Ostranauts

Early access casualty. Cannot recommend as a finished product. Like it a lot as an early access title though.

At time of this review, I have not scratched the surface on many of the games more advanced mechanics. However, this is one of the most fun games I have played in some time and glad I decided to give it a shot. The difficulty is not as bad as others make it out to be, especially in terms of flying. If you have time in a flight sim, or flight sim like game, like Star Citizen especially, it's easy to understand how flying in vacuum works. The only disappointing part of the game to me so far is the social system. You could have a beautiful, charismatic character that is good friends with an NPC and it seems like every conversation goes to them insulting you, or brushing you off. Would love to see that worked on. But, other than that, I'm hooked on this game.

very good

So there I was, attached to a derelict ship. I had spotted it using my optical scanners, and it seemed to be large, and relatively intact. I had about 16 hours left on my salvage license, but I'd forgotten to charge my batteries before undocking from OKLG, and only had about an hour worth of power. Plenty of time, it was only 7 minutes at a relatively light burn from the station, I could go in, check it out, grab enough to pay my docking fees and refueling costs and get back. I hit paydirt. There was a nearly fully intact REACTOR on board that thing. The most valuable thing I've found so far. I'm really glad I had spent the time to expand my little flying coffin recently, added a crucial few square meters of storage space, I managed to fit the entire reactor core onboard, along with a few of the more valuable parts. When suddenly, disaster struck. One of my batteries caught fire, probably from all the renovations I did to get that extra storage space. I rushed back to my ship, dropping the fusion core pump I had been hauling back, to quickly put out the fire. That was only the start of the problem though. My ship is barely rated for operation, it's little more than a bottle of oxygen, a bottle of nitrogen, and a pair of air pumps. No filtration. My pressure suit doesn't have onboard oxygen, it only grabs a sample of what's in the air when I put it on. The air was filled with smoke. I turn off the oxygen and nitrogen, and turn on the airlock air pump. It's not enough, can't bottle the air fast enough. I'm starting to get dizzy in my pressure suit, not enough oxygen. So I force open the airlock. My ship is exposed to the hard vacuum of the derelict, and quickly vents to match. I close the airlock. I turn off the airlock air pump. I turn on the oxygen and nitrogen. I haul in the fusion core pump, I take off my pressure suit breathing easy, I undock, and I head back to OKLG to sell my salvage, refuel, and make my mortgage payment for this flying coffin, due every 6 hours. I think I'll spend the next shift doing some repairs to the batteries before flying back for some more of those reactor parts. And then a conduit and an RCS thruster catch fire again this time on OKLG, I suffer burns trying to put it out, and I die. I reloaded a save because ♥♥♥♥ that.

Belter life simulator.

All systems are half baked. Great concept, but combat is shallow, inventory management is badly designed, pawns control system is not really working (hauling one by one seriously), social is spam, ship building is not deep, UX is just plain bad, sprites are not too my taste, story / exploration... The concept is great, but the implementation: not worth it at the moment. Wish this game the best for the concept and the start was fun :)

I wanted to like the game so much but its just so jank. I like a little bit of jank but I mean who on earth designed the conversation and combat system like are you on crack? Every time I start a playthrough something stupid happens. came back to kleg and someone set it on fire. go out salvaging well all of a sudden my eva suit that had full battery and oxygen and condition just stops working. building system is jank as hell.

The best space junker sim I think I'll see in my lifetime. Until, of course, my brainscan crammed in a robot body is sent to scrap hulks in lunar orbit 100 years from now