The scarcity of resources is frustrating and the time you take to progress is tedious. You do get to explore the location you're in, but most of the time it's a pure grindfest. Certainly not anything to get excited about.
I initially found this on Gog when it was still in development.
It was clearly incomplete but presented as complete; this was very misleading!
However I replayed it again recently and it is definitely complete.
It has silly humour, lots of exploration, a LOT of crafting a bit of shooteyness.
All in all it's a nice experience.
The only real downside is they often put VERY long corridors in certain areas, which leads to you having to run back to your ship for a full minute each way just to dump off your crafting goodies.... or craft something required to proceed.
This can get quite tedious on occasion, especially in two certain walking sections.
Still worth buying, even if you wait for a sale!
Got a free copy on a different platform but would recommend this if you enjoyed subnautica but don't need a clone. This has its own charm and humor but the grind can be an issue. Thankfully that doesn't last past the first chapter.
A very entertaining start. I think this was worth the price and shall eagerly await the full release.
A balanced mix of puzzle solving, exploration and crafting. I started to suffer a little crafting fatigue as I approached the end of the chapter. The puzzle solving was integrated into the crafting and worked well, I think.
Graphics looked pretty polished for an early access. I didn't notice any glitches but then I wasn't really looking for them. I was just playing the game but I didn't notice anything that affected the immersion.
Performance was great. No load times or transitions once loaded. I can't remember exactly but I think I was getting ~120fps with a 4690k & 1080ti.
Music was enjoyable and only added to the humour.
Mouse & keyboard controls were smooth and responsive.
For me the most comparable game that comes into mind is with Prey(2017), but mild version of it. This game is a detective of some sorts.
This game has found great compatibility with music of independent music makers - their score really accompanies the game. See credits(or search internet). Great music is main thing for me that makes even good games memorable. "Quantum Particles" and "Aurora" ambient scores made me to linger in space, even if that would mean suffocating... A Darker Heart was a great uplifting score as well.
I wanted to give lower score, as I came to it with mindset that it is Subnautica in space(and I am sure that devs advertised it as such and it is all their fault as that type of humor backfired), because base building is not necessary to finish the game and can be entirely skipped, but if you put aside this misapprehension, then this game is a gem.
It is UNIQUE game, that has UNIQUE story line and UNIQUE sci-fi characters - these clearly are hitting all the checkboxes for a great game and it is based on UNIQUE HUMOR - some of it is not my kind of humor, as glorifying anything about Soviet past is not my kind of humor and only because of that I am not giving 5 stars. While it might be taking inspiration of USA past from Bioshock games, it is just too close to reality while Russians are resurrecting zombies of Soviet past which was not as far back in history as Civil War era of Bioshock. Simply too close to reality. Even descriptions of Hell simply doesn't describe Gulags and you have to be fully ignorant about the dark side of Soviet past to glorify it.
However I think, that it is worth to look what will be their next game, as whoever is behind Breathedge and have compiled all the different motifs from great games have done great thinking about it all. Let's hope that there will be steam for Breathedge 2 to continue.