Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Easily one of the most fun and challenging job simulators I have ever played.

The setting is excellent. The gameplay loop is tough (and at times intentionally frustrating), but the sense of progression along with the constant failure makes it rewarding. Cannot recommend this game enough.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is quite a unique game and incredibly fun to play, especially on the Deck. The ship progression within the game keeps things fresh, and I personally liked the characters throughout. My only gripe was with tool upgrades, as I felt other than a couple they didn't add meaningfully to the gameplay. I look forward to seeing what other games await within the Hardspace universe! 5/5

I've burned so many hours in this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. I love it

Advertised as a relaxing space salvage simulator, actually a minimum wage panic attack sponsored by corporate debt slavery. One minute you’re carefully sorting aluminum panels into the furnace, the next you accidentally depressurize half the ship and watch a nuclear reactor achieve enlightenment at Mach 3. The corporation LYNX assures you that workplace fatalities are merely “unexpected staffing adjustments.” Every time you explode, they print a new clone of you and charge the replacement fee directly to your account, because apparently dying on the job is a premium service. Safety regulations exist mainly as decorative sci-fi literature. Oxygen costs money. Fuel costs money. Existing costs money. I’m pretty sure blinking too aggressively adds administrative fees. Eventually the game rewires your brain completely. I no longer see spaceships — I see floating OSHA violations worth 12 million credits in recyclable material. Every shift turns into: cut the wrong pipe, reactor starts screaming, AI calmly reports catastrophic instability, entire ship folds into itself like an angry beer can, debt increases somehow. Meanwhile soft country music plays in the background like the universe itself is mocking you for signing the worst employment contract in human history. 10/10 — I paid off 0.2% of my debt and developed the survival instincts of a raccoon dismantling a live electrical transformer.

This is a really great game. Just the right mix of having to think of what you are doing so you don't blow yourself up and zoning out to lovely music and just chipping away at a massive freighter. 10/10 would cut into a reactor point blanc again. (Spares are not even too pricy)

gud

It's fun to cut up spaceships and toss the pieces around.

This game is absolutely amazing, I loved every second of it, trying to max out my gains while maintaining safety

Didn't expect a story, but it was actually a fun ride. The side stories and audio logs, though? They felt aggressively preachy at times. Like, chill—it was laying it on so thick that it became distracting.