Meeple Station
released on Jan 17, 2019
Meeple Station is a cooperative Space station Simulation game. Strongly inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld (with a hint of Space Station 13). Where the complexity of a simulation game blends with the friendly and satisfying nature of a Real-Time-Strategy game.
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Another in the very long list of broken/abandoned space station sims. I need someone to do a study- why are there so many specifically in this genre, and why are they all abandoned and busted in this very specific way? It's truly strange.
This game is currently in the Humble Choice for June 2023, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before July 4th, 2023, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
A space sim game that never really gets started.
Meeple Station has players running a space station with workers on it, trying to explore the vast enormity of space. At least that’s what I think it’s supposed to be. Players can choose jobs for their characters, build out their stations, and potentially fly to other planets, and trade.
At least that’s what I think is the intent. Meeple Station appears to have some issues. I question if there even is a real campaign mode, as I couldn’t find a way to get any missions or requests to happen after starting the game. Admittedly I was forced to skip most of the tutorial due to time limits, but even so, the game is pretty straightforward in concept, but with a lack of a solid UI to tell the player what is going wrong. There are also no achievable goals from what I saw, and researching just didn’t work for me at all so I couldn’t build anything beyond what was available at the beginning of the game. The only bright spot is when characters were suicidal and just spaced themselves.
I wouldn’t pick this up, Even if you get the bundle, there are better simulator games, and this game almost feels abandoned at this point. Maybe it’s broken, maybe I got hit by a bug, or maybe I just don’t understand how to play it, but it didn’t seem worth the effort to get going in the game, and outside of watching your crew fling themselves out of an airlock there’s not much else to see here.
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A space sim game that never really gets started.
Meeple Station has players running a space station with workers on it, trying to explore the vast enormity of space. At least that’s what I think it’s supposed to be. Players can choose jobs for their characters, build out their stations, and potentially fly to other planets, and trade.
At least that’s what I think is the intent. Meeple Station appears to have some issues. I question if there even is a real campaign mode, as I couldn’t find a way to get any missions or requests to happen after starting the game. Admittedly I was forced to skip most of the tutorial due to time limits, but even so, the game is pretty straightforward in concept, but with a lack of a solid UI to tell the player what is going wrong. There are also no achievable goals from what I saw, and researching just didn’t work for me at all so I couldn’t build anything beyond what was available at the beginning of the game. The only bright spot is when characters were suicidal and just spaced themselves.
I wouldn’t pick this up, Even if you get the bundle, there are better simulator games, and this game almost feels abandoned at this point. Maybe it’s broken, maybe I got hit by a bug, or maybe I just don’t understand how to play it, but it didn’t seem worth the effort to get going in the game, and outside of watching your crew fling themselves out of an airlock there’s not much else to see here.
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/e2DNWzOaOao