Breathedge

So I got this game for free as part of the promotion the company did to get people excited for the second game (which at time of writing is about to go up for early access.) I don't think I would have gotten this if it wasn't free. I like the retrofuture vibes of the design, but the gameplay is tedious and so resource intensive that I can't recommend it. Also it bills itself at a "comedy game" and even then the jokes become unfunny when it becomes tedious to get to them. Honestly, I hope that the developers pay attention to what folks hated about this game before they make the same mistakes in the second.

Had it before and refunded it because It wasn't my kind of game, now I got it for free and probably still wont play it. 10/10 wont play again

Игра — имба, затянуло с первых минут игры. Единственная игра про космос, в которую я играл с интересом каждую секунду. Мощная атмосфера, шутки — прям кайф!

I can see why they put up the game for free - I'd rather play a walking simulator than this. The controls are janky and annoying, the writing seems to have been done by a 6 year old, technically you could say there is a story but I've seen better stories in Teletubbies episodes. The "jokes" are funny the first one or two times, the problem is that there are about a million of them, per minute, and all have the exact same "would make a 6 year old but not a 7 year old laugh" effort put into them. The game lacks explanations for most things and it also includes using different terms for the same thing, because it's not like the people who wrote the text also made the game or anything. There is "crafting" but it is the "mandatory, most base and lame" crafting type you see in games where developers just couldn't bother to develop any actual skills or put forth the effort to leave their couch every once in a while. I got this game for free and I still refunded it.

How did this tedious, unfunny game win an award?

I like space, I like space games and I like survival games and crafting. However, the humor and personality in this game is boring and interrupts any interesting flow in the game. You could literally remove all sense of personality and humor from this game, and it would only be better. Not kidding. The gameplay is a chore, all tools have durability and charges. It's straight up boring, I endured Elite Dangerous' grind in its entirety, but this game? It's just a chore.

I played through chapter 1 and part of chapter 2. Graphics are very good, but otherwise this game is trying so hard to be funny that it's often just confusing. You suit has frequent silly quips intended as guidance - they may or may not entertain you. But they are sped up so much that I often needed to go into the menu and look up what was said (thankfully they are all listed there). "Crafting" is completely divorced from the real world - all ingredients, recipes and crafted items are complete fantasy. It's more fantasy than space game - in space you don't slow down after you stop "farting". Yes, you craft an "accelerator" with a shawarma. There's also a keybind for peeing. And in space you don't cool down when going near huge blobs of coolant gel. Coolant doesn't have a magical conductive aura. This is not a simulator in the slightest. Breathedge will probably entertain a specific audience - I don't think I'll continue with it. I did get one good laugh at the end of chapter 1, so there's that. :)