I played this game for some time when I was a kid, even though I was terrible at it, but I was amazed with how good this game was :) Also, since in those dark times in my country it was near impossible to buy games (if you managed to even afford and purchase a PC), of course I had an only one way of obtaining it (and in that time I didn't know what exactly piracy was). I didn't blink before buying this, somehow repaying the original author (and gog for bringing this back) for the good time I had then. Since I'm a parent now, and have a very time consuming job, I probably won't have time to play this game, but I want to at least compensate the autor now years later for the fun times I had as a kid. It is sad that my gog collection now is mostly my childhood revisited (and less playing in the present), but I'm happy to be able to support the gaming development gods now that I am able to. I hope you manage to develop and publish your sequel, cheers! One day my kid grows up, now I'll be able to give him this game to play :)
As a Steam game owner, I must say I played alot of it, and it is great, nice progression for casual player like me and interesting variety of playstyles. Unfortunately, it didn't come on Steam and GoG on same time, so of course I bought it on Steam first, since I couldn't wait. I like DRM-free, but I don't like paying for same things twice (I know supporting devs is nice - I am a developer also - but I still have a financial budget, and Cyberpunk is coming out soon and I might have to upgrade my PC also...) Please do releases on all platforms at same time, I really like to support GoG and devs on different platforms.
First I would like to thank the developers/publishers on putting this game on GOG at the same time as on Steam. Several games (including Void Bastards) came first on Steam, where I bought them, and then only later on GOG (didn't buy their duplicates yet). I was very glad to see this game immediately available here, so natually I bought it here at full price instead of purchasing keys at various stores or Steam (on which is 95% of my game portfolio). After aknowledging this feat, onwards to review. The game is very nice narrative roguelike pixelart diablo. So far I am managing to play with keyboard + mouse, but soon I might try the suggested controllers. The sessions are nice and paced for short burts of gameplay, though I had some issues with game save during some sessions (or better to say, interrupted sessions). The progress is nice, skill is valued and mistakes are punished sometimes too severely. Unfortunately, as in every roguelite game, RNG and health regen can be collosal issue to the gameplay and enjoyment, but that is the price of these games which one must accept. Though I would like to see new game mods where these could be avoided or mitigated. All in all, great game, played for several hours, and grinding is so far not so exhausting, narrative keeps it still fresh. Will update review after (hopefully) finishing the game. Cheers!
Unfortunately for me, I didn't know this game would appear here, so I bought it the minute it got out on Steam. If only it was simultaneous release, I'd buy it on GOG, but now I don't play on buying a duplicate game. This is a fun game, with nice cool graphics (I love cell shaded graphics), but somewhat repetitive and unforgiving based on RNG on ships. Forcing of limited resources (especially ammo) can be somewhat exausting, but I see that many people enjoy this so... good for them. Repetitive farming is something that made me stop playing somewhere in the middle of the game.
