Hardspace: Shipbreaker

gameplay is quite fun, though it's quite repetetive towards the end, with not much increases in difficulty or new mechanics, the game is also quite long to complete and it does feel like it's dragging towards mid to late game, the story doesn't feel like it was fully thought through, it feels like they wanted to do more but didn't end up committing to it, the characters themselves are fine but it feels the story just isn't complete. One major complaint within the story I have is the final story mission, there's a section where for the sake of immersion the game disables your movement, stopping you from playing the game, this happens constantly, not just once which works for immersion the one time it happens, but it gets old fast because it happens every five or so seconds. I would say the game is maybe worth it if it's on a big sale, the gameplay was fun and kept me going for a while but at a certain point the game's lack of meaningful progression and obvious padding got old and I kept wondering when the game would move on to the next act or introduce a more interesting mechanic, which never happened, which is never a good sign. 35 euros is not really worth it, 20 euros is more reasonable on sale but if you're looking for a more meaningful experience and not something to play for like 2 days and never again, I'd skip this one.

Story sucked.

This is actually a great game. But the reason for the negative review is it appears the original devs sold the game to another company, and there has been nothing since then in the way of new content or gameplay. With the price remaining sort of high, I would only recommend this if it goes on sale, or if the new owners of the game actually plan on putting out new content/gameplay.

Imagine someone makes you your favorite food, you're excited for it, you get to eating, you take a few bites...and you can taste something off and in fact you start to feel a little sick by doing so. That's about my experience with the game. On the surface, it has a lot of interesting quirks that would make me recommend the game, especially for the loop and what it can give you for hours of time taking things apart as the game shows you. A lot of the positive reviews of this game will touch on it and, for what little you do have to work with ship-wise, you can get a lot of interesting things to 'work' on in the rotation and kill some time by doing so. However, the points of tedium start to show pretty early in the gameplay, where you can literally get to the point where you blow yourself up with one wrong move. Couple that with taking a lot of time, managing resources, and all of the above can put yourself in a frustrating situation really quick. What probably makes it the worst is the story, basically working for Space Amazon. Just about every negative review will touch on it or explain why the game isn't fun with some reference to it and I wholly agree with them. I get the angle they were going for but I'd rather not play a game to feel terrible. The overarching story, at least in the hours I put into it, are bleak, and that's being nice about it. I'm not much of a fan of reading and reacting to something like that when I'm trying to unwind. Put all of the above together and there's not really much reason for me to continue with something like that. If you can get past that, there's probably a game in it for you but it's not for me. Get it on sale, if you must, but keep your expectations in check if you want to give it a go. I think it would've done much better with a focus on more things to do, no story and more of an arcade-y feel than whatever this ended up being.

Good game hamstrung by hamfisted story and cringe dialoge

The play loop is very monotonous. The NPC chatter is annoying and the storyline is weak. No way to skip past the NPC chatter. Looks cool but after doing a few ships, it got old fast. At least the attempt at humor in this game was not as bad as Breathedge.

The game is really great. And has a super cool gameplay loop. It's something you can play, while watching some YouTube if you want. Or you can really get into it, and start maximizing your profit on every ship. Truly, it's really fun. The base story and atmosphere are great too. The game has a very reasonable premise, but isn't over explained. They nailed the setting perfectly. Unfortunately, after I hit rank 13, there were two things back to back. I got the rank "Journey Person." That's not what it is. It's Journeyman. Constantly trying to pull gender politics into everything bothers me. I just want to play fun games. It isn't fun to be constantly boiled in current politics. I'm an electrician. In the trades, the term is Journeyman. Don't change language to suit you. Use common language. Act with unity. Then immediately after, one of the female side characters talks about a girl she used to be into. Referenced them kissing, and alluded to potentially more. In separate instances, I don't mind. People can live their lives. And live them how they choose to. But I fear they will only lean more and more into bringing these topics up. I don't want game developers to put this stuff in games . Anyone who plays games, plays them to escape from the real world. I want fantasy and wonder. Not constant grounding to the nature of the real world. If the developers want to code this stuff in, that's fine. It's their choice. But it's just as much a choice of my own not to play their games. I hate doing this, I don't want this stuff to be topical. I can conform to standards, but there is no standard right now. Only competing ideologies. As such, in the midst of a culture war, it is the responsibility of everyone to quit being apathetic. Have an opinion, then let your voice be heard; Thus, may the strongest of wills persevere.

For the love of all that's good add a way to skip dialogue.