Mech Engineer

“When I have to look up YouTube tutorials before I can even run the first mission, the developer has very clearly done something gravely wrong.”

“Outside of the base, in the actual missions, you have no real control over your characters, which is fine, but again since nothing is explained to you, you don't understand what is happening at all, then they reach a creature that they cannot kill (because you were supposed to go through a series of menus to change your mechs and their guns before entering the mission, which you are not told), resulting in all your mechs being destroyed.”

“To top this off, the game forces you into ironman mode and prevents save scumming by carrying damage over through saves (so if a mech takes damage and you instant quit, it keeps that damage), which means you will eventually death spiral if you don't perfect every mission.”

“There's nothing enjoyable about playing a 640x480 nonsensical simulation with painful to read instruction due to the resolution limitation and graphical design of the game.”

“The presentation is utilitarian, with interfaces packed with data and systems that prioritize information density over aesthetic elegance.”

“Lack of graphical fidelity in combat is also an issue in that you won't know what's going on unless you already know how to look for it.”

“Poor UX design choices that don't add atmosphere but instead just make the interaction of things seem needlessly stupid.”

“They made it so, as they pierced the atmosphere.”

“In the opposing direction of the planet's side of the atmosphere that they pierced.”

“An actual soundtrack would be nice; two songs and silence are not fun to listen to while you spend hours tweaking things.”

“An actual soundtrack would be nice; two songs and silence are not fun to listen to while you spend hours tweaking things.”

“The overall aesthetic of the art, music, setting, lore entries, etc., has a dark, grimy, sci-fi apocalypse feel, but the limited music variety reduces immersion.”

“Inexcusable performance for an 80 MB game.”

“Maybe it's just my laptop, but this game is very badly optimized.”

“The optimization is just not there, running under 20fps on an 8000 series i5 with a 1050ti and 16GB RAM.”

“Additionally, once you have sunk some hours into the game and have won, you really start wishing this game had better replay value, alternative ways to play that are less meta game or more endings.”

“Unfortunately, the UI friction and limited depth of combat/strategic layer hinders the replayability.”

“Considering all the problems and lack of replayability, I would say this definitely isn't worth 12.5€.”

“So yeah, bad UI in this game makes it much harder than it actually is and also pads the game time by a lot by making mech/pilot management and mission prep unnecessarily tedious.”

“Having figured that out for myself after sinking dozens of hours into it, I can confidently say that even with enough know-how this game will still be a linear, tedious, and save-scummy campaign.”

“And the insanely tedious loop of starting the game, configuring your mechs and stuff only for you to fail due to some things listed above in the following 10 days.”

“Buggy as hell, but it has a unique charm that most AAA games lack. I bought it in early access to support the developer, as I rarely purchase early access games anymore since most turn into vapor.”

“They do not care that this planet of oceans and foliage is now a rock drifting through space, with violent cells of torrential weather of every kind, from volcanic plains with temperatures inhospitable to human and animal life as we know it, oceans that are either acidic or completely frozen, no flora on land or sea, tornadoes rivaling Jupiter's storms, or tundra that freezes nuclear reactors' cores and engine cores powerful enough to generate electricity for countries.”

“Also, keep in mind that this is a single-developer game - there are glitches and rough edges, but nothing game-breaking.”