Spacebase DF-9

I'm surprised this game is even for sale still. Shouldn't be legal.

It sure was thoughtful of Double Fine to unearth a prototype of an abandoned MS-DOS game and make it easily accessible for the public! There's a skeleton of a decent idea here and seems to run okay but I'm glad Bullfrog made Theme Hospital instead! ...what do you mean this was made in 2014? This is still being sold for 10 dollars in the year 2026? [i]There's a public apology by the Double Fine CEO posted on the Steam discussion board?! [b]Oh nooooooooooo....[/b][/i]

If you’re here on a historical tour of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of mismanagement, I would highly recommend the game “Space Haven”, which is feature-complete, well-executed, and supported by developers who care more about their customers than their own ego. It’s what this game could’ve been. I think my experience with this game was like many. Encouraged by some excellent Early Access titles at the time, when Spacebase DF-9 hit early access, I naively assumed that I was buying something that would be worked on for years. Double Fine had published an exciting development plan. However, just a few months later, development was abruptly stopped, and the still very minimal, bug-riddled game was released as 1.0, with future plans quietly and unceremoniously removed. In the fallout, Double Fine made statements claiming that they broke no promises and they simply weren’t making enough money on the game - which, honestly, never reached a state where it was functional enough to be worth buying. My Steam Early Access purchase, like everybody who bought the game, was seen by Double Fine as a donation. Note, at the time of abandonment, if I remember correctly, Steam Refunds were not a thing. If players were able to claim steam refunds, I doubt they would’ve even said anything. It’s really a shame, as this was a game that had a ton of potential, and instead, it was simply the game that made me forever mistrustful of early access. Even a decade down the line, after formally abandoning the game and releasing code to the community, who fixed the game for free, Double Fine still has the audacity to claim DF-9 as a complete project that they have no shame charging for. Double Fine has recently become an independent studio again. I have serious doubts that they will survive, given Tim Schafer’s now mile-long streak of financial negligence. He and the studio paint their players not as customers, but as charitable supporters patronizing their passion projects until they get bored and move onto a new one. They truly just don’t care as long as they get to make “their next game”.

Not finished and abandoned by the developer. I expected way better from Double Fine back in the day. Steam should stop selling this game or put an abandoned, or some other warning on the store.

Game has been abandoned.

Abandonware full of bugs and very little content. Avoid.

no it's not abandoned they're just giving it a couple decades, trust