Space Settlement: Pioneers is a real-time 2D space MMOG. It is a basic game with basic mouse controls.
After you log into the game, you are born on a random planet at a random settlement colony. You are put into a bio chamber which accelerates your physical development. When you come out, you are trained, and given basic tasks depending on your experience. You are given an average amount of money and you owe allegiance to the settlement you are in. A settlement has certain needs, and you can earn money filling those needs.
Once you have enough money, you may decide to buy things and move out of your parents apartment. You may decide to get a job as a waiter/waitress at a restaurant, or you may wish to join the military as a fighter pilot. You may decide to work for a package delivery company, or become a mechanic's apprentice and fix things. Time goes a little bit faster than in real life, so jobs will be much easier, but you may still have to go to work at certain times and leave at certain times. There are only a few long-term activities, so you can log out whenever you want.
There are a huge amount of 'mini-games' in this game. They mostly focus around doing simple tasks to get money. Some earn an hourly wage, some pay by the work you do, and others pay whatever you decide to charge. Mini-games come in many varieties and difficulties, ranging from color matching to economic distribution. The settlements are mostly computer controlled, but anyone can get a job anywhere under the right circumstances.
The Restaurant mini-game is a fast-paced race to fill your customers' orders. As a waitor/waitress you must navigate your character from the order counter to the correct table by matching up colored symbols. As a cook, you may have to fry foods for the right amount of time, pour drinks, assemble sandwiches, and many other things. As a manager, you will be able to purchase better equipment such as automatic cookers, and you will be able to hire and fire employees.
The Grocery Store mini-game is a job that pays by the hour. You can work one of several positions. As a re-stocker, you have to go down the aisles putting up the new items. As a cashier you have to re-position and scan the items that go by when there are customers. As a janitor, you have to clean up spills and put up 'wet floor' signs. As a manager, you have to read the consumer charts and the stock reports and decide what needs to be re-ordered. There are also many different stores with slightly different tasks.
The Repair Shop mini-game is an apprenticeship job. You may earn a very low wage, or none at all while you are learning. You will quickly become certified to use all of the repair tools, and learn to use the repair computer. You will also have to learn where to scan each type of ship for parts details. At the repair computer, you will learn how to repair many different parts, and you will be able to order parts that you can't repair.
The Factory mini-game is an automated manufacturing plant with a long conveyor belt that has several different machines along each section of it. Anything could break down or fall apart, and you're there to make sure it doesn't, or to clean up the mess. Each machine is a bit different, and different things may go wrong, such as engine breakdown or fan belt breaking.
The Botanical Dome mini-game is a large dome warehouse full of plants for food, science, makeup, and other purposes. There are several jobs to do here, including moving pots, planting seeds, trans-planting plants, moving overhead watering pipes, and taking soil samples. As a floor worker, you will have to use a magnetic hand lift to move pots and water pipes, fill pots with dirt, and plant or harvest things when you are told. As a botanist, you will have to check soil PH and inspect plants for diseases. During harvest time, you may have to work on a conveyor belt, sorting and inspecting plants for quality as they go by.
The Package Shipping mini-game is a large warehouse full of incoming and outgoing packages, and conveyor belts. As a package sorter, it is your job to direct packages to the correct delivery area. Packages will be unloaded onto a revolving conveyor. You have to pick up a package as it goes by, check its address, and put it on the corresponding conveyor belt to be shipped. Some packages may be mis-labelled or badly marked. You could also get a job as a truck driver. You may have to drive any sort of vehicle, and go to any sort of location, depending on your level of experience, and what licenses you have.
The Colony Ship mini-game is a large vessel travelling to colonize a new planet. Most of the passengers are in stasis for the long ride, but a few people are left awake to tend the controls and make sure the ship gets there in one piece. Sometimes the guidance control system will malfunction and have to be rebooted, and you will have to steer the ship. Sometimes a bunch of stasis pods will lose power, and you will have to act fast, or the passenger(s) could die. A giant asteroid could fly toward the ship from nowhere, and you will have to blast it before it hits the ship.
The Apartment Complex mini-game is a huge multi-story sky-scraper with many apartments and many people living there. As a janitor, you will have to go down every hallway, and other public rooms each night and vaccuum the floors. As the garbage man, you will have to go to every public trash can and decide whether to empty it or leave it. As the manager, you will have to answer calls, listen to messages, and decide whether you want to rent out rooms or evict residents. Some apartment buildings will have other services such as a cafeteria, a gym, a library, and a mini-mart.
The Construction Job involves a few mini-games. There is the construction plant, where concrete and metal bars are made, and some things are pre-fabricated. There is a shipping mini-game in which you must work with a group of other workers to safely move supplies and large equipment to the build site. There is also a construction site mini-game where you actually build the building that has been ordered. At the construction plant, the manager will have to keep an eye on supplies, the workers will have to formulate the right strength of metal bars and concrete, and the heavy machinery loaders will have to load the right machinery and equipment. On the shipping mini-game, the lead driver will have to make the right turns, the heavy machinery truck will have to drive carefully, and the follow truck will have to watch the machinery and signal for any problems. On the construction site, the diggers will have to dig the right holes, the levellers will have to make sure the ground is level, the site manager will have to keep track of all of the workers and keep everyone on time, and the machinery workers will have to carefully place items or pour concrete or weld parts according to the plans.
The Politics mini-games involve getting elected for a political career. People will state their concerns about living conditions and laws, and you will answer questions however you think will get you elected. Once you are elected, you will have to make tough decisions about the issues that your position involves, and show up at conventions. For example, a mayor will have to decide how much to spend on city tasks, help people vote on laws, and help hire some of the city workers. You will have many advisors and experts working to help you do your job. There are also many other positions that you can get elected to or hired to.
The Seaport/Airport/Spaceport has a few mini-games. There is the outside and the inside area. Inside the port, you could be in one of several positions. You could be a security worker, scanning peoples faces and luggage for criminals or illegal items. You could work at a ticket booth, checking people in and selling tickets. You could be a janitor, cleaining up the floors. You could be the manager, deciding who to hire and fire. In the out-door mini-game, you could be in a tower, coordinating port traffic, giving ships authorization to park/land/dock in certain places. You could be the luggage packer, taking luggage off of conveyor belts and loading it onto the correct ship. You could be a ship captain, going to remote locations and back, steering through dangerous obstacles. You could be a flagger, waving bright flags and waving them in a pattern to help them park.
The Homemaker mini-game is meant for one person in a married couple. That person gets to take care of the home, and optionally raise children. There are many stages to this mini-game and there is a lot of freedom. You don't even need to have children, you could just want to stay home. Interestingly, an NPC can take the role of the supporter or the homemaker, and you will have to agree to having children before any children appear. You also have the option for both of you to work, its your choice. You will probably have to manage the finances, and keep the fridge stocked, and pay the bills, and other home-maker sort of tasks.