- December 31, 2023
- VEOM Studio
- 35h median play time
The Crust
Platforms
About
"The Crust" is a single-player game with an intriguing story and outstanding game mechanics that allow you to mine lunar resources, automate production, and explore the moon's secrets. However, be prepared for grinding, poor optimization, and numerous bugs. The game also offers resource trading with Earth, colonist management, and research advancements.











- The game has a cool premise and engaging story, combining elements of factory building and colony management.
- The soundtrack is fantastic and adds to the immersive atmosphere of the game.
- The developers are very active in addressing bugs and implementing updates, showing commitment to improving the game.
- The game is riddled with bugs and crashes, making it frustrating to play at times.
- The drone AI is often unresponsive and does not follow assigned priorities, leading to inefficiencies.
- The pacing of the game can be slow, with many timed missions that feel overwhelming and difficult to complete.
story
784 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe game's story is generally seen as intriguing and enjoyable, featuring a corporate agent stranded on the moon after a disaster, tasked with rebuilding using drones and automated systems. However, many players find the narrative execution flawed, with confusing mission structures, tight time constraints, and a lack of emotional depth for supporting characters, leading to frustration during gameplay. While the story has potential and offers interesting choices, it often feels like an over-glorified tutorial plagued by bugs and balancing issues, detracting from the overall experience.
“A story that involves basically a corporate agent (you) stranded on the moon by a devastating impact event and rebuilding from there using drones and automated manufacturing... cool right?”
“The story mode is mostly voice acted with the odd cutscene here and there, a fun little story mode with an overarching threat to motivate you to keep optimizing/producing.”
“The cutscenes and story add an engaging narrative layer that pulls you deeper into the game’s world.”
“The game has a story that is basically an over-glorified tutorial that makes you repeat yourself; the atmosphere feels clunky and not very well thought out, as well as not letting you feel like a pioneer but rather a person put in charge of an over-explored moon, and you're just there to pick up the scraps people leave behind with annoying hauling missions.”
“The state of the missions in the story is bad... I do not know how the rest of the game is, because the story needs constant resets due to the deceiving narration messages and objectives at times.”
“The story has you making critical choices without any info on what the various options are going to mean, with missions that are downright impossible to complete without save/load.”