Outpost
Developer Open Mid Interactive
Outpost brings the perfect mix between survival and roguelite gameplay. Start the game in a randomly generated environment and try to adapt, and make it through as many nights as possible. How long can you survive? From the Steam store page
238 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
133 positive · 34 negative
95% range 73–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 133 | 34 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 10 | 5 | 48 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What players are saying
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 172 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (693 of 795 positive).
Players find Outpost a fun and addictive tower defense game with resource gathering and upgrades. [1][2][3] Some reviewers note the game becomes repetitive and grindy after the initial fun. [4][5][6] A few players criticize the DLC paywall and technical issues affecting their experience. [7][8]
- [14]
Interesting at first, but replay-ability is hampered by tedious early-level rebuilds. Without the ability to funnel or path mobs, game-play boils down to building a massive square of death which limits the interesting strategy and decision making found in other TD titles.
- [1]
this game has a huge potential 10/10! It starts very slow and after testing a little bit you get much stronger. It just feels amazing. The game in a nutshell: - build and gather resources on day time and try to defend the crystal at the night time - there is a huge pool of upgrades already in the free version (without the soon comming DLC) - there are towers, buffs, traps, economy buildings, fishing and a bow for …
- [2]
This is the perfect game if you want to get locked into a game and have your entire day to disappear. It's a surprisingly fun yet simple game. I played this for 17 hours straight then never played it again--it's one of these short games that will have you hooked all day but doesn't offer enough complexity to revisit after your binge is done.
- [4]
For a free game this one offers a decent amount of play time. You have a central tower to defend and a variety of turrets and buffs to construct. There's no set paths and you control a player character that wields a bow and can gather resources and upgrades around the map. Early game while there are still buffs to collect is the funnest portion, after that it becomes super grindy.
- [3]
This is a fun little progressive Tower defence type game. You play as far as you can, to get exponentially increasing experience the more waves you survive, which you then spend on upgrades to get further the next game after you die. There is a leader board to strive for also, so figure out your best setup and strategy if you want to be #1 in the world :-P
Summarised from 34 of the 228 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
Outpost sits at 80% positive across 167 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 238 · most liked first"We'd like to thank you for purchasing this marvelous game. You're a fine human being." Why, thank you, Outpost. Not sure if you should be describing yourself as marvelous, given what I've heard about you over the decades, but we'll see.
neutral · AI labelView post →Insane Marathon run earlier before my bar shift. Had to kill runners for Arachne, jumped on Outpost. Boss spawn in dorms, another squad, then a third party. Rezzed both my teammates twice, we killed the gold shield boss, immediately died to another squad. I love this game.
positive · AI labelView post →From Marathon's Game Director, Joe Ziegler: "DUOS UPDATE: A CANDLE LIT DINNER ON OUTPOST We're learning a lot as we go through our duos experiment and so we're moving on to outpost to see how runner pairs do when getting drenched by molten rain! (1/5)
neutral · AI labelView post →What's your "no one but me remembers" game? I mentioned this before on here, but Outpost, a simcity like game where you build an alien colony world using SCIENCE
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's game of IABSM at the Outpost with @thedexmchenry.bsky.social #spreadthelard #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming to Game Pass: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0... XGP Ultimate -One Lonely Outpost (3/6) -Mullet Madjack (3/13) -33 Immortals (3/18) XGP Standard -Monster Train (Today) -Galacticare (3/5) -Enter the Gungeon (3/11)
neutral · AI labelView post →Good fun at the Outpost today. We managed to run our Chain of Command 2 'Road to Meiktila' demo game twice for people who have not played Chain of Command before. Thanks to @stormofsteel.bsky.social for helping run the games. Plentyvof positive feedback. #15mm #spreadthelard #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →gather round, ye babies, for an elder millennial is speaking on OUTPOST, the worst and most disappointing game ever made
negative · AI labelView post →sometimes I think about how the AI manager in Outpost, the seirra online hard SF colony simulation game, would hiss venomously, "The people *hate* you, Administrator" as your colonial morale dips and dips
neutral · AI labelView post →in the video game Outpost, if your colony morale drops below a certain point, the AI overseer starts saying, "The people hate you, Commander" in this snide, sneering voice and I like to imagine Sam Altman, head in his hands, trembling as his LLM's say this over and over again to him
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying out 'I ain't been shot Mum' today courtesy of @stormofsteel.bsky.social . Soviets evicting Fascist invaders from the Motherland. Good game, good game. At the Outpost, Sheffield. #15mm #spreadthelard #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The Battle of Gabr el Ahmar 1940, British and Italian forces clash in a game of Tac WW2. Played in 6mm my Italian tanks bore down on the British defenders capturing the red tomb and smashing their lines. A great game hosted by Richard at the Outpost. #wargaming #6mm #ww2
neutral · AI labelView post →New Xbox Game Pass Games: March 3 - Monster Train March 5 - Galacticare (Standard) March 6 - One Lonley Outpost March 11 - Enter the Gungeon March 13 - Mullet Madjack March 18 - 33 Immortals news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →In today's game of CoC2 at the Outpost demo Sunday the Indian forces pushed up with supporting tanks against a Japanese defence line centred on a village. The Indians broke through the Japanese lines and opened up their flanks. Terrific game by @thedexmchenry.bsky.social #spreadthelard #wargaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing new indie video games games site by former Polygon folks. https://www.mothership.blog/ #Ghost #IndieMedia #Outpost #VideoGames
neutral · AI labelView post →Arc Raiders will add a new “interior design” toggle on the in-game shop, to buy furniture and trappings for your Outpost.
neutral · AI labelView post →The best game of 2025 so far is a $40 direct upscaled port of a 2014 game. My best game of 2024 was Outpost Infinite siege which I got for 20$ My best game of 2023 was a robocop game I got for $40 More money does not mean more games. It means worse developers.
positive · AI labelView post →We've all made it through January, so let's celebrate with a giveaway. Enter to win a Steam key for our game Bioframe Outpost! - gleam.io/UrP9i/biofra... #Giveaway #Win #Games #VideoGames #IndieGameDev
neutral · AI labelView post →Black Orchestra at the Outpost tonight, we won the game by derailing Hitler's train as he travelled to the chancellery in Berlin. @thedexmchenry.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass: 33 Immortals, Mullet Madjack, One Lonely Outpost, and more! news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →They got the game up at Habana Outpost. Traffic levels for this time of night are seriously low. Lol. The one thing this city agrees upon is the Knicks.
neutral · AI labelView post →initial thought was "i already kind of live in Xrd" but then i remembered my last game was NIKKE Reporting to the Outpost for duty 🫡
neutral · AI labelView post →Played our first game of Power Grid Outpost. I really like what this brought to Power Grid (maybe because won leaving the others in the dust). It will definitely be added into the Power Grid rotation. #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →Outpost building strategy game Star Trek: Outposts Unknown launches October 20 #Proton #CityBuilder #StarTrek #PCGaming #Gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I suck at self promotion, but love making games. We just released Bioframe Outpost on Steam + consoles & could use your help spreading word. :-) It's a unique game with real depth, & hope it will find its audience. store.steampowered.com/app/463730/B... Streamers/Reviewers poke me for keys.
neutral · AI labelView post →i'm so normal about the computer game, marathon. i'm definitely not about to call off sick from work and load into Outpost solo in the trios lobby and just yell about the genderswapped assassin samurai shell on prox chat like the goddamned town crier
neutral · AI labelView post →The game store I’ve been shopping at since 2010 , Imperial Outpost, bought copies of Emerald Templars to put in their store! 😭 I am so happy!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Interesting at first, but replay-ability is hampered by tedious early-level rebuilds. Without the ability to funnel or path mobs, game-play boils down to building a massive square of death which limits the interesting strategy and decision making found in other TD titles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →and that's how Outpost became the biggest disaster in PC gaming history, the worst game in PC history, and the game that taught young rowan not to trust previews alone for purchasing decisions
negative · AI labelView post →Indie Retro News: OutpostHD - A complete redesign of Sierra's strategy game OUTPOST! www.indieretronews.com/2026/08/outp... #retrogaming #gaming #pcgaming #games
neutral · AI labelView post →Into this context Sierra announces a game: Outpost. It's a strategy game about building the first space colony on a hostile planet, marketed as using REAL NASA science!!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Went from nothing, to one Rook run in Outpost, that led to a locked room key in Perimeter, that led to these sick purps I am really enjoying this video game
positive · AI labelView post →A very much needed social game night last night thanks to the very kind @boardgame.bsky.social. it was full of some great games. Rebirth Red Outpost (this is a hidden Gem I need) Bus (second Splotter and I did HORRIBLE but loved my misery, haha) #boardgames #boardgamesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I played 12 minutes, saw that half of all upgrade trees were locked behind DLC, Uninstalled. Gameplay - Boring Basebuilding - Minimal Enemies - Boring Story - none (not a big deal just mentioning it) Tech Tree - half the stuff is locked behind DLC paywall Visuals - cute but not my preference 2/10 personally, 3/10 for rogue-likes if I took away my personal stuff but that pay walled tech tree messes it up I would say just putting a demo out and say you are selling the game at 5 bucks would have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I never really went down the indie game design route, I was hanging around the Forge before there was a Forge, back in the Gaming Outpost days...
neutral · AI labelView post →First game of vacation is Codenames Duel at The Outpost!
neutral · AI labelView post →Popular mobile game Final Outpost: Definitive Edition arrives gets a PC release on May 22 #FinalOutpost #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →there's just one teensy tiny problem: the game has to be released. And when Outpost IS released, it is absolute garbage, from concept to execution.
negative · AI labelView post →Played Power Grid: Outpost. Small variant of Power Grid, I liked the twist of managing the cards, and the worker market. It's fun, feels more flexible, but not very different from regular PG. Recommended! #bgg #boardgames #brettspiel
positive · AI labelView post →Outpost Simulator Mental Dreams, Ultimate Games S.A. Steam disclosure -y
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie Retro News: Outpost - A new speccy game inspired by Dizzy series and modern metroidvania! www.indieretronews.com/2026/10/outp... #retrogaming #gaming #games #zxspectrum
neutral · AI labelView post →New #ZXSpectrum game has been released by Juan J. Martínez (Author of Night Knight, Rescuing Orc, Brick Rick: Graveyard Shift and others). Outpost is a new platform-adventure game in Juan's gaming style, great graphics, sound and gameplay. www.usebox.net/jjm/outpost/
neutral · AI labelView post →Introducing Outpost 16, the third region in my game Akashic Slingshot! #godot #pixelartㅤㅤㅤㅤ #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Rook run on Outpost. Narrowly avoided this squad, looted their scraps, got out safe. Cool game.
positive · AI labelView post →This was straight-up not finished and the late game was just clicking through seventeen nested research submenus to make your space houses look slightly fancier. I put one million hours into it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost...
negative · AI labelView post →Also, my mate @nirisgames.bsky.social is an #IndieDev and is currently working on Deep Space Outpost, a cool little space station builder / sandbox / scenarios resource management game. Check it, yo (free DEMO): store.steampowered.com/app/1712110/...
neutral · AI labelView post →got a game over on my way to Fahr Outpost and i hadn't saved which means i gotta start over
neutral · AI labelView post →First off, I would say this game is good and lots of potential. I played about 10 hours, two 4+hours sessions and was actually really good. BUT The problem for me lies outside the game. I don't know what is the problem with this game. After I installed it, my laptop started having problems. Everytime I would start my laptop, I would get stuck on the brand logo aka POST. Troubleshoot and found out the BIOS changed the boot device to my other hard drive and continues to do so every restart.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I built Outpost Earth, a full pixel survival and tactics game that lives inside a Chrome extension. It runs 100% offline with no servers, ads, or tracking. Includes 7 game modes, 28 survivor classes, and 270+ enemy types. Try Outpost Earth here: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/outpo... #Gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →you can easily recognize a lot of the superhero references but I also threw in the DIRT from Outpost in there, a video game I think 99% of you have no fucking idea what even is
neutral · AI labelView post →We had an amazing Indie Outpost last Saturday :) Thank you so much for the great evening, the strong turnout, and all the engaging talks. A special thanks as well to LAGARDE1 and Games/Bavaria for sponsoring the venue and catering! #gamedev #indiegame #outpost #games #gaming #gamesmadeingermany
neutral · AI labelView post →My #StarCitizen in-game #ScreenshotOfTheWeek: "F8C Landing at Hurston Outpost" Full 4k version: www.hasgaha.com/gaming-scree... Developer: CIG reshade | VirtualPhotography | VGPUnite | StarCitizenPhotography
neutral · AI labelView post →Indie Outpost Nuremberg on September 7 at 6 pm! 🥳 Old location: Glasbau @ KunstKulturQuartier! - Thomas Seggewiß (Nerdanwalt) will be speaking on AI and german copyright law - Isabel Grünberg (Positive Impact Games): "Comprehensive World Design - a new way to look at narrative in games" Thanks to @GamesBavaria and @CipSoft GmbH for providing drinks and pizza! #gamedev #indiegame #outpost #gaming #gamesmadeingermany
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, an Indie Outpost in Bamberg again! 👉️ Location: LAGARDE1 Bamberg 🕡️ Time: March 28, 2026, from 6:00 PM 🍕 Free entry, including pizza and drinks 🔥 Talks: Veronika Gasser on the importance of networking from the perspective of someone with an anxiety disorder, and Nikolas Crisci on the challenges with APIs and KPIs 🍻 Come by and connect! 🎮️ Feel free to bring your own topics and game projects ❤️ Many thanks to LAGARDE1 and GamesBavaria for sponsoring! #gamedev #indiegame #outpost…
neutral · AI labelView post →Very simple idea that gets boring after a very short time. Leveling up axes is almost pointless when you have level 3 axes that still only harvest 1 wood most of the time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game has a huge potential 10/10! It starts very slow and after testing a little bit you get much stronger. It just feels amazing. The game in a nutshell: - build and gather resources on day time and try to defend the crystal at the night time - there is a huge pool of upgrades already in the free version (without the soon comming DLC) - there are towers, buffs, traps, economy buildings, fishing and a bow for the player - you can find shrines that give upgrades for the run and you can find…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the perfect game if you want to get locked into a game and have your entire day to disappear. It's a surprisingly fun yet simple game. I played this for 17 hours straight then never played it again--it's one of these short games that will have you hooked all day but doesn't offer enough complexity to revisit after your binge is done.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this game on and off for a bit. Just too much grinding required to make any real progress with little sense of actual progress.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Full house at yesterday's indie outpost in Nuremberg! Sitting literally outside the room didn't stop people from following our talks and listening to the awesome talks from Thomas Seggewiß (Nerdanwalt) and Isabel Grünberg! And thx for sponsoring @GamesBavaria and @CipSoft GmbH #gamedev #indiegame #outpost #games #gaming #gamesmadeingermany
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 1 Post-Apocalyptic Outpost Survival Simulation Game... #indiedev #indiegame #survivalgame #simulationgame youtu.be/Kl8_1IgVIAQ
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