SpaceCraft

This is not an exploration adventure. This is a hardcore space industry game. And it is addictive. Reminds me heavily of Galaxy on Fire 2 in terms of how important the industry and finding the recipes is. Slow in form of it requiring patience and good planning. You can do a lot of things by hand, but your time is probably more valuable in using it on something else than just sitting in one spot and waiting for something to pump out numbers. Automation is absolute trash and I love it :D It is so hilariously slow but I understand why. You are not supposed to get high yields from starter fab sites and you are supposed to spread very gradually, while leaving the most obnoxious works to automation. Constrained in a good way that forces you to think. No annoying life forms on planets annoying you at every step. Go to NMS for that. Interaction with other players even in online mode is not really necessary. You can trade with other players for most of the things you can find on the trading station. You can play as a solo company or as a join venture between multiple players that each contribute to a single company and share the profits. When playing with other players, you will progress things faster, but solo experience is much more fun in my opinion. Playing with others mean doing a role, while playing solo means doing whatever seems logical for you at any time you want to do it. Competition for the resources is usually not too bothersome. Worst case scenario is that someone cleaned the cool marker spot resources near your main base, and you need to spend an extra 3 minutes going to another system where there are these special resource sites there. The only thing you will rage when someone else finds it before you are the CRASH SITES, They are the actual loot boxes with upgrade chips and CRITICALLY IMPORTANT BLUEPRINTS and actively hunting for them is pretty much a boss battle in this game xD You literally need to gear specifically for searching for them, use online map (not ingame, trust me), be methodical in exploration while knowing where you were and what is your detection range and be protected enough and fast when looting on hazardous planets. The end game in the early access is maxing out base numbers (because you can have only one in the beginning and 2 for a longer part of the game :D), having production chains and stocks for everything you may need, making the biggest ship the game allows and finding the rarest recipes. Closest comparison to this game is No Man's Sky, given the way the space travel works, but I prefer this inventory style, base building, gemeplay focus, ship design, upgrading and general artstyle. NMS turned into cartoony mess overabundant with everything, where scarcity is rare and there is barely any constraints that you can't easily overcome with a quick grind. In NMS, I have no reason to do anything any more as nothing really drives me to explore or grind, even when shiny new updates come out. All in all, an incredibly good game in what it is and is not pretending that it isn't - Industrial production game. Game requires an incredible investment of time and manual grinding will speed it up, but this is a game where you should set things up to do stuff for you and not be slave of manual pumping. Do note that my experience might be quadrant based, as you can select these and may end up in more or less dynamic competition environments. So come to Obsarus, so that we can rip you off for tier 3 mining lasers and med solar panels, because you gonna need them before you can make them :D:D:D