By William Bernard
Lucky Space is a new city building game on Facebook that moves the basic location off earth and into the future, into the deep reaches of space. If building a futuristic city on an uninhabited planet sounds like your cup of tea, read on. Lucky Space doesn’t really do much that other games don’t already do, but it is one of the few games that take the step out into the realm of science fiction.
Lucky Space starts off with a basic storyline, where in the far future a rare mineral called “crystium” has been discovered that is coveted for its value. This in essence has created a futuristic frontier gold rush, and you have set out to stake your claim. It’s not a particularly interesting storyline, but it at least gives some context of what you will be striving for in the game. Your spacecraft lands onto a random planet where you are then tasked to begin building basic life support systems with which to further your exploration.
While at first glance the game might seem familiar to other city-building games such as CityVille, the game also incorporates a heavy level of exploration. Initially, only the bare surrounding area of your base is revealed, and you are required to move your space rover around in order to uncover additional tiles of the planet. Construction and exploration all reward you with money, materials and plenty of other goodies, so it always pays to use your energy in some capacity, since it regenerates relatively quickly.
The game guides you along with an easy to follow tutorial that slowly introduces you to the various elements of the game. The tutorial is dished out by NPC’s and the dialog is generally well written. As you continue to explore the planet you are on, you will need to build structures to help fund your mining operation, as well as provide food and lodging for your growing number of workers. There is plenty in the game for you to build, and with enough time and effort, your little mining outpost can become a sprawling interstellar destination.
Eventually however we ran into an annoying stopping block, in that you are required to utilize Space Bucks in order to progress. While in most other games in-game currency is a matter of convenience, it is actually required in Lucky Space to progress. You can simply earn Space Bucks from leveling up, but this is an extremely tedious process, especially when you reach the point in the game where it is required, which makes purchasing them almost mandatory to reach any meaningful progression.
The game in general looks good. The graphics are crisp and the UI has a wonderful futuristic look to it while still remaining easy to use and navigate. Animation is generally well done, but unfortunately the times when you get to admire them are few and far between. Rarely does anything beyond shooting down the occasional asteroid ever happen on screen, so the game can get a bit boring to watch.
Lucky Space doesn’t do anything new that hasn’t already been done, and if not for the rather restrictive limitation in regards to Space Buck, could generally be considered on par with its peers. This is a shame too, because there haven’t been too many games that do sci-fi well, and this is one of the few games that nail the feeling down perfectly. Overall though, unless you really are willing to spend money on it, or really are a sci-fi nut, the game offers little else that other games do just as well, and with less dubious restrictions.
Click here to play Lucky Space.
[Download the file here Tukko Rating | Lucky Space]
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Tukko Rating | Lucky Space
By William Bernard
Lucky Space starts off with a basic storyline, where in the far future a rare mineral called “crystium” has been discovered that is coveted for its value. This in essence has created a futuristic frontier gold rush, and you have set out to stake your claim. It’s not a particularly interesting storyline, but it at least gives some context of what you will be striving for in the game. Your spacecraft lands onto a random planet where you are then tasked to begin building basic life support systems with which to further your exploration.
While at first glance the game might seem familiar to other city-building games such as CityVille, the game also incorporates a heavy level of exploration. Initially, only the bare surrounding area of your base is revealed, and you are required to move your space rover around in order to uncover additional tiles of the planet. Construction and exploration all reward you with money, materials and plenty of other goodies, so it always pays to use your energy in some capacity, since it regenerates relatively quickly.
The game guides you along with an easy to follow tutorial that slowly introduces you to the various elements of the game. The tutorial is dished out by NPC’s and the dialog is generally well written. As you continue to explore the planet you are on, you will need to build structures to help fund your mining operation, as well as provide food and lodging for your growing number of workers. There is plenty in the game for you to build, and with enough time and effort, your little mining outpost can become a sprawling interstellar destination.
Eventually however we ran into an annoying stopping block, in that you are required to utilize Space Bucks in order to progress. While in most other games in-game currency is a matter of convenience, it is actually required in Lucky Space to progress. You can simply earn Space Bucks from leveling up, but this is an extremely tedious process, especially when you reach the point in the game where it is required, which makes purchasing them almost mandatory to reach any meaningful progression.
The game in general looks good. The graphics are crisp and the UI has a wonderful futuristic look to it while still remaining easy to use and navigate. Animation is generally well done, but unfortunately the times when you get to admire them are few and far between. Rarely does anything beyond shooting down the occasional asteroid ever happen on screen, so the game can get a bit boring to watch.
Click here to play Lucky Space.
[Download the file here Tukko Rating | Lucky Space]
[Tukkolabs]