Posted on: August 22, 2016

nanananaBatman

Games: 262 Reviews: 5

Despite the vastness it fails to impress

From almost a complete day of gaming I find it that the game lacks a lot from what one might expect from any gameplay or screenshot. It somehow manages to lure you to invest more time and to keep making guesses as to what the game might expect from the player. There are not hints to anything. While I can't seem to manage to play with my joystick or throttle, the flight controls by keyboard tells me that it still wouldn't live up. The ship isn't fully controllable. I can't fly as close to ground as I'd like, the feel to the piloting holds much to wish for and there's a key for auto-landing rendering any piloting to simply be all about rotating the ship towards desired direction and waiting... The only thing that interupts you from your tranquilizing boredom are the "achievement unlocked" that appear all at random. However, much unlike the yet-so-annoying-Microsoft-achievements, these add a longer sound, a whole-screen centered text and a wide-screen cutscene layer that keeps you rather crippled from playing. I fear this is what eventually will have me killed: to get one of them achievements at the wrong time and it'll tell me that I've walked for 15km, preventing me to reload my blaster and refill life-sustaining systems, which can anly be done through the inventory screen. It's really quite repetative, and while I wander around alone thinking about how to start trading with A.I. atleast, it strikes me that all of us could just as well be playing this game entirely offline and we wouldn't notice. Since the graphics holds no excuse to all that gaming power it requires, I wonder if they're not just using it all to mine bitcoins for themselves(?). Textures are poor, gameplay (the little gameplay spent aside from inventory menus) is truly slow but most of all: seeing all the various "life forms" does not make the game any less repetitative. The one star that I give, above the minimum one star, is for the awesome idea behind this: they created a universe, yet unfolding.

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Posted on: August 23, 2016

Nebular

Verified owner

Games: 145 Reviews: 1

No Discovery, Everything's Identical

It's hard to buy into the sense of discovery when every single planet has established trading outposts populated by aliens and regularly visited by the same 3 or 4 traders and stations that are also inhabited. You're not discovering anything. The sense of wonder and exploration quickly die away as you find that every single planet is almost identical. Traveling 1.7 million light years through a black hole leads you to a planet that looks almost the same as the one you just left. The rocks are the same. Most of the plants are the same with a few having an ever-so-slightly different shape. The largest variation comes from the creatures. Most are almost identical to others you've seen while a few are fairly different. It's hard to believe that two planets so far away are nearly identical in every regard. This repetitiveness just makes exploration tiresome as you're never seeing anything new. Space stations are mostly identical. The landing area of every one is the exact same. The only difference is a single room with possibly an alien inside. The same 3 or 4 ships keep landing in the hanger and I've often found the same alien (same name, same ship, same appearance, same inventory) sitting beside himself in the hanger. For something that's so "limitless", there a tremendous amount of repetition. There's really nothing driving you towards the center of the universe. There's the brief mention of the Atlas thing and the waypoints to the Atlas stations, but there's really no story or anything compelling you to do it, making you want to see what this Atlas thing is all about. Without that driving force, my interest int he game lasted until I realized it was just a mindless, repetitive slog for nothing. Gather resources to craft a thing to make you more efficient at gathering resources. That's all there is. The only reason for a larger ship is to hold more resources. The game is a fantastic, ambitious idea that falls completely short of what it really could have been.

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Posted on: August 15, 2019

TheManWithNoMan

Verified owner

Games: 31 Reviews: 3

such depth

I wated for this game to be fixed and i can say it defintly is a must buy if ur into space games or crafting survial games a true gem

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Posted on: August 4, 2020

Gwenchanting

Verified owner

Games: 244 Reviews: 1

Avoid if sensitive to stress

There are frustrating bugs in this game. Today and yesterday I spent hours trying to hook up power generators to my base. Should be easy to do, but it turns out that my base is allergic to new power cables. The UI is fiddly enough that I thought I was doing something wrong, but then I discovered that I can't even reconnect my working solar panels. Generally the bugs are strange things that shouldn't be happening, but there is a plausibility to the behavior. Like the NPCs that have buggy dialogue. Maybe that NPC is that way, even normal people can act erratic sometimes? Anyone can have a bad morning. The world generation is a bit lacking. This game taught a lot of people about Kolmogorov complexity. It's like those Star Trek episodes where Kirk beams down to "the planet", and "the planet" is just one town and everyone living on the planet is from one or two factions. You get more variety just looking out your window! The planets are filled with smatterings of buildings and loot, all selected from a very small variety of options. Whenever you see something interesting it is quite obvious that it's interesting because someone sat down to create it, it wasn't generated. The bases are basically identical. Customization of the character is also quite limited. It promises that you can fly smoothly from deep space to planetary surfaces. Well, I get a noticeable delay when I leave the atmosphere, so it's obvious that some trickery is going on at that moment. Not quite seamless. Whenever you enter or leave a space base there is an animated sequence that stands in for a loading screen. It's the same thing, just done in a neater way. And when you're on the planet it feels like your character forgot their glasses, because the viewing distance is tens of feet. I have to watch my stomach, so I can't play this game any more. But the main quest seems reasonable enough and it appears to have a sci-fi plot, so that might be worth pursuing once they've stopped adding new bugs.

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Posted on: November 5, 2021

gotch

Games: Reviews: 20

unsure it still runs on win7

i have this on ste... and i first played it to the end several years ago,was an ok game if a bit boring imo,very repetitive at that time and had little in common with all its developers claims,i also remember having to use mods to make it playable . i do remember thinking the end was rubbish,got to centre of universe etc and there was nothing there lol,it just took me back to the beginning of the game so i uninstalled it and waved goodbye to it. im more putting this up as a warning to maybe check it does still run on win7,as i tried to reinstall the latest version,episode 4? and it wouldnt let me due to my w7 ultimate os/old amd cpu etc so i think theyve changed something major since i last played it.

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