Upcoming open-world automated crafting survival game Eden Crafters now has a free demo called Ocean World: Eden Crafters, which shows off an in-development snippet of the upcoming game set on a few small islands on a massive ocean planet – including a full-blown giant wave from that one planet near the black hole in Interstellar that comes by every now and then and destroys all the most fragile buildings in your base. Which is really neat, honestly.
After spending a few hours with it, Ocean World: Eden Crafters fully lives up to its premise: it’s Satisfactory gameplay with The Planet Crafter’s premise, and while the demo doesn’t showcase the absolute quality of either, the premise alone will surely pique many people’s interest.
The demo features five different resources that can be initially collected by hand and then quickly automated into a steady flow of materials to build an ever-larger base of machines that can be used both to produce needed goods and to terraform the environment. While you initially only get power, oxygen and food to keep you alive, you later start to expand a large base and produce batteries suitable for your powerless landing craft – which can eventually take off again to take you to a second island with more resources.
The automated gameplay in the demo is quite interesting, albeit fairly standard and simple. The more interesting part is balancing the flow of resources to also build your bioproduction facilities, which enrich the local soils and grow plants. If you get that right enough, you can grow patchy green stuff, then grasses, and eventually whole tall trees.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that it’s just one planet, with others like an Earth-like world, an extra-hot lava world, and more that are created throughout the game. The six or so easy hours on this one ocean world are a good taster, and I’ll be sure to check out whatever Osaris Games releases in Early Access or full release later this year.
You can find Ocean World: Eden Crafters for free on Steam, where you can also check out the actual store page for Eden Crafters.
