Planet Killer

Exceptionally poorly balanced. Sometimes there are missiles you cannot move fast enough to dodge and kill you in one hit on the first planet for example, sometimes everything hits like a fly and you just hold LMB for the first 20 planets. Everything's super random and meta progression barely exists so you just feel like you're watching a slideshow of exploding planets more than playing a game half the time. With that said there are some good ideas, but the execution is lacking and it's like the numbers weren't thought through and are largely arbitrary. Edit: Played a little more and it just gets worse. Half the ships are useless, the ones without shields especially so. How are you supposed to get anywhere with a ship without shields like the Juggernaut SIE-2? Slow as a brick, point defence that doesn't do anything to missiles or otherwise. Game just feels like it was printed without actually looking at anything in it.

I really want to recommend this but theres just too many things that are ruining the experience. Ive been tring to force myself to like it, but I just don't want to play this anymore at this point. The new update that makes everything cost more is just the cherry on top really. The run I just did I got 1 shot with a lazer at planet 21 and still was using one of my starter weapons, why does everything need to cost more? Big Deal Breakers: 1. Dying to a 1 shot lazer every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ match. literally last 3 runs is just get lazered, and literally couldn't move out of the way if I wanted to. How could anyone have play tested this and not seen how game breaking an insta kill weapon that a planet might have 20 of that you cant dodge could be? 2.You can't use any ship larger than a fighter and expect to get past planet 10. You literally have to go all in on movement with big ships, or just die because there is no feasable way to tank damage past planet 10. but it doesnt even matter because a lazer is just gonna kill you anyways. I was so excited for larger ships, but its just a joke trying to use any of them. 3.You start so close to the planet. Why do I have weapons with 1600km range when I spawn shooting my missile with 80km range and its hitting? Start of every round is just holding W and A to get as far from the planet as possible because your so close their literally shooting rotary cannons at you. 4.The maps are too small. You get to the edge of the map and your still so close that some weapons aren't even at 1/2 range. Although then occasionally you get missions with enemy ships thats on a much bigger map and actually works a lot better with the provided weapons. Only problem is they never use the larger maps for the planets. Like, the maps are there already larger, why are we limited to 500km from the planet? 5.Last one ill touch is RNG. I went 30 planet runs and never saw certain upgrades. Things like shield regen would never show up once in some runs. Rng can be used really well to give a broad array of upgrades/weapons a more compact feel, especially when most things are just another missile with slightly more damage and maybe a cool effect. When I cant get any shield upgrades on my ship thats based around shield/beam stuff, its just not fun anymore. Heres hoping the Dev fixes some of this. I really like this game for all its faults.

The game has lot of potential. It starts fun. It is fun. But after couple of hours (even more at this point) I start to feel that the progression in game is broken. Higher costs doesn't always mean good things. You get new weapons that "supposed" to deal more damage, only to realise that a weapon that you swapped before dealing 5 to 10k now does a mere 1k. Usually the more you go deep in a run, the more you should get stronger (since enemies get stronger and FAST). You have a plethora of ships to unlock. Which on paper, it's amazing! Plenty of different styles and settings. BUT, in reality... it doesn't give much back... There are huge ships (which would make you think "hey... that's badass.. It's going slap!") No it's not gonna. You're a giant hitbox, with the slowest movement you can ever get. That's where the fun start falling out. There's a "Circuit" option which unlocks permanent stats increase every 2 ships unlock. And it's randomised. I unlocked 5 perks and 3 of them were the same. BUT! You can spend the planet cores to re-roll them! Sounds nice!... Right?... Well... No. Every re-roll increases the total cost of planet core... So imagine later in the game (let's say 100 hours in) you have to re-roll some perks... They would cost a giga-amount of planet cores (which btw are PAINFULLY slow to grind)... So in my opinion... This game need SERIOUS FIXES... and FAST.

Intresting Idea if this would be an EA release... this review would stop here with a positive note.. However! My Experience: Slow Burn for a rogue-lite.. so slow it was boring for me First 10 - 12 Missions were over under a Minute No Brain Cell needed at all Plays like a proof-of-concept-alpha-prototype Because: UI Suxx in reading "WTF-is-going-on" Unbalanced Pure-Luck Gameplay... No skill needed No Defence Move.. not even a BURST / Dash to avoid enemy fire. No CWIS No Keybinding No Thrusters ON toggle option No Mouse Sensitivity Options No twin-stick Controls for Gamepad So, in short: It needs a lot more time in the oven... this is half baked... As EA acceptable,,, As Full Relese 5/10

This game is trash. you can't survive for more then 30 min in a run because the games idoiotic scalying forcing you into situation where the game just insta kills you. eg tractor beam, getting one shot by beems and rail guns all while massivly scaling the defficulty so each planet have 20x the guns then the previous one.

Plenty of fun, lots of content. Kinda slow compared to many other roguelites, but its enjoyable every now and again. I think it'd be really great with controller support so I can better enjoy it on my Steam Deck.

Game of the year every year. I think my friend bullied the dev into releasing early and is planning to take him the Balkans. Reduce AI target leading capability and I will not release classified ship documents, this is a threat.