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Before We Leave, a chill citybuilder with space whales, is out nowIt returns after having been delisted during its early access

It returns after having been delisted during its early access

Before We Leaveis a citybuilder in which you form settlements on a planet and then blast off to find new homes across a solar system. It looks extremely chill, it has space whales, and it just launched after a spell in early access.

Before We Leave Launch TrailerWatch on YouTube

Before We Leave Launch Trailer

Cover image for YouTube video

I’m fond of the hexagon tiles, which shift into place as you explore a planet’s surface, and which the space whales seemed to hoover up. I also like that, as destructive as that may sound, the game is non-violent, so you won’t be launching any space harpoons.

Nate and Matt played Before We Leave during early access last year and thought it wasa good set of training wheels for the citybuilder genre. It’s a game in which your peeps will stop working if they don’t have food, but they’ll never actually starve. They just wait in their houses until the vegetables arrive. I’m a big fan of not starving.

I’m download Before We Leave as I type. If you want to join me, you can find Before We Leaveon Steam.