Little-Known Galaxy

Little-Known Galaxy is an inexplicably almost successful blatant ripoff of Stardew Valley with a "pixelcrap space theme from Temu" skin slathered over it to try make it look like the developers didn't just wholesale steal someone else's entire game concept and put their name on it. So, [i]exactly[/i] like Stardew Valley, you show up in "town" (space, whatever) and meet NPCs and help them out and do endless farming chores... and part of why Stardew Valley succeeded despite all odds is because the developer of that, by accident, hit all the right notes and balance to make the game involved but not tedious. The developers here are the worst cover band ever and every note is off-key, there's a tortured music analogy for you. Worse, they couldn't come up with the same amount of content, so they upped the already monotonous grind to stretch everything out. And of course the writing here is absolute cringe, high school anime club dropout fan-fiction stuff. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. Those technical issues put this game beneath what is expected from a contemporary, professionally developed PC game. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? Little-Known Galaxy has the preposterous price of $20 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the INSANE $20 asking price for this game could get you games like "Satisfactory", "Age of Empires IV" or "The Outer Wilds". No pixelcrap is worth $20. If developers want to get paid the same kind of money as real game developers who know how to do graphics properly, they need to learn how to do graphics properly.

Little-Known Galaxy was the first game since Stardew Valley to explode my heart with the same kind of happiness. It is such a unique take on the farming sim genre. The dates and Friendship Day were the sweetest and some of the cutest cut scenes I've ever seen. Progression of the game was well paced. Critics will say it's grindy, to which I say... isn't every farming sim at some point? Loved the NPCS. Another game I wish had merch. I think the only drawback is that I missed traditional fishing. Even after finishing the storyline, I know I'll play this over and over again.

while I love farming, exploration and cozy-games - this game is way too "cozy". It's more on the edge of boring than it is on a relaxed cozy game. Progress is super slow, walking speed is super slow, character development and relationship buildup is suuuuper slow, collecting resources is suuuuper slow. in short: while i love the overall game style and art, i very much dislike the motivation, progress and reward mechanics other games in the cozy-game sector offer.

So this is a game where I wish there was an in-between rating. Its a cozy game, but with balancing issues which make it feel overly grindy. I liked the story and the music, and the farming / base building elements were good. There's no time limits for any of the story quests, so you can go about the game at your own pace, and the type of seeds you get are tied to the different areas so stock up what you need before you leave an area. When it comes down to the progression, I feel like certain design decisions drag the game down. Things like the balancing of the amount of resources needed to advance the story in each new areas, and some quests requiring RNG-based items (including main story quests), such as needing super crops when the best fertilizers only increases the odds of a super crop up to 70% chance. Considering that this is a cozy game meant to be played casually at your own pace, this is fine, but I definitely started feeling like the game was dragging on with each new area needing longer times than I thought was necessary just waiting for crops or grinding resources. Overall its a decent cozy game, but I prefer stardew valley or the harvest moon series games.

Cozy farming/life sim set on a spaceship. It's a fun play, simple storyline but just enough tasks and mystery to keep it entertaining. I'd describe the aesthetic as friendly and pixelated. The music was decent too.

I found this game boring after a few hours.

Overall the game is fun but compared to counterparts like: Fields of Mistria, Stardew Valley, and Coral Island-- very. very. grindy. I find myself playing this game in short spurts every so often rather than being sucked into it and playing it for days on end like other games in this genre but that could just be me.

This is one of the 2 best space farm sims I've ever played! The gameplay loop is so addictive I can't stop playing and I love shooting Aliens with my ray gun. The combat is fun and exciting. It is a bit grindy though but not as Grindy as Graveyard Keeper so if you don't mind a bit of money grinding then you will still like it! If you ever wanted to play a game thats a combo of Star Trek and Stardew Valley this is the game for you! Only other complaints is I wish we had 1 more festival at lest!.

Cute! Gets repetitive fast, and there's not quite enough gameplay to occupy every day when you're just waiting to reach a new planet, but still cute and endearing enough that I'm playing to the end. Soot Soot

Conflicted no from me. I can tell the studio cares about the game they made but as far as space cozy's go, there are better titles out there that I would recommend more. One Lonely Outpost does a much better job of the cozy side of things. If you want space travel with a bit more action, I could recommend a (modded) Starbound. This game just falls short... Instead of feeling the incentive of really filling up my days in game, I found myself skipping through time just so I could finish quests. Walking is slow, the upgrade you can unlock for walking isn't enough of a difference to justify the cost, a lot of upgrades are unnecessarily grindy imo and the exploration on the planet is just the same thing time and again but with a different look to it. I am going to probably try to play a bit more but right now it just doesnt do enough new things to captivate me.