Objects in Space

The game had very high potential, and I found the combat to be extremely enjoyable. Running silent, sneaking up on the enemy and launching a torpedo or two is tense and exciting. The Arduino integration was icing on the cake, giving you the ability to build your own spaceship helm. Unfortunately, the game is no longer supported by the developers at all. There are still crashes, which I experienced at the WORST possible gameplay point, the moment of torpedo impact. I would recommend it if the game was free, open-source, or a much lower price. As-is, don't buy it.

The game has some great potential, sadly, is half arsed completed and left for dead by the devs, which bailed, it-s been abandoned for a year now and "released" with half of the features in that list not added. AVOID

I really wanted to love this game, and picked it up because it looks like it was made for me. (Space submarines with snark and custom hardware controllers? Yes, please!) Unfortunately, it suffers from a lack of content and an excess of bugs/annoyances (CTD, annoying UI, very limited ship selection). This could have been a great game, but it appears the devs released it and moved on after a month. I love the concept, and the game is largely playable, but I can't get myself to get back into it after a few hours.

While it's not the worst experience that I've had, I do find myself wishing I'd not bought this for others. It's over-all a poor space game that, while it has an interesting story, falls short of any coherent goal that was set by the developer. They've since dropped this game like a hot-potato. Let in the state it's in without much more than a quiet blurb through reddit or their forums. The game needs a lot more TLC than was given and it shows. In how you can have great stuttering piles of shit from screen to screen for some odd reason to how much you can do within the universe. TL;DR -- Good Idea, but poor excetuion and finishing on the dev's part. They could've stuck with it longer.

... and then they messed it up. (Yeah, this is not in my GOG library, because I bought it at a reduced price on Steam a while ago) The game is not very consistent, and it crashes a lot. Especially bad quality or broken components in the navigation screen device will often result in one crash after the other. Navigation is clunky at best; the auto-pilot frequently fails to dock you with your destination port. It will often just burn the engines indefinitly, making you overshoot the target, or it will cut the engines a moment too soon, causing you to drift past uncontrollably. Manual docking is best avoided, unless the target is supposed to not support auto-docking, in which case the devil be with you. The full color navigation system is supposed to be the best system around, and in most respects it actually IS. But when it comes to showing asteroid fields, they suck dung! The markets are badly implemented. Once you buy components or goods from any terminal at any station, the inventory at that terminal is fixed. It will NEVER replenish components or goods, so each station becomes completely useless after a few visits. This goes for missions as well. When you dock with a station, the state of the star system you're in is completely abandoned, and when you undock, a completely new state is generated, so all continuity is lost. There is a limited number of ships active at all times, and a limited number of names available for them. So after undocking, you may find that a pirate ship is now using the name that was used for a military ship 5 minutes ago, while a merchant vessel now carries the old pirate ship's name... So messy. The idea was so good, but it was poorly executed, and then suddenly abandoned. That one is still supposed to pay €21,- for this, is an affront!