Mars First Logistics

Enjoyable game. Frustrating due to my lack of creativity. Always more than one way build things. Plays great on Deck.

This game wasn't for me, maybe it will be for you, but I didn't get a good understanding of what the game was from the page, so I'll do my best to summarize briefly. It's a sandbox builder where you have to deliver things between two places usually tediously with a vehicle made from pieces I wasn't very familiar with. The tutorial wasn't in depth enough, and by the third delivery I realized most of my time was spent trial and error to see if the vehicle can even move. The mechanics work, the shel shaded graphics look cool, but the core gameplay I found tedious at best.

This game is the exact halfway point between Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and Death Stranding. Very satisfying to build machines. Some of the music is excellent but some of it is ass. The cel-shaded block colors make the machinery very easy to read, but also makes the terrain much more difficult to read. An option for topography lines would be so, so appreciated. Overall, this game kicks ass. Fires those same neurons as when you're digging through a bin of LEGO. Shape Shop ships ship-shape games!

I really love this game, Haven't progressed beyond constructing monorail yet, only because I like to drive around, put some towers at obscure heights nd do anything but the main mission progression. Transport creator is cool, controls feel great and responcive, the music is awesome - all of that lets me overlook and eventually forget every minor annoyances I have encountered. (Mostly due to my own stubborness to finish a delivery in a hard way, heh.) Saw a comment that granting new blueprints robs a player from exploring solutions to deliveries - I disagree, they are here to showcase intersting uses for new parts. Don't be discouraged, there are more than enough tricky deliveries that will push you to explore and iterate over your own designs - or put it all for later. There are no real time limit on missions (except this one time I had to deliver an ice cube, that was cool, many sich tiny gimmicks out there), the one that exists is for ones you haven't picked up yet, like a list of possibilitoies that shift and change ater a wile. When you pick one up eventually, it will stay on your list of active missions until you deliver or cancel manually. Go on, drive around, make a difference, and enjoy the feeling of accomplishment!

Lot of good in the game but also lot frustrating and plain bad. Construction menu is missing so many features like mirror build, not deleting the whole part of an arborescence of block if not connected anymore to core, visual tools to have more precision, camera is utter shi t, both in construction menu AND during the few last missions where the camera decide it's a good time to fuc k around and center the mission target. Speaking of the last missions, they are horrible. Not fun, not challenging, not interesting. Just plain tedious and frustrating for nothing...

They tinkered the physics really well, driving is smooth and when I mess up it never feels unfair. Kinda feels like a merging of KSP and Death Stranding somehow?! Also there is a little bit more content than I expected. Only small issue is I wish there was more handcrafted terrain. It mostly feels procedurally generated.

Compliments to the devs for making the game run smooth, even with just some onboard graphics on linux! Had fun, some jobs were probably not finished as intended, but a win is a win. Did watch some other people play as well, might have helped me on my own playthrough. Building is easy enough, ran into the max build size a couple of times though.