

  • the gates of hell have been unleashed

  • But judgment has not yet been passed on us

  • To survive is to prevail

  • Will you survived judgment day? Judgment available now on steam

  • At number 8 its Planet Nomads. Now this game has huge potential

  • it's currently in early access and

  • the reviews are mixed and the negative reviews seem to fall into two categories. Either its complaints about the lack of endgame, well

  • the games in early access, It's not finished yet! Or complaints about bugs and glitches

  • Yeah it's in early access. It's not finished yet! But

  • what everybody seems to agree on even the negative reviews is that the game is

  • beautiful and not just beautiful to look at but the music is great and very atmospheric gets you really immersed in the game

  • And when you combine that with the building the building features of the game are very, very good

  • You can build some awesome structures you could build some incredible vehicles

  • You can even build things like monorails, so I would say this is a game

  • you should definitely have on your watch list. Keep a close eye on it because this could turn out to be really good

  • It's out on full release sometime in 2018

  • What do you get if you take a Victorian steampunk theme?

  • throwing a big dollop of colony management

  • add some genuinely engaging gameplay

  • Render the whole thing in Stunning 4K graphics

  • And finally load it up with more zombies than you can possibly imagine

  • you get they are billions and

  • This isn't some mindless tower defense game. This has got colony management

  • It's got resource gathering you've got to build all kinds of buildings. You can upgrade the walls and the zombies are intelligent

  • They smell they listen if you make a noise

  • They'll come to it if you kill some of them practice of resource deposit 100 of them will come to investigate

  • But I don't have to tell you about all that just look at it

  • at number 6 its Mayor

  • Now to say the Jury's out on this game is an understatement and let me explain why

  • The surface of the Planet is full of Hostile animals

  • Which forces you to build mainly underground to ensure the survival of your colonists?

  • Maya was inspired by games like Dungeon Keeper and

  • dwarf Fortress and just like those games the mechanics of the game are

  • Extremely deep and complex the game has been developed by a very small team with only one coder and that coder is

  • Simon roth who used to be with mode 7 who developed games like frozen synapse

  • the procedurally generated maps are huge being 2 kilometers wide long and deep and

  • Generally speaking the systems and mechanics in the game are really good

  • The fluid Dynamics of things like Larvae and water are particularly impressive

  • So what's the problem, then well this games been in early access since December 2013?

  • Yeah, it's been in it's been in early access for three and a half years

  • And apparently according to the developer. They put it into early access to early like about six months too early

  • And that has delayed the game they estimate by something like eighteen months, so this going should have been out 18 months ago

  • and the game has been plagued by

  • Our performance issues and bugs

  • Now that doesn't sound very encouraging, but you've got to remember that the developers haven't abandoned it they stuck this out

  • And they've stuck with it for the last three and a half years and they have been fixing the bugs and they have been improving

  • The game and optimising and doing all of those things

  • The question is in the next few months before release

  • Can the developers finish the polishing if they can this is going to be a really good game?

  • But if they can't then it could be a real disaster, so this one should have been on your watchlist

  • Definitely, but Buyer Beware make sure that the games been polished before you buy this

  • At number five it's Evil genius - now

  • I wish that this was a trailer for Hebrew genius - it's not it's trailer for Evil genius online

  • And that's because it only literally just been announced a couple of days ago that there's kind of they're going to do a sequel

  • And I'm sure that's going to make a lot of people happy because it is a very popular game although

  • And it was criticized at the time for having too much micromanagement, and it was a little bit buggy

  • But I've got to say I hold out huge hope for this game because rebellion the developers they

  • Develop it themselves. They Publish it themselves

  • they don't have anybody telling them what to do so as long as they learn the lessons from the first game and

  • Keep the humor that made the first game so good

  • This could be something very very special

  • So this is once after you watch list your Christmas list you wish there's every list you can think of because it's Gonna be awesome

  • Please please be awesome

  • There can't be many of you out there who don't know about Factorio, but for the very few who don't

  • Factorial is a game in which you build and maintain

  • Factories you mind resources you've researched technologies you build your infrastructure you also make your production

  • And you use it all to kill the local indigenous life forms

  • And it's really difficult to find anything negative to say about this game. It basically is the best

  • logistical management simulator ever

  • You can play single-Player you can play cooperative multiplayer?

  • It has great modding support and a big modding communities a lot of great mods out there

  • And it comes with a built in map editor

  • And it only costs 15 pounds which I find at staggering

  • So it's this simple if you don't have it buy it

  • But don't blame me when you get fired from work because you keep turning up late because you've been up all night

  • saying

  • Just just five minutes longer. I just want to do this. I just five minutes longer. I just want to optimize that

  • Yeah, it's extremely addictive and you will lose a lot of slope

  • You've been warned oh

  • Yeah, and it's even got an awesome trailer

  • the goal

  • Or should I say the dream

  • is to become

  • a self-sufficient new world Far away from out

  • We know it's not going to be easy

  • but achieving dreams never is

  • In such an unforgiving environment

  • The challenges will be many

  • But as humanity is described we need to succeed

  • This is why?

  • only the best most talented people have been selected to this mission the

  • Picture, I was going to look when it's finished

  • No

  • maybe there's one on the box I

  • Don't think there is a box

  • Now this is going to surprise some people

  • oxygen not included is that number two and I bet a lot of you thought this was going to be the number one and

  • I tell you what I

  • About it. I applied so much oxygen not included it's not true. I've already done three let's play series

  • The game is a space colony simulation game

  • We manage colonists you dig you build and maintain a Subterranean?

  • asteroid Base and

  • You need to look after them. You need to supply all of their needs

  • water warm food

  • Oxygen but that's just to keep them alive keeping them. Happy is a whole other ball game

  • the Game is

  • Awesome. It is truly awesome, and I could easily have made it my number one pick the only reason I didn't is because

  • We haven't really seen an end game to this game yet

  • And without an end game as much fun as it is and as much replayability as there is

  • It's not the complete package

  • But the game is healed very early and early access and every update that comes out it just gets better

  • So this one I can recommend wholeheartedly

  • Buy it you won't regret it

  • And at number one yeah it had to be rimworld

  • Now not only is this my number one pick for upcoming face builder, but it's actually my number one favorite of all time

  • I've got over 560 hours played and three let's play series to my gnome

  • Now for anybody that doesn't know rim. World is a Sci-Fi colony sim driven by an intelligent Ai

  • Storyteller now that's according to the developer time and sylvester

  • personally I think it's driven by an

  • Infuriating sadistic lunatic of a storyteller, but that's the thing about Rim world, it's challenging

  • It's sometimes infuriating

  • It's rewarding and it's tons of fun often all at the same time

  • You have to manage your colonists move their needs you have to give them medical care

  • You're engaging small team tactical gunplay you build structures weapons

  • clothing from metal wood stone or

  • futuristic materials you fight pirate Raiders hostile tribes

  • Rampaging animals joy and cuddling insects and ancient killing machines you can tame and train Q pets

  • Productive fire animals deadly attack beast and you can't let's have complex relationships with family members

  • Lovers spouses you can build colonies in the desert the jungle Tundra forests

  • outdoor compounds underground bases what else can I say this game is a huge bowl of

  • Awesome sauce with a massive side order of cool beans

  • And it's yet another game like war fortress like prison our depth of proof that you don't need fancy

  • Graphics to be a great game you just need good

  • Intelligent engaging challenging gameplay, and that's it for my top 10 base building games. I hope you enjoyed it

  • I'll catch for the next one peace out

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