Pioneers of the Unknown

this game has less content than Tetris. my fellow countrymen have greatly disappointed me.

These reviews are probably planted. Barely a game.

Holy damn! I have a low bar in how bad a game and its gameplay can be for me to play it and i never played a game like this. If you look at the trailer at around :49 seconds when its picking 1 and 2, that's all you do in this game. There is no strategy, the solar system and ship details screen can be a black screen with just 1 and 2 and it would make no difference. Game is completely random and all your doing is pressing either 1 or 2 and hoping you get the supplies that you need. Sad. Positive reviews are definitely friends of the dev or paid for XD

I kind of want to recommend this game out of its uniqueness, because there was definitely effort here, and it [i]is[/i] kind of interesting to play. There's a puzzle and a strategy, albeit a simple one - I'm interested to see if it holds true through the hardest difficulties but I think it will, given the simplicity. The screenshots are deceptively complex, given the core of the game is so narrow. The visuals are very nice, what little is written is pretty well-written... the sound track is kind of haunting. But... these positive reviews around mine are bizarre and in many cases just straight up lies; I'd like to be able to find out the thought processes behind the people writing them. They demonstrate bad faith from [i]somewhere[/i], and while that's going on and there's no details about whether there's more depth than I'm seeing, and barring significant expansion, I just can't call this a positive review. Don't get me wrong, I'm keeping it and I like the mood and feel of playing it; I'd recommend it based on that. But... something feels awfully shady with the presentation of on the store page and all this fabricated-seeming praise.

Sorry, developers, but it honestly feels like more time was spent making the Steam store page than developing the actual game. What's even worse is that the screenshots and trailer made me expect something completely different. In reality, there's barely anything to do. The whole game is built around a single dice roll mechanic with only two possible outcomes. Either you get some bonuses, or you run into a meteor shower or a solar flare and lose almost all the modules you've collected. That's basically the entire gameplay loop, and after a few runs it starts feeling pointless. The core idea isn't bad at all, but it desperately needed more depth. Other players have already suggested plenty of ways to improve it, and I agree with many of those ideas. I'd also add that the travel animation takes far too long. Another improvement would be showing the probability of dangerous events, like meteor clouds or solar flares, when choosing the orbit. That would make decisions feel more strategic instead of completely random. [b]The concept has potential, but it simply wasn't developed enough. Because of that, I can't recommend this game, even if it's very cheap.[/b] Have some mercy. [h3]T…

thought there'd be a lot more nuance in building your ship; there's no communication of what the next "turn" is gonna have or how to decide? felt like i was making vvv ambiguous and arbitrary decisions