Objects in Space

The developers have officially abandoned the game and there's still in-game contracts that make you lose money, endless grinding, bugs, borderline unusable ui...

I only recommend purchasing this heavily discounted. My opinion of the current state of the game is unfinished. After 5 years of development, the game jumped from the initial phase of press coverage to suddenly 1.0 state in the span of several months. That should have been a red flag for me. This has nothing to do with bugs. The only time the game fully crashed was when my spaceship hull was breached. I want to believe a compelling narrative experience is tucked somewhere within this game. The problem I have is with the user interface. It is inexplicably BAD. It feels like the developers never tested the game with a standard keyboard and mouse setup. For a game where the player spends most of their time focused on screens, the design is unacceptable. I thought arrow keys were not supported in the in-game menus (probably one of the most frustrating parts of the game), but they clearly work on the title screen. Drag and drop is not supported at the Commerce screens, but works fine when repairing the modules. Moving your pointer around to unscrew the panels is fun only one time. After that it is simply a cumbersome chore, like so many other parts of the user experience. I get that the game wasn't designed to be 'artistic,' but even showing us a still image of selected points on the nav screen would go a long way. The most fun in the game is in the nav screen where you control your ship. There could even be some legitimately fun tactics to be had here. Instead the game has only three nearly identical ships that offer no variance in gameplay. Just want to cruise around in something like Boba's Slaver One, with room for transporting two passengers and one cargo pod quickly and stealthily through the systems? No can do. The devs could have even put something of a Papers, Please! in to this title, scanning the freighters as they jump and dock. Fly unarmed cruisers full of passengers from one star to the next for big loot. My hope rests with patches and mods now.

As others already remarked... Again EA devs who release buggy stuff and abandoned in a desolate state... Promising with good retro ideas but that doesn't help if devs won't finish what they've started. Oh, did i mention the yada yada yada marketing statements? Unfortunately it doesn't matter if you're using steam or GOG. Both don't care about the misuse of EA and abandoned projects. Players unite! Stop buying EA! Don't waste your bucks on rip-offs!

I tried to like this game, but it has too many game crashing bugs. These make the game unplayable after a certain point as they always seem to occur with each new game, particularly with the Linux version. Even months after release there is no fix for the crashes. I seriously advise you to not buy this game at this point in time. It is far too likely that you will end up regretting the purchase as I did. Though it is possible it could still be fixed at some point in the future, I don't expect that it will as the developers appear to have abandoned it.

I bought this following a Scott Manley youtube clip mostly because I was a bit bored and looking for something different. It hooked me. I have not played anything like this before, but it is just fast paced enough to keep me interested while allowing for a relaxing experience while having a beer and chat. The interface need some usability work, like being able to use hotkeys to switch between screens in the same ‘room’, or being able to use ship screens while zoomed out. I don't think the tags are accurate - I would say more of a trading simulator than an action stealth game. Worth a try, but definitely not for everyone.