Recent reviews by Kosieh Barter

I always wished for a simulator where I will be able to run my station. My initial hope was in Kerbal Space Program which had sort of form of interiors, but in very limited manner. Stationeers excel at this point and what I love is attention to realism, although some things are not that in reality.

- You are able to run your station as nearly as a human astro/cosmo-nault would.
- You are in control of making your engineering networks, incl electricity, atmospherics, etc.
- Essentially you have complete control of nearly every aspect of your station and you are forced to think ahead, if you want to survive, mainly in your first moments (I struggle to call it days)
- What is the greatest game-changer is ability to automate things with programming in IC10. I as a programmer in various programming languages love that a lot.
- I tend to agree that this resource management improves your planning thinking, which is a benefit on it's own in the real life.
- Building system which I think was done very well.
- (Pardon me, but I can't help myself to mention it) No cheaters like in the game "Cheaterwatch" (some of you probably know).
- In that sort, game is relaxing.

- For some people the difficulty is maybe higher, but that is alright for me. The training (ATM) is not working, so you are literally thrown into a game without swimming collar.
- Some in-game elements / properties or the philosophy do not match the real-world for maximum immensity.
- To me, personally, the graphics are quite too cartoon-ish, but yes, it is a game and games are meant to entertain.
- If I recall correctly, this game was in Early Access for long time, although I see quite frequent incremental updates.
- Not really a con, but it takes time until you understand the concept


The reason behind it is as this game is complex, even after +1000 hours of gameplay I have not found all of the possibilities in the game and some of the time I've played this game was in Creative mode to understand (and later heavily automate) the mechanics, what can be done and how to play the game efficiently.
Honestly speaking I still wonder how to play the game in "efficient-man" manner, but still as a human with (against the AI in real world) outdated "hardware" (like human brain is) it's still a new experience.


Running game under Steam's Proton very well. Be careful, game uses the ALT-keys for moving elements.
If you have MATE desktop, disable / change your ALT-key to Super key. More on here:
MATE - howto disable moving windows with alt key[forums.fedoraforum.org]

Please, rename this game to "Cheaterwatch", thank you.

Well, what to say?

I've been playing this game as free-weekend event, so had opportunity to test it out and here are my findings. Or feelings, to be honest.

1) I was shocked how even a semi-simple game can have such influence. Managing group of survivors and of course naturally they want to survive. So you have to manage almost every aspect, including trades, settlement setup and their health. At this game I was fan to girl named "Arika".

2) You have to be sometimes immoral, although I'm honest person. This game clearly uncovers your true personality, so even with me, I went to into one small house and found out that there were some inhabitants. So almost robbed them entirely.. But in the return, I've tried to help out as much as possible, of course with checking up if that or that is moral or not.

3) Literally, you are author of the story. No story is given, except the background of ongoing war within a Sarajevo-inspired city. To add up, it IS NOT a Sarajevo, but we can agree this conflict happens within the european union or simply within Europe and near east. So technically, not far from Half-Life 2. You will actually write the story and your actions have consequences, so do or choose wisely.

4) The end - I was lucky - I've managed to finish it, but I'll be honest - I am not sure, if I can recommend buying this game. Mainly from psychological reasons as not everyone can take up this kind of depression. It is like you're co-living with your survivors. But still. Hard to decide, if yes or no. This game serves war-event reality with cold-blooded mood, so had difficulties with decision and so forth.

What can I definitely recommend is at least try it out. This is my personal thanks to devs, because not every time you'll find a deep-melancholia like here and trying this out (I'm still thinking about purchasing it!) is experience on its own. I wouldn't be surprised if this game will not be far from reality, although it's still a game where only danger that can happen is electricity going ouf for some hours.

Hru jsem zatim hral asi jen 2 dny, ale i tak dam hodnoceni + recenzi.

Jedna se o klasickou "towerovku", kdy stavite svuj Vault, spravujete obyvatele vaseho Vaultu a zaroven cas od casu posilate a primo ridite prubeh "misi".

Co se tyce hry samotne, hodnotim jak jeji PC verzi, tak verzi pro Android a jako fanda do technologii pozitivne hodnotim i moznost hrani nezavisle.

PC verze:
Velke ovladani je ponekud neprakticke, nicmene je to "by design" pro mobilni hrani. V pocatku je to pomerne stereotyp, pozdeji to zacne byt vice zajimave, ale take jsem se dale, nez kolem 20 obyvatel zatim nedostal. Muzu sice hovorit o stereotypu (ktery se casem stejne dostavi), na druhou stranu jde o velmi pekny zabijec casu, zvlast, kdyz cekate, nez vam server kdesi za nespocet horami a rekami raci znovu nabootovat, potazmo cekate, nez se vam zkompiluje novy kernel primo od Linuse Torvaldse. :)
Hra ma potencial zabavit, je to navykovka a libi se mi technicke provedeni, kombo vektorova kresba / 3D.

Android verze:
Zde prichazi duvod, proc je ovladani v PC verzi ponekud neomalene, ale technicky je to vyreseno dobre. Jak uz jsem zminil, ulozene hry JE MOZNE hrat nezavisle na platforme, tedy pokud vite, kam jit. Navodu je vsak plny internet a rozchodit si ulozene hry na te ci te platforme (zatim testovano PC - Android) je otazka tak 2 minut a to vcetne vasi druhe ruky "v gatich".
Co se mi vsak moc nelibi je velikost, nicmene je to dano uhloprickou meho telefonu, takze zde je hra nevinne.

Za sebe muzu doporucit, jak PC verzi, tak mobilni verzi. Co se mi vsak nelibi, je absence linuxove verze. Precejen Android je vicemene bastl Linuxu, takze staci udelat maly krucek. Mozna se casem dockame.

Za me musim dat pochvalu predne tvurcum, kteri uz u free verze odvedli mistrovskou praci a udelali neco, co mel byt Half-Life: Source. Napravili tak skraloup Valve, ktere se rozhodlo k portaci originalu stylem "kopirovat a vlozit".

Dalsi duvod, pro me zasadni, tvurci pridali podporu pro GNU/Linux, takze si zahrajete i treba na Fedore (v dobe psani recenze 24, pro fajsnmekry uname -a: 4.8.6-201.fc24.x86_64. Hra bezi stabilne, nicmene parkrat jsem se setkal s 2-ma bugy, ktere hru crashly. Podle fora stacilo prekontrolovat integritu a problem vyresen.

Dalsi ♥♥♥ patri komunite, ktera vydala tzv. Uncuts, tedy On a Rail uncut a Surface Tension Uncut. Za me musim rict, ze scenerie v druhem jmenovanem jsou fakt vymazlene a v prvnich chvilich jsem si myslel, ze se dokonce jedna o casti, na ktere se Valve vykaslalo, nicmene byly to puvodni lokace napimpovane (nadetailovane) tak maximalne, ze cloveka az udivi preciznost a smysl pro detail tvurcu.

Hru jsem samozrejme vzal ve sleve a byt BMS jsem prosel cca 2-3x, prosel jsem i placenou verzi a muzu jen doporucit. Hlavne pro linuxaky, je to dalsi perla do herni sbirky.

Takova oddechovka po vzoru Heartstone. Prijde mi graficky peknejsi, ale take se autori snazili o malou invenci. Oproti Heartstonu jsem dosud nenarazil na kouzla, mozna to postavy maji, mozna ne.

Co se mi na hre libi, je jeji fantasy muzika. Takova uvolnujici, klidna.

Hru jsem diky tipu od kamose tady na Steamu obdrzel zdarma, budu se tedy ridit "Darovanemu koni na zuby nehled". Priznam, ze na "Heartstonovky" moc nejsem, na druhou stranu zvazuji navrat alespon jako oddechovku.

Hru bych spis doporucil fandum HS a her tomu podobnych. Hru jsem si vzal do sve linuove sbirky.

Puvodne jsem si myslel, ze to bude dalsi predrazeny spas, ale nastesti..

...nastesti jsem se mylil.

O KSP jsem slysel od nekolika znamych a jeste pred koupi jsem si nechal poradit od nekolika lidi. Oba mi to doporucili, Koupil jsem tedy a muzu rict, ze ty penize do KSP investovane opravdu nelituji.

Jakozto milovnik vesmiru, SpaceX, Interstellar a The Martian jsem si KSP hodne oblibil. Konecne jsem narazil na opravdovy simulator vesmiru se vsim vsudy - hlavne jmenuji fyziku (ktera byt v odlehcenejsi verzi) je naprosto spickova. Zadna akce typu Star Wars, ale skutecne mate moznost si postavit vlastni raketu, na kterou pusobi fyzika, jako v realnem svete a musite se tak starat o mnoho detailu, jak svuj vesmirny korab dostanete do kosmu a pokad je potreba, tak i zpet.

Hodne srandy jsou i sami Kerbalove, kdyz uz se vam podari nejaka ta hovadina, je opravdu sranda pozorovat jejich vyrazy.

Libi se mi i moznost modu, sam se pripravuji na to jeden takovy udelat. Zaverem, jakmile se dostanete do vesmiru a ziskate stabilni orbit, ten pocit je mnohdy nepopsatelnej.. jako kdybyste meli fakt dobrou souloz. :)

Jestli chcete znat muj nazor - ten je jasnej - rozhodne berte. Hru mam par dni a hodne me uchvatila. Je to skutecne jina liga, nez nejake jine hry zahrnujici vesmir.

Pokud mate radi SimCity a zklamala vas "petka", tak vam Skylines muzu jen doporucit.

Libi se mi hlavne moznost davat do hry polozky z workshopu, coz u SC nejde.

Dale, pokud "bezite" na necem jinem, nez widle (rozumejte: Windows) a jste, jako ja, milovniky GNU / Linux, tak opet jen doporuceni. Konkretne mi hra bezi v prijatelnych FPS (10-20, kdyz ma dobry den tak i 30) na Core i7 Broadwell (5600) s IGP Intel HD 5500.

Konkretne testovano na Fedora 22 x86_x64. Domnivam se, ze upgradem na F23 (psano 28. 11. 2015) se da nejake to FPS navrch ziskat.

Jaka je situace na Debianu a *buntu - netusim, ale predpokladam, ze obdobna.

Hru jsem si poridil jako dalsi kousek do "linuxacke" sbirky.

Duke jak ma byt. Kam se na nej hrabe nejake CoD... (a hraci, co cekaji, ze jim nekdo udela cestu). :)

Game is good, so I would a point for good idea and game itself.

Reason why I give lots of negative points is unbalanced gameplay, specifically when you have just starter characters and you are not familiar with strategy and so on.

The only way to bring bit balance in game is to purchase a DLC pack, which adds some characters, namely Sam B, which is one of the most overpowered character in game.
Problem occurs when in game - in Scavenge mode, where are three teams managing to get supplies and here can Sam B make major decision, even if its only one in game.

So in my humble opinion, don't buy it, despite of quite good idea. This is a Pay-2-Win or Pay-2-Unbalance model, which I really hate.

I understand that devs wants funds for the game, but this is really bad way to do.
Anyway, it would be better to try it yourself, so You'll get familiar with words I wrote here, but I think Your money could be spend better than on this game.

If you can avoid it, then avoid it.