Derelict Void

The teaser video invited me to believe this game was about starship scavenging, exploration, feeling of distress, space loneliness, hope.... Well, sadly is not like that at all. It's turn based, and the resources you need run out before you can collect more. You cannot go up, down, left, right... you can only go to one of the 4 - 5 choices the game gives you. I studied the tutorial, played 3-4 times, and every time I ended up dead, either for lack of oxygen, food, or other critical resource. Camera management is extremely basic. you can't even get closer to something to see it better. In general, the idea is promising, but the developers didn't invest enough time to create a convincing atmosphere.

I really like this but having now done several runs through, it seems incredibly unlikely that you are going to make it to the end. Locking the ship for 8 full days as part of the story seems like a quick way to ensure no one beats the game. Not to mention the fact that there is almost no interaction to be done in those eight days. You are limited to goosing production with one of your workers or not. The gameplay is sort of FTL meet Surviving Mars but it would be cool to be able to have more say in what goes on your ship. Also, the hulls that have buildings with zero parts in them seem absolutely pointless. Maybe you could make those sorts of things able to be scrapped into general scrap that could be used to construct other things? Anyway, it is pretty cool but it needs a lot of work. https://youtu.be/a-b3U6ifTUc

Looks like the game Faster Than Light with more intense graphics. Hooks you in and makes you think you can win... until you flip the table realizing this was a game of slots all along.

If you want an unforgiving game, play Dark Souls without armor. If you want to embrace masochism as a religion, play Derelict Void. Otherwise, I cannot even remotely pretend to recommend this game to anybody.

SPOILERS INCLUDED First things first, The game is great and has a very neat aspect to it in which you are stranded in space and need to explore for resources and in a life and death situation. You are never guaranteed to find the resources you need, which is perfectly acceptable as the RNG of this game. So far I've only done one run and it seems that I was a lot more lucky than most since i got the void engine and never went into the yellow on resources and gained 4 out of 5 main components i believe being the water purifier, the scrubber the food synthesis and what ever the 4 edged building was, the thing I failed to get was the building that produces hydrogen. So when the game smacks you in the face with survive for ten days without any warning and halting the ability to continue exploring for that duration or even a chance to explore before hand is what kills the you and the game. When I was "smacked" I was able to survive for 6 days and could have won if I had only gotten that last building, what killed me was the lack of hydrogen, which was used to make food with the synthesis and with no other way to make food efficiently I had sadly died. To sum what I wrote up the game is extremely brutal even if you had a lucky game like me, if you fail to get all of the building before you have to survive the 10 days then you are screwed over since there would be no other way to gain the needed resources other than the 5 building. But what mattered was that it was fun I just wanted to rant about how close I was on my first run tbh 1.3hr run. :p

Fun game the first few runs. With updates and patching it is getting better. It's not as good as a large pizza but it's getting there.

Good game but is a little repetitive for now hope the difficulty can be changed now so you can have a relaxing play though or for first time players. buy but wait for a sale.