Ostranauts

It's not perfect. I think there could be much better 3D modeling for characters and held props and the life simulation/conversations with NPCs is very rough around the edges for this being 1.0. More often then not they'll just wander away mid conversation or simply fail to give a reply, stalling the convo until it fixes itself. The prebaked responses get old fast, I genuinely feel like I'm just talking to the same person over and over again, no one so far really striking me as unique or memorable. Also the sprites used are pretty hard to identify visually at first, couldn't really tell what most things were at first glance without right clicking it or holding alt. All that being said, I really enjoy the concept and have had some fun so far. Just feel like it's missing a lot more depth/refinement/polish to truly immerse me in the world and characters. Hopefully this 1.0 achievement will fund the project a little further so these things can be overhauled. There's something truly great here, it just needs more time to fully get there imo.

zomboid without zombies and in space. the navigations of ships has no comparison to any other game. great.

Got this game a few months ago and have pretty much been addicted since day 1. It's not perfect, but it really scratches an itch few other games can. Prospecting wrecks while trying to stay alive while running into pirates, law enforcement, and meteorites is challenging. Then you've got trying to manage the gas and battery levels on your ship so it can actually be piloted and has the proper atmosphere. It gets a little easier once you can build and start up your own nuclear reactor. That's just the early game stuff...

i get why this game has mixed reviews. there is some truly honest to god awful ♥♥♥♥ in it. the developer quips need to just be removed (this isn't a marvel movie, i'm trying to take your serious setting seriously lol), the UI/UX/item management needs drastic improvement, docking and undocking takes way more clicks that it should, insane lack of verisimilitude for a 1.0 release (two bags the entirety of the game. you expect me to believe this literally solar system spanning society is reliant on TWO types of bags and theyre not even actual backpacks?) the tutorial ends abruptly after touching on just the basics. that last point is the most devastating, just like Kitfoxs other game Neo-Scavenger, most players are going to (reasonably) get caught up in the minutiae without ever getting to the "game proper" which is everything outside of the first area. the learning curve is steep and barely visible without context, but its there. each major location across the solar system is designed to teach the player something. k-leg, the first major area the player spends time in includes the aforementioned tutorial, but it doesn't explain ANYTHING about shipbuilding which is arguably what the entire area is supposed to be teaching you since you literally won't be able to get anywhere (not even to the outer reaches of the k-leg boneyard) without at least modifying your starter ship. that is the most egregious thing about this game. because if you can get past k-leg, then you really get to the bulk of the game. inner system travel teaches you how to use a torch drive both manually and with plots. venus introduces an entirely new atmospheric ship building system and ship racing. ceres makes you forget everything you've learned and build entirely for ship combat or mining. all of these areas are fun and even the story is kind of engaging... but it's all hidden behind a starting area that doesn't teach you the mechanic it requires you to master in order to "beat" it. that being said, if you put in the time and learn all these systems, it's great. nothing like coursing through the void beating your meat. no seriously, beat your meat while in deep space and see what happens.

This game is one of the best I have plaid in years. Its a super creative idea that combines a lot of fun intricate gameplay in a way that doesnt feel overwhelming. So far, I have focused on the salvage and shipbuilding aspects of the game. It can be played in a really relaxed way while still being spiced up by periodic thrills of real danger. If you enjoy custom-building fortresses or vehicles, deep-space themes, dystopian cyberpunk, and/or resource management I'd say you will find something to really love here.

Its a good game. Well, there a bugs. Many of them actually. Not release Cyberpunk 2077 but more like todays Cyberpunk 2077. (Fantastic game if you haven't played it, here's my cross game propaganda, play it ;) ) But maybe i just love these engineering type games too much, because even with those bugs i love this game. I spent 120 hours on my first play through and i am still going. In this game you start as a corp slave salvaging for fractions of a penny on the dollar of the stuff you bring the company. The main plot point of the game is to go from rags to riches so you quit your job take a loan and buy a ship (there are a few starter ships, some better than others). Now that the character creation is over you are let loose into the scrapyard yourself, get into your ship and start scrapping derelicts, the game features a 2D landscape that you can move around in, Flying your ship feels nice, managing the relative velocity to your target with the fuel you have sometimes needs a bit of planning, in the early game inconsequential but once you learn to love some of the other less used modules (well get to that later) and your ships get bigger (that also comes further down), planning and executing a boost that will change your trajectory to reach your target in a more favorable angle a long way later is a nice thing and feels cool to execute. Once close to your target (5km) you can then dock where you need to line up with the docking port of the to be docked ship with your own docking port, then clamp to it. This can prove rather difficult if you have a lot of cross-velocity trying to push you off. Looking at you VORB, you will get what i mean if you play the game. NOW we get to the really cool stuff, building the ship up. You have a basic ship that has life support (hopefully, not all do) When you enter a derelict you can scrap it for parts (this is the main way to do income early game and kind of your job to yourself), later new avenues of income open up but for now its scrapping. So grab your tools board a derelict and start unscrewing those juicy parts (dont forget your trusty pressure suit), like thrusters, nav consoles, fuel intakes, gas pumps, scrubbers and sooooo on... but now the magic happens. You could sell these for credits BUT you can also just build them into your own ship. This is the part i love most and is A if not THE core aspect. So grab some walls some floors some conduits for power and start expanding your own ship, just remember that more mass needs more fuel to move the same distance in the same time, but usually comes with more space so more salvage. First thing you should do is if your ship does not have an air pump with an oxygen canister attached to it, that first, definite that first. Besides that the sky is your limit, or the space in this case? Irrelevant. Let your creativity out to create a ship, that is not only nice to look at and useful but most importantly it is yours. Its not like where you buy something like a vehicle in another game where you choose between 7 rovers that all have the same stats, You can custom build the ship. You build what you need, you can create specialization out of generalists. You do the walling, flooring, cabling, every machine in there is for you to build where you want. It is YOUR ship when you're done. Things like the NAV console, the navigation terminal is a board where all modules on it are - well - modular, you can rearrange, remove and add new modules to it to create a layout and functionality you like. Some modules are essentially useless in the early game, like the time advance view of the solar system, in the early game serving little use but it becomes a vital tool for interplanetary travel. The reactor, Perhaps one of my favorite things in the game, the modular reactor (the parts used for its functionality are) by objective standards not the greatest and in-depth part of the game but i have a weakness for such machines. Knobs and buttons, so many knobs and buttons. While operation is simple and takes 10 seconds max once you're just going through it on a routine, it feels nice to generally press these buttons in the whole game actually and turn dials. If you get into interplanetary freight, remember that thirteen helium-3 tanks and one deuterium tank is the ratio that will get you the farthest, i read 12.7 : 1 to be more precise. Lets talk about a part i wish was more fleshed out (besides the fusion reactor mechanics), logic. LOGIC, in the sense of, Machine A do this when Machine B does that, example: Oxygen pump turn on when oxygen sensor triggers alarm. This is about the depth of the logic system, there are wire boxes that allow for logical comparisons like "AND" or "OR" but the applications are currently limited, you cant for example wire it to a door to get a signal if its open or closed to create automatic airlocks. Which i find a large missed opportunity. I should mention there is AI crew you can hire, buuuuuuut i dont have enough experience (2 minutes before reloading a save) to talk about them. But what i can say is that there is a social system in the game, it is a life noir after all. So maybe besides helping with work they can be of use as emotional sandbags too. I am in the mid to late game i think, I left scrapping behind and now do interplanetary bulk freight (one of many other ways to make a living). While solo is probably not the intended way to play the game, it is the way i choose and its working out good enough :) Thanks for reading :3

While I like the bones that are here. Starting out is brutal. Figuring out just where to go to even sleep is not explained in any meaningful way. Then the door are bugged and you will occasionally just go hypoxic for no reason. With that out of the way, the core game loop is just too frustrating currently. The amount of time you have to spend asleep vs actually working is MASSIVLY off like by a factor of 10. The day goes by way way too fast. I could get 20x the ammout of work done in a day that this character does.