A nice surprise! Wishlisted! :)

At last, cheers.

For those in the know, is this similar to Startopia?

Certainly looks more grounded, Hard Sci-Fi-oriented in its approach to the space station managment sim, most likely plays like it too.

played some hours in its first iteration and it.. had some good idea's...... the first few patch notes did paint a picture of a lot of changes, balance and gameplay, coming that i decided to hold my play for now. I'm quite casual with some games and it is not really helpfull when you return to something only to notice that literally everything changed

From watching playthroughs of it several months ago, was very story-driven, but the story is a choose-your-own-adventure style where some choices give much better bonuses / lesser penalties than others, often without enough clues to make those events more than a guessing game. Depending on your playstyle for unfair events, it might turn into a savescumming game.

The city-building gets compared to the resource-limited Frostpunk rather than normal city-builders.

It's not hard sci-fi; the immersion-breaking thing for me is that the roof of each sector is much higher than the buildings, and the buildings have chimneys on top releasing pollution into the shared atmosphere of the sector. Also, although it's one big ship, the six individual sectors have to transfer resources and population between themselves via a complex mechanism that would be more in-place if they were cities on separate islands. It feels as if the game mechanics were written for a different setting.

I just got hit with heavy space station 13 vibes from the woman's voice from the trailer. This is a very nice looking game ngl.

By the text descriptions, this sounds like a real-time building game where you have tight time limits to do certain things or lose. That usually doesn't combine well with the genre, but it's not unheard of (TinyTopia, the action-puzzle-citybuilder game succeeded at it, though was right at the border of "argh, too frustrating" on a couple of the physics-balance-challenge stages for me).

Or am I reading into the description too much?

Not yet, but I installed it to be my Christmas Break game. So I don't know it to know if that [also] has the same type of thing. I'm really looking at the word "deft" in the game card... Might be overthinking it.

It's a mix of Startopia and Frostpunk.
The gameplay can be punishing to some players but I loved every second of it.

Damn devs should finally make some DLCs...

I got instantly interested the moment I saw Startopia being mentioned here hehe.

And honestly after just looking at the screenshots from the store page it did remind me of it, to some extent at least. Also, like others have said already, I too think this game does look nice.

A welcomed addition I suppose.

Does every proton count?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium#Interstellar_matter and wishlisted.

Oohhh, nice! I had been pondering biting the proverbial bullet and get it on steam. Glad to see it show up over hear instead.