Ostranauts

I've been tentatively following this game's development since the day it was announced, but there's a good reason I waited to sink my teeth in until now. Unfortunately, I also picked a horrible time- as by the time 1.0 has dropped, the game is still riddled with bugs. At first, they were few and far between- enough so that I was genuinely confused over all the negative reviews citing the buggy state of the game as their reason for not recommending it- but now that I've been playing a single character for an extended period of time, they've only grown more pervasive and annoying as time goes on. The developer, Blue Bottle Games- has taken a pretty "Meh" approach to the whole thing. Player concerns have been very VERY selectively answered, and even then- the response tends to me something along the line of "Yeah here's all the reasons it wasn't ready for 1.0 but if you guys buy enough copies I might actually do something." Overall, it's an incredibly unique game mired by a lack of commitment. I don't care if you've been working on the game for 6 years or more- you've been getting PAID to do so by people who chose to support you and your project, and they've been rewarded with a handful of dirt to the face as a thanks.

1.0 my ass. I tried really hard to love this game but its just undercooked in every single aspect. The main loop WOULD be good if not for all the random bugs, performance hits, and total lack of QOL features.

more woke bullsh!t ... f*ck off with your pronoun crap

I tried a session years ago (around 5 hrs). UI gave some problems, so I decided to put it off, until they finished the game. Well, it's 1.0, another 5 hrs, and oh boy. While some of the UI issues have gotten better, UI is still illegible in many ways. Why are some items "pristine" and others not? It obviously isn't item durability, as I have seen pristine items that have been torn apart down to 30% or less. Repairing it to full, 100% doesn't make it either. No rhyme or reason. Then there is how little oversight one has over what each stat does, what your traits do, what your skills do, etc. Sure I can see that over time I do repairs quicker, I install and uninstall items quicker, after some time. But there is nothing telling me why that is. If not for the wiki, I would have no clue what "security threshold" even means. Speaking of the wiki, it felt like a shot in the nuts, when I discovered that a 1.0 game has so little variety. Ok, you upgrade from a screwdriver to a power tool. What's next? This is 50 years in the future. The one upgrade path, that is somewhat fully developed is the one that is about structure cutting. You go from a hacksaw, to an angle grinder, to a laser torch. Everything else? 2 or even just 1 tool only. The PDA neglect is the worst part of it. There are multiple cartriges that you are supposed to be able to slot in. Two slots only though. But over 5 cards. So you are stuck constantly switching around, depending on what you need to be able to see at that moment. These are just the tools you use directly. What about the ship? You use the same nav console that EVERYONE USES. There is only one. You use the exact same thruster, so on and so forth. There are only two items that actually have some variety: sensors and floors/walls. You are able to choose from around 10 sensors and there are, what feels like, over 40+ floor tiles. You also get some choice in clothing (which doesn't matter, because you spend so much time doing EVA anyways, thus you aren't seeing it). To be clear, this wouldn't be an issue, if everyone item wasn't branded with a manufacturer label. Rimworlod has one console and nobody cares. But when you have "Polaris "Standard Navigation Console" Nav Station" as your nav console, well then suddenly it becomes a question of why nobody else is in that business. There are multiple tool businesses, why not multiple nav consoles? Overall game progression feels grindy and tedious, while also being rather straightforward and linear. Would not recommend.

Cool game, I really love what's to come, but this doesn't look like it's at 1.0 state.

Lover of NeoScavanger, got hyped once i saw the 1.0 release on the homepage. Two hours of raw frustration along with a refund. Absolute atrocious and unreadable UI. Graphics are beyond unappealing, probably should have followed a similar path of art such as Barotruama. Since it's rough to distinguish anything on the screen. Tutorial is non-existant and sends you down a rabbit-hole of confusion. Not to mention the SJW factor showed at your face during character creation which is honestly uneccesary. Plenty other reviews who dig deeper into detail explained here. Devs most likely chewed off more than they could with this project. Interesting concept, idea and attempt at a great game i will give them that. They had me hooked, line and sinker but redemption is far from sight. Go back to NeoScavenger for the itch, because you won't find it here.

1.0 crash on quite a great start idk what they were thinking rushing this game out makes me sad. Did you finger slip and hit the 2 key yep were attacking peaceful npc. It's all too raw to be fun. Nothing explains itself and there's no information. For a life sim the charterer creation is horrible it was excusable for EA but this being a full released half of all mechanics are still unfinished

Fun for a bit but the more you play the more it's clear this isn't close to finished. this was quite clearly kicked out of early access by factors external to game development. aka the publisher, financial reasons or the dev maybe being sick of it?? i'd call it maybe 50% done. i spent far too much time at the starting station and now that i've gone out and explored the system it's like an empty mall there's basically 3 functional locations and a dozen more that are empty apart from a few basic NPC's and standard services. CQB combat and social gameplay are virtually identical and feel completely unimplemented. they're basically press button to be friendly / not so friendly. for example flirting consists of making a single weird facial expression over and over and over and over again. and you experience that in a scrolling text field. Crew management is like the sims with terrible AI. it's just obnoxious. when i restarted a fresh save i just didn't bother getting any more crew than the player character. What is fun and implemented well: - Ship navigation (RCS or torch drive) it really feels like you're steering a brick through space or a brick tied to a nuclear reactor that's throwing fusion exhaust out of the bottom. - Ship to ship combat. caveat: it's basically isolated to 1 location unless you go full murderhobo What's okay - Constructing your ship. it works but oh dear lord is it tedious to design and modify your brick - Mining. it's functional and somewhat tied in with ship combat (it's a contested zone). but not particularly amazing. it's fine. what's bad: - Crew control. Half the time the autotask stops working for some inexplicable reason and you have to take care of every persons needs the sims style. literally half of the needs are convoluted and annoying to deal with (the social needs) where 1 is almost impossible to satisfy (altruism) - 80% of the solarsystem is bland empty stations with nothing special to do. - Social / CBQ combat. it's spamming the same things over and over to achieve the desired result with little in the way of useful feedback. - The performance is atrocious. loading takes ages, saving takes ages, the autotask function stutters the game constantly if you make your character build something as simple as a 10x10 floor - There's 0 quality of life. that 10x10 floor? you'd better have manually filled some backpacks with flooring cause otherwise your character will grab them 1 by 1 by 1. i'm just glad there's a mod that helps with picking up 100 pieces of floor first. cause the alternative is that you basically do that manually!