Masterspace

This game is pretty controversial, and I've been with it from the very early days before it was even available on the Steam platform. Whilst it's true that the developer has pretty much stopped working on the game, with the last update being on the 22nd of November, 2016, after a loooong time with absolutely nothing changed, I would disagree that the development has stopped because he "took the money and ran" or is "a coward" as some other reviewer has said. Overall, it's a nice premise. A little bit obscured because of the sheer amount of very-similar games that had a lot more advertisement behind them, but the game has a certain charm to it. Developed by one man, who ultimately stopped development because he has other priorities in life. This game is a plethora of randomly grabbed royalty-free assets (Which I can excuse because it's developed by one guy who, as far as I can tell, doesn't have any art experience) on top of a clever idea. The programming is pretty solid, though lack-luster. The modability of the game is great and it's very easy to take almost every aspect of the game and edit it using Lua scripts and other easily editable files. I'd love to somehow get a hold of the source code of the game and see what it's written in, and continue its development as a hobby project. Whilst I'm giving this a positive review, there is very little to actually do in the game itself -- But I feel the developer deserves some support. There's a lot of negativity in the reviews here and some of them are pretty harsh and said with no investigations or evidence. Really, it's not about the money for this guy -- He didn't get much to begin with, and the sales for the game never improved. It's more about "He worked on one thing then went on to do other things in life", which is something absolutely anyone who has ever started any project in life will do at least once. This developer was fortunate enough to get his game all the way to Steam, through the OG days of Greenlight when votes weren't rigged. I'd say, for a small scale project he just wanted to work on because he had a good idea, that he got pretty successful for a man with no team and no financial backing.

hasnt been updated in over a year

Crap game with great potentials but let down by the developers not finish it and run with the money of the poor people who bought the game.

I had such high hopes for this game. When it was abandoned in 2015 that was bad enough but now to see the developer has decided to leave the game up on Steam to see if he can still sucker people into buying it. Just disgusting.

The game is abandoned. And not in a could still be fun sort of way but is unfinished but in a FUBAR sort of way

Abandonware. "Released" from Early Access to trick new people into still buying it when in reality it is an unfinished, ugly, buggy mess. In its current state it needs a complete overhaul. The fact the developer keeps this up and still actively puts it on sale is gross.

I don't let drama affect whether I enjoy a game or not. I like this game.

This is like an intentionally bad version of Empyrion Galactical Survival. It's pretty much the same. You got your starting planet and need to build a ship and survive and fly to other planets and stuff but while Empyrion feels modern and is very fun, this feels like it's from 1998. Look at the screenshots. The game is riddled with bugs as well. I would recommend this game to anyone who want to see a really bad game.

I know I'm about 3 years late on this, but this game is a joke. For $8? You know what, though? Buy it for the lulz. The physics are terrible. The game is ridiculously buggy. But, those bugs manifest themselves in funny ways-- sometimes you'll see a sheep or a cow randomly fly across the screen. Or, sometimes it won't be so funny, and the world will inexplicably destroy itself, along with your save file. So, I dunno. The game had TONS of potential. I enjoyed some parts of it. The crafting was good, I liked some of the ideas with the ship building. But it's an incomplete game put into "release" status by the developer, just before abandoning it.

Hilariously BAD AND PREMATURELY 'released'. Do NOT buy!