eXoSpace Combat Engineer

So, here I am, posting my first negative review. When I was part of the playtest I enjoyed the grind. Working myself up not being able to finish a hunt, but keeping the parts and blueprinting my ships. Now I start over... from having no parts. I bought this game to build ships. The combat is fun but I don't like loosing the parts I worked HOURs to pick up. I get that may tickle the rest of you all, but not me. Give us an option please to keep the parts and still play the game.

this is a tremendous experience, the customization is very fun and deep, and i was the first person to get the space invaders achievement which is better than starting a family

Pretty good. And the Persistence Update where you actually get to keep your stuff is great too, having played it, I figure that without that, I probably would have refunded. I don't think the full creativity of being able to build your ship block by block is a good fit for the rogue-like format so it's nice that the dev listened and changed how the progression work. Basically now no matter what you keep your ship and your ship building resource. Though you still need to complete a bounty, i.e. kill the boss, to get exp to level up so you have a higher cost limit for your ship. But otherwise, at the beginning, even failures still gives progress, as long as you've been collecting/looting resources. The ship building here is simpler than Cosmoteer. For example, turrets can fire through each other for one, and I can't remember, but I'm fairly certain that your guns can also fire through the hull, they are located up top I guess. No crew so you don't have to plan their route and all that. I like it though, finally now I can build ships that look good and play good instead of another brick with some edges. Relative simplicity aside, it does have a bunch of stuff that isn't in Cosmo…

A wonderful rougelike that is very flexible to your tastes. it can be easy or difficult if you want it to be, its had several lovely updates, there has been a lot of thought and effort put into it, 11/10.

Predatory achievements gatekeeping content.

I love the game but I hate how tedious it is to clear out masses of small enemies. Please add either a modifier to fight big boss ships 1v1 in bounty mode or big ship fleets in the tiles. I am so tired already of seeing 20 tiny ships that will fly around me and my guns missing 50% of the ammo because of how ridiculously fast and small the enemy ships are. Most of the time in bounty mode I just fight traders and big fleets/outposts and book it for the final boss. It is so unnecessary to even fight the small ships because of how worthless they are. Though I love the faction Robotic plague and even the small ships just ramming into you, but I absolutely hate The cult. I wish I could just choose the enemy faction when entering a bounty hunt if the small ship issue isn't fixed. TLDR; I wish there was an option to change enemy encounters from fleets of 30 tiny mosquitoes to big fleets with either boss ships/big ship fleets, because of the tediousness the small ships adds to the game. It is a major nuisance because you have limited resources to built anti big ship/anti small ship builds.