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I don't know what it is about this game, but it made me feel sick to my stomach, I continued for a bit thinking it was just me or something but nope, it got worse. My eyes hurt, I feel like I'm gonna puke and bleh I think I need to sleep now after that to try and forget about the feeling.

Aside from that, if you don't get sick while playing the game, it looks like its got some great puzzles and mindbending experiences. But the colors and tunnels and yeano I can't do that without getting sick apparently. First time ever a game has made me physically sick. I wish Valve had a star rating system so I could do more than just click yes or no. I'd probably put it at 2.5 to 3, of 5 stars. I mean, I just can't play or finish because it made me so ill.

Sorry Devs, I have no idea why this caused me to feel so sick.

Fairly boring and lacking in any real complexity at all.

I got this to do coop mostly, and found out the game uses a shared screen mode which you get when you coop with friends on console. Other aspects of the game also feel like this was just a direct console port and it bothers me greatly. I can't enjoy this game with friends because of the fact that my screen is shared, each step either of us takes throws off our aim because of the horrible camera movements trying to account for both of us.

The game felt like there was no progression when trying to do coop too, we didn't get any real check points, there was no storyline at all, it was just walking through a long set of halls shooting aliens, made worse by the fact that all three of their games are exactly the same which actually makes me regret getting it, even at the 90% discount I got it at, but I won't file for a refund because at least single player might be interesting enough to be worth it but I much prefer multiplayer/coop stories.

The worst aspect of this game though, is the shared screen gameplay, its horrible and unnessicary. Give us both our own screens, and tether our characters to a certain distance of each other. That way when I look one direction, my camera shows that direction, while his camera shows whatever direction he's looking. Its much more helpful this way. Though I'd still prefer not needing to be tethered to them so we can both walk around a bit, however this is another story that'd need to be discussed in discussions if the devs wanted me to as I do have ideas but, game being 7 years old I doubt it matters.

I just can't recommend this for anyone who wants coop and to play with friends.

Its true what they say, this game is relatively boring and so much DLC spam that saps you into buying all the stuff you dont really need wasting a lot of money on something that barely took them any effort doing. Maybe 3 days per ship for an artist and with modding I've added my own custom weapons super easily. Others have even designed their own ships with custom destructions and all that proving how easy it is to make new content for this game, and yet the DLC costs as if it was difficult. 1/3rd or more the price of the actual game. The fact is however, this game is very, very boring. You spend a lot more time building ship setups, than ou do actual playing. Its just a spreadsheet type game basically. The battle can be decided without ever stepping foot on the battle grid, just run the calculations and thats it. This game just gives you a way to view it as if its a real battle.

While I absolutely love the game, the one thing that bothered me most of all was the sound of some of the characters. It just sounded terrible on some of them, like breaks immersion because you can tell for a fact absolutely that it was badly recorded in a crappy sound room. The graphics were beautiful though, I just wish I could have increased the view distance even further to see more at once. I mean I already had a very good view distance, but I wanted to push my system to the limits and render the absolute max I could just for the beautiful scenes. I was just disappointed the campaign ended so soon, I expected to be able to go a bit further, but it seems they left it as a cliff hanger for a possible continuation of the game. The difficulty is about average, you can do everything easily enough by following the story line properly. Annoyingly gathering duplicate scripts all the time. Anyhow, I hope they do make a PE2 with some better fixes to some issues this one had.

It looks like a fine game for the most part, but I just wasn't particularly interested in it. My review is limited because of this. I'm sure others will find enjoyment in it though, there's no immediate things that pester you to buy anything and I was able to play a fair portion of what I did play without any nag screens of any kind. So if you like space games, give it a try, its free after all.

Overall Rating: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Graphics: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ (Decent enough for this game's style)
Sound: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆
Gameplay: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Storyline: ★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ (There isn't one)
Replayability: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
AI: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Video: 1 hour 19 minutes 15 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQc0HDXnmL0

Video: (Speed up version of above, coming soon)

Review:
Double Fine has the capacity and the know how to make this game better, but because of the overwhelming amount of bad reviews, they won't be ever coming back to it. This is unfortunate, because I rather like the game and think it could be improved a lot, especially if I can get ahold of the developers who were tasked with this specific game and give them my detailed unbaised input on things. Having talked to several other game devs in my time, I've learnt several things about the development scene so I know how to work around certain issues with development to help make a game better. However, it seems thathis game is abandoned.

In its current state, it "works", but you have to be real lucky to get a good base going and you need to place lots of turrets everywhere and rapidly expand as fast as you possibly can. I guarentee you're going to lose, a lot.

Rating: 3/10 -- ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Valve: Please change recommendation/review system to use a 10 point star system. Much more accurate than "yes/no".

The campaign to it is very bad. When you complete an objective, enemies spawn directy beside you and easily destroy your entire design very fast, and the only chance you have is to run away leaving 80% of your work behind and rebuild from scratch and hit them from a distance.

Game appears to have been ditched and released as a half finished semi joke. It leaves in all the cheat mode tools like spawning anything you want in so there is no real challenge if you get tired of the game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up your gameplay by spawning enemies within 10 inches of your ship. Not worth current price of $15, wait till its closer to that of $3 or less. Thats the value I'm giving it.

Rating: 4/10 -- ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
Valve: Please change recommendation/review system to use a 10 point star system. Much more accurate than "yes/no".

I think the game adds a unique type of gameplay that I've not seen in hardly any others, that actually keeps me interested in it. However, I'd still rate this game around 4 stars out of 10 in its current state. Its fine, enjoyable, but doesn't have as much as it should. It really could use steam workshop mods, allowing players to add new structures, new items, etc.

The issue with it, is that it isn't replayable, and it has bad AI. People whine about the AI a lot, but they do their bases wrong to begin with. Now, I do my base correctly, and things do well, except when a small issue happens and AI starts with path finding issues, but thats DLL mod related.

Another issue with the AI is that if the water source was destroyed, I have the new one set to high priority, he is at 80% hunger, 70% water, 80% awake, and he goes back inside to eat, while BARELY HUNGRY, before going to the opposite end of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ base to go outside and repair the water before he goes in to go drink. I've had this happen with sleep too where I wanted him to build something urgently, and he was only down by 20%ish in sleep, and he goes to sleep instead of doing what I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wanted him to, even though happiness and all those other good things were way up there. So yes, very bad AI.

Besides the AI, the game isn't re-playable. You beat it, and you delete it, theres not much to do. Custom missions kinda suck, they are all just the same thing over and over again. Its boring as ♥♥♥♥ after you've played for a while. The RNG ♥♥♥♥♥ you over every so often which extends the game a little bit if you feel like redoing your mission over and over again, but other than that, it has very little content to it and theres no ability to add new content to it because modding isn't possible.

Uploading a simple ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mission to the workshop, is a huge pain in the ass too. First you exit steam, download the "workshop uploader", give it your login and pass, it downloads the required tools, then you type in your steam guard code, it errors, you close it, fix the issue, you get to redo the typing info AND NEW steam guard code steps, success, now you load steam up again and whoops, now you gotta type your info here too, oh and new steam guard code. Then your realize you made a mistake in something and have to go back and click update, which requires exit steam, type in info, and new steam guard code, and then you go back to steam again and steam guard code it AGAIN before you're finally finished running back and forth to your phone over and over again to upload one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "mod" to the workshop.

In the end, I switched my review from yes, to no.

Rating: 4/10 -- ★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆
Valve: Please change recommendation/review system to use a 10 point star system. Much more accurate than "yes/no".

Well I started playing the game and thought "Well, this doesn't seem as bad as everyone claims" and it isn't. It does however have a short mission that feels more like a tech demo than real gameplay. The voice acting is, a little strange in some areas but its not "horrible" as people claimed. I managed to beat campaign pretty quickly, its just standard point and shoot type stuff with AI that is bad at aim because they target where you are, and not where you will be and AI are predictable enough to shoot down easily. I expected more from the game and got less so, I'd recommend getting this for $5 or less if it drops to that price via discount or normal price lowers. I was disappointed in the short campaign mostly and the way some things work such as the thrusters not working during inertia off mode. Honestly, the size of the map and all the many many locations made me think that perhaps there was going to be a lot of campaign to this, but there wasn't.