Bought this game wayyyy back with my friend, all excited to see where it would go, and to be honest, I'm pretty disappointed to see where it's at right now. So much so that I feel compelled to turn my positive joke review into a serious negative one.

There are plenty of games that had a dev cycle shorter than the time this game has been in alpha state. ALPHA.
Yesterday I booted up the game a few times to give it a shot and see where it's at right now, and I can't believe that the start of the game somehow got worse... Sure, they have a PDA to explain the beginning of the game to you, but with an extremely unsatisfying start, being forced to wander around to look for either rocks containing very low amounts of ore, or ore deposits which tend to be spread around pretty scarcely (except clusters, but they don't often contain everything you need.)

This game feels like it has forgotten about early game. New planets, new galaxies, new space base defense systems, dialogues, but things like combat are completely left in the dust, resulting in a game that at its core feels kaput. At least I get to bash dodo skulls in with rocks in Ark. I had high hopes for this, but the developers seem to focussed on the later stages of the game that only 60% who endure the early game get to experience. Sure, the game will be fun once I acquire a spaceship, once I build a central vessel, once I explore more planets, but it just feels like it's too much effort for too little reward to go through the first stages of the game, even if it is just my own opinion. The only thing this game is good for now is being spammed for an hour or so by aforementioned friend to come play it even though I sincerely don't want to play it anymore. Setting up your own server is already complicated enough in some cases, but I cannot recall ever being able to succesfully set up a server.

I'll sit this one out, if it ever gets out of Alpha state...
But for now, don't buy it yet.

Bought this game wayyyy back with my friend, all excited to see where it would go, and to be honest, I'm pretty disappointed to see where it's at right now. So much so that I feel compelled to turn my positive joke review into a serious negative one. There are plenty of games that had a dev cycle shorter than the time this game has been in alpha state. ALPHA. Yesterday I booted up the game a few times to give it a shot and see where it's at right now, and I can't believe that the start of the game somehow got worse... Sure, they have a PDA to explain the beginning of the game to you, but with an extremely unsatisfying start, being forced to wander around to look for either rocks containing very low amounts of ore, or ore deposits which tend to be spread around pretty scarcely (except clusters, but they don't often contain everything you need.) This game feels like it has forgotten about early game. New planets, new galaxies, new space base defense systems, dialogues, but things like combat are completely left in the dust, resulting in a game that at its core feels kaput. At least I get to bash dodo skulls in with rocks in Ark. I had high hopes for this, but the developers seem to focussed on the later stages of the game that only 60% who endure the early game get to experience. Sure, the game will be fun once I acquire a spaceship, once I build a central vessel, once I explore more planets, but it just feels like it's too much effort for too little reward to go through the first stages of the game, even if it is just my own opinion. The only thing this game is good for now is being spammed for an hour or so by aforementioned friend to come play it even though I sincerely don't want to play it anymore. Setting up your own server is already complicated enough in some cases, but I cannot recall ever being able to succesfully set up a server. I'll sit this one out, if it ever gets out of Alpha state... But for now, don't buy it yet.