ignore the negative review about multiplayer issue.

yes they are having a rough launch where the game can't be start & played online.
but unlike other game where the dev is responsible for it, this time it's not their fault.

The problem is within the Steam API servers, which is outside their control. so it is kinda unfortunate that this happen on the same day as their launch date. it's unfair for the game being reviewed negatively because of this.

The game itself is fun, enjoyable both in public & private match with your friend.
The dev is active and i'm hoping for more content in the future.

I won't clean my house but I will play this.

Interior decorating in this game is limited; sofas, beds and sinks go right in the doorway and block your path. Alien sludge will become a constant pest if you allow them to fester, clean them out quick!

Put a battery in every room to win, which is... Fair, I guess? Why not make the win condition clearing out all of the aliens and alien sludge? It is still beneficial to put a battery in every room in order to prevent the doors from shutting automatically.

Out of Space quickly became one of my all time favorite 'couch coop' game. Goal of the game is simple: You (and your friends) arrive to a messy abandoned home in the middle of space. You will have to clean it all up, that includes sweeping messy floors, splashing dirty furniture with water and powering up every room. Sounds easy, doesn't it? Well this messy place is actually a great home for alien bugs, and they will not let you take control without a fight.

In order to successfully clean up your new home, you will have to work together with your teammates. Clean up rooms one at a time, find or buy furniture, batteries and tools that will help you with this job. No weapons. Sweep alien bugs with your Mops or splash them with water. Recycle them to earn extra money that you can invest in a new furniture. When every room is powered up, you win the game!

While most bugs will only be running around trying to spread some dangerous alien dirt, they may evolve into more dangerous bugs if you let them. And alien bugs won't be your only concern. Make sure you don't end up hungry, you may have to invest in more pumpkin gardens or other food sources. You will also need regular sleep, so make sure to bring a bed as well. When things start getting out of hand, enhance your house with cleaning robots or adopt a dog that will help you fight bugs.

While the game offers great fun for couch parties (even with only 2 players), it is also great game to play through Remote Play Together with your friends. While the game is possible to play solo, i recommend to explore this game with friend for better experience.

Game doesn't actually offer that much replayability at this time. Unlike other games in similar category, it does not offer regular campaign, it offers randomized house design with every match. Matches usually don't take long, they may take 10-30 minutes once you know what you're doing. Replayability offers 3 ship sizes, which increases difficulty by forcing players to monitor more rooms in greater distances and increasing length of a match. Completing achievements either unlocks a new furniture or skins for existing ones. Unlockable weekly challenge offers modifiers that change every week and make game even more challenging for experienced players. In current state of the game there is not much new things to discover once you finish two or three matches. After that you can still go for achievement challenges ('finish a match without using a shower' or so) or you can keep returning to this game once a week for weekly challenge.

POSITIVES:
+ Great idea for couch coop game
+ Addictive and smooth gameplay
+ Randomly generated map in every game
+ Weekly Challenge with modifiers

NEGATIVES:
- Not much content (yet - i hope), but for the current price its a fair deal!
- Missing some Quality Of Life improvements
- Slow updates

8/10, for the current price it's worth it. Even with little content it's fun to replay just to improve our best time or for weekly challenge :)

WISHLIST:
- Quality of Life improvements like posibility to remove inactive player that was accidentally spawned in a game, general improvements of controllers / keyboards player combinations, as it is a bit buggy now.
- Would be great to see some better progression system, like adding some new mechanics that are eventually introduced through a short campaign-style missions with ascending difficulty. I'd love to see special room types, like rooms with damaged walls that have to be sealed before they can be powered or doors that only open if adjacent rooms are powered, floor type on which you cannot put any furniture or maybe even some crazier stuff like alien ship randomly appearing and dropping a bug to clean rooms.
- Actual difficulty level options for matches, not just room size. Harder difficulty could be increasing speed of eggs hatching, speed of bugs, smaller room sizes to make furniture placement trickier, more 'connecting' rooms that don't have power sources and so on.

Hey everyone! I got a little sad after reading recent reviews in which people criticize this game claiming that it has little content. I want to clarify a few details so that some of you guys considering whether to buy this game or not would give it one more chance. Briefly saying, the game is about cleaning the ship from aliens and powering it up. I loved this game and after a while, it became kind of a meditation for me. Or maybe I'm just a girl, and the broom is my favorite tool on this ship.

First of all, I failed the tutorial the first time. That's not like I am an idiot or whatever. To tell the long story short: I disposed of the battery, cleared the dirt, bought a battery, and disposed of it again. Eventually had no money for a new one. Misclicked, whatever. Twice, whatever. Simply saying: you may figure out that it's not easy to use the standard buttons that the game initially suggests. I learned to use J-K-L for pick-use-drop and life got much easier. Moreover, sometimes it is difficult to pick things if there are many of them near you. That's unpleasant, but not much of a problem when you get used to it.

There are three sizes of a ship. I played the game with 2-4 players and the game's difficulty mostly reflected how well we could understand each other. Sometimes we failed due to the human factor. Most of the time actually. Sometimes we all got into cocoons after such mistakes, and sometimes we learned what we did wrong and fixed everything.

You have a shared shop and money with all the party members, therefore, you have to manage the budget together. The cool thing is that you may find all kinds of equipment on the ship, but you can't buy an unusual item in your shop if you don't have a particular achievement. For example, you get the lamp in your shop only after you clear a medium or large ship without killing. These achievements not only expand your shop but also challenge you. And that is fun as it adds new mechanics to the gameplay. Thanks for the dog btw.

The game uses procedure generation for levels, therefore you have an infinite number of them. I don't really know how to explain why it fascinates me this much, but be sure that every ship is unique.

After a while, we managed to find a way to clean large ships with only two people on the crew. Eventually, we do it without casualties and problems. Takes about 40 minutes to clear it when you know what you're doing. And when you know, it becomes extremely calming to clean all the mess on these ships.

As for the late game content, when you don't question yourself each time whether you clear the ship or aliens win, you have "Weekly challenges" and "Random challenges." The randomize button is the coolest thing as we now click it until we find an interesting challenge for us.

Overall, loved the game. Especially some small details or references.

P.S. Hey, do not underestimate the power of spray! Cheap and cool. Like this game.

It feels...unfinished. It's a great concept though. The couch co-op meets strategy is like Overcooked without having to race a clock, and makes you put more thought into the actions you're taking. Unfortunately, the replayability is extremely low. Once you've played through 3 or 2 rounds, you've seen everything the game has to offer: all two types of enemies and just about every piece of equipment. It doesn't get any more exciting after that. It does allow you to unlock skins or the ability to purchase different equipment by meeting certain criteria, but you have a chance of finding any piece of equipment anyway.

Fun for a party, maybe, but far too shallow for even a medium replay life.

My wife and I have been having a blast playing the couch co-op.
The overall game play is a blast and managing the spaceship is challenging but fun.

While keeping in mind this is early access, we have noticed the following, and have a few suggestions,

- It would be helpful to have sleep and hunger status displayed continuously on screen. (like a heath bar)
- A variety of enemy types would add an interesting challenge. (Perhaps an armored enemy that requires a special tool to defeat it? It could move slowly but add lots of goo to the spaceship until you get the proper tool to combat it)
- A difficulty slider could be a good addition as well. Right now, the game feels like it's at at 'normal' difficulty, but having a harder mode could be fun as well.

We've noticed a few bugs too;
- A pumpkin garden placed on a rug wasn't showing the pumpkins growing, but they were still there
- At times when trying to rest, the game will pop you off the bed or couch
- The vents continue to generate goo when the game is paused.

Thanks for the great game and keep up the good work!

My wife and I love these quirky little co-op multiplayer games. The game is great fun for a few play sessions.
However, the novelty is wearing off quickly, as there seems to be no main aim or purpose in completing the levels. If there was some form of campaign or story mode, it would improve the longevity of this title.
The layout of each ship seems to be randomly generated each time, which is a nice touch, but it can also make some levels really easy and some ridiculously hard as you get overwhelmed with aliens.
Saving in-game money for items gets laborious and running back and forth for water can get tedious.
But if you're looking for a cute co-op game to play with friends, this will fit the bill.....but wait until it's on sale.

This game is one of the best cooperative games I've seen. It has pretty unique concept and can be quite challenging. I highly recommend playing with two or three other players as cooperation and coordination is very important in this game. You must work together to clean rooms and destroy alien bugs and as you proceed you will unlock new alien mutations, increasing the game difficulty. It really is addictive!

It's a fun co-op game where each ship is a level and you clear the level by cleaning each of the rooms, but it can get a bit repetitive and frustrating fast.
However, I think the description is very misleading. The description makes it seem like a online sims in space, and it's nothing like that at all. Yes you can position your gadgets in a room, but once the level is cleared in a few minutes, you start over in another level. There's nothing about actually "living together" or decorating, when the entire objective is to kill the alien infestation as fast as possible before it advances further and takes over rooms you already cleared. And once you clean every room, the level is complete.
I do recommend it for small and fun co-op nights, but either change the description a bit or add another game mode that just lets you chill in a space ship with your mates and expand it and occasionally deal with aliens.

Pretty decent little game. Decent if you play with friends at least. The single player doesn't have enough extra to it. It's mostly just unlocks so the game is definitely more multiplayer oriented. There's a lot of little things that could be improved on though. Overall I look at the baseline price of the game and think I will have to recommend against. It's 15 bucks as of now (for US) and I don't agree with that price.

Why? The game advertises itself as 'strategy co-op', but I don't think there is much strategy involved. It's more a case of scrambling to stun all the bugs and grind em up after opening a door. So while there is a small measure of it in deciding who carries the broom and who carries the buckets, that's really it. Building the rooms is not real strategy, it's much closer to following a formula.

Regardless of what the rooms look like, you figure out what generates income and feeds your needs very quickly. And you just kinda push for that stuff until you have it. Then you just steadily go from room to room without much strategy at all, stun the bugs, grind them up.

Considering the name of the game, it's way too heavily focused on the bug element. I was under the impression looking at the previews and videos that there was more strategy involved in building and room placement. The game's name is 'out of space' and while that's certainly a play on words for space and having no space available, it never feels like you're 'out of space' with all the rooms. It never feels like you need to think about what's going on, just more of 'hey, here's the blueprint for success, replicate it each time, then you win'.

And having a blueprint for success is a recipe for failure in a strategy game. Especially one that seems to want to be fast paced for some reason.

I think the game should have more need for strategy. Like building a radar at some point to scan rooms and then looking at the rooms you have and building the other rooms up to deal with those future rooms. But that's not how it is. You build the same rooms every time because you have food and sleep needed and you know exactly how to meet those needs so you just build the same thing.

Sorry if I am repeating myself here, but that's how the game feels. Repeating yourself.


If the game was like five bucks, I'd totally give it a recommend, but it's 15. I'd be happy to change my review if the game was lowered in price or had better complexity to it. As of now though, it's just not worth 15 bucks. Even if I did get it at a discount. That's irrelevant. This review is for the reader.