Space Architect

I will be honest - I am tired of early access games that claim they are not in early access while having next to no content in it. Sadly, this game is exactly one of those. [list] [*] Building/automation. On paper you can build a base and fully automate it. In reality, however, you will notice almost immediately that you don’t really have much choice in your buildings - most things either have one building that does the job you need (like 1 power plant type, one floor/wall type, one pipe type, etc), or you will have the same building/a reskin doing several functions (repainted shuttles that mine different ores, factories with inbuilt recipes). For automation you get a pipe to transport any and all of your resources, and said pipe will often just break/disconnect randomly or on save/load. The variety of buildings is basically nonexistent and the buggyness of automation makes it frustrating. [*] Trade. The main point of building your space station is selling goods to traveling vessels. The funny part is - as soon as you hit a new tech level there is neither demand nor point in producing things you were producing before - because prices for goods grow almost exponentially, fr…

It took me a few hours to get use to the game UI and how pipes are meant to work. I have beaten the game multiple times doing 100% runs. My first completely run took 12hours currently because I am trying to beat the game within 100days (best at time of review is 152 days) which seems doable and only takes at most 6 hours and as little as 4hours. I really like the game and how things get done but certain things annoy me and likely do the same to other people because some things just aren't explained well enough. The biggest thing I dislike is how storage works if all your storage is full AI does nothing and items stuck in other machines can't be used for anything until they can be put into storage which means you have have everything you need to build something but because they can't put it into storage your stuck. I have lost people just becuase of that. Priorities in task can be a little weird at times because AI seems to stack X amount of tasks so changing priorities doesn't stop them from doing their current tasks which can brick AI in place at times with only a reload fixing it. If you have pipes going over inputs leads to all items in the pipe being dropped off which leads to…

There isn't much to the late game yet, but for a couple of dollars it's not bad.

The game is good/OK. The beginning has some fun mechanics that are somewhat addictive and give you that sense of grinding that is sometimes fun for a short period of time before you automate things but honestly I thought the game was a pre-release and it definitely could use some more polish. I've put about 5 hours into the game, and I don't think I'll put more than another 5 hours. It is fun, lightweight as in any computer can probably run it, and has good mechanics, but not something I can see myself playing for very long.

The game is pretty fun, the game loop isn't too complicated. Probably looking at 10ish hours of fun until the loop kind of fizzles out. If you like module placement puzzle types, then the game will provide you more hours of fun than my guesstimate. Once you get far enough you basically have a lot of demolish, replan, rebuild, demolish, replan. The game has a automation system, but its just meh. If you really like the idea of the game, its good. If you are looking for the best of the genre, that isn't this one.

so the game isn't horrible. however the tech tree needs a ton of work. often you will find you purchased something and can't build it till you purchase something else on another tree. the pipe work is pretty decent. however the ability to change the outputs and input location would be nice. spaghetti is a common outcome of the way the inputs and outputs are located. I'm not sure about the combat. i had pirates invade but it doesn't look like damage is actually there yet. at least i couldn't see them doing anything besides be annoying and popping up -1 hp texts all over but nothing looked broken and nothing got destroyed.