Before We Leave Cheats and Tips

Before We Leave Cheats and Tips

Before We Leave is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Switch, and PC. Take a look at our cheats and tips to get help in the game. Before We Leave is a non-violent city-building game where you control a group of people called Peeps who have left a bunker. After exploring the area you guide the Peeps in rebuilding on the ruins of a fallen civilization. The objective of the game is for the Peeps to build up their society enough to launch themselves into space and colonize other planets, overcome ancient challenges, and fend off hungry space whales.

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Before We Leave Cheats, Tips Strategy

Below is a collection of hints and tips that will help you to progress in the game. These include why you should not skip the tutorial and why it is crucial that you build energy sources early.

Don't Skip the Tutorial

It is recommended that you resist the temptation of playing a full game straight away and instead go through the tutorial. The Before We Leave Tutorial is relatively short and will cover all the core mechanics of the game, guiding you through a preset level until you are able to launch your first starship. Once you reach this point you will be on your own and the game will be about managing your colony and also developing a new one from scratch on a neighboring planet.

Adjust the Difficulty Settings

One of the features of Before We Leave is the ability to customize the difficulty of each game so that you can play to your skill level. This basically means you can make the game easier or add in additional challenges to make it more difficult. Make sure you take advantage of this feature to create the best experience.

Take your Time

Before We Leave is a 4X (Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate) game that has no time limit, so you can take as long as you like to complete it. Regardless if you like to play this type of game aggressively in favor of rapid expansion or take the slow methodical approach it is still going to take you a while to complete as it involves plenty of multitasking in order to get production of the resources you require from the different continents and planets. You can however pause the game at any time which gives you the opportunity to assess your situation and figure out what needs to be done regarding your colony.

Use your Transmogrifier to Produce Tools

At the start of Before We Leave you will have in your possession a piece of ancient technology called the Transmogrifier. This item enables you to turn raw wood into tools that are capable of dealing with complex construction projects. Early in the game the Transmogrifier is essential as it is the only way that you will be able to produce these tools. However, once you have methods of passive tool construction you should use them instead as the Transmogrifier is slow and will use plenty of your resources when it is used.

Build Energy Sources Early

Regardless of how simple they are, it is important that you dedicate your resources to building energy sources early in Before We Leave in order to ensure you are constantly producing an energy supply. If you fail to do this you will find that your progress will grind to a halt later in the game.

Gathering Resources

The demolish tool in Before We Leave allows you to destroy a building you created and receive 100 percent of the resources it initially cost you to construct, or it can be used to instruct your peeps to go and gather resources from a natural obstacle like trees or boulders. Regardless of how you use this tool it is important that you keep in mind that resource management is a major part of this game, so you need to plan things beforehand to become more efficient and prevent running into resource production problems later on.

Keep your Peeps Happy

It is essential that you keep the peeps of your colony happy, so they work more efficiently as peeps that are unhappy work up to twice as slow. To begin with you will not have to worry about your peeps happiness but as the population of your colony grows peeps will have certain expectation that must be met in order to maintain their happiness, such as providing them with food and drink.

Know the Continent Bonuses

The planets in Before We Leave feature multiple biomes which take the form of continents, these biomes include desert, grassland, rainforest, and snow. Keep in mind that the different landscapes of continents can bestow your colony bonuses and penalties which means it is essential that you find out what they are, so you are able to optimize your colony layouts accordingly right from the beginning.

Take Advantage of Adjacency Bonuses

To get the best performance out of your buildings it is essential that you place them in the right position. If you want to get the most out of a Woodcutter for example you need to place it near a forest, so it is able to produce the wood resource quicker. Also keep in mind that placing a farm near a well will allow your crops to grow more efficiently. Most of the time the benefits and drawbacks of placing buildings will be logical.