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Seedship – Text-Based Game

Seedship – Text-Based Game

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·September 5, 2025
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infl8ed

First time hearing about this game but enjoyed it a lot. If you squint hard enough it reminds me of my favourite text game A Dark Room https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

derbOac

I've played this game a lot over the years. I wish there were more like it but I haven't found anything quite the same.

I liked the earlier version of it more though. Although the newer version has some interesting encounters, it feels less "natural" to me than the earlier version, like it's been made more difficult for its own sake.

sevg

Spoilers.

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?blmOrxj...

My settlers became an immigrant population on a planet with native aliens. But it worked out in the end! “ They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs.”

stevage

This is pretty awesome! I got pretty into it.

I think I'd love to play a conventional graphical game along these lines. Anyone have any recommendations?

unsnap_biceps

Ooh, a fun run, score of 9972 but a spoiler in the results if you look at them.

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmmorwj...

nurettin

I kept using sensors to shield the colonists, storage and the landing gear to get this result

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?mlhorgj...

AnotherGoodName

Again spoilers for a possible outcome: https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmmorxj...

ekelsen

A perfect score, nice!

tra3

This was excellent. Is there something similar with a bit more depth/replayability?

someone mentioned Ftl in the comments and that’s a good one too.

bryanhogan

Similar as in also a space setting or just text adventure game?

There's Warsim which has an incredible amount of depth but with a medival fantasy setting instead.

memalign

You might like Space Trader:

https://memalign.github.io/m/spacetrader/index.html

ekelsen

10488! https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?blmOrai...

beckthompson

I love this game and have had it on my phone for many years. Funny to see this come up - I just played it a couple of times a day ago for the first time in a few years.

ilaksh

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?blcOndk...

beeflet

I landed humanity on the first, most desolate rock. They decided to engage in plutarchy for seemingly no reason. I was hoping it would be like dune, but I guess it was more like ancient egypt.

wewewedxfgdf

Feedback: I love text games but there is too much clicking and the font is too small.

ndileas

This reminds a little of the paperclip simulator, but this seems about 85% less likely to cause me to skip an entire day of work while clicking furiously. It's really good though!