PC (Microsoft Windows)Mac2024

The Crust

Welcome to the Crust - a game that gives you a role of the CEO of the gigantic Moon colonizing company. It is a large-scale economical simulator that also brings elements of survival along with rich setting and dramatic script.

Storyline

No fate is determined. The progress is driven by people. It’s time for you to decide whether you become the one who brings changes — or the one who adapts to them. Whether to be mediocre and insignificant anybody — or to be a pioneer in the space colonization industry, leading your corporation to dominance and bringing necessary effort to make humanity an interstellar species. Building the world of the future will mark a place for you in the history books. Only the strongest can survive on a giant grim permafrost rock surrounded by vacuum, deep space darkness, and deadly silence.

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51 Steam reviews

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Steam User 5217STEAMRecommended

Самая лучшая игра в мире. А разработчики просто пусички <3

Mar 17, 2026·5h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8154STEAMRecommended

Great Game Devs always updating and adding new features

Mar 17, 2026·52h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1980STEAMRecommended

This is an incredible RTS factory-building and economic game with a huge amount of content. After you’ve spent 50-100 hours playing, you’ll probably realize how bad your initial design was and end up restarting with a completely new plan. 🙂
I do wish the game had more survival elements. Right now it mostly comes down to basic needs for colonists: you build water, oxygen, and food production and occasionally buy some med kits.
Even in its current state, especially after the latest major update, if you enjoy this genre you can easily spend hundreds of hours in this amazing and surprisingly cheap game.
I really hope it will eventually be fully released with additional DLC campaigns, stories, and more content.

Mar 16, 2026·87h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2051STEAMRecommended

Cool game except for every update you have to start from new.

Mar 16, 2026·98h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8128STEAMRecommended

Рекомендую! Очень хорошая производственно-строительная игрушка. Не без огрехов, конечно, но то что я обнаружил - простые мелочи не особо-то и портящие игру, а учитывая, что это ранний доступ, так и вообще можно внимания не обращать. В общем, советую попробовать, скорее всего вы не пожалеете.

Mar 15, 2026·38h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4249STEAMNot recommended

This "Thing" has more bugs then the Amazon...

Are they getting addressed? No not really.

Apparently it's more important to have 3000 Options when it comes to Tech then a Smooth Client.

Mar 15, 2026·745h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1939STEAMNot recommended

Ну не то чтобы плохо, но такое себе.
К каждому зданию надо вручную проводить провод с электричеством - что является васянством.
Если подключил конвейерную ленту к фабрике то машинки не смогут забирать оттуда готовую продукцию которая нужна для строительства.
А в остальном неплохо.
P.S. Ну и кстати хочется похвалить русскую озвучку.

Mar 15, 2026·2h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3345STEAMRecommended

Ive finished the game twice, it lags towards the end.

However, its one of the most fun base building I've played.

And despite being in "early access", the dev have shipped big improvements since I've started to play. Every few months, there is a new big update. I highly recommend the game.

Mar 14, 2026·148h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9716STEAMNot recommended

Vor dem Update2 war es noch Spielbar, nun leider nicht mehr. Schade darum!

Mar 14, 2026·161h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6994STEAMRecommended

Early access. It has its issues, but I haven't been able to put it down. Soundtrack is incredible.

Mar 13, 2026·30h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5792STEAMRecommended

This game is so deep that it requires multiple starts to discover what there is.

Mar 13, 2026·40h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2662STEAMRecommended

Однозначное да. В сравнении с тем что было полтора года назад, почти небо и земля. Разраб молодец

Mar 12, 2026·16h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4815STEAMRecommended

good time killer

Mar 12, 2026·145h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0047STEAMNot recommended

Great potential. Steep learning curve is a challenge. I'll change to positive when they balance manufacturing. Organics is a joke rn.

Mar 10, 2026·31h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5297STEAMRecommended

A great game but would be so much better of the research times were a little quicker.

Mar 10, 2026·7h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4628STEAMNot recommended

Regardless of my playtime, I can't in good conscious recommend this game.

The base structure of how the game mechanics work, and premisse regarding why they work that way are very good,

The lore itself is also very well made, the whole storyline is well written and your decisions do matter overall.

And the soundtrack is outstanding, one of the best I ever seen.

But what is the issue then?

The problem is that the game is ridden by gamebreaking bugs in late game that force you to restart the game, and this restart happens dozens, sometimes hundreds, of hours into a playthrough.

There are two major game-breaking bugs right now, one of them is a drone stops working, it hovers mid air and can't interact with anything, 'but it's just one drone', well, you'd think that doesn't matter once you are controlling drones in the hundreds, except when contracts fail because a single unit out of 10.000 is not delivered because that drone got assigned to deliver this unit and is bugged and can't move.

This has happened to me personally across multiple playthroughs, and the only way to solve is to start a new game, without guarantee that it won't happen again.

The second issue is regarding ore, sometimes something that I could not pinpoint out yet increases ore purity to absurd levels, I'm talking hundreds of millions of %, to the point that at first a single unit of processed regolith yields hundreds of minerals like iron, titanium, silicon and aluminium.

But why is that bad?

It's because the purity does not stop increasing, it reaches a point where it overflows and the ore starts yielding negative values, so no mineral is produced, at all, yes, your entire mineral processing starts to yield nothing, and this as of today, 9th of March of 2026, has no fix.

And these are just some of the bugs I had to deal across multiple playthroughts, every time they fix something, another gamebreaking bug shows up somewhere else, and I'm just done, I'm tired of having to deal with this again and again and again.

I'm uninstalling the game and do not intend to play it again, if I ever change my mind and try it again in a few years, if these bugs are fixed and, for once, they don't add new ones, I may reconsider changing my review, however, so far, the amount of frustration these game breaking bugs generated lead me to believe that will not happen.

It's a shame, because, like I mentioned, the base structure of this game is fenomenal. and it has outstanding potential, however the bugs in late game prevent anyone from enjoying this game fully.

Mar 9, 2026·432h·8·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7638STEAMRecommended

I'm enjoying the weave of story to the factory-builder experience. Even though its still WIP, it still feels polished. I've not experienced any bugs, and the gameplay / tech tree so far has felt very upward. I've yet to feel like I can rest on my laurels.

Mar 8, 2026·171h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8500STEAMRecommended

Das Spiel erinnert mich ganz stark an "Captain of Industry"... nur auf dem Mond halt. Dazu kommt dann noch Basenbau für Kolonisten a la "Evil Genius". Hab zwar erst 4 Stunden auf der Uhr aber ich glaube jetzt schon, dass es 3stellig wird. Die Sprachausgabe ist nur in Englisch, dafür aber gut gemacht. Das ganze fühlt sich auch irgendwie frisch an. Man kennt das Spielprinzip zwar schon seit Jahren aber hier hab ich das Gefühl mal etwas neues zu haben. Ich muss allerdings die Grafikeinstellungen auf episch setzen, sonst sieht es bißchen matschig aus. Dann ist es richtig gut bei 1080p.

Habe auch keinen fetten Gaming Pc (Ryzen 5 3600, 64GB Ram, RTX 3050 6GB, 1 TB M.2)
Es läuft flüssig, zumindest im Early Game, mal sehen wie es nachher mit vielen Drohnen ist.

Für gut 20 Euro im Sale ein absoluter Schnapper - Fazit: KAUFEN!

Mar 8, 2026·52h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3910STEAMRecommended

Ein Spiel, welches wirklich fesselt. Auch die verschiedenen Entscheidungen, welche man treffen kann, bringen einen dazu, das Spiel mehrfach anzufangen und zu spielen. Die Geschichte zu erleben ist toll und man versucht automatisch seinen Aufbau immer weiter zu verfeinern.
Wer meinen Versuch sehen möchte, kann dies gern bei YouTube unter:
https://youtu.be/8G3AJIu4MFM
Viel Spaß beim Schauen und Spielen, es lohnt sich.

Mar 8, 2026·321h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3292STEAMRecommended

Played the game WITHOUT playing the tutorial. i didnt watch a video, i didnt research anything about the game. i just opened the game. played the game. worked it out, nothing stumped me for more than a few minutes. which means the games well made, the UI is what it needs to be.

the game feels good to play. you collect resources, you progress through research by selling resources. easy peazy. nice chill game with problem solving in its DNA but not entirely the aim or purpose of the game. a very typical base builder type game but with some nice additions and some pretty things to look at. my computer is very weak and ran this on epic perfectly so optimisation is brilliant considering it does look quite good graphically for these types of games.

hours of fun. lots to progress through. ample techs to research. getting people on the planet is demanding and rewarding and actually worth doing. you can tell theres more they want to do to the game and i welcome to additions.

all the negative reviews ive seen are a little unfair.
the only time ive seen colonists hungry infront of a fridge was when the fridge was empty as no drone had moved the food from the kitchen to the fridge yet. easy to solve.

the research isnt slow, you have to pay to get research going. so research is governed by how much stuff you sell. sell more. research faster. easy.

yes the contracts go from 50units of one thing. to 5000units of another....they scale. yes it takes multiple storage units to store that amount. so? make more storage units then.....they all link together its aboslutely no issue doing this. and you dont HAVE to conomplete these contracts.....just do the smaller ones, they pay really well.

if you like games like this, this is a good one. its got content and quality built into it.
i cannot speak for the tutorial. some people said its bad, i dont know. i never went through it.

Mar 7, 2026·40h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1025STEAMNot recommended

Я очень люблю игры, где нужно создавать своё производство. Цепочка за цепочкой.
В этой игре всё есть! Но есть время! Не время, а таймер: нужно создать столько-то к такому-то сроку и т.п.
Я честно пытался... Дошёл до пятой фазы, осталось 1056 дней (половина времени), и понял я не успею! Каждая новая фаза предполагает произвести БОЛЬШЕ продукции, чем было произведено до этого в сумме.
Всё нормально было бы если не время. Тебе нужно это производить как можно быстрее.
Это минус игре - я не хочу играть в игру, где приходится всё время играть на "паузе". Поэтому минус.
Если б не время, таймеры эти, то было б норм!
Игра интересная, но

Mar 7, 2026·49h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6850STEAMRecommended

layback gaming

Mar 6, 2026·9h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3285STEAMNot recommended

This game was designed for the developers. They are the only people who will begin this game and understand it. The tutorial is abysmal. The concept is great, but the execution is disappointing. The configuration controls are unique rather than trying to make it understandable for people who like these types of games. I like the idea of how detailed the game was intended to be. I like the idea of the scope of the game also, but the execution is just lacking.

Mar 6, 2026·1h·1·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 2518STEAMRecommended

So, I played for 22 hours before my slow brain finally realized that the efficiency bonus isn’t passive — you actually have to buy it for every building. I laughed pretty hard when I figured that out.

I can absolutely recommend this game. It really has its own unique flavor. I just hope the devs add a bit more depth in the future — but that’s complaining at a very high level.

Three things I would definitely love to see from the developers are:

When making a delivery, if I want to fill the ship exactly to the brim, I’d love to just type the number into a box. Fiddling with the slider is a bit annoying.

-The ore scanner could maybe be a unique drone that you can deploy and make stationary. Once placed, it could scan the surrounding area for ore. Maybe it needs power or has to recharge. I just find it a bit tedious to constantly build and dismantle it over and over again.

-The Shopsite where you can buy Buildings. A searchbar or a filter would be great, so i dont have to scroll so much.

-Topic scrolling. The menu where all the chairs, fitnes-stuff and other funiture is, should have two rows, otherwise its to much scrolling in my opinion.

One important tip for players who think the rover scanner doesn’t work: set the game speed to normal. If you play on max speed, the white dot appears so briefly that it’s very easy to miss. On normal speed, the indicator stays visible much longer.

It’s a really great game. I love it.

Mar 5, 2026·28h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9158STEAMRecommended

not for kids... intelligent and demanding. good planning and a quiet brain is needed for this game

Mar 5, 2026·38h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1780STEAMRecommended

fun builder, basically in polishing state now. seems fully playable. but not yet 1.0. (2/5/26)

Mar 5, 2026·381h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6993STEAMRecommended

Decent game. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Mar 5, 2026·111h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3136STEAMRecommended

Fun game

Mar 5, 2026·27h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3924STEAMNot recommended

Пока отрицательный отзыв из-за большого количества недоработок
- время производства ресурсов приводится в минунтах
вот только в каких именно минутах, игровых или реальных?
похоже, что реальных, но тогда как мне понять через какое игровое время я произведу нужно количество, например, чтобы решить брать ли контракт?

- не понятно почему на ранних этапах нет возможности получить дроны
завод по производству исследовать долго, а купить их нельзя
в итоге на ранних этапах не обоснованно усложняется производство

- в режиме песочницы автоматически заключают контракт
это же не сюжет, я хочу сам принимать решения, не нужно мне навязывать его в этом режиме

- на начальном этапе нет контрактов которые можно вылнить т.к. количество требуемых ресурсов достаточно большое
хотелось бы иметь контракты пусть за небольшое вознаграждение но такие что можно выполнить

- в окне торговли после добавления ресурса к покупке нет возможности увеличить количество в списке выбранных ресурсов (только уменьшить)

- поиск в дереве исследований работает некорректно - подсвечиваются исследования в описании которых нет введенных слов

Mar 4, 2026·6h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4689STEAMNot recommended

I'm not much for reviewing games, but hitting us in the TUTORIAL with the "WOMAN GOOD MEN BAD" retardism is a pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bold move, and the reviews should hit you right back.

He asks her how the drones would mine, not sarcastically, just purely curious and all of a sudden he's a big bad guy and she's super good, couldn't do any wrong. Much smarter and more capable than anyone else.
AND THEN he has to bow down to her after she's a giant ♥♥♥♥ to him.

Mar 4, 2026·3h·3·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7654STEAMRecommended

挺不错的游戏，后面的扩展自由度还很高

Mar 3, 2026·21h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8228STEAMRecommended

Игра развивается и это хорошо. Довольно интересный base building. Не хватает только блэкджека и "№; :)

Mar 3, 2026·161h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1473STEAMRecommended

es ist Interessant für die die es mögen

Mar 2, 2026·8h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5802STEAMNot recommended

While I really like the idea of the game and its great potenial, i see the following major issues (for me):
- overall gamespeed is SLOW, even at max acceleration, it feels like normal speed after a while, still becoming slow
- upgrades are not balanced. adding 20% of manufacturing speed to SLOW is still SLOW
- production recipes are unbalanced, more advanced recipes are extremely expensive, adding all required production time of previous steps, it is cheaper to sell the sub parts and buy the parts at the market
- contracts are unbalanced. they require amounts which can only be stored by multiple large storage containers
- The campaign is WIP, but giving a warning, that a time limited contract chain is going to start after completing a contract, which itself is time limited... meh

I played thousands of hours of Factorio (EA-2.0) and Satisfactory and I honestly recommend "The Crust" for whishlist, but not for buy at the current state. the overall game progression speed is really slow and might not be really enjoyable.

Mar 1, 2026·45h·13·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8531STEAMRecommended

Bardzo lubię tego typu gry. Możliwość gry prawie w nieskończoność lecz:

+ wielopoziomowa budowa gospodarki.
+ możliwość wyboru ścieżek rozwoju.
+ wymóg przebudowy linii produkcyjnej.
+ dość intuicyjny interfejs.

- zaburzona ciągłość gry przez malejący system pozyskiwania zasobów (szczególnie wody).
- niedokończone linie odkrywania technologii.
- jeszcze jeden poziom przyśpieszenia gry byłby mile widziany.
- słabe opisy technologii i ich wzajemnych powiązań.
- budynki powinny mieć więcej slotów do montażu taśmociągów ( dotyczy odbioru i
wysyłania surowców ).

Feb 28, 2026·271h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 9528STEAMRecommended

A well built automation game with unique mechanics!

Feb 26, 2026·28h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8535STEAMRecommended

Feb 24, 2026·25h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 5397STEAMRecommended

Дам неоднозначный обзор. Прежде всего, играю с беты когда колонисты дохли почем зря, 300+ часов на пиратке. Однако, игру в итоге купила, она того стоит. Баги не исчезли. Забаговаться может что угодно и на 200 часу и на 2. Просто роботы перестают делать свою работу и сохранение не факт, что поможет. Это печально. Я фанат таких игр и они (Satisfactrory, Dyson Sphere program, etc) в альфе выглядят лучше, чем в такой продвинутой бете. Но... Игра, музыка, русская озвучка (за исключением последней добавленной девочки) - прекрасны. Если повезет (а это не факт) можно развить кучу технологий и в любом случае получить удовольствие. Вот прямо хочется сказать годно! покупайте! играйте.
По факту все упирается в недоработки. Тут даже ради кинематографических роликов стоит занести. Но играть выйдет (пока) только как у меня... с миллионом перезагрузов, новых начал (потому что роботы перестали работать) или по куче других причин. Ну, хоть колонистов починили, и то слава богу. В игре миллион активностей, технологий; вариантов развития нет, но они и не нужны, это не рпг.
Отзыв положительный. Я считаю, приверженцам жанра - маст хев хотя бы глянуть. Если не зайдет перезапуск х+ раз ради чтобы работало, не наш человек :) Плюсы описали до меня, на данный момент игра абсолютно играбельна и насыщена, но если не повезет с багом, сейв или новая игра. Первый случай на моей памяти. И при этом все равно не откажусь... проект воистину прекрасен.

Feb 23, 2026·25h·5·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 1469STEAMRecommended

I really dismissed this game at first. I thought it was ok but not that great. After giving it another shot I see I was totally wrong. There is so much more depth to this game than I imagined. The tech tree is vast and deep. So much to control and work on. They are active in dev and just keep adding more. Two thumbs up from me.

Feb 23, 2026·125h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7439STEAMRecommended

An interesting, surreal take on a basebuilding factory game.

Feb 22, 2026·9h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3763STEAMRecommended

Good, But slow progression

Feb 22, 2026·42h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 0055STEAMRecommended

Игра хороша, очень понравилось, но увы, после 35 часов игры в одном мире, установки 20 грузовиков, грузовой док просто вышел из строя, отказывался принимать новые машины, якобы в него кто-то уже выгружается + весь кратер был заполнен несуществующими копиями машин, которые катались по всей планете

Feb 21, 2026·38h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8904STEAMRecommended

This has me hooked. It's one of those sim games where I can easily lose track of time and need reminders to take breaks. Content updates dropping faster than I can grow my base to use the new features.

re: various negative reviews about performance. Here's my tests with a mid game factory with 4 upgraded multi regolith refineries, solar panels, 400+ CPU, multiple rovers on the world map, at least 1 of each production facility and all the rescuable colonists:
- old Core i7 9750h laptop struggles but can play at low frame rates
- Ryzen 7900x desktop has zero issues whatsoever

The game mechanics strongly encourage using research to upgrade equipment rather than build more of it. While research is slow, Ledger will gladly help you get the funds to hire more scientists. The genre tends to reward patience so be aware of that if you are new to simulation games.

Feb 20, 2026·92h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4895STEAMNot recommended

Игра хороша всем, кроме оптимизации.
Вы развиваете завод, исследуете механики и все хорошо. И все нравится. И хочется продолжать.
НО!!!
С определенного момента, игра превращается в пошаговую стратегию.
Тормозит так, что выполнять действия возможно только через паузу.
По уровню прогресса-я открыл еще далеко не все исследования.
Играть и играть еще.
Итого, я потратил 25 часов (в последнюю катку) на развитие базы и лишен возможности продолжать игру.
Я разочарован игрой и потраченным временем.
P.S. уровень железа сильно превосходит рекомендуемый.

Feb 20, 2026·258h·2·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8561STEAMRecommended

fun It's OK

Feb 19, 2026·49h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 6419STEAMNot recommended

I played 20-some hours before I got bored of waiting for the research of the next five things on the tech tree that I need to build the one thing I actually need next. The devs need to look at when you can produce what kinds of resources and re-balance a few costs and re-arrange the tech tree. The biggest problem though is that there's just too many bugs. An early access game should still be a playable game. But this has some pretty bad bugs: the rover scan doesn't do anything - which fully blocks the campaign progression at one point, colonists won't take meals from a refrigerator - so if you're unlucky enough to have built one and stocked it with food your colonists will stand there and starve while looking at a fridge full of food.

It's trying to be two things at once and kinda failing at both. Would be a great game if they managed to make the concepts work together, but the colony sim is unbalanced and flakey and the factory sim is not well thought out enough to be really effective. Lots of buildings seem to require resources to build but the devs haven't considered when you need that building and how you'd get that resource by then. I wanna like it. But without some serious fixes it won't be worth the price.

Feb 19, 2026·24h·11·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 8918STEAMRecommended

very good resource management game. has 'quests' you complete with rovers and trucks. I think they game could release now with the exception of the campaign.. quest lines and timed triggers cause it to not work at the moment. Very excited to see that get worked out.

Feb 19, 2026·173h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7423STEAMRecommended

상당히 컨셉 구현을 잘 해서 재밌습니다.

Feb 17, 2026·104h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 7335STEAMRecommended

Easy to play, entertaining for all who loves conveyor belts and space.

Feb 17, 2026·56h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 4200STEAMRecommended

Feb 17, 2026·153h·Verified·Early Access

Steam User 3516STEAMNot recommended

it's not factorio or surviving mars it's not fun.

Feb 16, 2026·44h·1·Verified·Early Access

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