In short - This game has so much to offer in it's current state - get it now and support these guys so they can work on making this even more brilliant that it already is!

The exploration, mining, automation, optimising your factory, new power sources.. The progression and the unlocks with each level are so well designed, introducing you to new mechanics at just about the perfect pace. And the main premise of the game - pumping all your acquired resources into building starships of increased size and complexity with additional requirements is amazing!

I do love Factorio but just to compare the goal and motivation of the original game, I can tell you sending away like a 100 military fighters or a bunch of some heavy cruisers, the ones that you just constructed, fueled up and armed and then seeing seeing them jump to hyperspace beats the hell out of seeing a rocket go zoom out of the top of the screen ;]

On the downside.. Will you experience performance issues when you grow your factory to a monster? Sure.. But this is being actively worked on and by the time you have this problem, it probably won't bother you that much... The logistics system might seem odd at first and needs a little bit of getting used to but once you set it up properly with filters and understand the limitations of outgoing flow, it works great!

Complexity wise, I'd say it's like Factorio light so it might not be everyone's cup of tea but it sure does make up for that with style. The game mechanics are just fun to experience and the game looks pretty damn impressive. The environments, the factory pieces and all the starship design is beautiful, you can see the pieces you delivered on the military ships and it's just makes me so happy when they fly away :D From the cloud miners that you get very early on to the more advanced current endgame pieces - you can see the attention to detail every step of the way. The overall design and feel of the game just makes the game play extra satisfying. I'm sure this comes at a price in terms of performance but I am hopeful it will get better over time.

This game just scratches all the right itches for me! Space exploration, mining, factory building, starship construction, a little bit of combat.. with the seamless jumps between different zones from anywhere it just never gets stale as you progress through the levels (such a good idea to make the teleport so easily available). And if that wasn't enough you can do it all in co-op with a friend - I couldn't have asked for more!

To top it all up, the developers seem to take extra care of their baby. They reply to comments and posts. Day 1 patch already addressed an issue that bothered several people like 4h after release and the patch that followed a few days later was like they were reading our minds of the things that needed a little TLC..

The game is hours upon hours of great fun as it is and I think it will only get better with time. The current road map not only looks pretty great not only content wise but also priority wise, I can't wait to get more of this!

Thank you so much for this gem of a game! Amazing work!

I am a massive fan of factory games. Starting in Factorio, then Satisfactory, DSP, Crust, and Anno various.

I really like this take on the game. Its a little more arcade/tower defence then pure factory. This keeps the game play varied. I like to set up the factory for the required station stage goal and while its building the ships I go and visit the crashed ships to get the tech points. The Logistics of ships are good, but you have to keep an eye on the throughput of the modules as this is where the bottlenecks form. I like the linking system. Its a fresh take on "belts".

Combat was good and the enemy scales well as you get the hang of the game. The different locations change it up each time you get a new map. Slightly different setups required for each area.

I am only up to station level 8 and I am impressed so far.

I have 3000+ hrs on factorio and at the time of this review, already on station level 9. Really loving this game so far. My suggestions are:

1. Show power consumption/usage indicator for the current station (maybe above player's health bar?)

2. During linking (F), let player choose the route the items will go (probably press shift and click to add waypoints?).

3. Performance: When I build everything on one spot; smelters, fabs, printers etc, my FPS drops significantly. I avoided this by smelting and printing mats on the ore veins. This seems like a poor design since players are forced to build a certain way due to performance issues.

4. Research: Going back and forth 50 times fetching artefacts and bringing the mats etc becomes tedious and boring. I have no clear suggestion for this but please improve on this. Maybe let us open station inventory from afar?

5. Also the research grouping isn't making any sense. Battery capacity is locked behind connector speed?

Overall a very solid start. Can't wait for updates from the devs!