Hydroneer

really cool but i wish there would be an npc that rebuilds your plot, lets say i blew a plot up but now i want to use it and i just go to that guy give him the money it cost for the plot and he rebuilds it like it was a new one

hey its josh welcome back to lets game it out.

bought the game a few years ago, played for 10 minutes and put it down, recently picked it back up since I got interested again and wondered if the devs fixed the game feel. They didn't. "Hydroneer is a finished product". Now, I will probably change the review to positive once I put more hours into the game and things start to get "automated", but for how everything is so poorly executed so far, I can't recommend this. I see the appeal and the vision of the "no inventory", and I respect that, but just because it's a design vision doesn't mean it can be an excuse for poor game polish. Tutorial hasn't been changed for (I think) 3 years, things are still a text wall, cart moving is clunky, and on the topic of clunkiness, the player character. Character needs more friction, I enter a hold that I dug but cannot get out and just keeps slipping, and this happens on normal terrain too, the "unstuck" button just sends me to the underworld and I have to walk all the way back to early game area. There's often no feedback from when something happens and you NEED to know, things like whether things are in the buckets or not (which the game claims can be used for storage purposes, but guess what, it breaks whenever the bucket is in a cart), when something needs to be rooted instead of just dropped to be used (spent 5 minutes in the TUTORIAL wondering why my anvil doesn't work, turns out I needed to place it, call me dumb I guess but the tutorial should've told me). All of the points above make me not want to play the game even though the gameplay itself is super fun, having 0 QoL, intentional cripples that may or may not be relieved through gameplay (making a "lock/unlock building" purchasable item instead of just changing the keybind to something more intuitive), and just general lack of polish.

So ein schlechtes bausistem habe ich noch niehmalz gespilt

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my brother plays this and he likes it

Dirt

Let me be very clear: I like the GAMEPLAY of this game; the part where I work to get money and then start to make my manual grindset become automated and I get to watch my creation go to work. I recommend hydroneer for that. HOWEVER. This game is a tedious running simulator. You have to pick up everything one by one. Every tool, every item, every building piece. Everything. I enjoy setting up my workplaces. I hate how they have to be set up. One by one. Building a new mine/ refinery line? Here's the step by step process of how to do it :D 1. Go to shop. 2. Move cart to position. 3. Spend 10 minutes, one by one, picking up a bunch of pipes and conveyors (this is excluding buying specific items like sorters, smelters, etc. 4. Buy them and bring them back. 5. Spend another 15 minutes offloading them and trying to poorly organize them. 6. Spend another 45 minutes running each individual piece, one at a time, back and forth, until I've completed the assembly line I had in mind. That's the SIMPLIFIED way of putting it, and I'm being really generous on how much time that actually takes to do; that's not even mentioning the fact that in order to get the miners, you have to bring resources to the forge in Icehelm, forge new miners one by one, and then transport them back and place them one by one. Final words: This is a great game that loses a LOT of points because for some reason, an inventory system, or in the very least the ability to hold more than ONE PIPE (or any building item) at a time is too much.