Posted on: January 13, 2021

Kolrath

Games: 308 Reviews: 4

Interesting tech demo....

Got at the very tail end of 2020. I had read that it was a great game at this point and was absolutely worth buying. Even with a massive discount it still wasn't really worth it. After "beating" it and seeing all the content. I can say that it was an interesting tech demo. I hope they make a game out of it someday. All the core components are there. It just doesn't end up being fun or interesting. There are more planets than you could visit in a hundred actual lifetimes dedicated solely to playing this game, but there isn't any point. After the first 10 planets they all just feel the same. They all have basically the same stuff, same look, same wildlife. Same things / resources, etc. They could have just made 10 really AWESOME planets and had a much more satisfying game. There are spaceships and they look neat. But they are pointless. They all feel the same and there isn't anything to do with them. My class-S Exotic ship was no more interesting, fun, or capable than my Class-C Shuttle. There are vehicles and they sound awesome. Dune Buggy, Tron Cycle, Mech... but they aren't useful or fun. They are slower and less capable than you are on foot. They are a novelty for about a minute each and then you never touch them again. Got a freighter. It was a neat, but it was just a glorified set of extra inventory slots. Built a base. It was fun to build, but entirely pointless. Found and named countless creatures and planets, but there was no point. Nothing to do with creatures thats fun. "Fighting" them is boring. You can ride them, but slower than you can walk. There is combat, but its awful. Spore had significantly more involved and interesting combat. It feels like less than an afterthought and its inclusion just makes the game more tedious. All the core stuff is there to make a great game. Its a shame they didn't. Story was neat. Its a game about discovery, exploration, and the journey, but its all boring and pointless. Maybe... that's the ultimate discovery?

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Posted on: June 4, 2021

Fr0stBurg

Games: 185 Reviews: 3

Expectations confirmed!

Despite the poor start, the developers have fulfilled their promises! The game is really interesting not only in single-player play, but also in the cooperative conquest of space, building your base on the planet, exploring the endless world. I recommend this game!

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Posted on: August 13, 2016

pedagog

Verified owner

Games: 13 Reviews: 2

Best blank screen sim 2016

Currently unplayable. For the first hour all I got was a black screen... Which, thinking about it is quite a good representation of infinite space. After an hour or so of trouble shooting, updating drivers, verifying files and downloading updates to various libraries I managed to get as far as a jittery intro that climaxed with a crash to a white screen. 0/10 Best blank screen simulator 2016

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Posted on: August 13, 2016

incureforce

Verified owner

Games: 92 Reviews: 1

Don't buy this Techdemo

This is not a finished game, this is not even the game we've seen in the Trailers. This is not even the game some company named Hello Games were advertising. This is the techdemo of that game, a good one, but a shallow and buggy one. It looks pretty sometimes, it makes fun but it is not worth your precious 50+ USD or EUR, more like 15 - 20. I appreciate the programming affort behind it, the generation of solar systems, planets, animals and such, but there is so much that needs to be done before we can call this a real Game. Wait for the (hopefully) upcoming patches, improvements and gameplay features over the next year, but don't BUY this game NOW. AND REMEMBER DON'T PREORDER GAMES -- EVER. BR, incureforce

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Posted on: August 22, 2016

kpeterson

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 16

Abuse of customers

Updating my review. When the game originally came out, people were upset with it for many reasons clearly explained, many of which you can see discussed in other reviews. At the time I was willing to give the developers some slack: the core of the game was essentially what I had expected. Since then, they have released multiple expansions. Every single one of these expansions has followed the same path as the original release: a horrifically bug-ridden mess, followed by a dribble of fixes over the course of the next few months, ending well before all the serious bugs were actually fixed. Then, a new release repeating the process. Hello Games has gotten lots of good press for this behavior, because the people rediscovering the game never spend enough time with it to notice all the things that are broken, nor have they followed the game for long enough to realize that many of the problems they encounter have been problems over the course of multiple expansions and yet never get fixed. A few specific examples. Frigate interiors not implemented; enter the wrong frigate and you fall into empty space - not fixed for nearly a year. Exiting ground vehicles; you could get thrown into near-orbit, dying when you'd finally fall back down - again, a year or so went by before they did anything about it. Even just remapping controls; since they have both remappable controls and hard-coded control schemes, it is very easy to get in a situation where you press a key and two things happen at once, one of which you did not intend. The Beyond release includes an overhaul of key remapping which should fix this, but no; that feature was and remains as of this writing completely nonfunctional, you can't remap anything. It's clear nobody even glanced at the feature before deciding to release it. And finally my own most immediate problem; the graphics have gotten unplayably scrambled with Beyond. Do not reward this systematic abuse. The game's not worth it.

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