Space Station Alpha

Mixed. This game is a fairly shallow, easy time-waster. A little quirky, a little buggy, a little funny. Once you figure out what you are doing, there is not much of a challenge nor many goals. I really want to like it, but after hitting the same issue repeatedly (workers getting stuck), experiencing the poor performance of an even moderately sized station, and the lack of standard features in a management game, it becomes really tough to recommend. Maybe Space Station [i]Beta[/i] will be more playable. [h1]Additional Details[/h1] [table] [tr] [td]Operating System[/td] [td]Ubuntu Linux 18.04 x64[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]CPU[/td] [td]Ryzen 5 1500x[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]GPU[/td] [td]GTX 1050, nvidia-410.104[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Game Saves[/td] [td]Automatically, manually whenever you want[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Notes[/td] [td]It seems half thought-out and half-implemented[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Technical Notes[/td] [td]Unity game engine[/td] [/tr] [/table]

I've always wondered what happened to this little game. I enjoyed it alot, but sadly due to the content and bugs that are left, repitition is not doable for this game. It's not worth purchasing anymore... I would recommend it if it were filled out more, but it was just abandoned without any closure.

The game had potential but it lacks depth, QOL, and suffers from several issues. Thirty minutes into it I could tell how the rest of my time with it would go: manage power, oxygen, metal, and build more rooms. There are some random events like taking alien refugees or asteroids - judging from achievements there aren't many of these, though. It's biggest issue is the lack of content, there isn't a lot to build or do. I could not get the workers to mine the giant asteroid near my base. For one, you have individually select each tile of an asteroid instead of being able to drag select the entire thing. When setting a worker's job to mine, the robot would stand there doing nothing and it's status would show "error". A similar issue happens when trying to get the robots to build walls/floors/equipment. They just don't feel like working I guess? They'd sometimes build part of what I requested, then stop and my requests would expire. I'd have to place them again, rinse and repeat the process of only some of them being built. There are also some performance issues. My base wasn't that big - the default landing bay, a cargo bay, a 3x3 living quarters, and a 3x3 engineering bay. Trying to…

at some point, my workers completely stop. so far unplayable after a short time.

Bought this game when I was 7, it was fun then but in hindsight its kindof a ♥♥♥♥ game. 10/10 if you are autistic, 3/10 if you are a functioning human.

There are a lot of issues like worker bots stop working when some event occures (this is a big problem becouse maintenence is done by them and station starts to decompose becouse of it), and then some minor issues with zoning etc. Also overall content amount is quite low.