Platforms
- PCJan 29, 20197.2playscore6.917 Critics7.3839 Players
- PlayStation 4Jan 29, 20197.7playscore7.113 Critics8.7948 Players
- Xbox OneJan 29, 20197.6playscore6.919 Critics8.8500 Players
37 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- From a stylistic point of view, the game got its hooks deep in me because I felt it drew visual and aural inspiration from the likes of 1980s sci-fi film legends Douglas Trumbull, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott. Genesis: Alpha One offers a tense and methodical approach to roguelike survival through base building and resource gathering in one of the most harshest environments imaginable.
Allen · Mar 19, 2020 Reviewed on PS4 - Genesis Alpha One is a game with some good ideas but no elegant way to execute them all. The merging of ship building and exploration is quite good once you understand how to do it. DNA splicing is also a neat little touch, but it doesn't fix the fact that the clones are as dumb as bricks and about half as useful. Planetary exploration feels fine, but the gunplay is undercooked. All in all, there's a decent title here if you're able to overcome all of its issues.
Cody Medellin · May 24, 2019 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - You can lose yourself for a while in designing your ship, giving its corridors a nice colour scheme, and tinkering with new DNA and alien abilities, but when you’re done you still have to go back to those bland tasks alongside your bland colleagues. Where’s my Working Joe to tell me everything’s going to be OK as he smashes my brains out against the wall?
Robert Zak · Feb 28, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Genesis Alpha One could become a good game, but at the moment, it’s limited, slow and very boring indeed. However, Genesis does show potential and it’ll be interesting to see what will get added to this game in the near future. A bigger focus on planetary exploration would be a great addition, and it could do with focusing more on its survival and building aspects while bringing them into balance with its roguelike style.
W.B. Mason · Feb 04, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Gathering the necessary resources to fulfill a Genesis mission can take a lot of time, especially if you end up getting pushed back by hostile invasions. There is a base sense of joy to be had from making the numbers go up, but I never completed a Genesis mission and I doubt whatever feeling or reward it gives was worth the effort to reach it. I think it is more than enough to say I have no interest in playing more of it just to confirm what I already know: it’s not great.
Steven Santana · Feb 01, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Genesis Alpha One has some really cool ideas going for it, unfortunately they’re outweighed by repetitive busywork that you easily get bogged down in. Sure, it’s an interesting strategy game at times, but the grind is just too damn much!
Dan Webb · Feb 01, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - It’s a shame that a game of such promise and ambition ends up in such a questionably lacking state as this, for Genesis Alpha One wields a fair number of interesting ideas, mechanics and spins on such things as roguelike exploration and base-building methodology that work wonders when feeding back into the core premise of managing all aspects of a ship journeying through space.
Jordan Helm · Jan 30, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Genesis Alpha One is a collection of really good ideas, but its execution ended up being very messy. I really hope the developers don’t abandon this game as it is, as there is some serious untapped potential to be a great game in here as long as they fix its many issues.
Kyle Nicol · Jan 29, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Genesis Alpha One is a tremendous roguelike that rarely holds back. Its many systems are well balanced, its plethora of unique objectives remain fresh, and its random generation solidifies its already impressive variation. There’s room for minor improvements, and there’s some slight visual blemishes across the entire board, but this takes little away from the constant uncertainty that the game relays at a tense and frequent rate.
Joe Pepek · Jan 29, 2019 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - It’s a satisfying mix. This is the rare (only???) game offering something for fans of Doom, No Man’s Sky, Harvest Moon, and Fortnite. It’s not the perfect simulation of life in outer space, but, in some ways, it gets closer than anything else has.
Andrew King · Jan 29, 2019 Reviewed on PS4Read full review
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Genesis is a mix of roguelike shooter, base building and survival that puts you in the role of an interstellar pioneer. In a near future ravaged by wars; corrupt regimes and global capitalism left unchecked have resulted in natural resource over-exploitation and pollution devastating the planet. Societies are collapsing. Supported by Earth’s remaining governments, four influential corporations initiate the Genesis program.
Developer: Radiation Blue