Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

Feels like the game doesn't know what it wants. Sandbox with nothing to build. PvE/Career that can be beaten with one strategy. PvP where only handful of meta strats can win. Feels like its years away from any meaningful gameplay loop, if it ever will get one. Outside of gameplay issues, game is pretty good

This game is thoroughly hampered by its idiotic AI. Once you get the point where you manage multiple ships it's a requirement that you micromanage each and every movement, and I do mean every shuffle and rotation of each individual ship. Then once you tell them to attack a ship, they will disregard those commands, which means you have to reissue them. Forget to micromanage and you will find your support ships buggering off to who knows where while your other ships get shredded. If you do decide to play this, make friends with the quicksave button.

我真的、真的很不想给这个游戏差评，因为它在2d星舰建设方面做得很不错。你在设计星舰时，需要思考如何摆放这些组件，才能发挥它们的功能，而不是无脑堆叠。这很好。但是我绝对无法接受，一个能使用激光武器、超光速星际航行的游戏，一个以星舰设计为核心玩法的游戏，飞船里没有一根电线，所有设备的供电，靠人手动从发电设施搬运电池、送到用电设备那里去。太蠢了。我无法接受这个设定，我无法接受搬运电池。我宁愿降低船员的运力，也希望能够自动输送电力，哪怕需要手动铺设电线，花费线圈之类的。

i have spend hours disigning ships, first in career and later just building and letting them clash. after some time the gameplay wil feel a bit old 'go there destroy the pirate or clear the field and get reward. my advice to make it more fun is to play into the power we have disigning ships and stations. add build missions. maybe a tower defence aspect to the game. "this station has trouble defending against the cannon clan, build 3 defence pladforms to help the station out." as exemple. and maybe a big personal trading station that makes money for you by having mining drone's clearing out a system, but wil get sieged by tougher enemys the bigger it gets. traiding docking space for defence quarters or the other way around. i love the game and i am eager to see more!

This game really isn't going to be worth playing until phase 6 on the roadmap ( https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/799600/view/3391799364882219760 ). That being said, both it and the developer of the game deserve all the support they can get! If you're okay with just building ships and having them fight in a battle simulator-like arena, this game will be a blast for you. There are lots of mods and the existing shipbuilding mechanics are an excellent foundation. however, if you're looking for anything else, Cosmoteer can be skipped without fear of missing out on anything.

I really, REALLY want this game to succeed, but it's taking absolutely forever for it to get to a point where it's worth spending more time into. Do not get me wrong, I absolutely understand the pressure of a solo dev, and I feel bad about giving this a negative review. But, I mean, I played the game when it was an off-steam demo, and it's changed a bit, but it still feels almost exactly the same. The heat system that was just added is cool and all, but it feels almost unnecessary. What everyone's waiting for is Career Mode 2.0, and while it seems like Career Mode 1.5 is currently in progress, it's been years and still pretty much nothing. My friends and I are starting to joke about this game only being finished when the dev's children inherit the development and our children actually being able to play the game. Anyway, I do really like this game, and I absolutely want it to prosper, but the incredibly slow development, while understandable, really just brings the game down. I recommend buying this when Career Mode 2.0 comes out. It should release about the same time as GTA 6.

Very few meaty feature updates in the last 18mo with the bulk being balancing and bug fixing. Not technically abandoned but development happening at a glacial pace.

I enjoy the game, but the biggest hurdle is variety. The way you build your ships are basically going to be the same. You need flak, you need shields, you need lasers, and you need ballistic weapons. There's not really a reason to specialize unless you have multiple ships, but even then they ALSO need the above to really work in combat. Also, combat is kind of janky. You can control individual ships in your fleet, but there's rarely a reason to until you get to the harder fights. The enemies and your ships just kind of do a dance while shooting at once another without any strategy involved. I think you can target certain systems with your emp weapons, or your missiles but every time I try my entire arsenal just focuses on that specific ship section. Trying to have a fighter squadron just isn't viable ether since the only way to do it is to manually fly the ship and that is a bit... unwieldy imo. Also there's no carriers, so every ship you build WILL BE a battleship, capital, or destroyer. No sorties or screening really. Just very rudimentary combat. The career mode is pretty lackluster too. Just do basic procurement and attack missions until there are no more missions in the area, then move on to the next system. There is a faction system but it's kind of meh. So that's a lot of negatives, so let's look at the positives: I enjoy the progression a lot. Your ship and fleet size scales with how many missions you've done, and what your reputation is. As such there's a clear goal to achieve. I love the physics, and how asteroids can be broken apart to provide an "arena" for you to fight in to defeat some of the harder pirates. The ship builder is a lot of fun, and it reminds me of Rimworld crossed with Factorio. The music is a bop. I love the art style and how you can tell at a glance which enemy ships are going to be annoying to deal with so you can counter them.