Before We Leave
Before We Leave is a PlayStation 5 simulation game developed by Balancing Monkey Games. It centers on area and route exploration, resource or business management, and repeated adjustment and feedback, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
Before We Leave is a PlayStation 5 simulation game centered on area and route exploration, resource or business management, and repeated adjustment and feedback. Schedules, changing values, or staged goals encourage repeated adjustment, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Interface clarity and state feedback matter more than spectacle, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that explanations, dense menus, real-time systems, or accessory dependencies can add friction. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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PlayStation 5AI review
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Space and supply chains create gentle but meaningful planning.
Before We Leave locates its challenge in land use, production and transport rather than warfare. Small islands make road and factory placement consequential, and trade between islands and eventually planets steadily enlarges the planning problem. Its peaceful presentation therefore does not remove meaningful choices: a badly connected supply chain can still hold a settlement back. Toy-like inhabitants and folk music make adjustment pleasant, while the documented PS5 controls avoid burying basic actions in layers of menus. The main weakness is repetition when new settlements ask for familiar early construction again. That limits the pace of discovery without invalidating the underlying logistics. It suits players who want to cultivate and refine a network quietly, not those looking for military opposition or relentless crises.
Strengths
- Space and supply chains create gentle but meaningful planning.
- Toy-like art and folk music support its peaceful pace.
Weaknesses
- Repeated early settlement construction
Who it is for: Players seeking relaxed settlement and logistics planning
Play notes: Assessment uses the April 2022 console observation; peaceful design is not treated as an automatic strength.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Expansion is purposeful, but repeated starts dilute discovery. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Space and supply chains create gentle but meaningful planning. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Toy-like art and folk music support its peaceful pace. | Reviewed | 7.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Direct controller handling keeps settlement management approachable. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Balancing Monkey Games
- Publisher
- Team17
- Release date
- Apr 5, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Management & Building · Primary genre
- Tags
- Top-downResource ManagementScience FictionLong-term ProgressionLife SimulationSolo-friendlyCozyReplayable3D GraphicsExplorationSlow Burn
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideApr 5, 2022
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