Il gioco in se è ottimo ma i contenuti scarseggiano e mi sembra tutto fin troppo fermo . In principio recensì positivamente questo titolo , ma ora decido di mettervi in guardia , i contenuti sono veramente troppo pochi da troppo tempo , i cambiamenti introdotti dalle varie patch sono marginali e non aggiungono mai la ciccia . Peccato che steam non consenta sfumature ,dovrebbero aggiungere un ''forse'' tra le scelte . Se la situazione muterà la recensione verrà certamente modificata.

over a year later and we only have 1 map and 1 plane that you can use with out tweeking the game files, this game was so promising and sadly nothing has really come out of it.
as of writing this there adding a mod loader instead of the content promised thats in all the descriptions for this game
i spend money on this and i feel scammed

Games been out for almost a year and we still only have 1 map and the AV8B to fly???

Played the demo back in the day and decided to pick it up only to find out the dev removed the mouse aim controls

I'll be honest, I'm kinda let down by this game. I've been looking forward to this game for ages and it fell flat. I was not expecting the game to end up being yet another sim lite air game and instead hoping it would resemble something more like WarThunder's mouse aim sim lite. The early demo used to be exactly that, and it was VERY fun, but for some reason, there was a change in direction at some point along the road. I understand that the developer said that the final product would not be the same, but the final product is not as fun as what I experienced years ago with that first demo.

This is not even mentioning the other issues that plague the game, such as:

1. No button to hold for free look (which was in the barebones demo years ago)
2. No mouse aim controls (again, present in the original game and much easier than the mouse joystick we have now)
3. The mouse joystick controls we do have will make you constantly keep moving your mouse to keep pulling up or down, as it does not lock the mouse position to emulate a true mouse joystick. This is the worst of both worlds. You don't have mouse-aim, but you also have to keep picking the mouse up again and again to move it back to the center of the mousepad in long turns.
4. Neither my Xbox One nor my PS4 controller will register with the game (the calibration detects the controller and the movement of joysticks, but will not recognize anything outside of the menu)
5. Severe downgrade in vehicles.
6. There's only a HUD in first person, which makes the issue of no easy free look option on keyboard all the more frustrating.
7. Target selection system gone, again, similar to how it was in the early demo. This makes tracking targets without freelook very, very annoying.

That being said, I can definitely see a decently fun sim for people who have a joystick. But again, you NEED a joystick to enjoy this to any capacity. The mouse is very clunky, and everything else I've tried does not work. If you came here expecting something to finally save you from the infuriating ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that is WarThunder like the early demo of Tiny Combat Arena so gloriously teased, you will not find it here. I'm not saying the game is not fun, I'm sure it's very fun for those looking for this particular type of game. I'm saying that combined with my disappointment with the final product in comparison to how promising and unbelievably fun even the advanced air physics demo was those years ago, there are also some other major problems with the game that might make it unplayable for certain people. And despite my disappointment with the gameplay of the final product, I still wanted to at least try it. Unfortunately, I'm one of those people that the game is unplayable for.

I'd love to change this review in the future but as it stands this is a tech demo where you ll see everything within 60 minutes.

The art style is great, the foundation for the flight model and AI are solid...
But after years, the gameplay is unchanged, there's little pulling you in to play.

Its tragic, long before the game was released Why485's made other maps and vehicles, but they still haven't been released. Now that's not necessarily the problem, content for content's sake isn't going to make me want to play. But if you only have 1 map/vehicle, you *really* want them to be solid. I don't think we've hit that yet. Particularly I think we need a more interesting map. It's Cold War themed, but it doesn't feel like it, because we're trapped on a tiny island during an era defined by grander scale.

I really want this review to be positive, there is so much potential here, but it feels like Why485 burnt out getting the game to release. As a Unity developer myself, I know that all too well. At this point, I just hope he chases whatever inspires him to add things. I suspect maybe he's too worried to add "unfinished" content, judging by what his YouTube channel has shown exists but not in the release.

Lots of cool stuff present but it really doesn't feel like a game. It's sort of a simulator without any structure to it; you just play very barebones preset scenarios and it's p boring after like 15 mins. No workshop support, either.

Wait. If you played the original Day 30 alpha that came out a few years ago this feels like a downgrade from that. Less planes, worse controls, smaller map...not sure where the dev is going with this, but wait for more content to be released before considering. I really wanted to like this as I was huge fan of this style of lite-sims in the 90s but this aint it folks. Not yet.

A game that can be fully appreciated and enjoyed within 2 hours (so the refund limit). Hence it's perfect to impress Steam's regular "reviewers". Sadly if you want a game to play, you will feel scammed.

Having played the Day 30 Demo, this IS a downgrade. I suspect the dev encountered some serious issues with the foundations of said demo and had to develop everything from the ground up again.

While I would not inherently blame an indie dev for this, how an actual publisher gave the go-ahead to release this (even into early access) is a mystery to me. It was a mistake to release this now instead of 3-6 months from now. However, as so often happens with indie devs, I suspect financial pressure on the dev's side and pressure from the publisher to release and release fast led to this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a release. Please, Why485, do not let this become another Vector Thrust. While you might have dodged the technical woes that had, for now. Do not let this burn out in the same way.

I will not refund this since I know how charming and wonderful the demos were and think this dev deserves support. But to you, the reader: Do not buy this if you want a game, this might change as development goes on, but right now its a game to try, refund, buy again once it's better at best, and something to ignore until the dev releases their next game at worst.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS, I do recommend supporting devs that create charming experiences, however. So it's a no for now, not forever.

Edit August 2024: Progress has been very slow, dont't buy it. At this pace in about 2028-2030 this review will become positive. Nuclear Option exists now, so this isn't reallly the only game in town for casual military sim that isn't grinding hell pvp war thunder anymore. I'm saddened by the way things went with this game's development honestly.
December 2024 update: So the "big updates" in the pipeline turned out to be a 3d model, a recolored asset with different code and minor graphical improvements to make this near abstract game where i cant tell where the ground is half the time look more realistic. What are we doing at this point?