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Base One
Developer PixFroze
Base One is a space base builder game where you take control of a network of space stations and its crew's tasks and wellbeing. Maintain your resources and defenses as you navigate the wide array of dangers ahead of you! From the Steam store page
193 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
34
Rotten
65 positive · 124 negative
95% range 28–41%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
178 of 479 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 193 · most liked firstReview by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/lists/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. This is the best looking space station management simulation I ever played. But here the praise already ends. After a wormhole appeared near Earth, a large colony ship is sent through it. Most of the ship is destroyed, but some parts do make it out on the other side, and you are in charge of building and maintaining a space station…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ok i have played over 80 hours of this game so far. so i will write an advised review and as honest as possible. 1st the good point: the game concept is good, there is mission / tutorial to show u some basics. there is also a custom game mode (sandbox) wich is a must have since after doing the mission there would be nothing else left. The graphics are nice and the call and crew are voiced on various area. There is in game contract during custom to keep u entertained and helping u to survive…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is basically an alpha, playing for a few hours nets bugs and glitches that make it unplayable. Bonus: Steam wont refund your money even though they sold a clearly defective product. I had to do a charge-back through my bank in order to get my money back.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game visuals are polished however the internal mechiancs are broken, biggest issue is the pathing. Cant complete the missions before you run out of money or time because the crew will stand still and look at the object instead of interacting. I have refunded my purchase this game should of never been placed in release. Do not buy until these issues are fixed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greetings! Today we’ll be looking at Base One a colony builder in space that is reminiscent of PlanetBase. I’ve been looking at this game for some time but was concerned about the amount of bugs that were reported. Were my worries well founded or exaggerated, let’s discuss. Bases in Space: If you’ve played a colony game then you understand the premise of this; you slowly build up your base by adding rooms and hiring workers until you are self sufficient. Add in that you are in space and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes buy, a lot deeper than it looks and a long campaign/tutorial to get you going for custom games. I read the comments and nearly didn't buy. Played the first part of the campaign (they call them missions). Almost gave it back. You need some patience and perseverance. It did pay off and I am now thoroughly enjoying the last few missions and almost ready for custom games (full unlocked and build your own). Not sure about custom games as I haven't played one yet but doesn't really matter as I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT PURCHASE THIS GAME. I initially enjoyed playing this game but was forced to stop playing due to the bugs that stopped the ability to complete the game but with the hope of returning once the bugs had been patched. The developer hasn't carried out any patch work for 12 months & having tried to play again the game performs even worse than previously. It is by definition unplayable due to the bugs stopping the completion of the game. You've been warned folks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dont understand the logic behind the research flow once in sandbox, for example unlock drones and hangar before industrial modules and crafting modules, but you need the industry and crafting to build drones. And on top of that you need T2 research to unlock basic crafting table, then the recycler needed to recycle material from drones is at the end of a salvage research tree. And you can get the smelter from raw material received from mining drones but again cant do anything as you need T2…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very simple This game is very broken. You won't see it at first but things fall apart fast mid game. The devs know about the game breaking bug more than a year ago and refuse to fix them. I played 56 hours through 3 games. Game #1: Save got corrupted Game #2: Timer stopped and nobody was working anymore. Game #3: Timer stopped and nobody was working anymore. So with your peeps locked in time the start to starve pretty fast because they don't go to the next task once the timer stops.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought it was a work in progress by the way it plays and they have DLC out and the game is still a buggy mess. Thumbs down bro, sorry
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is broken, crew being stuck/frozen bug renders the game unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i don't usually write reviews, but i feel this one warrants it. the game is good, but as it is now, it is so buggy the main difficulty is getting the missions done before your crew starts bugging out. I've had perfectly healthy crew members go to rest, and never get up, and their bars start draining until they die, or even worse, they never die and take up space. and this happens randomly and in any situation. I've had the bug out in the shower, while sitting down eating/drinking, while using a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically, I was on a quest for a game similar to Space Haven but with better graphics. Base One is not it. Base-One's graphics are crisp and detailed. A+! However, the base-building component barely exits. Building a space station is generally a matter of snapping puzzles pieces together in the correct sequence. There is little opportunity for creativity. If you've seen one station, you've pretty much seen them all. Base-Building felt like an afterthought, not a feature. As for crew…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has a lot of potential, truly, the nuts and bolts are there to make a great game - but the bugs currently make the game unplayable. I play mostly custom games as I'm just looking to screw around and min max something in between editing videos or whatever. Eventually as early as two weeks into the life of the space station the crew randomly gets stuck on things. I had a fully robot controlled room that sent out probes to collect ore and gas and randomly two of my scientists just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a GREAT IDEA! I think the story is GREAT! I have been playing and I enjoy the game because of the story . However, there are numerous bugs! First of all THE Factory Episode if you don't build the food making machine as soon as it starts you are screwed and have to start over because it disappearance from the build list. Then you have techs getting stuck and not moving. You also have to click a lot of times to turn off a machine because the GUI closes each time. I have also…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING PLEASE READ TILL THE END. Characters Still Getting Stuck/Loop animation/Time Freezing. After I read some of the comments I was put off buying this game. But then i saw they were from a while back and the game had been updated, so I thought i'd give it a try. Let me start by saying it's a good game. The Tutorial is lacking a little imo but overall ok. BUT. I now have a character in a loop toilet animation that i can't satisfy tried to fire them they are still stuck and the time has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've gone through the tutorial twice and restarted the first mission three times. My drone launchers just keep flashing disabled, I can't figure out why and I keep getting stuck at this point after over an hour of playing. If your game is this terrible you shouldn't expect a good review of it even when you offer it at a 75% discount. Fix this trash and I'll fix my review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game can be and should be good! However as mentioned by others the game isin't actually playable. later down the game as you progress and i really tried to trooper through, by dismissing stuck AI to try and keep the water/oxygen going. its impossible drones get stuck then cant recharge and people become broken to the point they are dragging there feet or stuck. either way you cant keep up the oxygen growth and water. game cant be played until you fix it!! i get its on early release but surly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is full of bug, probably is the worst in my game life. pls reconsider if you going to purchase this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The "story" is painful to hear. More importantly, the game is literally unplayable because the AI pathing gets caught on corners and there's no way to reset workers. Wait til it's done, or skip this one entirely.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Base One is the child of a talented art director and a lazy programmer. Visually appealing, but every feature superficial (and often WTF stupidly implemented). Tried really hard to play it, but just kept hitting dead ends. More than a few game killing bugs that will make you pound the desk harder than a meteoroid strike. Whoever did testing was clearly ignored by the developers because, as we all know: In space, no one can hear you scream.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So the negative review for games i take with a grain of salt. However, for this game I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS. The Tutorial everything is GREAT you think its the perfect working game. Then you get to campaign 2 and the technicians do nothing, oxygen runs out, AI people walk in place get stuck at doors. I was and am BEYOND frustrated with this game. Until such time as they fix the AI issue i cannot recommend anyone pay money for this game. This should be in PRE release not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've seen a lot of negative reviews solely based on linking mechanics. To this regard after a bit they start doing all the linking for you, but these units break down over time causing problems. So you need to have spare units available to take the load while the unit is being repaired. You need to know how to connect and disconnect them. Without problems its not a base builder. Another complaint I see a lot is depth, I also disagree with this. The tech tree alone should blow your socks off…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was good but they still did not fix the character stuck / loop animation, and the heat / power connection sometime doesn't work properly when you load your save game, hope the DEVS will fix those problem.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks fun, but it doesn't work. Less than 2 hours in, already hit a bug 'dismounting modules' that the game gives you as a mission, and it's just stuck. Really pathetic for a fully released game. THIS IS NOT EARLY ACCESS, there is no excuse.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another Developer who takes your money for crap. Still buggy as hell and no updates. It has been abandoned. I recommend staying away from this developer and the publishers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BUGGED GAME! Character get stuck doing 1 action (repair an equipment, running trandmill, eating). Character cannot be made unstuck and they all die and you loose all your progress. DONT BUY THIS GAME! WASTE OF MONEY! WISH I COULD GET A REFUND! EDIT: THIS BUGG APPEARS AFTER YOUR CREW GETS OVER +15 MEMBERS. This means you will have to play +2 hours and then you get the bug that renders the game useless. Steam won't aprove my refund request because i've played more then 2 hours. I like this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot recommend this game. I did like it but, There are still pathing issues and more importantly I was playing a custom game 5 days ago, stopped for a break and then went back to play, but none of my current saves would load, they just hung on loading. An old save for a campaign game would however load. I reported the bug to the devs and the only response i have had from them over the last 5 days is "Every game you save cannot loading? Are you sure?". I could start a new custom game, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has potential but right now too prone to game stopping issues. People get stuck, they won't get healed, sleep till they die, etc. As of now it's a little tiresome to have to start over each time a big glitch hits that can't be worked around (i.e. the clock sticks and no one does anything except sleep.) So for right now I'd say wait and watch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great gameplay and visual. the only problem is its too complicated to play, getting hard and harder later, too many thing have to manufacture to keep base working. annoying control panel to arrange working hours, have to click thousand times to get it done. enjoy playing the game but getting discourage after a week. developers need to working more on gameplay to keeps players
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned by the developers less than a year after release and left in such a broken state that merely being able to complete missions is a coin flip due to characters getting stuck. Not only would I advocate against buying this "game" but it shouldn't even be allowed to be sold. Valve, take this off the store. Its continued presence undermines ethical practices and exist solely as an insult to consumers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately i'm having to give this game a dislike, here's why; Dont get me wrong, this game would have a great potential to be a great game if the devs continued to work on this game. this game is unfinished. It is very buggy to the point that the AI get stuck within the space station. Lack of content within the game, after a while it gets quite boring. Personally i completed the campaign and most of the challenges in under 3 hrs of playing. The devs have abandoned this game is still asking…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While an incredibly good game I can not recommend buying it at the moment. I've played rather far into the campaign and enjoyed both the story and game play immensely however as it stands now (11.October.2022) the game suffers of a very serious issue that the Devs thus far haven't been able or willing to fix. In the later missions when your personnel increases in numbers it appears as there's some sort of overflow happening. All NPCs eventually get stuck on their daily routines. That makes the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looks great, nice concept, only it is not playable. Needs bug fixes. Your characters get stuck and there is no way to fix it. You have to start the game all the way over each time. This would be a cool game if you could actually play it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update: Still unplayable until they let you dismount non-corner units. This is a beta, not full release. Negative review mainly because in the story mode, there's a really long period of random text that you cannot advance through at the end of the campaign. Just an example of the annoyances. Games okay, but it's a beta disguised as a full release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished, buggy, abandonware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →just another abandoned game... dont waste ur money on this broken title. i reported this title / dev a few times already. but it looks like VALVE doesnt care at all. selling broken EA / alpha titles is earned money too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely broken game. I want my money back. I would not recommend this game to anyone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Faldir Mauldun" - Made with @garnetdawn.bsky.social's Dragonborn Base One of my favorite characters in recent times! A warlock made for a D&D game a few years ago and have loved him ever since.
unlabelledView post →I'm still amazed how nobody has fixed the damn getting stuck thing.love this kind of game,just not in this state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very promising game, but unfortunately left unpolished. The audio is wonky, the UI is... special, and the crew has the special ability to get stuck. Bought in early access, and it just shows that such a purchase is always a gamble. DO NOT BUY
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developer has abandoned the game and no longer releases updates. Game has a ton of bugs that prevent you from actually finishing missions. Stay away from this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EN : Game is just broken. Don't expect a worthy death or endgame like mostgame; here you only get bugs and glitches making the game impossible to play nor enjoyable after a few in-game days. Unless the Devs make some serious changes, this game is unplayable and not worth of anyone's time/money. Very sad, regarding the fact the game has a great potential. ----- FR : Le jeu est simplement brisé. Il ne faut pas s'attendre à une fin de jeu similaire à d'autres jeux de ce style. Ici on ne fait…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to recommend this game because it has good potential but I honestly cannot do that. There are a few game breaking bugs that have been in the game from the start and are just not going to get fixed it seems. Your station crew will sometimes bug out and stay on a task ignoring all of their own needs and eventually die with no way to get them to stop even with powering down the equipment they are on. Some of your crew will wonder around the base and NEVER interact with the equipment they…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I rarely give negative reviews but the amount of bugs and terrible UI functions in this game force my hand. The concept for this game is great but the execution is terrible. It has been over a year and many of the major UI problems/crew stuck bugs have not been fixed so I can only assume that the devs either don't have the capability to fix them, don't have the time or don't care enough. In any of these cases it's unlikely these issues will get resolved. The devs really need to spend a good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gr8 graphics got me to open my purse. Thin content made me to regret that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to wonder if the developers have even played it for more than ten minutes. This feels less like a full release and more like a PRE-early access release. Broken pathfinding, crew that runs in place or pesters you about having nothing to do when jobs are being left unattended. Repetitive sound effects and terrible grammar/word choices (instead of researching decorations you invent them - cool). Bottom line: DON'T BUY until they do some MAJOR patching. Until then, it's just an exercise in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love these types of games but have found myself bored really quickly with this one. I think its a balance issue, just not having that much fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To make it simple, wait a while to see if they address some of the problems with the game. The arbitrary "max decoration points" for each module makes no sense (for example, there's 8 places to put flower pots in the module where your crew sleeps, but you can only place 2). Your crew is about as stupid as can be, standing around doing nothing for extended periods of time and not taking care of projects or even their own stats like hunger, physical form, etc. Your crew also sometimes doesn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea behind this game is extremely amazing. Detailed environment makes it even greater. Even execution is nice. But amount of game-breaking and just annoying bugs... Well... I will come check it in half year later and see if it is worth recommending. For now I can't recommend this game due to amount of bugs in it. For now it is pretty much on same level of bugs as infamous Spacebase DF-9. So developers, be sure to fix bugs to make sure that Base One won't become Spacebase DF-9 of 2021.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead and Abandoned.. do not buy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not usually post reviews. With that being said, this is one of the most disappointing games I have every played. So much potential as this is a niche I am in love with (space station management sim) and yet, the unchecked bugs and clumsy UI render the game unplayable in every session I have tried. This game has wasted hours of my life all to end in frustration. How could a group of devs release a game, even early access so irresponsibly? I will update this review if the bugs are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My biggest issues are performance related. Things can take a while and increasing speed with a larger station lags too much. Missions are very long, slow, and more complex the farther in you go, needing larger stations and more time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is still unplayable. Some bugs simply prevent the game from working. The concept is nice, graphics are cool, overall mechanics is interesting. But until those bugs are fixed it's impossible to enjoy the game. It should've been classified as Early Access.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I figured with all the updates and stuff this game should be better than the last reviews from May. No its not. pathfinding is still crap. Getting the idiots to do something specific is a joke. i cant mine asteroids as they have decided that the miner thing is lava. i have 10 mining drones chilling in inventory but they dont use them. and what makes it worse is the fact that they come stand and idle next to the thing.... you cant prioritize it either for some reason. *UPDATE* so i have played…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice game. BUT: Bugs Bugs Bugs, no support from the devs. no bugfixes no updates... DON't BUY ANYTHING FORM THIS DEVELOPER
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is ok, if you look past the bugs. sometimes the colonists get stuck and for some reason the AI that controls them doesnt work properly, meaning sick people dont seek medical attention they just keep roaming around. Shame the devs havent updated the game in a little over 2 years. besides that the story is entertaining, from reading the forums a lot of people besides me are disappointed with the lack of updates or patched. but for the most part if you have hours to kill, not a boring…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initially it looks like a captivating game, but even in the tutorial phase, there is no help when you get stuck. Your just left there until your resources run out. I had one tutorial, where they could not get the sleeping chambers done, before running out of food and water. I rerolled that one 5 or 6 rimes until I got a crew, that was productive enough to get to the point I was allowed to order supplies. I see no signs of support for this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to love this game it's just the type of game i love playing. but the bugs render it completely unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! This game has tons of potential but has tons of bugs also. Most bugs are small and easy to deal with till you get a few hours in. After that your lucky to even get the game to load your saved file. By then your past the 2 hour return mark with steam. I'm stuck with the game in hopes that a big update comes soon to fix all of this. Fingers crossed.
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