Ostranauts

It's unfortunately just not that fun for the amount of effort you have to put in, and plagued with bugs and performance issues. It's been a delight jumping in every now and then to see what has changed (I purchased this the day it was available in EA, having had ridiculous amounts of fun with Neo Scavenger - and I don't consider the money "wasted"), and it's not flawed because of a lack of passion or drive. It's just one of those titles where the stated vision never quite truly eventuated in a way that lived up to it for me, which is a shame. I'm not adverse to complexity! I've spent hundreds, thousands of hours in Paradox titles and games like Terra Invicta. The core game loop is - in theory - something I'd enjoy, but the interface and implementation just kills it for me, and the move to 1.0 means I've got to judge this "as is" and I can't say I'd recommend it. Your milage may vary.

As many people have said already this game isnt just half baked, its downright raw, Six years have been poured into this game combined with what i guess was Publisher aid and even then the delivered product is crawling with bugs, Its an experience that i desperatly want to love but i just cant, a lot of goodwill has been burnt with this release, even with the promised "sunset" major update with no due date the picture is pretty grim and it looks as if it will be the modding community that will have to save the game a la bethesda which is honestly deplorable.

Not a big fan of y'all banning someone for "misinformation" because he has the apparent wrong opinion on the games current state. I haven't even experienced most of the reported issues yet but there's so many quality of life thins that should just be plain obvious to fix years ago (thank god for modders so I can simply haul what I uninstall without having to micro). Not to mention talking to NPCs seemed buggy, but I figured it was a one off issue, now that I read it's a common occurrence and apparently recommended to just not deal with them? How is this 1.0 worthy. It certainly actually feels like a game unlike the early days, but it seems to need more than the one year of support it's allegedly even going to get.

Sadly not the game I was hopping for: It's just a bunch of unrelated features thrown into a mix with a bad 2D space engineer rip-off. Systems such as NPC interactions are completely meaningless and boring. The game is not challenging at all. And you'll never be sure whether it's a bug or just not programmed into the game. On one occasion, I had two NPCs die at the K-Log port in front of a kiosk. None of the other NPCs reacted to it, and the bodies were still there hours later. Another example of this abysmal game design: I boarded a neutral ship above K-Log, and the game indicated that this was a hostile act with consequences. However, neither the pilot nor anyone on K-Log recognised this. Even after killing the pilot and selling some of his ship parts at the port, nothing happened. It feels like different mechanics have been thrown together without any real purpose.

This is one of those really difficult reviews where I wish I could give a more nuanced rating than "yes" or "no", but I have to lean toward "no". While my hours are inflated (full hours get added up from if it was running when you enter/exit your computer's sleep mode), it's absolutely been something I'd come back to repeatedly, so if the question is "will you get ~$16 of entertainment?" the answer is very probably "Yes". However, the game has MASSIVE flaws, and ultimately it hasn't changed much from the state it was in even like 4-5 years ago. I've seen a lot of reviews go into detail about issues with the AI, and while those can be real I think a lot of the discussion there is kinda missing the bigger picture: [b]This game has no point.[/b] Gameplay for you if you've started is gonna feel exciting! There's so many wrecks to go explore, if you have a keen eye you might notice a couple (as in just two...) nearby-ish areas worth checking out, and you'll probably find yourself in a pretty initially satisfying loop of scrapping ships for valuable components to sell and improving your own starter ship a little. Then you might start trying to flip ships to make some serious money sooner, or to at least be less dependent on OKLG since there's literally no sources of electrical power other than fusion reactors or buying it from a station. Now the game will have started to feel a lot more grindy, especially as you start to realize how many systems just aren't deep at all... except maybe deeply repetitive. But alright, you're making money and maybe hired an NPC and you've been micromanaging twice as much as before because their autonomy sucks and the tools to give them specific orders suck (you can't even queue orders except in a very specific way that has no priority or order and might result in them deciding it's time to nearly smoke themselves to death in airlock instead of working). But hey, now you've got the cash to pay off your debt and afford fuel for the fusion reactor you've built by now! It's time to go torching across the system! And hey, there seemed to at least be one quest that had actual story to it instead of being FO4 infinite quest tier, over at The Flotilla, maybe the world's gonna finally open up now and have so much more depth! Oh. [i] Oh... [/i] It's about here where, after journeying for a few days to Venus or Ceres, that feeling is going to start to creep in. You'll realize almost nothing is really different -- that every station feels exceptionally sterile and lifeless, and while there's a few tiny scattered bits of content you can try to participate in, there's somehow even less story content there to capture you than NEO Scavenger. Anyway, that probably does an adequate job of describing my main gripe with the game. Because, see, It runs well, it's truly cool how some systems can appear to have depth at first, and while there's massive issues with AI you don't really have to engage with them at all. Even with flaws like the AI, you can make some use of a crewmember by just keeping them on permanent repair duty inside the ship or just treat them as an organic sex doll + chatbot combo to keep your captain's moods up. Not that the moods really matter almost at all. Well, I guess even when saying it's cool, I can't avoid discussing flaws, huh! Same as I could discuss how cool the travel is... until you try docking at venus and realize the values you're provided are super wonky and there's very little in the way of orbital info provided to you, making docking a continuous-thrust sort of affair that somehow just feels deeply *wrong* speaking as a long-time player of games like KSP, COADE, Orbiter, etc. Aaaaand then it always comes back to that sterility I mentioned. Every station feels empty and lifeless or just populated by ants, 99% of the apparent quests are totally sterile and literally lacking even distinct flavor text while the remainder aren't nearly common or deep enough and feel totally detached from all the systems you've otherwise been engaging with, and even the few legitimate additions compared to a few years ago like ship combat are just so simplistic and easy and hardly feel satisfying since they really don't feel meaningful on much of a level and tend to just make you realize that even on a systems level this is a game that might have 2 or 3 parts for something where another game might have 10 or 20+. Maybe some day Modders Will Fix It (tm), but I really don't think that seems likely. It's a great concept, but the execution is deeply lacking and frankly kinda lazy given the dev-time. If Dan ever reads this, I really don't wanna crush your spirits man, there's a reason I've still played the game probably something like 60-80 hours as of the time of the review, but this just feels like a game that could have been done significantly better instead of basically being released at a state that really feels like an Alpha or Beta build deeply in need of more content and depth. btw since some people have complained about performance, check my attached specs, my hardware absolutely isn't supercomputer tier and it runs just as well even on my thinkpad, I DO think the dev's done a pretty nice job on optimization.

It's not a 1.0 release it's barely and 0.15.0 ultra raw beta UI is the absolute worst pisswasser, as well as companions system. you WILL know the dysphoric hell of constantly, manually sorting every single piece of trash, absolutely everywhere. systems that were implemented to help with it are working so atrociously bad, they are almost unusable.

Originally I wasn't going to write this review, but after seeing a few other reviews, I think I'll weigh in. Especially since one of the reviewers was banned from the Steam forums for this game, then muted on Discord for trying to discuss the game's issues because he wasn't stating "facts." Before I start, I've been a big fan of Blue Bottle Games, remembering back when I was a kid and playing NeoScavenger. It's a great game, one that I plan to play through and actually beat now that I'm older. I don't think that game can really be improved upon. So, good work! Understand that I'm not coming at this from a malicious angle, I'm just disappointed that you slapped a 1.0 sticker on it despite it not being remotely complete. [hr][/hr] [b]Here's the facts, Blue Bottle Games.[/b] Your game is broken, it's as simple as that. Not broken as in bottom line unplayable, but broken through attrition, these bugs stack together to make the experience unbearable over time. [b]The EVA Suit Glitch[/b] One of the bugs I can prove: if your game autosaves the moment your EVA suit breaks, the game still thinks you're wearing it. Put on a new EVA suit, and now the game thinks you're wearing TWO, doubling your slowdown. This bug has apparently existed for years with no fix. I worked around it personally using the givecond console command to force my skill to max so it's more bearable, but the game still tracks it as a skill based penalty, meaning I still suffer a 50% penalty even with a real EVA suit on when heading into the void. This game is, in no way, in a 1.0 state. I haven't reached the outer planets yet, but from what I understand and have read online, they're just placeholders, copies of stations you've already visited. How is that 1.0? [b]Crew & Management Issues[/b] [list] [*] The management system itself is clunky and poorly implemented. [*] There's a battery glitch that was stated to be fixed, and was for an hour, but broke again. Once a crewmember swaps a battery, they just drop it on the ground instead of storing it. [*] Install a treadmill or any workout machine, and crew will use it even while smelly, tired, or needing to handle social needs during downtime. The bigger the crew, the more micromanagement this creates as I don't want all my water gone from random times in which they decide to clean up, and that's IF they decide to clean up. Often, I find myself forcing them to clean themselves so they get less depressed, only to have to do it again because they keep running on that treadmill. [*] Crew sometimes won't auto do tasks even with the option enabled. Example: I airlock onto a derelict ship to disassemble walls, floors, and conduits. Despite being scheduled, they'll use that STUPID treadmill instead of working. You have to manually assign them, send them out, then re-enable auto task. [/list] Yes, I understand the roster system. Yes, they have the right equipment, charged batteries, filled O2 tanks, helmets on. Yes, they're cleared to do everything. This isn't a misunderstanding of the game's mechanics on my part. It's a failure on your part to make crew reliably search for jobs to do. [b]"Realism"[/b] [list] [*] You just launched a bounty system with no convenient or realistic way to subdue or incapacitate NPCs for extended periods. This is especially frustrating since some bounty targets are required alive. [*] You can put shoes on the wrong feet, with no visual cue for which shoe goes where other than the description. Both shoes visually display as "right" or "left" boots despite not actually being so I'm blanking which direction they face at the moment, but if I remember correctly, they all face left. [/list] Very realistic, ty. But what really bothers me most as a longtime fan is your disregard for people clearly raising issues, like me, and then silencing them. It's a shame, and it's beneath you as a whole. [hr][/hr] TL;DR: Don't get the game, it's been six years into development, people with concerns are being silenced, and it's riddled with bugs that eventually break your game rendering unplayable. Also, for some reason, a single save can get as big as a gigabyte, idk why.

We need chinese!!!

This game isn't done. I cannot recommend buying this game until they show that they'll actually finish the game. This is a really good Early Access game. It is not nearly as good of a finished game