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Play OverviewPlay Overview

Heliopedia (2021) is a world-building game where you create and manage tiny planets. You play by exploring a solar system, collecting elements and combining them together to create new discoveries. It is an exploration game where the joy in in experimenting with new combinations of elements to see what you create and what happens to your new planet as a result.

Play involves moving around with the mouse to explore a solar system and collect chemical elements. You click elements to add them to your inventory. Once you have three pieces of coal, you feed them to the sun, who gives birth to a barren, formless planet. Your role now is to explore combinations of elements to create different climates, terrains and eventually if all goes well, life on your planet.

As you collect and combine more elements, you make new discoveries, which are added to an in game encyclopaedia. This allows you to shape your new world in different ways, for example adding gases to the atmosphere to build up a certain type of climate or shaping the terrain of your planet to allow new life to be formed.

It's a game that commits to letting you discover how elements combine (for good or bad) without hand holding or direction. You play god by exploring, combining and watching what happens as a result. Along the way you learn about how the elements react to each other.

Our examiner, Rob Prior, first checked Heliopedia (Sokpop) 22 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 18 months ago.
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Play StylePlay Style

This is a Strategy and World Building game with Collecting, Puzzle and Simulation elements. This is a single-player game.

DurationDuration

Play Time: This game will take between 2 hours and 3 hours to complete. Although you can discover all the content in two hours, you can continue to build new worlds for much longer.

BenefitsBenefits

Age RatingsAge Ratings

Content Rating

This game has not yet been rated, but we anticipate it is likely to be rated PEGI 3.

Skill Level

8+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Younger players need to be patient enough to explore lots of potential options as some discoveries are difficult to create and don't follow expected logic.

CostsCosts

Heliopedia usually costs £3.99.
 

Heliopedia

Steam Store PC £3.99
Steam Store Mac £3.99
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.
 
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DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 12/10/2021

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Strategy, World Building (Collecting, Puzzle and Simulation)

Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

Developer: Sok Pop Co (@SokPopCo)


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