Whooah, definitely one of my all time favorite games, I barely remember spending 1000+ hours on something else... I could just leave the game open and go out shopping, so, that contributed to the total number of hours, too. And it felt so satisfying that you can leave your base like so, and it still works fine - no steam all around the base, no dead plants and starving/suffocating duplicants, no drama! I'm a caring colony manager.
Have you been around since early access? People exploited the duplicant death mechanics - farmed Morbs for polluted oxygen - so cruel 😀
I wish the game turned the other direction a bit. I wanted actually dangerous diseases, and it has been planned for implementation. But community wanted more of sandbox/basebuilder, so they turned it down! Well, I might look up a mod to fix that!
wooow that's a lot of hours, although I have a lot, I also never learned to automate, I've been playing since 2019 but it's been a long time since I've really played a long game, I'm planning to do that little by little with this start.
I agree that the game could be made more difficult and with more things, perhaps some tremors that stress affects them or a little aging so the colony requires a replacement of duplicates it would be great