Masterspace

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Masterspace is a single player and multiplayer survival role playing game. It was developed by Mastertech and was released on June 15, 2015. It received negative reviews from players.

Masterspace is a game about mining, creating and exploring, featuring fully destructible environments and spaceships that allow you to travel between different planets. Use explosives to mine metal ores or watch your newly constructed home get smashed to pieces by a meteorite impact. As you venture into space to discover new planets, the hull integrity of your custom built spaceship will be tested…

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Audience ScoreBased on 139 reviews

humor3 positive mentions

stability16 negative mentions

The game features a unique concept combining spaceflight with survival and base-building gameplay, allowing exploration across multiple small downscaled planets.
It supports modability through Lua scripts and editable files, providing customization options.
Some players found it enjoyable for building and exploring, especially with friends, appreciating the innovative building mechanics and the game’s charm despite technical issues.

The game is unfinished, buggy, and suffers from poor optimization with frequent crashes, save corruption, and game-breaking bugs, making it often unplayable.
Graphics are low quality with poor textures, lack of shading, and many visual glitches; the game also has confusing or absent tutorials and limited content.
Development has ceased, the game was prematurely released, and the developer abandoned further updates, frustrating players and making it a poor value.

graphics
18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17%
66%
17%
The game's graphics are generally considered sub-par and problematic, especially for users with integrated graphics cards, as there is no warning about compatibility issues. While some appreciate certain visual aspects like voxel terraforming and multiplanet environments, many report texture loading issues, downgraded visuals, and a need for powerful discrete GPUs to run the game optimally. Overall, the graphics are seen as lacking compared to similar voxel-based games, though some players overlook this due to engaging gameplay.
- “The game is interesting, there's some workshop mods already out there, and it looks good graphically.”
- “Other than that the graphics are beautiful, the gameplay innovative... and very entertaining.”
- “I did put all the graphics on the top setting though, because normally my PC can handle that kind of setting.”
- “Controls were sluggish, none of the textures ever loaded despite using a dedicated graphics card (no warning that integrated graphics aren't supported before purchase), and the game keeps freezing despite meeting more than the maximum requirements to run.”
- “Voxel games like Minecraft work because of a cohesive aesthetic, but in this game, the developers removed the blocky feel and replaced it with hideous textures and low-poly models, leaving the world fairly smooth.”
- “No warning that this game does not work at all with integrated graphics cards, causing compatibility issues.”
stability
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent bugs, glitches, random freezes, and crashes, making it often unplayable or frustrating to progress. Many users feel the game was released prematurely and requires major fixes to improve its stability and overall experience.
- “Released from early access to trick new people into still buying it when in reality it is an unfinished, ugly, buggy mess.”
- “Additionally, the game freezes for about 10 seconds seemingly at random about every 5-10 minutes.”
- “This game has never loaded for me; it gets to the loading screen and then freezes. If this is fixed, then maybe I will do a better report, but till then this game is unplayable.”
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
38%
24%
38%
The gameplay offers innovative ideas, particularly in combining spaceflight with survival and base building, and features unique building mechanics. However, many find it simplistic, unchallenging, and plagued by poorly implemented gravity mechanics, resulting in a lack of fun and an unfinished feel. Developer issues and sparse updates have further hindered the gameplay experience.
- “There's no problem with the concept, there's a lot of great ideas here, combining spaceflight and traditional survival/base building gameplay.”
- “Other than that the graphics are beautiful, the gameplay innovative... and very entertaining.”
- “The main feature that I found unique was the building mechanics which lets you build in all angles, even lets you save the building for future use.”
- “Current gameplay isn't fun at all.”
- “The new gravity mechanics are awful, and basically just add a requirement when building spaceships.”
- “In 3 hours of attempted gameplay I can find nothing positive about this game.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users criticize the game's monetization as a blatant cash grab, detracting from the overall experience. However, despite aggressive marketing and limited communication, the game still retains some charm.
- “Cause it's a cash grab BS excuse for a 'release'.”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game often arises from unexpected and quirky bugs, such as animals flying across the screen, which players find amusing. However, some glitches can be frustrating, like the game world randomly destroying itself and causing save file loss. Overall, the humor is largely unintentional, stemming from its flawed and premature release.
- “Those bugs manifest themselves in funny ways—sometimes you'll see a sheep or a cow randomly fly across the screen.”
- “Sometimes it won't be so funny, and the world will inexplicably destroy itself, along with your save file.”
- “Hilariously bad and prematurely 'released'.”
optimization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from poor optimization, resulting in bad performance even on high-end PCs. This significantly impacts the overall experience despite well-designed building and mining mechanics. Additionally, issues like faulty lighting and numerous bugs contribute to its unpolished state.
- “The building and mining in the game is done well and the perks make things interesting, but the game feels really un-optimized.”
- “Faulty lighting, very poor optimization (bad performance, and I have a fairly new and good PC), tons of bugs, I'm not even gonna talk about the sound design, lack of any kind of tutorial, also it seems that more than half of the game is missing...”
- “One thing besides optimization I would recommend is to polish the UI!”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The music receives mixed feedback, with some praising the beautiful soundtrack and its dynamics, while others strongly dislike the entire musical score.
- “It had lots of interesting mechanics/dynamics, and a beautiful soundtrack.”
- “Also, I hate the musical score, every single piece.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in masterspace is noticeable at the start, requiring some initial effort, but it becomes rewarding after a few hours when players acquire the resources needed to progress freely and enjoy the game.