Helium Electric Reviews

This is a very strategic game. It has a cool 80s PC and feel cold war like

You load 0.4 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store

Well what about this than...? Im looking at my discovery queue when I spotted this game Helium Electric. I thought..`Thats a strange name...wonder what its about..?` well dear reader let me tell you. Its a game set in an alternate history in the 80s. For some reason you have to mine Helium on the moon as it is an abundant energy source. You accomplish this by giving orders to your various robotic units such as harvesters, drones and recovery vehicles. You use the drone to scan for deposits of Helium and when its done its bit you then send in the Harvesters to...er...harvest. This is all done under the watchful eye of the company who own everything. So if you mess up by not making enough profit. Bad things start happening. You also have a wife and child and parents to feed and rent to pay. If you dont pay your rent you become homeless...if you dont buy food....yep you guessed it...you starve. The trouble is you dont earn enough money at the start to keep on funding your lifestyle. You can only mine for a limited amount of time on the moon due to radiation and every now and again you have to go to recover till the next day. I think this game has great potential and I found it addictive as you send out your harvesters monitoring their fuel and condition and deciding whether to bring them back in for repairs or run them into the ground for profit. Of course its a fine balancing act between profit and not having enough money to pay the bills. Of course I do have a couple of gripes. One of them being some of the grammar feeling wrong so maybe english is not the devs 1st language. But then again what do I know..Im not exactly a grammar teacher. Still it really is a minor gripe as I find on the whole is truly a gem and I think it could only improve with the odd update. As it stands its very stable and the interface is decent....well it is set in the 80`s remember ? Also the game needs more publicity cos I discovered it by accident. I had not heard of it before today. But im real glad I did. A truly excellent game which is original. I hope it does well to encourage the dev to update and maybe even do more games like this. Cheers for reading this my fellow Steam gamers. So what ya waiting for buy this its only £5.99...about the price of a burger and chips in a well known fast food restaurant. Lotsa love x.