Out of Orbit

bruh, nobody is expecting you to be AAA. The bugs are so bad, it's wiped 3 save files from bugs exclusively in 1.5 hours. If you play test your game AT ALL, you should see them immediately. I feel lied to by the youtube videos i saw lol. They must have re-recorded several times to cut out all this glitchy mess or it's become wildly unstable since. I wanted to like it, and i might keep trying to advance past the bugs, but i am very on the fence for refunding it, because even on sale, def don't feel it was worth the price

It has a special niche but I just can not see past the design decisions made to make the UI have a long travel time between buttons, annoying single-click and multiple tabs when there's much smoother implementations avaliable. Shifting control scheme when walking or driving were phased out during the very first GTA release, back and forth between menu's to click buttons far down and shifty, combat with jerky controls and movement speeds that shift greatly just makes the entire experience rather unfun for someone who expects people to have learnt at least the basics from prior games released. This product has 90's issues and need a complete overhaul in it's UIX to help it reach a broader audience. I did not encounter any real bugs, I tried playing longer but the longest I could stay in the game without feeling I was wasting my time were a couple of minutes at a time so I just can not see how this will get enjoyable without A LOT more work, like 2033 maybe for a solo dev.

Out of orbit is a game with a lot of potential. I’ve played about 20 hours and I still think it’s too early for me to review. This game just gives you so much do and fun little things to achieve and ways to play that it can be played in its current state for 100 hours plus. This game is a huge puddle of content that can turn into a lake content over time. There is no end to what the dev can do over time and that’s rare for games. The dev is solo so it’ll take time to really get content added but he is communicative and appreciating of new ideas and bug fixes that can help the game. I would 100% pay even more for this game if it cost more and look forward to the content it drops in the future past 1.0 and would gladly pay for DLC to support this dev if the dlc is made right. 7.5/10 would recommend and it would be 10 but it’s early and there is QOL and other things that can be added to just inhance the game. So if you’re hesitating I’d say do it. Even if you get 30-40 hours out of it it’ll be a blast I promise and I trust the dev will continue to love and support this game.

Hidden gem with an active dev

Rough around the edges - but there's something here worth rooting for I'm having genuine fun with this game, and that matters. The core loop is not bad. The tutorial does something I really appreciate: it throws you straight into the real game while still guiding you through the basics - a great way to onboard new players. That said, it's Early Access in the truest sense of the term, and there's real work to be done. The save system needs serious attention. Saving mid-session (save & exit, then load) resets a surprising amount of state - for example, a ship you've already infiltrated will act like you were never there. The developer seems to be aiming for intentional save restrictions (checkpoint-only, at the ship's computer), which is a valid design choice - but right now it creates more frustration than tension. On top of that, there's no autosave. Lose power, hit a game crash, forget to manually save after two hours? That's on you, apparently. The UI has bugs. Quest text is sometimes flat-out wrong, which can leave you confused about what you're actually supposed to do. Quality-of-life needs a pass. Small things add up. Dragging an item onto an occupied inventory slot doesn't swap them - you have to manually clear the slot first, then place the new item. Not a dealbreaker on its own, but there are several of these paper cuts, and together they make the game feel clunkier than it should. None of this is unfixable - in fact, most of it sounds like a solid patch or two away from being significantly better. I'd watch this one closely. The foundation is good. Now it needs the polish to match. Recommended with reservations - check back in a few updates.

For a game that is about designing and building your own space ships, not being able to move furniture/crafting stations after placing them... is a big no from me. Can't even load a save after misplacing something, because ironman is the only way to play it. Game also lacks polish when it comes to UI/UX, like for example there is a way to quickly tansfer a stack between inventory and storage (uses non standard ALT instead of CTRL), but not from crafting station to inventory. Splitting stacks is just 1 item at a time and really odd, because you need to hold the stack with LMB, then you press RMB and it will drop 1 item from the stack at the inventory grid slot you are hovering. Similar thing with applying bandages - you hold them with LMB, drag over to the body part and while still holding with LMB, you press RMB... who comes up with those ideas? Crafting stations have different way of crafting, one you just select what you want and press "craft", another one requires you to drop ingredients into a slot and guess what will come out once you start crafting. Hotbar for items has bad UX too, because when you place there some consumable, then pressing this key will equip said consumable and only use it when you press RMB (or maybe LMB). Bruh, just use it when I press a key? There are more issues with UI/UX of this game, but I just don't feel like explaining more, nor did I see everything that is wrong with it, I'm sure of that. It is as if developer of this game has very little experience with modern UI/UX.

Bad interface and user experience: * Switching building type requires 3 clicks as pressing ESC drops multiple menus up * Demolishing does not return resources, found only way is to slowly destroy it with laser * No stack splinting, or its unclear how to activate it * Shortcuts for item movement do not work in crafting stations * buggy targeting, sometimes laser points at cursor, sometimes its offset * 'Press E to exit pod' in front of screen obscuring view

To the Dev...Are you planning to adapt an xbox controller support? I liked the game but without that o can't play