Ostranauts

good game

The amount of random chance for stupid things to happen is really infuriating to the point I would not reccomend this game I love the game loop of salvaging but it is really hard to figure out what went wrong and there is not much help on everything outside the initial tutorial, again really like the core loop but the amount of times a hole just opens up out of no where is really annoying makes me feel I just need to set my character to repair all the time

6/10 -- [!! F U N !! BUT D I S A P O I N T I N G] -- My hour count is a result of a lack of games to play, nevertheless, this game has been fun but at every moment past the 15hr mark I've thought to myself "where's the content?" Essentially if you're the type that enjoys grindy and overly complicated complete freedom sandbox games (kenshi, rimworld, etc), then you'll enjoy it, but likely come to the same opinion as me. ------------------------------------------ SHIP BUILDING AND DESIGN LACKS SERIOUS DEPTH Half the game is grinding away at building your space ship, yet there is so little to build decoration and functionality wise. You have two types of chairs, three types of tables, and no real interior decoration other than painfully matching correct floor variants you rarely find (like 5 decor items I can think of that aren't those). For functional parts, you just need a ship battery, thruster, pilot seat, and two air pumps (one for O2 and N2). Then you have your fully functional space ship with it's core systems and sadly, it doesn't get much more in depth than that beyond building your first ship's fusion reactor. Like theres no need to build a dedicated life support room on your ship, managing lifesupport systems is as simple as placing an air pump inside a room. It doesn't even matter where you place your thrusters, sensors, or anything. As long as if it's on the ship it flies. It just really feels lackluster, like there's no solar panels, no ship shield room to set-up, no crafting room, etc. The variety for what is there is also very limited. You'd expect water to be an important resource in space, but it's not here. You'll just be storing gallons in your fridge. ------------------------------------------- LACKING LOOT VARIETY You'll always be finding the same exact stuff in chests and crates aboard every single ship. Its not exciting. ------------------------------------------ WORTHLESS TRAITS Theres a wide plethora of traits in character creation, half of which no one has any clue as to what they do. Is cooking a hobby? Well thats never coming up again, and your not going to be cooking anything because its not a feature. Theres just so much that does truely nothing ------------------------------------------ LACKING QOL There's just so so so much QOL that is lacking, especially when it comes to ship design. Character pathfinding is awful and dumb. Theres a ship building mode in the game, but you cannot import your designs or ANYTHING made in that mode to the real game. There is no planning mode. Darkness always makes building difficult, you can never get a full view of your ship you are working on. To remedy this you can use a 'visor' such as a 'price visor' which removes the darkness and color codes items by their relative value. But in that mode you cannot see any orders you have issued, any walls you set to be constructed, flooring you just ordered your character to put down, etc. ------------------------------------------ VERY ANNOYING CHARACTER NEED BAR MANAGEMENT Your character has mental needs, such as socialization, talking to family, etc. To solve these it is a tedious task of right clicking your character, and pressing the correct hotkey that lowers the need bar over 20 times or be penalized stat wise. Im not joking, it's incredibly stupid. You will literally spend 3 minutes IRL spam clicking "browse social media, long for a better love life, remember family, etc" to make your need bars go down to keep your character happy. These systems ARE NOT ENGAGING IN ANY WAY and are my biggest gripe with the game. ------------------------------------------ !! BUGGY & UNOPTIMIZED!! Admittedly, I haven't experience a save breaking bug a save and reload can't fix, but it's annoying coming across bugs that require you to reload the game in order to continue playing. Also, runs a bit hot for what it is and saving and loading takes ages. ------------------------------------------ -- THE REASON THIS IS A POSITIVE REVIEW STILL -- At the end of it all, I still enjoy this game but am disappointed constantly. What is keeping me playing is the exploration and that sense of progression. There really is a ton to explore, space is huge in this game. But the progression is what is really keeping me coming back, you start with rags and work your way to riches and that is just incredibly fun and well done in this game.

super soupce

The perfect game, however, for some reason a 3 days savegame is working really slow. Probably the game needs to be optimized as saving game also takes its time. I have a good setup so it shouldn't be a problem. Game HIGHLY recommended. You will enjoy hours and hours. Good job devs

Best space life sim ive ever played

I bought a ship, just to never leave my station and instead I decided to meet my mortgage quotas by doing gigs, then I socialized with this lady, we hit it off and she kissed me. I then got a text from my ex saying she needs my help with a "technical problem", I of course agreed because why not, I won't ever get to do it Later on I was repairing something on my ship, still hadn't left my station, and to complete the repair I had to get out into the little asteroid the station is on top of... I promptly found the corpses of my crush and my ex, suffocated in space I didn't bat an eye, and dragged my ex's dead, frozen corpse into the station NOBODY said anything as I dragged them to the scrap vendor and sold their entire belongings for profit. I then went back to get my crush's frozen corpse to do the exact same thing. I am now up 60k, my crush had a pda cartridge worth 25k I still haven't left the station once 10/10 game, I might not have played much yet but I already love it