Kerbal Space Program

“The career mode is quite well made, starting with small rockets to play with and basically only the kerbin orbit as possible missions from the game. Eventually you venture out into the solar system and send out probes to other planets, after that you can finally send out manned missions to other planets and try to land on them. This is all a pretty reasonable mission profile in my opinion.”

“This is a good game but gets boring really fast. There's no life anywhere you can explore all of Kerbin which is literally where the Kerbals live and there's no Kerbals or cities in sight. Even at the KSC there's no life; it almost looks abandoned. There's no Kerbals even at their space center and even on the other planets there's nothing, maybe a couple monoliths and a sstv pyramid on Duna but those are just remnants of a cut storyline. This game is 30% rocket science and 70% missed opportunities.”

“The missions are sometimes game-generated, such as 'save Bobkin Kerman from low Kerbin orbit,' or personal challenges, like building a massive reusable interplanetary craft and sending it on a mission to every moon around Jool. The campaign missions could be more varied and I would like the ability to create my own agenda (instead of pulling from a pool of mission options) because sometimes to make the really extreme happen, you have to jump back to sandbox mode or risk forfeiting all of your money or reputation just to build something in space that would be too unrealistic to do on the planet.”

“The animations I did see were mostly tiny and not funny.”

“I have put so many hours into this game, it's not funny.”

“You may eliminate everything that makes this mode not funny at all, and still not have an ability to load your saves.”

“The graphics are terrible and most of the time, the graphics driver crashes or nearly crashes.”

“The graphical fidelity is laughable, it runs simulation on just 1 core making fps terrible with everything large enough to be interesting, and it's not that stable, and that's without you even think about adding in mods.”

“The graphics sometimes look like they came straight out of a PlayStation 1.”

“You start off with basic parts that only let you go as high as the upper atmosphere, and it is rather fitting then to have the player take charge of these kerbals as well as taking control of them during the many trips that they will make from kerbin and outwards, seeing as just trying to successfully make it out of the atmosphere of the starting planet is a challenge in its own right as the difficulty will vary greatly depending on which of the three game modes you play here.”

“The game is hard to learn, the learning curve is steep because although the build system is seemingly simple and the planets are small enough to be friendly (smaller atmospheres, slower orbital speeds), the aerodynamic model is incredibly intricate and the physics engine scarcely pulls its punches.”

“It's been almost 20 hours and I barely make it out of the atmosphere every time I make a rocket.”

“It is super buggy and stuff and it may just randomly stop working for a month and then come back for no reason.”

“Basically I had been working on this ship for 3 sessions over the course of three days, and today I load the saved ship as always in order to add a probe and complete the staging (I had basically already completed the rocket, and in half an hour of work I'd be able to launch), but when I load, all parts on my entire ship have been detached from each other, which means that if I were to launch, the ship would fall apart. There's no actual way to fix this, except for rebuilding the entire rocket I had spent about 7-8 hours on.”

“The game is full of bugs and annoying glitches; it gets really frustrating when you spend hours playing with your spaceship or aircraft only to be bogged down by the bugs in the game.”

“No replayability on base but with mods it's much better especially with the multiplayer mod.”

“As for replay value, I’m not sure how replayable it is.”

“Replay value on career mode is a bit short, and leaves you wanting more. This game has great mods for it currently that stay up to date with the game patches so far.”

“Things like solar panels not working for whatever reason, stuttering, memory bloating, parts simply not working... pick your issue.”

“Part of the game design is iteration of rocket designs to achieve your desired goals. In the early game, load times and recovery are quick, but in mid to late game, launching larger, complex multi-stage systems results in long load times and slideshow-level performance.”

“The performance is atrocious; add any graphical mods and you'll need a powerful PC just to keep frame rates above 80 on the lowest 5%.”

“Career mode is boringly grindy at the start if you don't know all the tricks by heart.”

“Repetitive tasks: grinding resources and completing contracts can feel monotonous after a while.”

“The career mode is very demanding and not very innovative; contracts mostly make you do the same missions repeatedly, which becomes tedious and frustrating.”

“The unresolved bugs in this game take it from being a spectacular time sink where you can get lost for dozens of hours at a time in a gentle pit of musical building... to a pit of frustration so heinous that you will, on multiple occasions, force close it just to be done with that music... that f***ing music!!!!”

“They never bothered to secure an actual soundtrack, so the whole game sounds like an online psychology class module (lots of free and free-sounding music), easily fixed by mods of course but still annoying.”

“The music is calming, but it, too, will start to grate on you as you hear the same song yet again.”

“The game is good, but it's not worth giving your money to the heartless corporate stooges who are trying to sell merch after the full-price, early-access sequel was cancelled and left on the Steam store to rot away in its unfinished state. This whole IP is turned into a cash grab and the original creators probably aren't getting a penny.”

“They added a launcher to serve you ads for their new game. Recent update added completely unnecessary bloatware third party launcher that bombards you with ads. Adding a launcher to an 11 year old game just to shove promotions for the sequel in everyone's face without actually paying for advertising.”

“I've had this game for years, since version 0.23, and have had a blast with it since, but ever since they came out with the DLCs that you have to pay for that contain cool parts, this means you are locked behind a paywall to use them which, in my opinion, is so stupid and is just a cash grab, when you can have parts with free mods. This is what hurts my experience with the game. Those stupid DLCs should have been free, and every ease of life feature they have added was already around and made by players. I'm sorry but I am not paying for parts I can get for free with mods. Other than that, the game is fantastic and I highly suggest it.”

“No character development.”