Recent reviews by Necromunger

i really like this game a lot, just a pure alien world, waiting for your mind to test against it

I enjoy it, seems fairly balanced, you can fight back as you upgrade, has some mechanical depth in movement tech, good gameplay loop.

Artistically and mechanically beautiful.
Can recommend as a complete experience with a good story and setting.
Play on normal if you want to go in blind, its a wiki heavy game for main skills.
Maybe spend 5-10 mins reading about main character skills and having a dump stat, then after that enjoy whatever comes, much of the game is tactics.

community mods by random people for the previous games are better
checkout MISERY or GAMMA instead

iv been playing this till i pass out in recent days
i skipped the tutorial and played the hardest difficulty on the moon with minimal start
have greatly enjoyed dying 20 times to 20 different ways
today i ate my own potatoes which is great achievement

at first not knowing how anything works is frustrating, but learning is great
the whole game is like playing atmos role from the game space station 13 but on hyper

now that i have reached optimizing, its just the beginning

fun game loop, i like the format of working on bunker

needs some quality of life cleanup, like being able to swap inventory items
also held items should be able to be moved around and just "unhold" them haha
picking up base items does not need to be so loud
little tweaks needed, but apart from that seems good

Intro is too long and can't be skipped.

I purchased in 30 Dec, 2022
I believe it has developed into a very fun game that has a similar vibe to all the rimworld in space mods or Odyssey,
I enjoy it as it is today.

Positives:
The focus on AI Bots that handle many tasks + Humans that you support on the side is very interesting.
Fixing up your derelict ship is fun when there are resources everywhere to play with.
The tutorial checklist missions helped me understand the game well.

Negatives:
In some cases the UI is extremely dense, and its hard to read whats a label and whats a button on some menus.
The human art is not the best, maybe could be redone by artist that can review many combinations, it looks like programmer art that i would do haha.

If you are willing to give the game 15 mins of reading, once it gets started and you are repairing, rearranging and exploring i had way more fun than expected setting up my ship.

For the devs: i recommend a game start scenario of a smaller ships of only bots that may be easier for some people.
The bare minimum to explore the space map and work towards first humans joining your ship.
The derelict fixup start may be overwhelming.

its good

(i backed since the start, i want the game to succeed but im disappointed, played much more than 1 hour that steam says)

There is so much wrong with it, its hard to know where to start.
Every screen or UI section in the game has issues, the combat itself has issues.
There is not one screen or interface that appears polished.
The performance is terrible every setting lowered on a RX 7700 XT just to barely get 70 fps at 1080p.

All the UI needs to be pretty much remade, the font size for text is microsized, the construction system us about as un-intuitive as it can get, remake it.
The attack animations are active damage for too long and you can back swing your attack to kill people.
Characters flash colors and shape when changing clothes.
The main menu UI looks like a popup is over it, but there is not the text is just all gray.
Blocking seems to slow you down similar to attacking.
It seems no progress saves on server restarts properly or in some cases.
The server listing itself has a part for the server you last played on not working.
Very basic stuff in the UI is done wrong in technical terms like 9 slice images around buttons in the controls menu is stretched and distorted.
The only screen that looks somewhat ok is the spawn selection screen AND EVEN THAT is done wrong, you make players wait 30 seconds AFTER they die, not first time spawn.

When i destroy a container, sometimes items go in my inventory, sometimes when i destroy a container, it makes a little bag, but that bag is actually covered from the broken box pieces. You then press E on the little bag to take the stuff out. Just put the items in the players inventory.

I'm sure they put effort into this, but please hire anyone with an eye for detail.
All the interfaces in game and in the basic menus are just awful.
And the main reason i even play it for the combat does not feel fluid at all.
At minimum remove any reduction in player turn speed when blocking.