I like tinyBuild generally but this is a really embarrassing disaster. Game is utterly broken and shouldn't even be in early access in it's current state. You can't play through the early game for even an hour without bug after bug. My first time through everyone died because there was a cold snap and somehow being indoors with a roaring fire didn't stop anyone from freezing to death. Massive pathing and framerate issues too. I didn't even get far enough to experience the horrendously broken save system everyone's complaining about.
I will gladly come back and readjust this review if this is ever fixed because I long for a decent space sim. It seems to be a cursed genre however, as there are soooo many that are broken, abandoned or just suck, going all the way back to Spacebase DF-9. Still waiting on Signs of Life, Maia and many others that have been in development hell for years and years. Why is this one genre so impossible?
And bigger question: Why was this rushed into release in this condition? It's a small game, and there's no way they didn't know it was a mess. Nobody would have been devastated by a delay. Why rush it out, burn all your goodwill and piss everyone off? I really don't get it.

Reviewed on Jun 19, 2023


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