Recent reviews by MECHARAUSER

In a short but still meaningful manner, the best way I can describe this game is by calling it the High Fleet of space mining sims.
If you know High Fleet, you know what I mean, but even so let me just make note of some of the major points and strengths of this game:

- Barely any hand holding. There is a basic tutorial to get you to understand the basic controls, and that is that. After that you gotta figure out everything yourself. For some people this is basically their achilles heel and they need constant guidance to do anything in games, and yunno, that's fine. For others like myself, that true sense of freedom is very welcome.

- Ship customization and handling is truly unique and extremely in-depth. It feels like every ship is a linux distro, with little to no "meta" crap anywhere, what is good is what you feel is good for your playstyle and following arbitrary guides will get you very little enjoyment or even success. Gotta discover what works for you and all that jazz. A good example of the freedom when making your own ship, is that you can accidentally make it use so much power that everytime you use your thrusters you shut-off your powergrid, thus turning off your HUD, which will then need to boot up as your capacitors regain power. When selecting individual modules, the game Does warn you if something uses more heat or energy than you produce, so heed those warnings very well, or... Else ;)

- The game has a variety of systems to keep you entertained. I don't really want to spoil anything, but if you feel like that "just" space mining would be too monotone and uninteresting, do not worry! The dev very much shares that same line of thought, hence why there's an enormous load of things to discover and do in the game. It gives you a good, pretty consistent line of things to do. Bump into derelict ships you can tow back home to refurbish and use, or sell. Find other miners, ask them for useful information, which might lead to rich mineral fields or strange mysteries. The game has a ton going on under the hood, and that mystery and intrigue of not knowing how will your next Ringdive end up looking like is truly exciting. But at the end of the day, pursuing these mysteries and such is a choice you gotta make yourself. If you feel like going full rockfondler mode, that is perfectly okay and there's lots of places where you can do that safely.

- Strong demo and fairly affordable. I try not to bring the price of a game into quantifying it's qualities, but let's be honest, in today's economy and all the chaos, some people might not be able to afford every 60 euro gaming experience off the shelf. This game's base price is quite cheap, and it goes on quite strong sales fairly often. Add to this, a pretty good demo that more than allows you to get a good feel of how the game plays and feels, meaning you can make a pretty well informed decision on this purchase. I will just quickly write this here in case anyone is wondering, all the DLCs are purely cosmetic.

All in all, a very good, if niche game. I can certainly see a lot of people being turned off not by the quality, but rather the type of game this inherently is. But if you are the type of person tantalized by such a game, I guarantee you, it will stick like hot glue!

Sincerely, from a long time sandbox space game fan.


(P.S: Also see: SPAZ, Starsector, Star Valor)

Buys toilet, proceeds to go bankrupt, gets vented into space due to failing the quota.

Number / Same Number, would recommend.

Tip: You can hold hands with the giants, they will blush and become your ally!

Pancakes

Honestly, an amazing and short game. It is very light-weight (277mb as of the time of writing this) and is super quick to install. Features customizable controls, which is nice for a game as simple and short as this.
Manages to do a pretty mind blowing twist that puts numerous other stories and games to utter shame!
It is very short and simple and just simply amazing!

Go try it out!

You won't regret it.

I really don't know why I have this game.
The store description alone is already horrendously broken, which already is quite scary seeing we haven't even gotten to the actual gameplay yet.
There is nothing to note, it's just sh*t, that's it.

ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE!
LEAVE NO DWARF BEHIND!
FOR KARL!
KARL WOULD APPROVE OF THIS!
TEAMWORK AND BEER WILL KEEP US TOGETHER!
NOTHING WILL STOP US NOW!
ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

*Inhale and nod*

Don't waste your money on this. Another early access game, full of promise , that ended up in the trash bin.
Nobody entirely understands what happened exactly.
I bought the game in it's Early Access. Was fun, despite the piles of bugs and issues all around everywhere.
Updates were consistent, and everything looked great! I always checked the news to see what wonderfull things they brought into the game, and it was fun trying out those features! Bugs were smashed, problems solved, and additional content added on the way. Everything looked pretty great!
Until it happened...
Still missing tons of content, they suddenly for no reason released the game!
One moment, there are regular updates with content and stuff and then poof, game released.
The soundtrack was amazing, perfectly fitting the environment, and better equipment was being added so that players could get to deeper biomes.
Then they decided to release it half-baked. There aren't even armor sets that would let you reach the deepest biomes!
Many biomes can't be reached at all! And tons of other stuff was missing still!
Combat was still very annoying, with enemies being extremely agile, having a very tiny hit-box, which sometimes wasn't even on the enemy! There was a crab enemy infamous of it's mis-placed hit box, because of which you could only hit it if you fire above it.
They kept releasing very tiny bug fix updates and smaller content updates, that only seemed to make them look like they were alive, when they didn't really add anything important.
Now, they have been silent for a long time.
The last post was a sort of "We are not dead but lots-a stuff going on now" post. They said in max a few months they would explain things. That post was put up in April.
Although nobody knows exactly what happened behind the curtains, but the most common idea is that the developers over time lost their determination to keep on going, and released the game early, turning it into a cash-grab.
The fact that even now, not having responded to anything for months, the game still gets put on sale, and once it was even sighted on humble bundle, only supports this cash grab idea even more. And then again, like i mentioned previously , before they went silent, they were releasing fake updates, that added nothing but thin-air to the game, only so that they make others think that the game is alive, when it is not.

TL;DR: Another early access game that had the potential and fun, but it mysteriously died out. Now it is only a carcass of a game that once was full of promise.

Once again, for a final time: Don't waste your money on this! I beg you...

Spicy game that has good replayability value and a load of fun package with it!
Some good DLCs in there too. Though i haven't bought and used them myself, i can tell they are good stuff.