Starminer

Incredible. This gives the 'Eve Offline' experience better than any other game I've played. But wait. Direct control over all your ships. Manually piloting. You design all of your ships and stations and there is no single 'correct' solution. I'm 16 hours in and I've been glued to my screen. If you don't enjoy 6DOF style movement and managing inertia this might not be for you. Ships are lumbering, awkward. The controls take some serious getting used to (THINK KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM, not a flight sim). But for that cost you get the benefit of being able to move your ship any way you want. I've pulled off some very satisfying moves. Including successfully docking with a run-away craft rocketing at like 600 meters per second while spinning around its axis. Real sweaty moments. All of that said, save often. Not only are there some bugs but there are also some mecahnics that are just unintuitive and you'll find you set up to do something... designed and built the ships... moved them into place. Brought the tools and resources you need. Only to find out the mechanic doesn't work the way you expected it would. Just... keep multiple save files and save often to avoid headaches. It's Early Access and it shows. But man. I've never played a game that feels this good and offers this level of creative control over shipbuilding. And I'm the kind of guy easily bored with customization / design elements in games. This gives you meaningful choices that change the way you play. Right now I'm working on breaking apart all of my larger ships and making a fleet of smaller single-purpose craft. I have a harbor master, a science vessel, a gunship, a hauler. I have them saved as blueprints and when I need to scale up I simply drop another down. I'm loving it.

Pretty cool, Spend this time in sandbox, researched all, killed mothership. Not worth the price despite beautifull graphics, It is very shallow but maybe this will change as it is not finished yet, or it will be abandoned. Few bugs, most could be fixed with reload. So far negative untill all bugs are polished and there is some more depth in it

The tutorial does not do a very good job explaining the game. 2 hours and still stuck in the tutorial. Game runs great and looks amazing, but has to be one of the worst tutorials I have ever seen. And I love space games, but this one is a hard pass. Maybe if they provide aspirin as a dlc, Ill reconsider

this is the type of game you go for when you are tired of same 3 titles from the last decade.. "early access" and "unfinished" are generously posted. it takes some brain power, critical thinking, and patience. on the same hand, it's gritty, unrefined and has an appeal that every other comic style mindless arcade game lost when gaming became "too hard" for the modern player. does it need a better tutorial? immediately. the controls should be better explained even though you can clearly and easily find the layouts. yes its rough around the edges and a little clunky with blueprinted ships but again i point to early access and unfinished. all of the basics, the slow burn, the general ambience and feel, the foundation is there and it has huge potential.

This game had everything I was looking for. I wanted a space mining game, and EVE wasn't doing it for me. Most of the other options felt incomplete. After reading about this game and watching videos, I was genuinely excited while it was downloading. Unfortunately, that excitement disappeared almost immediately after I loaded in and started playing. The ship controls are absolutely horrendous. Movement feels slow, clunky, and unresponsive, almost as if the game is intentionally handicapping the player for some reason. If the controls are ever improved, I'd gladly purchase the game again. As it stands right now, though, the experience is awful.

Don't waste your time on this, it crashes constantly and I couldn't even get through the tutorial because the physics of the game kept breaking. The tutorial station just wiggled and exploded before I can even try to dock to it. Every time I tried to load after that crashed the game even after repairing. Go play another space game or wait for Falling Frontiers because this one needs a LOT more time to cook.

Worst simulation of newtonian physics in a game ever.