Epic Astro Story

Epic Astro Story has two main facets to its gameplay. The first is a city managing simulation, where the player is required to build up a colony and build its success. The second is a colony exploration component, which allows the player to look through caves, empty territory, and other planets for loot and land, and contains a battle system where the colony's explorers must fight aliens and monsters.^[1][2] As the teams of colonists leave to explore, their progress in different areas is tracked through a bar on the bottom of the screen, which allows the player to continue with other management issues while the explorers continue their work.^[2] All of the colonists have names that are a play on popular Star Trek characters.^[2]

Epic Astro Story has received mostly positive reviews from critics, with the iOS version receiving a 91/100 from review aggregator website Metacritic.^[3] TouchArcade's Colette Bennett called the iOS version her favorite title of Kairosoft's release thus far, and felt that the battle system broke up the company's formula for past management simulation games.^[2] Pocket Gamer's Damien McFarren was impressed by the Android version's surprisingly "multifaceted gameplay", and praised its addictive formula.^[1] Gamezebo's Kevin Alexander, in his review of the Android version, felt that the game did a good job presenting a number of different factors in a fun and easy to manage way.^[4]