Is this like Barotrauma ?

[23]

but in space

[Galdreyice]

No, and also Barotrauma takes place in space. this is a space sim where you're breaking apart ships to build your own while tackling the current quest in the game. Barotrauma you take a crew to go to a place to do a certain thing tied to a singular quest.

[Aluron]

The only mechanics this game has in common with Barotrauma are repair, crew management, crises, and looting abandoned derelicts

[23]

Originally posted by Galdreyice:

No, and also Barotrauma takes place in space. this is a space sim where you're breaking apart ships to build your own while tackling the current quest in the game. Barotrauma you take a crew to go to a place to do a certain thing tied to a singular quest.

No Barotrauma is not in space...It's in a water planet. This game though is actually in space

[DECAFBAD]

I've played both, and honestly, I can't even tell them apart.

[23]

Originally posted by DECAFBAD:

I've played both, and honestly, I can't even tell them apart.

That's what i was thinking. People saying it's not like it but it is. Not that it's a bad thing, i love Barotrauma

[Kulze]

The game has the immersion feeling of Barotrauma, kinda stylized.

As for gameplay feel it's more leaning towards Rimworld though, if you're playing with a single person there.

[Luckspeare]

Yeah, first answers to the post are a little bizarrely overspecific -- might as well answer, IS THERE A SUBMARINE IN OSTRANAUTS? I THINK NOT. APPLES AND ORANGES!

They are both quasi-physics-based 2D (one overhead, one side-view) strategy-survival-simulations of ship maintenance, modification, and piloting in a fundamentally-hostile environment (oceans of another planet versus actual outer space). Both have a high-degree of granularity and simulationism to them. Both involve exploring and scavenging derelict craft inbetween visits to stations in a dark, semi-dystopian future where what remains of mankind, or at least local mankind, lives in these stations. Both have RPG elements in player and crew.

Yeah, these games are in the same vein in a lot of respects.

(Also, in regard to the description of Barotrauma, this is patently incorrect: "Barotrauma you take a crew to go to a place to do a certain thing tied to a singular quest." It's not a one-session game unless the social situation dictates such. It's a campaign game with an entire arc of play and developments, with each "going to a place" being a trip between stations where you run into and explore various phenomena.)

[Astral]

Originally posted by Galdreyice:

No, and also Barotrauma takes place in space. this is a space sim where you're breaking apart ships to build your own while tackling the current quest in the game. Barotrauma you take a crew to go to a place to do a certain thing tied to a singular quest.

If being in a water planet is considered space I don't see why any game that takes place on Earth wouldn't be considered to be taking in space either making the definition of takes place in space meaningless.

[☭Rosa]

I just wanna say, that Barotrauma takes place in Europa, a jovian moon.
i know it's a silly distinction but it matters to me.

[Implied Facepalm Deadmeat]

Originally posted by DECAFBAD:

I've played both, and honestly, I can't even tell them apart.

wut

[Astral]

Originally posted by Implied Facepalm Deadmeat:

Originally posted by DECAFBAD:

I've played both, and honestly, I can't even tell them apart.

wut

Yeah, this says more about him than the game.

One is a topdown 2D point and click survival space sim with ship management.

The other is a 2D sidescroller with ship management.

Only thing they have in common is they are 2D and you need to manage the state of your ship.