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I played since the demo and spent SO many hours on it and there will be many many more. For me the game is a 10/10 because its incredibly fun to build your own spaceship and fly it, its easy to get invested, google alot of things to understand the math and even apply physics. It has many missions already where some are easy and some are very hard but its good to have a challenge so its perfect. Besides the game, the developer is an amazing guy who actually cares about the wishes of the community, i had many chances to text with him on the discord server and he actually fixed bugs that I found and changed the game by my suggestions and i see it every day for many people, he is super nice and so is the community. He also will continue adding things to the game for many years so there will always be new content. I can very much reccomend if you like to build spaceships and flying them with interesting planets to find.

Really scratches the space/spaceship autism itch. All the fun bits of space engineers without the tedious grind, very fun with friends 10/10

I am currently writing this review as I am on a 1 hour journey to the "second nearest" planet in the system. There is absolutely NOTHING to do in game as you watch the planet grow closer for over an hour, outside of slightly deaccelerating once in a while. The journey takes over an hour. You can not even play a video or something in game to pass the time because that was not added (think of VotV). Great. Two, all the planets in game are static in position. There are no day/night cycles, no orbits, nothing, you just fly in a straight line to planets in multi real life hour journeys. Three, roll is mapped to the X axis of the control stick and yaw is mapped to the twist... come on.

I’m really enjoying it. It takes time to optimize stuff but its so satisfying when you figure it out

What I like, in a nutshell: it's complicated, but not too complicated. Every signal travels through a particular wire. Every electrical path needs an actual cable. Cables and circuits have finite ampacity, and push too much current through them, they fail. Wiring has to be routed through and attached to structural components, because electrical wire is famously not load-bearing. RCS thrusters, on the other hand, don't need plumbed propellant lines or power cables. They just kind of magically work. This is the right call. The result is precision where it makes for interesting decisions, and a shrug where precision would just be annoying. The result is a building system that makes you think like an engineer without making it feel like an unpaid internship (looking at you, Stationeers). And everything you build feels tangible, because there's an actual physical system behind it, not a GUI button wired to an invisible variable. What it lacks: The glass is the worst offender. It is inexcusable. Every glass structural piece is full of metal framing and highly reflective, so you can't get a clean view of outer space unless you stick your head out of an airlock. That is not considered best practice for space travel. There are no symmetry tools. Every repeated component gets placed one at a time. Four thrusters, four placements. Want the other side of the ship to match? Build it again by hand, and discover that the first side wasn't quite as symmetrical as you thought. In a genre where symmetrical spacecraft are the default, it's a glaring omission. And the distances are appropriately vast, but fast-forward tops out at 3x, making me yearn for Kerbal Space Program's time warp. A trip to a nearby planet took me a real-life hour of watching a number tick down, which is certainly one way to communicate scale. At one point I was calculating how long I could safely spend in the kitchen. That's not a great sign. So: a good engineering game at its core, and one that gets the "what to simulate vs. abstract" call right. The developer also seems passionate and very active: fast-forward itself was added four days ago, and two new sensors arrived today. If this is a solo project, that's an excellent sign. As it stands today, though, it's fun - just hard to recommend without caveats.

My "friends" keep debating on whether to add a door under my seat whilst forcing me to crank a manual generator named "The Hog". 10/10

Its great fun when building a ship, but I wish there was more to do for players not piloting the ship during travel. Once you get a good ship that can be operated by a single person, the other three of us just sit in the back alt-tabbed doing something else. Glad to see plenty of QOL updates though that are solving many of my early gripes with building.

Incredibly good game. I don't know why so few people are playing it. For the cost of a McDonald's you really can't fault it.