Space Engineers

Once you download the addon that removes all of the DLC icons, you realize how little this game actually comes with. The game constantly reminds you of all the DLC content via advertisments on the main menu, pause screen, outposts and stations and landing pods that are primarily blocks that look as though they should belong in the base game but dont. Great game, fun to play with friends, but the DLC advertising is turning me off playing rather than enticing me to purchase them, or the Dev's future projects.

This game is convoluted beyond belief, A to B, no try half the alphabet first before you even get A haha. It recommends trying QuickStart, first off dropped into the middle of no where. Ok used to this mechanic, lets look for minerals cant find iron, the biggest roadblock for a few hours just to locate and several restarts due to the the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ survival pack blowing up after being tickled. Placed a few wind turbines put resources into them and come back to find they had disappeared completely. Start to get going after a 7.5 hours put in today and achieved ♥♥♥♥ all, what a waste of time. Absolute waste of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

Does not have a new player friendly tutorial. The tutorial explains very little as to how to operate the controls and interfaces.

This game is incredibly rough to get into, and it disrespects the players time at every step of the way. Just booting into the game, you get a whole laundry list of DLCs and a bare bones menu that points you to a 'quick start' option. Pressing that jumps you into a game with a tutorial text box explaining the basic controls. That tutorial text box bugged out multiple times while I was playing, showing a brief tutorial before changing to a blank text box before I completed that section of the tutorial. I basically wandered around lost for hours before I gave up and tried to look help online. The SE subreddit pointed to a youtube tutorial for beginners, and while that one was helpful, it's a horrible look when the gamedevs can't be arsed to guide new players properly before releasing 19! DLCs. Even pushing past this, the game UX is awful. Searching for items from a conveyor system is terrible and requires the player to constantly either scroll up and down for a randomly ordered list of containers, or take their hands off the mouse for the search bar. The build planner for pulling resources out of storage is limited to 8 items, so when I want to build something its a slog to build it all out, then go back to the beginning and build the first 8 items and so on. Trying to figure out why an item inventory shows up in my grid but I can't interact with it is a pain in the ass and is infuriating. I'm sure there are 'better' ways to interact with the game that I'm missing as a new player, but when there are this many roadblocks to the start of this game, its just not worth continuing to learn.

Game has one of the worst UIs I've ever used. Rebinding keys doesn't work (tab key for inventory for example - and no mouse thumb buttons), ZERO notification when you are unlocking components - and the screen showing your progression has basically zero difference between the locked and unlocked icon - apparently they are supposed to be slightly greyed out, but if you don't know what the look like in the first place... ??? You can't use items from your inventory or move items to your hot bar - in fact it actually disappears when you are in your inventory for... reasons? That and zero in game tutorials or even tooltips is just absurd. Unless you want to watch like hours of videos to learn this game, don't bother picking it up...

The game is great, but a lot of the blocks/features are locked behind a paywall which is annoying when you are trying to make complex builds

New player experience has gotten worse.