Sometimes, I look at my constituents in Cities Skylines 2 and I think ‘yes, I would like to blast you into outer space.’ If it’s not garbage collection they’re complaining about, it’s traffic, or bus routes, or that taxes are too high, or that the weather is too warm and it’s melting the ice cubes in their cocktail. I want to take the whole city and just eject it into the stratosphere. Space Station Designer lets me live out that dream (albeit with a more optimistic and humane tone). A strategy game set in the deepest reaches of the big black, it feels like Cities, mixed with Manor Lords, mixed with space. Published by Slitherine, the label behind Warhammer 40k Gladius, if this sounds like your thing, you’re in luck – a demo just went live.

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