The Crust Characters Characters — Wiki & Guide

The Crust doesn't have a traditional NPC compendium — its "characters" are two groups: the colonists you hire (a procedurally generated workforce with professions, skills and traits) and a small story cast anchored by mission control dialogue. Here's what the sources document about both.

Your colonists: the real roster

Every colonist is generated with a profile you manage like a resource — the game's own line: "People are your most valuable resource."

Layer	What the sources show	Examples
Professions	Hireable specialties in the applicant pool	Engineers, medics, cooks, botanists, scientists
Skills	What they're actually good at alongside their job	"He's a medic specifically, but also very capable of science and some botany"
Traits	Personality modifiers with mechanical effects	Diplomat, adaptive, bar regular, athlete, hacker
Needs	Health, mood, comfort, food, rest	Eating at a table, entertainment, medbay coverage

Traits have teeth: a mid-game event asks you to send someone with the diplomat trait to mediate a dispute, and players report hacker-trait colonists offering a chance to blunt faction sabotage. Workplace assignment drives output — one documented Components Factory jumped from 20% to 161% efficiency once staffed, and scientists in labs generate research that drops when they're tired or unhappy.

The hiring pool widens with your global faction reputation — "a diverse pool of scientists with varied traits" is the stated reward for playing contracts well. For the management layer (wages, needs, the worth-it debate), see the colonist guide.

The story cast

The campaign's named presences in our sources:

• Alice — the voice of mission control in the launch trailer ("Alice to MT Logistics, grant us landing permission") and the campaign's most prominent character. She's also the most controversial: several 1.0 Steam reviews single out her "condescending voice lines" as the game's worst writing.
• MT Logistics — the orbital traffic control on the other end of that radio exchange, likely representing the logistics corporation that runs your supply line.
• The factions' personas — Earth-side entities like Xpace, the Arabian Concern of Infrastructure Logistics and Malikite Heavy Engineering appear as contract-givers with distinct flavors (see factions & trade).

The Kickstarter pitches "a cast of characters to guide you through the darkness" — our sources don't document a full character list with bios, so treat the above as the confirmed named presences rather than the complete cast.

Quick answers

• Can you name colonists? The Kickstarter backer perks included "one of the colonists will be named after the player" — beyond that, naming isn't documented in our materials.
• Do characters have story arcs? The campaign has narrative events with choices; the community's documented examples are event chains (a shadowy group's sabotage, a diplomatic mediation) rather than companion-style arcs.
• Who is Alice? The mission-control voice of the campaign — prominent, and divisive among reviewers.