Theory is neat, but the game really isnt too much fun.

Building ships is all it has going for it, but the ships lack any depth-- no switching more power to engines, etc.

Basically, you click on a ship, another ship clicks on you, and you shoot eachother till someone dies. You can drift at certain angles while you mindlessly shoot, then you do it again.

There is no story, immersive characters, or really anything that interesting to do. I'd really listen to some of the negative reviews.

Good idea, needs like an entire overhaul to be actually good.

TLDR: yes for ship building, no for actual game

For game that was in development since 2011 there is really no depth or breadth of game mechanics
There is somewhat impressive ship builder with, again, lack of real progression except going bigger and bigger and bigger (limited by your cpu)
Career can be fun when puzzling how to beat bases, but difficulty spikes are wild in the beginning.
Fame certainly pushes you to take on enemies when you are in no way ready to fight them, as they have insane and nasty combos of weapons, shields/disruptors and intricate defense patterns. Even on same tier there might be insanely pathetic enemies and enemies who can kick your ass and chew ship-load of bubblegum
Economy in game is clearly work in progress, but there is no way to be pure trader/supplier as of yet, and trying to be supplier (aka refining materials and selling them for more price) is very expensive
Also first load of game is weirdly long, why is it even required?

It is a good game if you're the type that likes building your ship.

But I ain't that type unfortunately. There wasn't really much else to do beyond killing other ships, doing missions and making your ships bigger. I just ain't the type to get bigger and bigger if there's not driving force to do so, excepting getting further into other systems maybe.

As usual I will never know who created this beauty. Dont tell me it is 16 years old genius... its even better.

Nah. Its another pentagon project to keep small group of people brainless.

It takes lots of effort to make teenagers effortless and completely stupid, am i right?

I met her once. Please dont tell me SHE used me. Those black eyes... Yea, She used me. I want more. ;)
NOT from her.

YOU died. Why you make everybody else zombies?

PS. Government lies. NOT because they are wrong, bad, stupid gangsters that wanna use you all the way outside out. They just never knew the truth. THE TRUTH! Its not that aliens are real. It not that. One sentence: Very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very few will know. But we who know still need to preach to those poor beings who were created before us...

good game need better engine

This game so good it got me cosmoteering up

Excellent game so far, even in Early Access. I almost didn't give this a try because the graphics made me think of a game that is a bit too low quality, but it turns out this is entirely false.

This game is a straight up improved version of what "The Last Starship" currently is: You've got ship building, exploration, combat, with enough depth in the combat flying and ship building to produce a deep and rewarding experience.

The crew management is quite enjoyable as it's highly automated, but you still have ways to optimize and control it somewhat, striking a perfect balance that gives control without becoming tedious.

I have a few gripes that I will explain, but please bear in mind that they are in no way deal breakers for this game:

If I had any gripes it's that the game seems like it requires quite a bit of grind/farm at some points, and also that it lacks alerts of all kinds for when your own ships take damage. You do get an alert when any enemy is in range of your sensors but nothing else afterwards, which can lead to not noticing when your ships take damage because another enemy was detected by another ship while you were fighting another one.

And even in a single combat, it can be quite easy not to notice how much one of your ships is damaged.

The mining bit is too tedious, with tiny-ass asteroids that need to be micromanaged one by one, and the game "forgetting" their location as soon as they are out view, requiring you to manually mark each of them.

Speaking of which, I'm a bit sad that we can't do much trading. Sell and buy prices are all very stable and very far apart, with a 100% margin that the station makes on the sell price, preventing all kind of hauling for profit.

There's also the issue of losing crew members. It's not made very clear when one of them dies, and they can die pretty easily given that they LOVE to go outside at the worst possible times. I've had it happen when I give a move order while ZERO people are EVA, but by the time the ship starts moving, we are leaving people behind for some reason.

Capturing enemy ships, that is, being tactical with how you dismantle them so that they abandon the ship without explosion, also isn't rewarding enough in my opinion. I understand that for balance purposes it's important that intact enemy modules do not yield their full cost when dissassembled, but I feel like it's nerfed too much.

Furthermore, ennemies take too long to decide to evacuate. When the ship has no more weapons and no ability to steer, it shouldn't still be manned as there's nowhere it can go but in a straight line, for instance. Likewise, when it has weapons but no ability to move, you can just go behind them and kill them... so they should also flee here.

Finally, I'm a bit confused as to what happens to the ejected ennemies. They just.. hang around, it's a bit wierd. Maybe we should be able to capture them or something.

Overall though, the game is a very enjoyable experience, and these minor gripes can absolutely be managed, so don't let this feedback discourage you from buying it!

This game is a brilliant idea full of creativity and possibilities for your own unique ship construction possibilities for warfare and exploration! Even more fun when playing with friends!

I first played this game a few years ago when it was a free off an indie game store page. It's awesome to see how content was added since then.

Anyways, this game has pretty much infinite content and there's loads of weapons and configurations you play around with.
For what it is, it runs well on laptops or lower-end PCs which is one of the main reasons why I got it: There's another ship building game I play called From The Depths which is MUCH more complicated and computationally intensive (so my laptop can't it run it very well). Cosmoteer, on the hand, being 2D and much simpler runs very smooth even at larger ship sizes.
However even though the game is simpler than From The Depths, there is still loads of creative ways to optimize your ship and its subsystems.
Overall great game

i recommend this game if you like making your own army and ship to fight others with their own ships and you can also play this game with your friends