u/ProjectZenithExpanse

Hey,

I'm the developer of Zenith Expanse, a space colony/base-building sim about trying to keep a fragile colony alive on the edge of known space.

The demo is now out on Steam, and it is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

The main reason I'm posting here is feedback. Especially on the onboarding.

I've rebuilt the onboarding three times already after playtesters told me that the early game wasn't clear enough. The current demo is my latest attempt at making the first stretch easier to understand without turning it into a giant tutorial wall.

In the demo, you can:

• start a new colony,
• scan nearby stars,
• land on alien planets,
• gather resources,
• build your first settlement,
• manage colonists, supplies, and early survival problems,
• make a few decisions that may or may not age well.

What I would love to know:

1. Is the onboarding clear enough now?
2. Do you understand what the game wants from you in the first 10-15 minutes?
3. Does the base-building / colony loop feel interesting?
4. More generally: does this seem like something you would want to keep playing?

The game is still in development, so I'm not pretending everything is final or perfectly polished. But the demo should give a real sense of what I'm trying to build: a space colony sim where planets, people, resources, and bad decisions all push against each other.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4386170/Zenith_Expanse/

Happy to answer questions, and genuinely happy to hear criticism. Especially the useful kind that hurts a little.