Deep Space Exploitation

tldr: This is a cute, little indie game. While it does nothing ground breaking, I still really enjoyed my time. It took me ~4h to finish a story run. I found this game via its demo during Steam Next Fest. It reminded me of 'Rings of Saturn', but much more arcady. You control a small mining ship and use your tools and equipment to dig up chunks of crystals to sell them back at your home station. This money is then used to buy new supplies, upgrades and pay back your ridiculous loan. The story has been told before, but I still quickly rooted for my favorite faction and might have gonve beyond my assignments (and budget at times) to 'disable' company equipment. It also had one or two exciting moments. I met two characters and while the contact was short, they still felt relatable. The gameplay is simple, but fun. The upgrades are meaningfull and something to strive towards, although I neaver really had any money problems. Maybe that's because I refused to pay back any loaned money. There were a couple challanges and with perma death mode they would have killed me. To sum this up, I recommend the game.

This was a cute little game. Played through twice. Controls and physics felt great. This is in the vein of the classic top-down space shooters like Asteroids or Mine Storm, in terms of how easy it is to take it in hand. Contrary to these two games, the gameplay is usually chill. There's a good variety of mining tools, and a few different types of missions. Each mission plays in a few minutes only, but often you can just take your time and go at it as slowly as you wish to. Some missions have time limits but they're not very strictly enforced. There isn't any real combat. You can die, but it's not very punishing at all unless you're playing ironman difficulty of course. In other difficulties, you can simply restart the mission if you die and lose nothing. The content is not a lot, but it's well polished. As far as I'm concerned it's appropriate to the price point. The story is a bit one-note. Without going into spoilers, you can go along with being a corporate drone, or you can be a bit of a hooligan with company property. I do wish there was a more marked fork in the mission path depending on your actions. There are some minor improvements I'd like to see: - the main menu should offer a 'Continue' option that loads the most recent save. - it would be nice if there were some non-campaign, 'sandbox' type missions to let you play a bit more with some of the tools you can equip on the ship (it's probably possible to do this through save-scumming at the right places through the campaign right now but I haven't looked into it) After spending 9-10 hours with the game I'm probably done with it, but I'll certainly come back if there's new content or just to give it another spin one of these days.

A short, quite addictive indie game set in a corporate dystopia were you must decide which path to take within the small range of action your corporate-drone lifestyle allows. The core gameplay is solid. It takes a while to get used to the ship's controls, but by mid-game you find yourself performing maneuvers you wouldn't thought possible when you began. The range of tools and upgrades for the ship are large, which makes for great replayability as you got many ways to play and mechanics to explore. Overall, a good, neat, tidy experience. Like reading a satisfying short story or novella from a veteran author. Good job citizen!

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fun game loop

The feel of the ship is perfect and it doesn't overstay its welcome.

Great mining game with a good amount of different tools and explosives. Despite, the story tone it was a nice chill out game.