Oh, to economise. This is all I’ve done so far in Ixion, one of several gems in the Steam Next Fest.
IxionPublisher: Kasedo GamesDeveloper: BulwarkPlatform: Played on PCAvailability: Out 2022 on PC, demo out now as part of Steam Next Fest.
Ixion is a game about managing a big, circular – almost tubular – space station. You’ve been put there by some corporation or another, DOLOS, and your goal is, effectively, to push pencils.
There’s a bit more to it than that – your effective pencil-pushing is technically in service of the wider goal of space exploration, the search for a new home for humanity. But really it’s all for the love of the bureaucracy. This is Civil Service in Space.
You’ll start by being talked to, at length, by a robo-P.A. Soon after you’ll be talked to at length by some Chief Administrative Health Associate Engineer Technician, or the Communications and Data Specialist, or whoever else from fourth-fifths of the way up the corporate ladder. They’ll pop up now and then to give you a new objective or waffle in great detail about the Marduk council and related affiliations and organisational interests and on and on.