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The creativity one can have in this game and ability to replay is so high. A fun game.

Stationeers is a very immersive game; whether it be hunkered down in your base during a storm or feeling the isolation of your base surrounded by inhabitable atmosphere. Building an area to protect yourself, your items, plants, and chickens from the environment is an exciting part of the game.

However, there are some concerns I have about the pacing of the game and overall progress flow. Starting off, the game gives you some equipment and base building supplies but no clear tutorial or training on what to build and in what order the player should progress (though I must admit there have been improvements).

There are many items and objects to mess around with but it can be confusing to know how to properly use them. For example, the Air Conditioner built from the Atmospherics kits is tedious to use and understand how it works, even after spending a few hours in sandbox trying to get it to work.

Pipe and Gas networks don't behave intuitively, while being realistic, and there are many factors that are acting that players might not realize are affecting the operations of what they are working on.

Mining takes forever and is not very rewarding, there is no easy way to automate this early on as well, nothing really can be automated early on very well.

Lastly, the multiplayer can be a bit buggy, where players will be frozen in place while still being able to perform tasks and their models not disappearing even after hitting the button to delete all disconnected players.

My recommendations for this game to improve would be to help the player understand how their progression should work. This could be down in a similar method as Minecraft modpacks by adding a progression flow chart, showing important milestones.
Trainings or scenarios where the player starts in an already made base but has to complete certain tasks would be great as well. This would also provide the Developers are opportunity to show how equipment or objects are used, such as the Air Conditioner, while also showing the possibilities of what the players can make. (admittedly, I know they have disabled trainings due to new content, but my point still stands).

I can recommend the game to new players and will admit it is fun to learn how to survive and build new things in Stationeers, but it can be tedious to learn how to complete certain milestones, such as hydroponics, in an efficient or clear manner.

Great game, tho i wish there was a bigger variety of planets because now endgame is mostly about cooling

It is like Kerbal space program but about space base survival. It is like Minecraft with industry mod but in its own game.

A lot of complex systems that keeps a good balance of fun vs realism, and keeps me engaged and enables to express creativity. Playing this game feels like early modded Minecraft when I was just a teen.

I loved the unique two hand system to manipulate the world, it really adds to the feel of building complex systems, having all my tools and kits unpacked from my belt and backpack in spaces around the project I work on.

I also love that the game uses the game world to interact with systems where feasible instead to resorting to UIs everywhere. Like turning the valves to set the pressure value, or storing items in shelves or lockers in the world instead of a generic UI element.

Being unable to drink or eat while the EVA helmet is closed is just a chefs kiss and wonderful first introduction to the spirit of the game <3

So you know how in "The Martian", Mark Watney was stranded on mars and had to basically "Science the ... out of this", then subsequently nearly killed himself 300 times due to miscalculations? That's pretty much what this game is.

If you're the type of person that read that book and, during the scenes where he calculates air pressure, water volume, ways to hack his rover, and you thought to yourself... This sounds kinda cool... Wonder how I'd do it... This game is for you.

Though word of warning. It is very "technical". This ain't minecraft. In fact, it's a step above any survival/automation game you have ever probably played, due to the steep complexity curve that is landing on a foreign planet and surviving.

Also a note: I've seen negative comments about the way you constantly need to swap tools in and out of your hands. I actually like the fresh take on it. It almost feels like you're reaching into your toolbox and swapping tools while you build something, it lends to the "feel".

Bottom line, if you are technically inclined, like engineering problems (and solving them), if you've programmed an arduino for fun, or played games like Oxygen not Included and wished you were one of the duplicants, well... look no further, this game will scratch that itch!

Great game, steep learning curve but worth it! 276 Hours in and I'm still a noob.

I almost never take the time to write Steam reviews, but this game...

I took a break for a few years, but recently I started playing again, and now I’m hooked.

I cannot express enough respect for this development team. This game has been in development for many years now. They haven't abandoned it, they haven't slowed down, and the quality of development is, in my opinion, top-notch.

I can only say, try it out, and if you like it, buy their DLC to support the development.

Big kudos to the RocketWerkz Team!

Real fun. Nothing like it. Support the devs by buying the DLC's. worth 100%.

Sort of like Hard Core Minecraft in space.