Space Engineers

On one hand game allows you to engineer stuff like spaceships, cars, mechs, etc, etc, which you can later shoot at, maybe even together with friends On the other the game's features were all added 10 years ago and devs spent most of the time since 2019 making DLCs with """"cosmetic content""" instead of improving stability or adding new features to the base game

HUGE disapointment! to build something proper you basically need every dlc and the tutorial is just bad and sometimes won;t even work, i do not reccomend.

New player experience has gotten worse.

So the game is pretty good, its excellent and I'll keep playing. Due to how food is impossible to get and garentees 'prepare to die and starve for a few lives' edition, it gets a thumbs down till the day that's fixed. What's going on is plants spawn so far apart that you can't eat and find them before you die, they act more as a trophy for exploring.. which is emptier than Starfields planets no joke. (Lets not worry about that though, the crafting makes up for blank worlds by far, beating Starfield on a large margine). So plant density should at a minimum be an option in the menu. Secondly, they put the food processor at the top of the tech tree which is the first method to get food. So you have to build an algae station first which is a late game structure in all games you might play, because that's infinite food. Food processor is basically a campfire. Imagine playing 7 days to die, and the campfire is late game, the wolf meat or spider meat in this game is garenteed poison, you just die, its not a debuff. You go to 0 food, and it kills you. You need the top tech tree food processor to cook it. The algae station will kill you if you spend the entire beginning sitting at the start of where you spawned trying to craft it. You die. The youtube videos are telling you to destroy your rover, butcher it, rush an algae station but the game emphasizes keeping your constructed stuff alive and in good condition. Its a really bad game loop for food. I found the rest of it completely fun and balanced. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Power, Fuel, etc, all of the other stuff is completely my fault if I fail, but managing food early game is 'Prepare to die' or be desperate and blow up your rover or get lucky. The method is to spam respawn until the rover is descent starting you off with 10 rations of food. Seriously I'm restarting, this is bs. I will do a full 'setup all my mods and settings' for 5 minutes, wait 2 minutes to load, and check my inventory. If I don't see rations, I'll click new game again. There's no way outside of rediculous choices to make no player should at the start of the game to ensure you don't starve and die. Instead of me crossing my fingers for an unknown signal with food, or butchering my rover, or running around for iron deposit or something and cross fingers I build in time, I'd rather remake a new game 10 minutes per until the rover has 10 rations at the start. That's actually the best method for me. It's pretty rediculous, and any solution 'well you should do this rediculous solution, its what we all do' is going to be a rediculous unstreamlined option... its.. early game... Here's another rediculous option, console command in 10 rations, or find a mod. I have to fix this, but this should be fixed in the vanilla game or provide an option.

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Half a game. Abandoned to make half a game v2.

Do you like building spaceships? Do you like looking at those spaceships? then this is the game for you! Do you like flying spaceships? do you like engaging in dogfights and raiding enemy strongholds? You should probably look for another game. Space engineers sadly is another indie game made popular not because the developer made a good game, but because the community that surrounds it is amazing. The amount of mods for this game is great and they're the sole reason this game is bearable. For the age of space engineers, this game is still incredibly janktastic. Yet the developer has continued to release DLC after DLC and even has released a sequel. While I am not against a sequel, I am against the developer releasing a sequel without having finished and polished the original game. Space engineers is a masochists wet dream, and this is coming from a person who thoroughly enjoys games that have large amounts of tedious tasks such as Factorio and Stationeers. The difference between those games and Space Engineers is that the punishment comes when you have done something wrong, and not because the game engines are massively flawed. Space engineers suffers from an incredible lack of optimization, quality of life, and automation. A large portion of the quality of life and automation issues are solvable with modding. However, space engineers lack of optimization regularly leaves you with several hours of repairs to complete when inevitably your ship either lags and slams into a wall that you never hit, or when one of the movable mechanisms such as the pivots decides to detach itself at mach jesus and take out a quarter of the ship along the way. Long term gameplay and building up bases and stations in the end is quite painful. On top of these issues many quality of life things fail to exist in the game that should have been solved half a decade ago. Many armor transition blocks don't exist, the building menu and bars are poorly optimized, blocks such as half conveyors do not exist, many of the large grid objects are simply to large for the tasks they need to perform. There are ways around these things, however a large portion of them increase your chance of clang and destroying weeks of work. In conclusion, if you want to build spaceships to look at, you'll likely enjoy space engineers if you can put up with all the DLC content. If you want to actually use those spaceships, look elsewhere.

Does not have a new player friendly tutorial. The tutorial explains very little as to how to operate the controls and interfaces.

This game is incredibly rough to get into, and it disrespects the players time at every step of the way. Just booting into the game, you get a whole laundry list of DLCs and a bare bones menu that points you to a 'quick start' option. Pressing that jumps you into a game with a tutorial text box explaining the basic controls. That tutorial text box bugged out multiple times while I was playing, showing a brief tutorial before changing to a blank text box before I completed that section of the tutorial. I basically wandered around lost for hours before I gave up and tried to look help online. The SE subreddit pointed to a youtube tutorial for beginners, and while that one was helpful, it's a horrible look when the gamedevs can't be arsed to guide new players properly before releasing 19! DLCs. Even pushing past this, the game UX is awful. Searching for items from a conveyor system is terrible and requires the player to constantly either scroll up and down for a randomly ordered list of containers, or take their hands off the mouse for the search bar. The build planner for pulling resources out of storage is limited to 8 items, so when I want to build something its a slog to build it all out, then go back to the beginning and build the first 8 items and so on. Trying to figure out why an item inventory shows up in my grid but I can't interact with it is a pain in the ass and is infuriating. I'm sure there are 'better' ways to interact with the game that I'm missing as a new player, but when there are this many roadblocks to the start of this game, its just not worth continuing to learn.

表面上是一个太空游戏，实际上是一个造船游戏。 游戏比较老，现在已经不推荐购买了。 在当年沙盒游戏还没有几个的时候，这个游戏也算是质量比较好的一批。 放在现在已经不太行了