Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

I really really wanted to like it, bought when playing the demo. However sadly ill have to leave a negative review. for the following main reasons: - Lots of bugs. There were some bugs that forced me to restart the day, restart the game and finally - my save file corrupted and cannot be recovered. - The gameplay is not diverse enough, i suspected this in the demo, but thought they will add more "minigames" and modules to fix. sadly this is not the case. - some puzzles are very frustrating and not thought through (or just not explained) enough - like the AI modules trait state system. - For a rouglite there is surprisingly few options for advancement between runs.

What could have been a really fun Fix-em-up ends up playing like an actively hostile experience. I bought thinking this would a game I could slowly learn how ships are fixed and then the difficulty would increase, with more and more complex tasks. But almost immediately the game throws you into the weeds without a slow start to give you the confidence to continue. It's not a good feeling where on the first 2 days you don't feel ready to work you- gotta bust out the big ass manual of everything ( of which you can't manually search, you have to go page by page to find what you want) read through the process for a few minutes and then perform the fix. That may sound fine but it really kills the momentum to be slammed into needing to read and then struggle through the mini game of fixing all the stuff. I feel that the game does it on purpose- to be this gruff, tough and off putting experience that only those with the patience and grit can survive, like its trying to tie into the gruff aesthetic of working as a mechanic. The humor definitely also comes across as edgy and aggressive. I was reminded of someone who's humor never evolved past high school. But that seems to be putting a bunch of people off from enjoying the game- like if it just walked people into it a bit more, not handholding! but guiding them further than sort of dropping them off the reviews would be much better overall. There is probably a decent game a couple hours down the line but I have all these games new and old I could be playing that don't fight me to enjoy. There's a lot of good here, like the music, the look of the world, the ideas behind all the things you can fix, and this kinda stinks to write out as I wanted to have fun in this. With all that said I closed the game just a few minutes ago and I don' see myself interested in coming back.