Ixion

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  • Summary: IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards through a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with finding a new home for humanity.

    Keeping the station    IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards through a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with finding a new home for humanity.

    Keeping the station sound and flying will require a deft hand and strategic thinking, as you are constantly pulled between maintaining hull integrity, bringing in new resources and managing power consumption.

    What choices will you make when confronted with impending disaster? What will you discover out there in the dark?    … Expand

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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. GameGrin
    Dec 7, 2022
    100
    Beautiful setting and sound design, fantastic story, and perfectly implemented gameplay mechanics make IXION an easy 10 for me.
  2. Impulsegamer
    Jan 3, 2023
    80
    IXION is a game packed with good ideas and great execution which is a rare combo these days. The gameplay is rather innovative for a city-building title and the story is no short of a well-made Sci-Fi movie. IXION is a must-play for city-building lovers!
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 24, 2024
    80
    The only criticism I can make of the game is that the difficulty is quite high, and if you don't think about your actions, you'll soon be mopping floors instead of driving a space station. [Issue#324]
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  4. Gamersky
    Dec 14, 2022
    71
    As a space-style "farming" game, "IXION" presented a cold space world and the space station "Tai Kun". It is not only home for players, but also a carrier for exploration and advancement. The experience of wandering in space with home is quite unique. But beyond this, "IXION" did not bring more surprises to the players. The imperfect details, fast pace in the early and mid-term, and some unreasonable difficulty settings make players easily frustrated.
  5. Games.cz
    Apr 17, 2023
    70
    Ixion is an unassuming space odyssey in which you build and manage your own space station. It’s a bit like Frostpunk but also adds its own layers, even if the execution sometimes leaves a lot to be desired. There is a pretty nice story accompanying all the strategy, though!
  6. Meristation
    Dec 28, 2022
    70
    Superb ambienceand outstanding music elevates a well crafted story in this relentlessness and somewhat unbalanced space manager game.
  7. Cubed3
    Jan 3, 2023
    50
    Ixion perhaps could be used as an example of flying so high... and then missing the mark and falling pretty far down. There was so much to recommend and enjoy about the game, especially if only checking the first few hours. But the more you play, the flaws, difficulty, unraveling story, and pretty much everything else frustrates the player to such a degree that many players are not going to finish the game, either due to the difficulty, or simply not wanting to do the same thing for 5 hours and hoping their ship doesn't blow up randomly.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
  1. edyraven
    Dec 12, 2022
    10
    For me, Gamer of a long date, is the second time a game,catch me so interest...
    The game is no easy like others... I begin the game 5    For me, Gamer of a long date, is the second time a game,catch me so interest...
    The game is no easy like others... I begin the game 5 times...kkk...but is very good.
    I recomend..play at least 5 hours...
    To me...5*****    … Expand
  2. FlynnDynamics
    Dec 19, 2022
    10
    I wrote this to a friend about IXION:

    Buy IXION. **** the ratings. It will be really hard. And yes, that's really a bit too hard. But the    I wrote this to a friend about IXION:

    Buy IXION. **** the ratings. It will be really hard. And yes, that's really a bit too hard. But the story is so incredibly good so far... The best story I've seen in years across genres....    … Expand
  4. werty111114
    Feb 26, 2023
    9
    This is a wonderful city-building simulator with a very interesting story that, most importantly, keeps you in suspense. During the passage,This is a wonderful city-building simulator with a very interesting story that, most importantly, keeps you in suspense. During the passage, you can easily lose.… Expand
  5. g_squidman
    Dec 18, 2022
    8
    This is the best city-builder this year.

    The game is challenging in a fair way. You don't struggle to stabilize your city constantly.    This is the best city-builder this year.

    The game is challenging in a fair way. You don't struggle to stabilize your city constantly. Rather, it's easy to stabilize, but new encounters throw you off balance, so you're constantly trying to get a handle of something new. The challenges are also novel and interesting mechanically.

    Importantly, a lot of the rules respect you as a player. The roads don't cost resources. Buildings are fully refunded if you want to move them or shift your production focus. If something in your production chain breaks, it doesn't immediately cause a death spiral feedback loop that tears the whole system apart. You have a chance to recover. If you can't feed everyone, your workers don't immediately all go on strike and make it impossible to grow your food production again. These are the kinds of things a lot of similar games make mistakes with, and this game has taken those experiences into consideration when making design decisions.

    Some complaints about the game have been that the demo front-loads a lot of the story and cinematics which feels like a ripoff. If you're like me, you're buying the game based on reviews, not based on the demo, so it shouldn't be a problem. This is the new bar for city-builders.    … Expand
  6. NachtkindFX
    Jan 29, 2023
    8
    Very well designed managment game. The sound is so good. The implemented features work very well, but the game needs some QoL polishing. Yes,Very well designed managment game. The sound is so good. The implemented features work very well, but the game needs some QoL polishing. Yes, it's designed to be challenging, but I find it at a bit to hard and you can't change the difficulty.… Expand
  7. zatoor
    Dec 14, 2022
    6
    This game has a lot of potential but its way to buggy to play right now. i played till second act and number of bugs or idiotic mechanicalThis game has a lot of potential but its way to buggy to play right now. i played till second act and number of bugs or idiotic mechanical ideas are huge. Example 100% stability, positive happiness and for no reason violent strikes stats in my sector, where is the logic of this crap?! or idea that loosing research ship gives you -1 stability (permanent)... are you fu... kidding me?! overall i think that this game has a lot of potential but it need rebalance...… Expand
  8. shin777
    Dec 9, 2022
    0
    Game have too much resources types and complexity that make the game so boring to play, good idea but rly bad execution.

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