Rymdkapsel

Rymdkapsel

Strategy games, particularly when set in space, tend to be complicated, stressful, and packed with huge learning curves. Not so with Rymdkapsel. It’s a beautiful minimalistic game of base building mixed with Tetris, skipping all that intimidating micro-management in favor of something more pure. It’s both brilliantly straightforward and just plain brilliant.

Puzzling Bases

Rymdkapsel is a real-time strategy game simplified and streamlined down to its base-building core, a spatial puzzler, and a basic tower defense game all wrapped into one. It has goals — or rather missions — but these need not necessarily match your own.

You build stuff, in space, starting with two minions — little white rectangular dudes — and a tiny supply of three key resources — food, building blocks, and particles. These are generated by certain kinds of buildings — a kitchen for food (by way of a garden), a reactor for blocks, and an extractor for particles. Particles are a finite resource that you mine from particle fields; everything else is theoretically infinite.