Earth Analog

On an i5-10600K (4.10 Ghz) + 3070 RTX, my FPS drops to less than 30 when I look at the planet surface. I get consistent 100+ FPS on DCS, but not this one. And after some time, the quests turn into a form of platform game, forcing you to avoid opening or closing walls etc. I was hoping for a space-sim kind of thing and it does have some very original ideas and mechanics. But what the dev calls fractal engine is poop IMHO. Yea, the whole game takes around 400 MB of hard disk space, but at what cost? So: bad optimization and Mario Bros-like gameplay have put me off. Not recommended.

we need chinese

Great conceptual idea. Nice looking visuals. But the controls are impressively bad. Especially on foot and the building system. And the fixed FOV feels like walking around with binoculars.

Really unique, interesting game; constant updates and improvements are a refreshing change from most indie early access. Clearly a labor of love.

the big new update is great! the controls are more accessible than ever, there's more of a variety of stuff to do, tough things like landing and piloting are far less frustrating to get a hang of, and there are significant performance improvements, especially when on the ground. the game used to have extreme fps drops when landed or on foot. also, either my playthrough was bugged, or the dev removed the extremely long and frustrating battle in the cube field with the giant line. maybe it got moved further back in the story. either way, i'm happy i didn't have to do it again, a lot of it felt like trial and error, more than it seemed like it should be. probably my least favorite part of the new experience is still the scanner, particularly the radio scanner. first, it takes just a huge amount of fuel to start out, especially for something you need to use constantly to find stuff (tip for new players: spend all your early EP on the scanner fuel efficiency upgrades before anything else!!!). second, i really wish that the radio scanner's blips would come in different colors or labels depending on what kind of signal it is - beacons, pylons, my own constructions, what have you. i lost track of the beacon on the tidal planet that led me to the anomaly ball friend that leads you around underground and all my radio blips were sending me to pylons and my own construction. i just had to fly around randomly until i found it again. also, i wish the radio scanner's output was somewhere else on the screen - say, at the top, instead of completely covering up the ship's control panel. two other things: i wish there was iron available earlier in the story. it's a good 4-5 systems until you end up somewhere with iron, which would make it hard if new players keep smashing up their ship. secondly, i'm hoping the new clouds scheduled for q4 work out, but as they stand, they straight up cover certain things you need. on the first planet, for example, when you're meant to follow the blue star, you can almost never see it from the planet because the clouds completely cover the sky. vice versa, trying to find the specific island shape from orbit is hard because of the clouds. if i hadn't played the game before, i would have had a heck of a time figuring out what to do.

great game, relaxing, with old scifi feeling ambient, great music and best of all great active developer who listens to players

I have really enjoyed this sci-fi sim so far. still a little buggy mostly in the menus. nothing serious. The gameplay has been fine. It's a pretty laid back game, but not boring. Just suspenseful

The game parts of this are arguably just dressing for a 3D fractal viewer, but it's kind of meditative and there's even a scripted 'questline' that's pretty entertaining and unlocks some otherwise hidden features. Exploring the fractals themselves can be interesting, especially if "alien megastructure" is a phrase that sounds intriguing to you. It runs pretty decently on my no-longer-top-end computer too! BUT... it will take you a while to get the hang of the flight controls and UI navigation (though the dev has improved them since I first bought it).