Evasion from cluster 42

Very indie space shooter with some nice ideas and too many technical issues. Update: The latest patch fixed both the "freeze" issue and non-working gamepad. The game works as intended now so I'm changing the review to "recommended". However, this is still a very problematic game with many issues. Get it at a heavy discount. Unfortunately, the game's theme revolves around technical issues. Before I could play the game, I had to complete a benchmark, which crashed my game. Although everything worked properly the second time, the first impression wasn't great. Even worse, the game's gamepad compatibility is utterly broken, or it is simply incompatible with my gamepad. When you first enter the game and pick the gamepad as your primary device, the game freezes and displays the message "Gamepad not found." Furthermore, it says to press a key to play without the gamepad, but that doesn’t do anything. To make matters even stranger, the fire button on the gamepad functions because you can hear the firing sound in the background. Because you can't even get back to the main menu, the only way to fix it is to force-quit the game and play with the keyboard. And that's not fun. Anyway, th…