One Lonely Outpost

Just buy something else. It suffers from poor pacing, a lack of meaningful things to do, loads of QoL issues, unintuitive & poorly explained game mechanics, a barebones story, and flat characters. There's a glimmer of a good game in there but ultimately it's just not very fun or deep compared to most other farming sims.

The game had a lot of promise but the dev sold out and the new dev/publisher couldn’t be bothered. It’s horribly unfinished and no where near polished. Would not waste my money, go try Stardew or one of many fam sims that followed and actually tried to deliver a good product.

This is the third draft of the review. First the good things. It`s actually playable, there is content and it feels different then the usual farming sims, especially in the beginning. And it actually is fun. Now the bad. There seems to be a lot of content that is unfinished. For example "gene splicing". It says you can gene splice different crops/fish/insects to get new variants. But there are only three possible outcomes TOTAL. 1. nothing 2. Coconut 3. Eldritch Fruit and yeah, that is no matter if you splice fish, insects or crops. That is just an example of how unfinished it seems to be. I guess because the changed major things like the art-style more then half way through the production they then ran out of money to actually make a good and finished product. So while my opinion of the game changed from absolutly catastrophic in the first review, to "okayish" in the last, it still will get a thumbs down from me.

Game bought in early access. I regret buying the game at the time because it had potential at the time, which was completely gone after the full launch. The game has a lot of bugs and unfinished mechanics. Unfortunately, the game seems to have been abandoned a long time ago and no one cares about it or responds to bug reports. The game could have been good and fun, unfortunately it never reached its potential.

I was really excited to support this game when I first came across it on Kickstarter. However, this is NOT the same game on Kickstarter. It was originally shown to be a cute 2D oblique (3/4 view) and was suppose to be like "Stardew Valley In Space." However, apparently there is a whole story behind the game; devs got too ambitious with their plans and the only reason we even have this sort of finished product now is because the studio stepped in. Instead of the nice 2D artwork, you get these big chonky characters in a 3D space and some of the 3D graphics look like something from the 2010s. The interface is a bit confusing and the tutorials are lack luster and don't really help make sense of the controls or the game. In farming sims, I usually find myself running out of energy before I can do all the things I want to do, this game I just kind of want it to be over. I played a little and to be honest, I don't think I'll ever play this again. It is not the game that I wanted when I contributed to the Kickstarter and I feel a little cheated. I guess that is the risk though. There are still videos online of the original concept. I will go through my mourning period as I quietly uninstall this game and shed a single tear for what was but will never be due to developer greed.

I want to like this game, and I wanted this game to be good. I put 36 hours into it in an attempt to get all achievements. The concept is good, and I typically enjoy the grindy games like this that sort of boil down to repeated fetch quests. That said, this game is not in a good state at this time. The control scheme feels clunky, hitboxes for interactions are a nightmare, and the pacing is horrid. This is a great place for a game to be in if it's looking to release in a few months perhaps, but as a game claiming to be in a finished state not so. Early game is slow as a snail, midgame is great, late game is somehow slower. For any achievement hunters, I believe the 100% omniac achievement is broken (and thus so is the platinum trophy), and you have to use console commands. I was able to get 512 of the omnistars, and I believe the others are locked behind unobtainable cooking recipes.

Abandonware.

Honestly if I'd not waited ages to play it so it was too late, I'd have asked for a refund. It's unwieldy and weirdly disappointing