I just finished getting all achievements in planetbase (which you should check out if you haven't heard of it, this game seems very similar), and was looking for a new colony sim to play. Usually, I play this game when I'm away from my desktop, so I wanted to know if the game is runnable without an actual graphics card. specs are amd ryzen ai 7 350 + radeon 860m. Thanks!
Can you beat this in one playthrough: No, you'll have to play the game through on multiple different planets/challenges, you aren't required to beat a challenge more than once tho.
Difficulty: 8.5/10
Tediousness: There isn't much tediousness, but it is rage-inducing in an almost Bennett Foddian way.
Hardest Achievements: All the express achievements. These require you to get to a high number of colonists in a short amount of time. The only way you can do this is to always have your colonists satisfied and be constantly expanding. Things can go wrong easily if you miss something small.
Can you beat this faster than I did: Most likely yes, I was playing pretty casually for a while, and never focused on this game, just played for a couple of days at a time over a few years.
Overall thoughts: I really love this game, its honestly the only colony sim that really scratches the itch that I'm looking for. The game is quite annoying though. The character ai's will not make anywhere near the intelligent move, and it will take learning to understand how to make them do what you want. It's also missing a lot of features that seem like they would be natural to have in a game like this (you can't terraform or build outwards indefinitely are main ones for me). The sequel is currently in production, and I'm hoping these will be fixed.