Space Architect

Got this because I do love my space games, automation and management is my jam, plus it seemed to have prison architect DNA in it but no unfortunately. It's probably slightly on the lower side of half of what I was hoping for, and most of it is due to the tedious nature of building and automating stuff. The big issue for me was the piping. You can connect different fabricators to storage and there's an in and an output but it ships everything from one to the other, so if you mine ice, minerals and ore it sends it through everything. Not too much of an issue because you could first ship them to dedicated storages but then I need to ship from those storages to the things that use them. It becomes a tedious mess especially when you want to start crossing pipes because the pip bridges don't work, you build a "bridge" and then when you connect a pipe it makes a cross section and it cross contaminates the stuff again, oh and pipes can't go across outer space unless it's on a truss.... annoying..... ultimately it was this frustration that got me to stop, but it's not where it started. Every piece ot equipment you put down looks "dirty", I want a nice looking station. I noticed quite a few people making box like stations well I would like to make walls, make certain rooms for certain things, manage heat and cooling especially early game. Unlocking the tech tree is not real easy, and once you need sodium it was really hard to work out how to get a steady supply, there was nothing in the knowledge base. Speaking of, the knowledge base (codex) of the game seemed half done and not real helpful. I could persevere and I might one day but for now I've had to walk away. The voices of pilots and the ai were quippy and funny for a little bit but got old really fast while I stumbled to get a foothold. I'm trying to find redeeming qualities but it's hard. When you go into a management or factory style game you don't want organisation and progression to be a real stop-gap. Sure don't make it easy, but there were just too many bizzar hurdles in it's current for for me to enjoy.

[h2]Об игре:[/h2] Это отличная игра в жанре крафта и автоматизации. Ваша задача – строить корабль и добывать ресурсы с пролетающих мимо планет. Игра может похвастаться отличной оптимизацией и приятной, хоть и стилизованной под пиксель-арт, графикой, которая выглядит весьма достойно. Сюжета, к сожалению, нет, а жаль. Спустя более 20 часов игры я обнаружил, что она незавершенная, а некоторые механики не работают. Именно поэтому моя оценка отрицательная. [h2]Обновления и развитие:[/h2] Как уже упоминалось, игра находится в незавершенном состоянии. Хотя разработчики периодически выпускают обновления, на момент написания отзыва (04.04.2026) за последние четыре месяца новых патчей не было. Если проект будет доведен до конца и получит полноценный сюжет, это будет замечательно. Добавление истории помогло бы прояснить происхождение персонажей и их цели. [h2]Стоимость:[/h2] Я приобрел игру за 87 рублей и, в целом, получил от нее удовольствие за эту цену. Однако, зная о ее незавершенности, я бы воздержался от покупки. [h2]Рекомендация к покупке:[/h2] Пока игра не будет доведена до ума и не станет полноценным продуктом, я категорически не советую ее приобретать.

I understand that for the price range it's not supposed to expect much, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. No Multi-select, can't copy/paste building settings, and copy building button does not copy buildings settings, so every single configuration you want to make, you need to make repetitively to each and every building, want to change the production settings from a Factory? Congratulations, welcome to multiple clicks through every single building doing the exact same thing over and over and over. Can't rotate buildings, Intake/Outtake of every single building can't be changed, building will stay in that position and you can't adapt it to make more sense do the layout of your base. Can't prioritize specific building for crewmembers, there is a setting for overall priority, but that setting almost never works, I had crewmates die of hunger late in the game when there were tons of water to produce food, but they would simply not feed the food production buildings. Does not follow limits set in some buildings like drone factory, it keeps producing parts regardless of how you set crafting limits on the building. Pipes often don't work, and to make it worse by several orders of magnitude, you need to MANUALLY ENABLE BOTH INTAKE AND OUTAKE FROM PIPES ON EACH AND EVERY BUILDING, it's not enough to connect them to a pipeline, you need to go individually on every building and click it, twice, once for intake, another for outtake, to connect that building to the pipeline network. Water tanks outside station, why? no idea Waste tanks outside station, why? no idea Crewmates complain about lack of toilets when there are toilets available. Crewmates complain about lack of water and food when there are stations supplied with water and food And, the worse, by far, and I mean, BY FAR, the cringe humor. Every time a ship docks, the game makes cringe, stupid, repetitive jokes, one ship every 4 minutes, 15 jokes an hour, and over half of them are repeated jokes, so you aren't just subject to cringe stupid once, you are subject to cringe stupid over and over and over. Maybe if these issues are fixed I'd recommend it, but dear Lord, it's bad, so, so bad. Edit: I tried again for another playthrough, the experience was even worse. First, the pipe is not a pipe. It's the same thing as a conveyor belt in Factorio, it transports ANYTHING from any building to any other building, not just liquid stuff, would be great IF THAT WAS MENTIONED ANYWHERE IN THE GAME, it is not. But considering the entire logistic pipe system is awful, it's borderline nightmarish to set the thing up because like I mentioned previously, you can't rotate buildings, nothing of real value was lost. The worst part however was a loop bug where, for some God forsaken reason, the crewmates started going to the auto-sell station for fuel, manually pick fuel, and send it back to the fuel storage, which then would send it to the auto-sell station, and the entire staff of the station started doing this, on loop, to the point everything else in the station stopped working. Do not buy this game, the plethora of headaches are not worth it

It took me a few hours to get use to the game UI and how pipes are meant to work. I have beaten the game multiple times doing 100% runs. My first completely run took 12hours currently because I am trying to beat the game within 100days (best at time of review is 152 days) which seems doable and only takes at most 6 hours and as little as 4hours. I really like the game and how things get done but certain things annoy me and likely do the same to other people because some things just aren't explained well enough. The biggest thing I dislike is how storage works if all your storage is full AI does nothing and items stuck in other machines can't be used for anything until they can be put into storage which means you have have everything you need to build something but because they can't put it into storage your stuck. I have lost people just becuase of that. Priorities in task can be a little weird at times because AI seems to stack X amount of tasks so changing priorities doesn't stop them from doing their current tasks which can brick AI in place at times with only a reload fixing it. If you have pipes going over inputs leads to all items in the pipe being dropped off which leads to lots of lag which most people likely experience not knowing it is because the AI adds it to the tasks list which updates very often. I do like a lot about the game as it is like Factorio and Rimworld together, combining some of the better aspects well taking your management of things into account. I do like how the pirates work in the game so you can never fully focus on just making money and certain trades seem to trigger them instantly so later in the game you never really know what to expect until you have stuff setup to beat them. I will also add my gaming gpu is a 3060ti but I do have a 4090 in my system for AI but Steam just uses the best GPU installed when giving specs.

There isn't much to the late game yet, but for a couple of dollars it's not bad.

The game is good/OK. The beginning has some fun mechanics that are somewhat addictive and give you that sense of grinding that is sometimes fun for a short period of time before you automate things but honestly I thought the game was a pre-release and it definitely could use some more polish. I've put about 5 hours into the game, and I don't think I'll put more than another 5 hours. It is fun, lightweight as in any computer can probably run it, and has good mechanics, but not something I can see myself playing for very long.

so the game isn't horrible. however the tech tree needs a ton of work. often you will find you purchased something and can't build it till you purchase something else on another tree. the pipe work is pretty decent. however the ability to change the outputs and input location would be nice. spaghetti is a common outcome of the way the inputs and outputs are located. I'm not sure about the combat. i had pirates invade but it doesn't look like damage is actually there yet. at least i couldn't see them doing anything besides be annoying and popping up -1 hp texts all over but nothing looked broken and nothing got destroyed.

Fertigungsketten sind sehr kurz und unkomplex, man kann einfach die den oberen Forschungsbaum voll machen und ordentlich Geld machen. Nach so 2-3 Stunden hat man alles gesehen und ab nem gewissen Punkt ist Geld auch total egal, weil man alles kaufen kann. Wird schnell langweilig und uninteressant.

AI ignores task priority. Lost the game because everyone died. I literally only left two task available and that was making water and making food. They didn't even have to transport the water I had pipes. When I reloaded an old save, it won't let me click anything in the game. I know my mouse works because I can still a pause the game and zoom in and out. I mean if you're AI ignores orders in this kind of game its over for fun. I wish I had found this bug when it was still able to return the game.