Seedship by John Ayliff

An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. Push your luck: do you settle here, on this not-quite-ideal planet, or keep searching and risk your ship being damaged in the journey? The planets you encounter are randomly generated, and as you travel you encounter random events, so each playthrough is different.

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Review national fink gamng

14 Jan 2023

Amazing, poetic game. I love the theme of the game: the last of humanity, asleep within vast chambers full of cryo-pods, depending on a starship's AI to find a new home. I also love the element of risk in the game, where the whims of chance can bring you to a sticky situation where you have to choose to sacrifice the efficiency of one part of your ship to continue, or you can risk damaging your whole ship in the worst scenario.
5/5, kool

Review cobradragon123

19 Jul 2022

Super cool. i love the randomly generated aspect

Comment Aspex101

15 Jun 2022

Cosmic enlightenment...

...with enslaved natives.

Comment DeadwoodXD

23 May 2022

Like the best SCI-FI Interactive Game EVER!

Review Török Márk

24 Dec 2021

It an intriguing take on CYOA. The precision of the story-telling is impressive (with you playing the "human-like" AI and everything), as is the high number or well-thought-trough results. One thing though: as it is a human-like AI with human-like thinking, it would have been more realistic for it to be able to turn back to a planet already scanned.

Review worthywoman

31 Oct 2021

As others have said, this is a fairly simple idea. Make that "deceptively simple." There's a reason I keep returning…

Comment i have a big rock but the r is a d

16 Sep 2021

im happy this game works in school

Review i have a big rock but the r is a d

16 Sep 2021

best game text adventures has to offer you can also get this game on phone

Review Blutakduck

03 Jul 2020

I was really impressed by this game. It's a very simple idea but is executed so well. I loved it.

Review emily22

24 Mar 2020

Really cool game

Review PurebloodQueen

20 Dec 2019

great game! I enjoyed playing it again and again. The facts are good and choices are tough and it manages to make me worry about the damages I take. One thing that I notice was the damage rate could be really high, my! I don't know how but the cultural database was gone when I land I was expecting it to at least leave a half.

Over all amazing

Review OrthodoxOyster6

03 Oct 2019

This is also a mobile app, i love how you took the games concept and turned it to text based. 5 stars

Review SilverStone the dragon

13 Sep 2019

Great game! I like to play this over and over.

Review DarkLizerd

08 Sep 2019

Interesting...
Good replay value due to the random nature...

Review Pascal666

05 Sep 2019

The best scores I got were from settling on the very first planet. Trying to find a better one always resulted in lower scores.

Review AdamBrezik

22 Jul 2019

Dude, I love it. Perfect work with random factors, the atmosphere of system checks is just thick!

Though the gameplay itself may seem as a tunnel-vission story, it made me feel like Stargate: Universe back in the days or Interstellar.

Super good work

Comment Curious

12 Jul 2019

I'm thinking . . . maybe alongside having a cultural and technological ending result also have a population result (based on surviving colonists and planet wildlife and technology). If a population is considerable small, then the civilisation will certainly exist but not surpass - and if population is considerably high then natural resources will be consumed in the near future.

And maybe something else can be done with the ship itself and any remaining probes. The memorial that it becomes will be one way or another based on the condition it was in when it landed and how many probes were left.

I'm sorry if I'm nagging … your game just got me fired up!

Review Curious

11 Jul 2019

Although I am very happy with this game (and I am already looking forward to replaying it) I have to make a nit-pick the ending scores. The only score I understood was of the technology level and the cultural level (because they were described). The other numerical scores are numbers out of a maximum that I don't know.

But having said that … I am very impressed with this piece of work.

Review The Legendary Lemon

28 Jun 2019

I cannot describe how good this game is. I love the way that it shows you levels of stuff like gravity, how breathable it is, resources, etc. I ended up inhabiting a planet called Iceball, because the surface was mainly ice.

Review GrizzlyTBOPA

26 Jun 2019

This game is pretty great! I love the randomness of it and the tough decisions you have to make. However, I think sometimes the damages made to some areas of the ship are too high. Maybe, if possible, an update which decreases the amount of damage received to the modules would be great.

Maybe I'm too picky and mooved on too many planets, but I still think the damages to the modules were too high for one turn.

Other than that, completely amazing game!

Review Gazotey

12 Jun 2019

This was really fun to play!

Review notanearthling

08 Jun 2019

This is amazing! i want to play a million times, its my favorite that i have tried on this site so far

Review Raven Gray

25 May 2019

I just started and that must have taken a lot of time! Great game hope I get that good sometime!!

Review broadwaydude

15 May 2019

What a nice short game to play. It definitely has a lot of replay value to it. This is a game of choice where almost everything is random. Love it.

Comment Abandon

15 May 2019

Interesting

Review AestheticStuff

10 May 2019

playable and entertaining <3

Review Dog-in-a-tank

10 May 2019

Great game and playable,

Comment AestheticStuff

09 May 2019

Very cool game <3

Review GR

09 May 2019

This game is amazing! Fun, fast, and easy to read!

Review seledoonarmy

28 Apr 2019

High hopes that this is like the mobile version :)

Comment PavelC

27 Apr 2019

While of moderate replay value, this is a fairly simple concept well executed and beautiful in it's own way, a work of art. I really dislike the implicit politics, though.

Review halfGerman

17 Apr 2019

Joly Christ this is a polished game. probably my favourite text adventure I've ever played, 6 stars.

Review jmacpher

15 Apr 2019

Great concept and fun to play.

Review Thecatofallcats

14 Apr 2019

Holy hell, I had no idea this was on Text Adventure, but I gave the app a 5 star rating so why not here?

This game is very fun, detailed, and honestly just simply surprising.

Review serentrippidy

31 Mar 2019

Really well put together-- this is the best game i've played on the site

Review SirHalfMast

28 Mar 2019

I really liked it, it was a fun basic game

Comment jennifer.chen11

28 Mar 2019

does anyone know how to change the white background to a photo or something else other than a plain colour?

Comment Jude B

25 Mar 2019

https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/th6ldnuao0w1deaqrposzw/zombies-at-school

Review CoolThisisAmazing

16 Mar 2019

Love this very basic game! I love how you run into obstacles along the way, and try to get the highest score! I got over 10,000 once!

Comment ggbzxt

14 Mar 2019

Really cool idea, well executed

Review ThatWDude

14 Mar 2019

I don’t think I have anything to say that hasn’t already been said. It’s just an all around fantastic game!

Review wolver

07 Mar 2019

hahaha keeps giving new options and events, have had 13 play throughs and still like it and have new things happen. Highest score so far is 9807 happy with it but still not perfect. and lowest 2877
No idea what highest score can be. But addicted to see if it can get better.

Comment mkn

04 Mar 2019

Interesting, but unfortunately buggy.

I've got a couple of these in the intro:
Error: <<script>>: bad evaluation: missing ) after argument list

And now it is stuck displaying:
Error: the passage "(2,54" does not exist

Review Jellyfish936

12 Feb 2019

nice, cool game this
but either it's really easy or im just lucky. on my second playthrough i just landed on the first planet which was this:
Atmosphere: Toxic
Gravity: Very low
Temperature: Very hot
Water: Trace
Resources: Poor

Features:
Unstable geology

and people still survived

still cool tho

Comment BoiSnake

06 Feb 2019

You just copied a game. I have played this before and it is on the App Store. But a very nice remake.

Comment John Ayliff

19 Dec 2018

Update to 13.0: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23172724

Review tswerts

12 Sep 2018

This was a very interesting text based game. I didn't succeed in saving the colony but I'll give it a new attempt very soon.

Review Darth Sauron AKA Bible Boy

29 Aug 2018

This is Awesome! Very cool game-Any chance you have any ideas I could use for mine? Mine won't be near as good, but still-if you have ideas, i'd love to use them. This game is Suh-weet!

Review easher1968

17 May 2018

just finished playing this for the first time. It was awesome. I will be playing this a lot.

Comment John Ayliff

16 Mar 2018

I've updated the game with 10 new random events and a few other improvements. Details here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/seedship-1-2-0-17599006

Review Cheralina

07 Feb 2018

Is 8978 a good score? I loved this!

Review Stripes

06 Jan 2018

Intriguing! The gameplay is primarily stat-based, yet it never feels like you're just controlling numbers on a screen; the language used, the tone, puts weight on your choices, emphasizes the value of the colonists' lives. There aren't any true characters aside from the AI, but that only heightens the sense of loneliness and emptiness in the vast blackness of space. All alone, with a thousand lives in your hands, an entire species' fate up to you... and more often than not, instead of avoiding damage altogether, you must choose the lesser (or more bearable) of two evils; give up decades of sleepless nights and entire lives of scientific research, or lose the only records of the brightest and most inspired minds who poured passion and creativity into their art? So realistic. Very well done.

Review Doom Slayer

05 Jan 2018

Wow. This game is SO MUCH FUN! It is very addictive and frustrating (in a good way!) and I wish I had more time to play this.

Review Forgewright

09 Nov 2017

Tough choices give the game realism. The game's plot is entertaining. The consequences of your actions are original each time. Could use a bit more explanation when scoring, or perhaps a score line to determine amount of success. I enjoyed the game more than most and would recommend it. Nice work John!

Tale's review is sarcastic...I assume, because it is well done and makes you want to do better.

Review I cannot think of a name

09 Nov 2017

This is very fun and addictive!