TLDR: Game feels slow constantly, concept dies fast, menus are slow, clunky, and unpolished, building system is absolutely horrible and extremly tedious even with basic buildings (no easy way to calculate ratios), combat is fun and the adventure is great but is dampened by the inventory feeling slow and clunky.
This game is an awesome concept but is unpolished in the way that everything has a small annoyance in it that adds up, you literally cannot get away from small unnecessary delays due to bad UI designs.
I dont reccomend this game.
StarRupture has a very cool concept, the idea of being on a planet whose sun explodes and resets the planet is super cool, but it gets old very fast.
I found the purpose of the game was badly done not because of the concept but because of the unpolished nature of the inventory system and building system. Everything you do feels clunky, slow, and unpolished.
Coming from someone who adores factory games I just cannot get into this game. The adventure aspects are cool, I enjoy the gunplay and fighting but the delivery, crafting, building, and inventory system just sucks. The build menu is easy but everything feels slow, having no hotbar to easily switch between builds is horrible and leads to you taking a significantly longer amount of time to place down different buildings. (ive heard theres a mod for this but it not being in the base game sucks)
Going with that, once you are placing things down I find im taking a significant amount of time trying to get stuff to line up properly, buildings love to place one block above platforms or snap to the ground one block below all your platforms. Once you place a building on a platform it also deletes all the platforms below it so when you delete the building you have to replace the platforms again, that small annoyance adds up.
If you misplace a building or realize its not lined up after you have to take a good 10-15 seconds to fully deconstruct ONE building (pulling out tool, waiting for the game to finish the animation, then starting the 4 second deconstruction timer) coming from satisfactory and factorio where if you misplace something you can easily delete it within a second this is a horrible design and very very annoying.
Platforms! Satisfactory has foundations that are easy to use, huge, and more specifically arent affected by gravity.
Here we have platforms that are strong enough to survive a suns explosion but have the same building distance as scaffolds in minecraft. I think the gravity system is a bit stupid and leads to a lot of annoyance. I'm used to building a large platform slightly above the ground so I'm not affected by the terrain and I can build neatly, the gravity systems completely destroys this aspect. Maybe thats intentional? Dev's may want you to build in relation to the ground which, sure, cool, but this becomes more of an annoyance when you're trying to build a factory and realize your perfectly level base needs 6 more platforms at a slightly different level than everything else because of a rock thats sticking up, or the ground slightly raises and you didnt realize.
God knows im not deleting everything because it took me 20 minutes to build the factory to produce the equivalant of an iron rod (satisfactory) / iron plate (factorio). Thats not even mentioning the fact that it would take probably 5 minutes to destroy a base of 50 buildings including platforms just because of how slow deleting stuff is and having to deal with your inventory being full with junk after.
Rails, the new conveyor belts. They arent as smart as you'd think. I expected to be able to connect everything together and it would send exactly what each machine needed per minute down the line. But it doesnt do that.
Instead it sends the maxmium amount to fill the machine completely, clog the line and lead to inventory clutter when you finish a delivery mission and have to empty out all 15 of your delivery cannons.
I also dislike how theres no easy way to see ratios between machine, you have to manually see how long the recipe takes, see what it needs, and what it produces to get a number per minute / second which is another pain in the behind and an annoying waste of time. I love doing calculations and figuring that stuff out like in satisfactory / factorio because they do the monotonous tasks (like the VERY basic per minute/sec calculations) for you.
The inventory system: Horrible. I dont like it at all, again it just feels slow, clunky, and unpolished. Its very easy to have junk fill your inventory and basic items such as ore have a very low stack amount for how much youll end up having in your inventory. Doubleclicking on items to pop them into your inventory or a building works but theres like a delay of a half second after clicking that just leads to subtle time wastes and gets annoying over time. This is like that with every item.
Research system: You use delivery cannons to launch resources to different companys who then provide you with new buildings or items if you reach their goal. This sucks, I think its a cool concept but its heavily dampened by building being extremely annoying and the delivery cannons being stupidly slow. (theres an item that allows you to get upgraded buildings later on but I'm almost 3 hours in and still probably 45 minutes away from getting it. MAJOR pain, you should be able to unlock that earlier, at least faster rails.)
Adventure: gunplay is fun, I like the fighting aspects, but god you're slow. When sprinting you move at the speed of a motorized wheelchair while using enough energy for small town. I really dislike that feature, if sprinting was a bit faster that would be awesome, the energy use isnt really an issue, more of an annoyance since it seems like you're not going anywhere then you run out of energy.
I get I'm ragging on the game and comparing it which you obviously shouldnt do, its really its own thing. But I HAVE to compare it to others in the field because of how little quality of life features there are. I do not feel like I could sink 500 hours into this game, if I did put 500 hours into it 80 hours would be from switching between buildings in the menu, 30 hours would be spent dealing with my inventory, and I'd easily waste more than 100 hours just deconstructing things. (which is fine, the point of a factory game is to delete things and rebuild it better, but god its a huge pain to delete stuff and takes way longer than it should)
Performance: I like to say I have a good pc, it doesnt often struggle with things but I wasnt getting a lot of FPS in this, it requires a lot of resources which also adds more small delays to everything you do and again, makes everything feel way more slow and clunky. This could be a system issue so I wont hold it against the game, but it is very heavy in terms of pc requirements.
All in all its a very cool concept that they executed well, but the clunky unpolished nature of everything tends to make things stretch out way longer than necessary and that wasted time just leads to a lot of annoyance.
Maybe I didnt give it enough time to unlock all the quality of life stuff, but I feel like I gave more than enough learning the systems and trying out the basic systems and I absolutely loathe the idea of making a factory that requires more than one part to create something because I know its going to be an absolute pain due to the clunkiness of the building.
Building should be fun, not tedious and annoying. I really dont reccomend this game.
