Lunar colony-building automation sim The Crust 1.0 arrives with Linux and macOS support

11 Sep 2026 at 8:25 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand

The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon. It just hit the big 1.0 release and now has Linux and macOS support too. In the age of Proton, it's still nice to see some developers trying out direct-support for the platform. Worth highlighting.

In the game you build above and below the lunar surface, mine and process resources, design production lines, and scale a small outpost into a sprawling industrial colony. Factory automation sits at the centre of the experience, supported by power management, logistics, research, Earth contracts, trading, exploration, and the health, skills, priorities, and morale of the colony's workforce.

See the 1.0 trailer below:

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Key Features

Build a lunar colony.
Mine and automate resources and production.
Explore the moon.
Play through a rich, story driven narrative.
Trade with Earth.
Influence politics.
Manage colonists and their needs.

From what they said in a press email to GamingOnLinux the single-player story experience should take around 30 hours to complete. There's multiple endings to it and the 1.0 release added quite a number of big new features to it.

The Crust

Steam Deck 🟡 Playable

Release Date: 📅 10th September 2026

Platform: ⚛ Proton / Wine (Windows)

Devs:VEOM Studio

Official links:Fanatical Steam

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Automation, Colony Sim, Indie Game, New Release, Steam | Apps: The Crust

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Cley_Faye 12 Sep 2026

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I usually refrain from this kind of comment on a game, because at the end of the day it's a matter of personal opinion and so on, but be warned, the gameplay might be excellent (the little bit I saw looks very promising), but the writing and narration… it pushed me out of the tutorial phase very fast. "quit the game and refund" fast. If you're feeling it's weird, you might want to turn off voices and skip all the (lengthy, at the beginning at least) discussions, and focus on the gameplay itself.

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phobeus 13 Sep 2026

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I can just agree on it. Played the version last summer and it was extremly addictive if you like this kind of games with automation gameplay and does have an interesting setting and events that occurs to keep it interesting. I have no doubts that the 1.0 will be even better, so I also recommend to have a look at this game.

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