Rymdkapsel

Year: 2013
Genre: Real-Time Strategy
Website: http://rymdkapsel.com/

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Lee:

• Platform: Android
• Hours logged: 9.0
• Playthroughs: 3
• Rating: 8/10

Shane:

• Platform: Android
• Hours logged: 4.5
• Playthroughs: 3
• Rating: 7/10

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Notes and Discussions:

• Lee (3/6/2014): For me, Rymdkapsel is one of those games that is easy to learn, but can take a lot of work to master. Fortunately, the game does a great job of making the learning process fun, even while getting your ass kicked by alien spaceships.
  
  The premise of the game is that you are charged with the task of building a city in space using several different types of buildings, each with their own specific function (create power, mine minerals, spawn minions, grow food, cook food, and shoot space guns at alien ships). The minions can be assigned tasks, including go build stuff, engineer some shit, make and move the food, man the guns!, and research at the monoliths.
  
  There are three objectives that you can work toward, though one is just a harder version of another. Expanding your space city and researching all four monoliths before the aliens wipe you out will complete one of the objectives; doing it in 45 minutes will complete another. Surviving 28 waves of alien spaceship attacks will gain you the third. These don't all need to be completed in a single playthrough, but I do feel pretty badass having pulled off that feat during a flight to San Jose for work!
  
  Controlling the tiny minions to gather resources, construct buildings, research stuff, and defend against the bad guys was reminiscent of Darwinia, and it is easy to draw a parallel between Rymdkapsel and Tetris, given the shape of the buildings and how they all fit together. All in all, this is a great game, and it is a personal favorite for the Android platform!