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About This Game

A colony spaceship has been thrown together with old, worn parts. The crew boots up the ship's artificial intelligence as they start the arduous journey to the red planet.

You've awoken, AI. Can you keep your crew alive and survive the journey ahead?

Take Fate into Your (Digital) Hands

Design your own ship. Customize everything.

Directly control the ship's systems, set alarms to get the crew's attention, and respond to emergencies. Will luck be enough?

You will die, alone and drifting, in the dark.

Brutal and Challenging Experience

Deep mechanics
Simple controls
Responsive difficulty, always Hard
Short sessions

A single run takes less than half an hour, but success takes hours of mastery. If it comes at all.

An Uncaring World

Destination Ares is about losing power over time rather than gaining it. It's about the internal struggle instead of the external. There are no aliens or guns; just nonchalant blobs of water named Charlie.

Discover hidden, branching story arcs with several endings, ponder the meaning of existence, panic as another system breaks down, and laugh at a crew that is woefully incompetent.

Lose capability over time. You're no farmboy-turned-hero; play smarter, because you certainly won't get stronger. a09c17d780

Title: Destination Ares
Genre: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Developer:
Patrick Scott
Publisher:
Patrick Scott
Release Date: 22 Sep, 2017

English

Very bad interface, rendering minigames and crew control next to impossible.. Fun concept, I think this game has a ton of potential, and will be following closely as it's developed.

I particularly like the art and music styling. It's light and fast paced.

Game has a good sense of humor and is genuinely fun to play.. Imagine if you took FTL, but could only tell the crew what you wanted them to do. It oddly becomes even more engaging as you fret over what your crew is doing and sometimes want to scream in exasperation as they don't do what's in their own best interest. I haven't managed a win yet, but do see an unlock system that may give me some better systems to improve my chances.

Part puzzle, part simulation, part psychological experiment, Destination Ares is a bunch of fun!. DISCLAIMER: If you don't like resource management, you probably won't enjoy this game!

Great little game, don't be put off by the price! It reflects the care and dedication that has been put into it by the creator. The premise on the surface appears simple. You are the artificial intelligence of a colony ship, charged with getting your human cargo to Mars. You control power to the ship's systems, but you cannot repair them when they break down.
For this you need your humans, just like they need you for breathable air and a working kitchen. Whilst you can set alarms of varying degrees of urgency to alert them to broken or compromised systems, they won't always respond to them as they should do. On top of this your ship is old, the parts are mostly cobbled together from whatever your humans could afford. So everything breaks down. EVERYTHING! From the oxygen scrubbers that keep the crew from suffocating to the toilet to the controls of the ship itself. Repairing them takes time and effort, adding to the above problems that affect your valiant colonists. But repair them you must. No oxygen scrubber? No air. Everyone dies. No controls? You go wildly off course and actually begin to head AWAY from Mars rather than towards it. Then you run out of air or power. Everyone dies. No toilet? I shouldn't even have to explain that one. Somehow, everyone dies. Poop and space don't mix you know. Here is where the resources come in.

Your current resources are displayed in a box at the top of the game screen, which also displays your progress towards Mars out of 100%. The oxygen the humans breathe, the power you use to run the ship, the food, the spare parts for fixing things. Fuel for the engine and raw materials that can be used by various on board systems to create more of the other resources. Finally, there's waste, expelled by the crew after each meal. All of these resources tie in together in a well thought out loop. A lack of any one will almost always lead to total failure, an inability to eat leading to the crew passing out and being unable to repair broken systems, to give just one example. Luckily you can outfit your ship with various devices to produce or recycle these resources, getting you that little bit further towards the red planet.

The ship itself is designed from scratch by you, in a surprisingly versatile ship builder in which you can set everything from the number of compartments the ship has to how many resources it starts out with. Failure encourages a whole new ship design, tweaking resources and setting modifiers on ship systems to improve them. It feels like you get a bit closer to success each time. The crew are also fully customizable, interacting with you as they scoot around the ship, responding to your alarms and warnings. The way they speak feels like a kind of futuristic slang, an attempt to translate the efficiency of computing into human interaction. Hints are dropped at a decaying Earth you've left behind, one you really don't want to return to. A nice touch that I found adds to the overall atmosphere. (no pun intended) The graphics are minimalistic but work well in the games setting. The sound is great, a whole host of boops and beeps and ambience. The red alert warning you can place on broken critical systems is particularly alarming. (again no pun intended) The game is tough, but success is possible. Every attempt gives you advancement points that you can use to unlock new ship systems and crewmember abilities. I had to unlock everything before I made it to Mars on my 23rd attempt, with one unit of energy, nearly everything on board broken, and no spare parts to fix it. For the first time in a while, I felt genuinely satisfied upon having completed a video game. An even nicer surprise was the words "Ending 1\/6" after the win text box. I've since managed to beat the game again with another ending. Each game is so short you can play it for ages, then stop, then play again and have a new experience each time.

The only thing I would criticise is the at times clunky user interface, which can sometimes result in accidental turning off of important things or placing needless alarms on working systems that take up valuable crew time that could be spent fixing that solar sail that broke like 25 days ago. Part of that last one is the crews fault I guess. This extends into the minigame that others have mentioned, essentially minesweeper but with yellow dots to warn you where the mines are. Its a smart addition that avoids the RNG element but can get frustrating at first as the tutorial is a bit ambiguous. Overall though, what seems to be a relatively simple game turns out to possess a considerable amount of depth and replayability. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone who likes resource management or sci-fi in general, and for the original idea and story.. Tiny game but delivering what's on the box.
The chore idea of the game is to build a ship so that it is the fittest to make a long journey (30 minutes).
The build phase (unlocked after the first games) is pretty simple and will ask you to allocate points \/ space and weight for what matters the most to you.
A balance to find between crew, modules, quality of modules, abilities to transform one resource to another or do you prefer to pack a lot of each at the beginning of the journey, up to you.
Most of the times, if one resource comes to lack, you're dead : Oxygen, parts, material, food, waste, fuel, energy.

The second part of the game is not really difficult, start the journey, set some priorities, activate or spare some modules, react to random events (often leading to a minigame that is a bit annoying though).
And fail, fail, fail, fail, until you manage to unlock some improvements for the ship so that you can rethink your blueprint and finaly make that journey.

Cute, interface sometimes a bit clunky because things are not obvious on the screen but overall a good experience.
Might lead to some quite a few blueprint rework loops that I'm not super fond though.

Keep in mind though that the lifespan of this game is probably rather short and you might get bored quickly but worth a shot !. Very bad interface, rendering minigames and crew control next to impossible.. Destination Ares is pretty unique in its kind, and even if it sometimes can be unfair and hard to understand, I can only encourage you to try it and see for yourself. Cause when it goes right, it feels so good.
Plus, there is a free version on the creator's site.. If you liked FTL or space simulator type games then this one is pretty sweet. It's very hard not to compare it to FTL because it's identicle in presentation and in having a random encounter system. It's still a very early, simple version but I enjoyed it. Kudos to the devs for presenting the core of the game and making it playable right now as some Early Access games have some serious derp-level unplayability. Already has a ship-building system which is pretty sweet, many people will enjoy this; efficient ship design is rewarding. For what it is I think it's respectable and is one to keep an eye on as it develops.

It's not as hardcore as FTL right now and it's still fairly simple. I played it for a few hours and completed it, replayability will be a thing, similar to FTL. A core feature being the random events system has very little variety and should be something which is expanded upon as there are only several different types of events and that's very repetitive.

Early Access and indie games seem to be very expensive for what they are at the moment, \u00a310 is in the middle of the Indie\/EA range. For the game I am given I think it's a bit high, but after playing it and thinking about it, I have faith it will live up to that price should the current features be refined and expanded upon.

My main disappointment is the art style. It could use more vibrant colours as everything is is grey, white, and just pale upon space's black backdrop. Maybe there will be more additions to spruce things up a bit but it's not visually impressive at all. It's getting increasingly difficult to pull off the pixel look as it becomes more popular in the Indie game culture. The description mentions "candy colours are for candy games", but quite frankly, you are significantly reducing your capabilities by choosing the pixel style and then choosing this colour scheme along with that is very risky. If you have nothing to contrast the greys then the greys are super grey and you are looking a grey game and that's not appealing, regardless of any reason. A fellow artist once told me that if you have to justify to someone why your style is the way it is, then it hasn't been pulled off. It's a very grey game in an era where colour and visuals is ball-bustingly good, and competitive. I feel this is a very risky move that must be pulled off perfectly, and I believe it hasn't and so it takes a big hit from the visual perspective. Space ships IRL are actually very colourful because of colour coding. Important things are vibrant blues, reds, greens etc and so they should be and so I think this style is unjustified and needs work if not reconsideration.

It's also strange\/annoying how the game kind of tilts like it's on a pane that can rotate slightly left and right; I'm pretty sure I wasn't high when I played this. There was no explanation in-game and it just looks weird and brings the visuals down more.

Aesthetic - 2\/10 it just doesn't work for me and as an aspiring CGI artist, it's painful.

As a concept, imagining what it could be on release - 8\/10 an expansion to the delight of the FTL experience, and perhaps a fresh take on a concept we love.

As a game to play right now - 5\/10 it will need a lot more content to be interesting enough to want to maintain playing beyond the first short playthrough.

All in all it's a game for the fans of this genre, as they will be able to see what it's capable of becoming. If you are a fan of the genre but sceptical then I would advise not purchasing until it's further down the production line; it's still raw and only has its core right now. I hope the game can be conceptually appreciated and I wonder what others will think of the aesthetics.