Lacuna Passage

I'm just about six hours in and I have to say I like it! My main base is up and running at high efficiency. I have found one of the other bases, looted it for spare parts and took all of the stored food back to the main base; almost ran out of oxygen trying to get back! Contracted some radiation sickness on a long expedition but found some anti-radiation pills to get me back to health. All-in-all, if you want to be Mark Watney for a while, this is your game!

A Great Start to what is looking to be a nice survival game. The terrain is spectaular and the models for the equipment is well thought out and top notch. Only minor annoyances so far mainly from a configuation of audio position. It's early access and the developer is very active in the support website. I will definately keep a close eye on this as it progresses. Looking forward to the single player campaign.

2 years now since last communications from the developer. Oxygen supplies have long since depleted, and only his desiccated remains now poke through the drifting red sands of a lifeless Martian landscape.

It's games/developers like this that have killed faith in Kickstarter and Early Access. Another game on indefinite hold. Stay away.

Abandoned game, they promised an update for years and now they officially announced they leave it. The game as it is doesn't offer any more than a few hours of gameplay, after that not much to do since you can't avoid to die of starvation. DON'T BUY THIS. It should be removed from the store. Don't give money to scammers.

So far so good. Very different survival where you have to think. No weapons, no enemies, no animals etc. Just you, alone, trying to survive a little longer. Artwork is awesome and I have been able to figure out a lot of it on my own. Look forward to every update.

As the human dream of Mars exploration draws every closer to reality. Lacuna Passage draws on scientific satelite data to throw you into a realisitc representation and keeping yourself alive on the red planet we shall soon visit.

This game has a lot of potential and.... about the distance between Earth and Mars still to walk until it will be a good game. The idea is great, the game atm runs with no particular problems. I had maybe a couple of crashes in 50 hours of play time, but there is nothing to do if not endless repetitive chores. It's not a survival, cause after 3-4 hours of gameplay to learn all the possible things to do, you know everything you need to go on indefinitely until you eat up all the loot around (food being the only thing that cannot be replenished). It can be considered as an exploration game, but after the usual couple of hours looking around at the landscape.... well.... it's a dead planet.... what do you expect to see if not reddish sand and rocks? The map is not random, obviously there are no enemies. Apparently the weather is not an issue, there are dust storms but they don't damage your toon or the equipment around. There is no cause to replay it after you spend 10-20 sol (1 sol = 1 martian day) in game, and the timescale is so fast that you can't even enjoy the transition between day and night (Timescale is 60. 1 minute in game is 1 second in real time). If you want to simulate for the sake of roleplaying, sleeping 7 hours each sol, and doing chores when awake, you spend 1 sol in game every 15 minutes in real time. And 20 sol in about 5 hours of real time. That's about the time you can pass enjoying the game in the actual stage of development. But you can live in full health with no setbacks by simply sleeping 2 hours per sol (simulation? survival? since when do you live without sleeping?). A lot of mechanics are exploitable and in need of serious polishing. Examples: Pop (inflatable) tents are magical spaces where you can live forever without consuming oxygen to breathe. Oxygen generation for the hab doesn't seem to take into account your presence inside the habitat. If you stay perfectly still outside the hab in your EVA-suit for 1 sol, apparently you use more oxygen than staying perfectly still inside the hab for 1 sol. The mechanics of power generation via solar panels is very akward and absolutely not simulation friendly. There is no permadeath, so even if you want to die on purpose, you can always reload the last save. But the REAL reason I don't recommend this game is: IT'S A SINGLE DEVELOPER GAME! I have to admit one single developer very talented, but 1 person can only do so much. The purpose of EA games is to help funding the team of developers to achieve their purpose in developing the game. In this case, even if 1 million people for the sake of the argument would buy the game, it wouldn't change the fact that 1 person is not even remotely enough to develop a full game like this one. Maybe a team of 10 devs in a couple of years could release a final product. A single developer will probably finish this game by the time we can go to Mars in real life with a 10000 euro ticket with Elon Musk.

[h1]DEAD PROJECT - DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.[/h1] This game might have been something, but it's been on hold for a couple of years. It will never see continued development, and as is, it is unfinished.

It's a good game for what it has, and I certainly enjoyed it. It's sad to see that it's not going to have a story mode, but it's still pretty good with what it does have. Good luck on your ventures dude. Godspeed.