Exogate Initiative
Last updated: 2025-03-31
- Addictive gameplay loop, polished, and improving.
- Engaging base-building and Stargate exploration.
- Captures the Stargate feel.
- Economic imbalance and flawed patent system.
- Repetitive gameplay, lacks depth and content.
- Poor UI, cumbersome micromanagement.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 293
- Helpful reviews
- 88%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 10%
- Protest reviews
- 1%
- 61%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 39%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 426
- Negative points
- 629
- Gameplay points
- 193
- Perf. points
- 40
- Rec. points
- 233
- Misc points
- 46
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Well-made, polished, and improving | The game is generally well-made, easy to learn, and visually appealing, with a smooth UI. The developers are responsive and actively fix bugs, improving the overall experience, especially during early access. | 82% |
| Addictive and engaging gameplay loop | The game offers an engaging and addictive gameplay loop that keeps players hooked. Its simple mechanics and satisfying progression make it easy to lose hours in base-building, exploration, and management. | 70% |
| Captures the Stargate feel | The game successfully captures the essence of the Stargate franchise, providing a Stargate-like experience that fans have long desired. The theme enhances the fun and enjoyment of the game. | 32% |
| Mix of Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius | The game blends elements from Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius, and Stargate, creating a unique and enjoyable management experience. It streamlines micromanagement and offers a fresh take on familiar mechanics. | 31% |
| Engaging base-building and exploration | The game features engaging base-building mechanics combined with exploration, research, and resource management. The base-building is intuitive and free-form, allowing for creative customization and progression. | 31% |
| Interesting concept with great potential | The game has an interesting core concept and shows great potential, especially considering it's from a small studio and in early access. Reviewers express anticipation for future improvements and expansions. | 28% |
| Promising future content additions | The game incorporates strategy elements and plans to add more content and features, such as alien invasions and other factions. This promises to enhance the mid- to late-game experience. | 7% |
| Strategic team management system | The game features a well-designed personnel management and team creation system. Players can strategically choose team members with unique advantages and customize their teams. | 5% |
| Amusing humor and events | The game incorporates humor through events and mission design. Players can direct the missions of individual teams with small instructions, which is a nice gag. | 5% |
| Initially enjoyable experience | The reviewer initially liked the game. This point is vague and lacks specific details, so it receives a low importance score. | 3% |