Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
$34.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
A story-rich, Frostpunk-like space city builder with a superb soundtrack and atmosphere, but punishing, opaque and linear. Skip it if you hate save-scumming and clunky logistics.
Great for
Fans of Frostpunk-style hard survival management who want a sci-fi story and tight layout optimizing
Main risk
Opaque, punishing design snowballs into unwinnable states and forces save-scumming or guides
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“The true reason to play this over other city builders is the story. It starts off strong with an incredible prologue and continues to deliver at an even pace and with every chapter.”
Steam review · 43.1 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“I think the OST for Ixion is one of the latter. It's mesmerizing, truly beautiful, and I believe the OST of Ixion transcends its medium.”
Steam review · 24.3 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Very hard and stressful, but very fun and rewarding.”
Steam review · 16.9 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“I ended up enjoying it a lot more on the lower difficulty level.”
Steam review · 26.7 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“It was really satisfying when you change just a couple of things in the ship's layout and food production doubles as a result.”
Steam review · 31.4 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“Tiny mistakes I'd made hours ago in a completely different chapter suddenly appear out of nowhere and send my ship into a death spiral.”
Steam review · 6.5 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“in Chapter 4 I ran into a known and apparently fairly widespread softlock”
Steam review · 26.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“moving resources between more then two sectors is a living nightmare of bad UI design choices”
Steam review · 3.6 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“My colony space station loses constant HP because of the VOLOS drive jump /and/ the opening of new sectors???”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“I easily maintain 60 fps on ultra settings throughout chapters 1 and 2 but crawl to 10 fps in chapter 3 on ultra low settings.”
Steam review · 42.2 h played ↗
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“Once you finish the campaign, you've basically finished the game, as it has no real replayability.”
Steam review · 30.1 h played ↗
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