Derelict Void

Best game ever.

Steep learning curve. Balance your resources by assigning a crew member to specific buildings. "Increasing" is not true as you can still die. It seems there are fluctuations, so always maintain a surplus. This game needs to allow you to move components around on a ship, especially a warehouse. Searching for the right hull that will allow you to connect your hydroponic farm to a warehouse, gas storage and liquid storage is crucial. Paired with a water treatment plant next to an oxygen scrubber works best. Good luck, it is fun once you get through the rough beginning.

Nee, also das macht jetzt echt keinen Spaß. Wenn ich mich unfair hetzen lassen will, dann such ich mir einen Job bei McDonalds.

I will preface this by saying that I would NOT get this game at it's full price, however, I got it on sale at $4 so that's where I'd say "sure". It's a fairly short game with just a few choices to make and not a full explanation on how things work. For example: Buildings that aren't the normal immovable ones can actually boost other buildings. It's not explained, but it seems that if one building outputs oxygen and another one uses it, then the one using it gets a boost by a small amount. There's enounters that get what appear to be no explanation at all. I'll just say butter is involved and I kept going trying to find another instance after failing the first time I saw it and never saw anything again. There are also options in the game that I was never able to figure out that were locked. Namely: the last choice. The game is pretty punishing to start with. You WILL lose. Sometimes the game decides to not give you that one resource you need to live until literally the last possible moment where you have 4 hours left and it takes 7 to get to the place that has it even at full speed. It can be entertaining, but I can safely say that I won't be returning to this game. I only gave it 11 hours of playtime because I wanted to find out what was up with the locked choice. Gave up.

Game is lacking a ton of features and is ultra hard even on the lowest difficulty. You will die and die and die again. The game throws a lot of tutorials at you, but there's still a lot of important information it doesn't give you such as: what bonuses the utility buildings actually give the factory buildings, what things are affecting morale, and how to progress through the story. I'm sure there's more but I don't want to play the game anymore to find out. The game seems like it wants to be a cross between Faster Than Light and Frostpunk, but it lacks of a lot of QoL features from both of those games. tldr; game is barebones and should be in early access overall score: I'd give it a 2/10

great enjoyable game

If you're the kind of person who is into making strategies in spreadsheets then you'll probably enjoy this game. Although I don't feel there's much replay value. I don't think there are any alternative routes throught the game, but you can play at higher difficulties.