Recent reviews by J_Spade

This game ended up being the "what do we play now?" replacement for Minecraft with my group of friends.

Imagine Minecraft with a bunch of tech mods, plus mechanics for economics, environmental science, legislation/diplomacy, and nicer (at the very least, modern) visuals, plus an impending armageddon. That's essentially what Eco is. At this point, it's absolutely not Minecraft anymore. But that's the easiest point of comparison for most people, so that's where my frame of reference is.

You and your friends are going to have to figure out how to delegate responsibility and work together to prevent a global catastrophe, all while keeping the environment clean and using your resources and your environment responsibly. It will take all of you to keep your world habitable and productive.

There are a few weird technical bugs in this game. Physics with carts is weird, players sometimes fall through the world, public job postings seem to break occasionally. Overall, though, this game is very stable, and none of our players have found themselves in a position where they've lost significant amounts of time to bugs or glitches.

I highly recommend this game for anyone who has found themselves impatient while waiting for a solid updated Minecraft modpack to surface, or who finds the modded Minecraft experience a bit lacking in community or worldwide interdependence or interaction.