Foreign Galaxies

This is a very simple and short resource-collection game with a peaceful feeling. There's no combat, no NPCs, and no noteworthy story aside from "repair your ship and go home." You never leave the ship you start in. The entire game is spent running around between control terminals where you can manually mine, build ship components, and eventually trade, auto-mine, and auto-build. It's basically a first-person clicker with a couple of minigames. There is a manual mining mini-game in the early part of the game. The controls can be a bit confusing at first, but I very quickly got the hang of them and was quickly grabbing space rocks like a pro. If I were forced to use this mini-game for the whole play experience, I probably would have grown tired of it, but you very quickly unlock an auto-miner function that takes care of it all for you. By the end game, you never need to use the mining claw again, although it can be a fun way to pass the time waiting for your auto-miner and auto-fabricator to do their thing. The music is repetitive, but very peaceful, and the repeating track didn't bother me at all. I took my time, visited every planet, opened every secret box, and uncoded every transmission. Even played hoops for a wee bit. All in all my journey took 3.8 hours, according to Steam. I enjoyed that time, and thus I recommend this game to others who want a peaceful button-clicking afternoon. The only thing I think is missing are achievements and/or cards. I must note that I personally don't bother chasing achievements or collecting cards, but I think that those additions alone could probably add more perceived value to others who might buy it. All in all, I think this setup could be a good foundation for further expansion or follow-up development. For only 3 to 5 bucks, I feel I got my money's worth.

Gathering resources and unlocking excisting but locked sections of the ship. Feels like an escape room where instead of searching for clues you need to mine. Cons: 1. Mining arm's controls are terrible, it might work better from a controller, but from keyboard it is an excercise in frustation (fortunately autominer helps a lot, but it needs to be unlocked) 2. You can unlock some existing sections through research, move some boxes around, but not actually modify ship. Yet ship looks like it was made in a sandbox from blocks, with very little decoration. 3. Not atmospheric. Doesn't feel like you are in scape, or on a spaceship. 4. Minor Bugs and UI issues. Mining arm clips through things, sometimes catches multiple asteroids that start to clip into each other, scroll is slow in fabricator.

Good game. Enjoyed it.

Finished this game in a few hours one evening. It was an enjoyable experience for what it was and and even through it entailed getting used to some pretty funky controls at the start, I ultimately enjoyed the middle to end portions of the game quite a bit. The foundation of the game is solid and interesting new systems get added throughout your short foray into a Foreign Galaxy. It is worth your money if you are alright taking your time with it and have some simple fun for an afternoon.

Just finished it, really enjoyed it and had some secrets here and there. All in all pretty cool experience

Its... almost fine. It feels like a bunch of little systems that don't really work on their own, and don't fit togeather, and are all a bit unrefined. I was hoping for a Noctis 4 or something, and got a weird QWOPlike for 1 hour, followed by a waiting simulator for an hour, followed by spam clicking simulator for half an hour.

A fun experience, not hard on your time and definitely not hard on the wallet. If your looking for a little relaxing resource gathering, this is for you.

The controls are infuriating

Fun cheap game.

Very Relaxed and simple game. Would be nice if there where more upgrades for the ship systems in the likes of a tractor beam replacement for the grabber arm or an extended reach for the grabber arm or more resource bins for collecting asteroids.