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SimulationStrategyBase BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource Management

The Crust

Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.

Developer
VEOM Studio
Publisher
Crytivo
Franchise
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Release date
Sep 10, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 16, 2026
Price
−35% $31.99 $20.79 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

74.4/ 100

Based on 439 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 71% of 336
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 4,075
“loves the concepts introduced”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+0.14
Strategy +2.30
“lunar-tycoon business loop is genuinely fresh and reason still playing” (35)

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Story & World
+0.76
Story +1.73

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Content Volume
+1.71
Volume +2.79

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Visuals & Sound
+2.97
Audio +3.48
“beautiful game, music, and Russian voice acting” (41)
Дам неоднозначный обзор. Прежде всего, играю с беты когда колонисты дохли почем зря, 300+ часов на пиратке. Однако, игру в итоге купила, она того стоит. Баги не исчезли. Забаговаться может что угодно и на 200 часу и на 2. Просто роботы перестают делать свою работу и сохранение не факт, что поможет. Это печально. Я фанат таких игр и они (Satisfactrory, Dyson Sphere program, etc) в альфе выглядят лучше, чем в такой продвинутой бете. Но... Игра, музыка, русская озвучка (за исключением последней добавленной девочки) - прекрасны. Если повезет (а это не факт) можно развить кучу технологий и в любом

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Multiplayer
-2.38

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Community -1.75

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Fairness
-1.11
Balance -2.28

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Tech & Ops
-1.10
Developer support +0.50
“devs improved drone logic, added tutorials, new tech and mechanics” (20)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
60%70%80%90%
Jul 2024Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 323 reviews, peak 59/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 439 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English62%
  • Russian17%
  • German7%
  • Chinese5%
  • French4%
  • Spanish1%
  • Other3%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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