Spaceplan is a simple sci-fi game about saving the world and also potatoes

For the last week, I’ve been shooting potatoes into space, trying to solve the mysteries of the universe. Not in real life, of course — I’ve been playing Spaceplan, a simple but strangely engrossing new sci-fi game that has a curious obsession with spuds.

Spaceplan is what’s known as an idle game, or a clicker. They’re the video game equivalent of background noise. You put them on, let them run, and check in whenever you get bored. For the most part they play themselves — you just need to click on something every so often to keep things moving. Spaceplan doesn’t stray too far from this formula. It’s a game where you find yourself in a ship orbiting a mysterious red planet. In order to figure out just what’s going on, you need to generate...

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