Recent reviews by Eisenhorn

Nice game.

Pretty short but I found it worth my money.

Not a bad time waster

Nice game.

Calling this a survival game would be stretching it quite a bit, because there are no survival elements beyond the basic gameplay loop of gather>upgrade>defeat enemies.

Each element of the loop is poorly represented as well. Gathering essentially is a grind to hold a button against everything in the game world that your damage is higher than. There isn't any refinement or processing needed. Scrap doesn't need to be smelted into iron, you get both as drops depending on the difficulty of the item destroyed.

Upgrading essentially is a linear path with incremental upgrades that add no new elements to the existing tools. For example, upgrading your crowbar doesn't do anything else beyond making the damage number go up so you can break more things to repeat the process. Unlocking new tools hasn't added any new mechanics or dimensions beyond allowing you to range further to repeat the loop.

Combat is basic, with only a single hit spam attack and a dodge. Some items add some other minor dimensions to combat (throwables for example) but do not uplift it in any meaningful way in my opinion. Enemies generally have the same AI loop, and in my time I have not encountered any enemies or bosses yet that couldn't be defeated by simply sidestepping and hitting them repeatedly.

I can still forgive shallow gameplay if the story or quests are interesting. This in my opinion is the worst and what caused me to ultimately stop playing. Without spoiling much, the first major quest has you running to all 4 corners of the map to essentially touch a button before returning to the centre. Guess what? The next major quest is the exact same thing. You'll get to run to all 4 corners of the map AGAIN to collect something, only that those corners are now further out than before. The world is also needlessly large for the amount of things you can do.

Maybe it picks up further, but combined with the boring gameplay loop, I can do better things with my time.

I'd only recommend it if you like games where you spend a little time just mindlessly going around and grinding with no real impact or consequence from the story or world.

Don't be lured in by the comparisons to Subnautica.

It only barely mimics the crafting aspect of that game, base building is incredibly clunky and non-existent, and the core gameplay loop revolves around the playing slowing drifting towards a marker, crawling to the end of whichever ship/ base/ corridor the game pulls out, then checking with RNGesus to see if you happen to be carrying the "correct" tool to complete that base. If not, you'll have to walk/ drift all the way back to your base, craft that tool you were missing, and repeat the whole process again.

It gets worse in the later chapters, because there's no way you can be prepared by carrying ALL the tools. You'll explore a ship, and the game will introduce a "new" tool that you MUST craft to proceed in that ship, forcing you to trudge all the way back and forth.

The humor didn't really appeal to me, as it seemed to revolve around ♥♥♥♥/ fart/ poop jokes or contrived forth wall breaking comments by the narrator. I'm sure someone somewhere may appreciate it better.

In essence, it's a 5 hour game padded by backtracking into a 20 hour experience.

Rip and tear!

Great FFT like game.

Only play if you like RNG a lot.

Awesome game, fulfills all my dreams of being a lightsabre duelist.