A game about getting instructions you don't have time to read... and then being punished when you don't follow them! I actually find this hilarious and think it's a great formula. But, I think your opinion might depend on your personality and what you want out of the game.

There's definitely a lot of intimidating moments where you'll read instructions for like, "Artificial Intelligence Module" and "Consult the following diagram to determine the AI's target mood" and you're just thinking to yourself... Are you kidding me!? This is impossible! And yet 20 or 30 days later you're like... "AI modules? Ha! Give me something difficult!" So, the learning curve is really rewarding and fun -- seeing a machine that's really confusing and intimidating, breaking it down and figuring out all the patterns and shortcuts, and then just knocking out the repairs faster than you ever thought possible.

Ich liebe dieses Spiel es ist so einfalls reich

It's really incredible how you can use a few great concepts and ruin it by mixing them together.

I have played the same 3 days of this game now about 5 times. I started with the timed jobs - I don't generally enjoy time pressure, but it really comes down to how that is handled.

So the intro and tutorial isn't terrible - there is a book with everything you need to know, here is a job you can repeat until you got it - fine. But the timed jobs require you to learn all possible repair tasks beforehand - not a fan. So, after not getting rent and being mashed into paste, I start a new game without time pressure (I thought). Three jobs a day is also way more than I could pull off anyway.

Now I made the necessary money, and getting more the hang of the repair jobs. I quite like all the different machines and options of what can break and how to analyze them. I have the time to look into the manual - which of course isn't as straight forward and clear as you would like it.

Then I get a new Job with a "Fatal" Tag. Well, I have all the time I need, right? Right? No. After getting the todo list with "Reactor needs immediate attention", I flip to the page in the manual, try to read the paragraph and then the reactor explodes. In the game mode I specifically went to, to have all the time in the world.

Are you kidding me?

Well, it is a roguelike. Even thought I don't know why it would be.

Another run, and by now I'm a professional! I can fix most of the things without looking up too much. I have lots of money and this time it's not a reactor, but a bunch of pipe bombs. BUT this time I read what to do before accepting the job! I'm proud of myself! Then the next ship lands and the customer shoots me dead.

This is my limit. I don't care anymore.

Finally, a game where repairing stuff isn't a simplistic mini-game, but it forces me to replay the same scenarios with the same jobs again and again. I have failed multiple times to make rent or failed to open a safe - all my fault and going back didn't feel great but at least it was deserved.

This didn't have to be a roguelike. How exactly is doing the same easy jobs again helping with replayability?