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Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
Embark is a colony sim, base-building and strategy game
developed and published by Overly Complicated Games.
Released on April 18th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 380 reviews of which 237 were positive and 143 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.0 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows® 7, 64-bit
- Processor: Intel CPU Core i3-530 2.93 GHz, AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB DirectX 11 GPU (Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660, AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: If you have issues with lower spec GPUs on world generation, change "World Generation Quality" in the options menu to Low.
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Possibly a gem, definitely a pleasant blend of Rimworld, The Sims, Minecraft, and Dwarf Fortress.
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Right when you dive in it feels like rimworld with better graphics and building mechanics. Aside from that things you can build and craft are much more limited and pretty much expect only core mechanics. -Some buildings like the saltwater purifier do not work -Job priorities are broken and half the time your guys choose not to prioritize -pathing is CONSTANTLY breaking requiring you to destroy and remake crafting stations and tasks or use military control to force path -animal husbandry does not work and has been broken for months Also this game is not at all optimized, I have stopped playing because it has gotten so laggy its no longer enjoyable watching all my workers space walk and skip around on the screen. Computer Specs i7-7820hk 64GB Ram Nvidia Geforce 1080
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This review is based on version 0.536 My perspective is highly influenced by Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld. Pros: + Ore system. Very similar to what we find in Dwarf Fortress and very "realistic". + Performance. The game shows area much larger than typical embark size in DF or RimWorld, yet it runs in 60fps on my 1050Ti. + Easy to designate digging area, or building walls. I like "replace" option when building walls - I was missing this in RimWorld. There's only one exception: it's very difficult to "dig up". + Surprisingly, very little bugs! I got over 20 hours out of the game and didn't encounter a single game-breaking situation. I had only problems with pipes no being removed with the building but reloading the game helped. + In game tutorials are well made. They don't interfere with what you want to do but just simply suggest things you may do now. There's nothing worse than a tutorial which forces you to place buildings exactly where you don't like them. Cons: - I hate the UI style. It's just terrible. On top of that I find it difficult to find information, especially about stock. It's quicker to open crafting menu to find how much wood I have left, than to try to dig this information from the "Stock" menu. - I don't like the graphics in general. I know that Devs poured their heart and soul into this but sorry, the characters are just ugly. - Enemies look like created in 5 minutes in MS Paint 3D, or downloaded from different packages on Unity Asset Store. Free ones. - While local map is generated very nicely, the World map is shit. Sorry now, it is. - There's this "water situation" which no one wants to talk about. You are going to run out of water. Always. Even if you build desalination plant, you're going to run out of water because there will be so much salt produced, you will have no place to store it. I'd love to have option like a barrel to gather rain water, or maybe water should fill smaller holes like in Dwarf Fortress... There are options. - Very little mechanisms. I blame early version of the game. - The price is rather steep for such early version. I'd suggest something closer to €10. I'm a little bit on a fence here, giving thumbs up as an encouragement for the Devs.
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At first I was skeptical, but when you get to the point where you have a 5 levels vast base full of resources, that you're pretty much autonomous and go above ground only to fetch the occasional wood or meat, you start to see where this game shines. Where I get attached to my pawns on Rimworld, here, I get attached to the world and my base. Just for that, in my mind, it is an experience that stands out from rimworld. The rest, I suspect everyone else mentioned even if I read only 3 reviews. =) Still a lot of features missing, and a few that are wonky, but overall, 7/10 in its current state comparing it to what would be a full fledged product. I've seen way worst released games. 10/10 early access product. Active developer. Keep recommending people to keep an eye out for it. =) Just to clarify though, in its current state, it scratches more a management itch rather than a survival itch, Rimworld is much better at the latter in comparison. Edit: I've seen more updates in a week than I see in a year for other early accesses. Do what you will with that info. :D
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For an Early Access, its very good. Am very impressed and enjoying playing it lots. Hard to pull myself away from it. Works and looks really good. Start on easy difficulty as there is a bit of learning, and you may lose a few times before you'll learn how to do well and prosper. Definite must have game if you like sim/building types of games. Only had one small crash so far, which was no problem as it autosaves when crashing. Runs well on my i5 cpu and radeon gpu. If having problems with frame rate, lower the graphics (eg. ambient occlusion off and shadows off would help for a start), as the game is very gpu expensive atm. I have an 8 gig radeon R930 or something like that, and still once my castle and population got bigger, I had to tweak some graphic settings. Then it ran like a dream. I recommend this game to anyone that's even half interested in building/sim/management type games. The price is fair, as I know how difficult it is to make this type of game and time consuming as well. Well done to the developers, finally the type of game I've wanted to develop for a long time has arrived. Yay for embark lol. Keep developing it please, adding more content and maybe a few more features to this already would be really good, am happy the way it is now.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Embark is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Embark is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Embark received 237 positive votes out of a total of 380 achieving a rating of 6.03.
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Embark was developed and published by Overly Complicated Games.
Embark is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Embark is not playable on MacOS.
Embark is not playable on Linux.
Embark is a single-player game.
Embark does not currently offer any DLC.
Embark is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
Embark does not support Steam Remote Play.
Embark is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Embark.
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Overly Complicated Games
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18 Apr 2019
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