Utopia takes inspiration from Sim City gameplay and introduces a military element to create an action-adventure experience. The game is set in the future, where you play as Colony Administrator for a new settlement on a distant planet.
Your goal is to provide the highest Quality of Life rating for the colonists by ensuring they have access to essential facilities such as life support, power, housing, employment, police, and entertainment. However, random events like solar eclipses can disrupt your progress, while an alien threat also poses a challenge in many scenarios.
As you manage your colony, you must balance civilian research with military resources, including weapons development, intelligence gathering, and building tanks and spaceships to ensure survival against the alien threat. Building a strong colony is crucial before facing the aliens, but achieving a QOL of 80% or higher requires overcoming the external threat.