Stardust Origins

Too buggy. Tried to love it as a fan of these types of games starting with Escape Velocity, but it's just way too buggy of a game for this price point. 1. The UI needs serious work. Your mouse-clicks can click through multiple layers of stacked UI windows causing you to click on things you aren't focused on. Also, if you play with mouse-enabled shooting, you can accidentally shoot in protected space when clicking around in UI menus 2. The mission select component needs some serious work. It's too hard to tell if it's a local mission, or where exactly the mission is. There's no sorting, or rhyme or reason to the sort order of the "Messages" window. It makes taking missions a serious chore. Also, misclicking inside that window will click down through lower levels of UI windows and open other missions adding to the confusion. 3. Game breaking bugs. One of the starting missions requires you to talk to someone in order to start out your story. You can actually talk to him as many times as you want, and take the quest over and over leading to you having multiples of the same quests in the log. The second part of that quest is to deliver some items to some person, but there are now multiple people to take items to for the first mission. You pick up the items on a planet, but because there weren't enough to fulfill all of the quests, it breaks your progress by not letting you get the new "Eperpe" drive that you need to advance the story. Also in this game breaking bug section: After noticing I couldn't get the drive, I just made a new game, but this time the items never spawned on the target planet. I spent an hour looping around the planet looking for them but they never spawned. Just way too jank, and too buggy for this price point. Good stuff: 1. There is a loan system which is great. Waiting to find that really good early loan that doesn't need to be repaid for 7 years is really nice! 2. There is a stock market system which is something I haven't seen in a game like this in a really long time. I really hope some of this stuff gets fixed, because I really do want to play this game. It's just not worth the headache for me at the moment.