Does life on Earth have you down in the dumps and wishing there was something better? Join the Space Force and make your dreams of drone piloting come true. In Kosmokrats you are a potato peeler turned drone pilot in the mighty Space Force. The people over at Pixel Delusion have a pretty decent title on their hands. Fly through space with us as we review Kosmokrats.
It isn’t often that I try an indie game like this but here we are and I loved quite a few things about it. For starters, it is a cool origin story. Nuclear war has engulfed the planet and you joined Space Force to escape the planet, but there is a catch. You are a lowly potato peeler and suddenly you are responsible for building stations, ships, and other tools in orbit above Earth and other planets. The mission is to push blocks into position to create stations, ships, and other items needed to complete your missions.
It is fun to fly the drone around placing everything where you see fit. I will admit that there are times where people are doing spacewalks and your mission is to build while avoiding them, but squishing them between the parts is fun also. Of course, there are missions where Earth is launching people into orbit and you have to catch them and attach them to the ship you are building and this is a time when you don’t want them to go squish.
Moving the drone around is simple enough and moving the pieces into place is not as difficult as you would think. A little bump here or a nudge there and you are going in the right direction. Different colored markers will have you bumping your station pieces into different directions just to straighten them out. Sometimes a piece doesn’t seem like it will fit and then you destroy a small portion of it, like a solar power panel, and make it fit. Potato peeler never seemed like a good enough job until now.
I found it a bit odd that potatoes are the things you are trying to save and earn each mission but it gives you something realistic to shoot for since you have to feed your people. This is made more difficult when you accidentally break open the potato storage containers while building your base. I think I barely bumped one such container and my potatoes were sent hurdling through space with me left with only a few potatoes to feed myself and my people. This makes Kosmokrats more realistic but maybe too realistic for a title where you are just maneuvering a drone around in space.
Overall, Kosmokrats is a very fun title to play through and it is only $14.99 USD normally with a sale price of $13.49 until November 12th. Take my advice and try to build your stations and ships the proper way otherwise you may run into issues down the line. This is a cool little indie title and I give it two thumbs way up.
