Game2019

Space Company Simulator

SimulationStrategy

Developer Intermarum

Take the position of a CEO of a space transport company and become a new major player in the industry. Space Company Simulator is a realistic management sim game that will challenge your planning skills as you strive to launch the first manned mission to Mars. From the Steam store page

102 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Apr 5, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

25
Rotten

25 positive · 77 negative
95% range 17–34%

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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
48 of 179 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What people are saying

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  • Steam user Steam user …9163Steam reviews · Nov 21, 2019

    **********BUYER BEWARE*********** anyone considering buying this game should look at their previous attempt at fraud "RACE TO MARS" M.O for these guys is to develop an unplayable sim mark it as early development ... people buy it ... cash roles in ... stop development ... cash keeps rolling in ... move on to the next scam .. **********BUYER BEWARE********

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  • Steam user Steam user …3879Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019

    Update after 1 year later: Seems like my fears were justified, the developers produced another unplayable/empty game that's not been updated for months. History repeats itself. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! --- (Original review posted 23/10/19 below) Buyer beware, before spending your money on this game, make sure to check the forums and the history of their previous game: Race to Mars. I do not wish for people to spend their money on empty promises, like I did many years ago.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2880Steam reviews · Oct 29, 2019

    Just looked up their first attempt Race to Mars. Went early access in 2014 and its still in early access. I wish I knew that before purchasing, things don't look good. Still haven't been able to play more than 3 turns before I get stuck in a black screen. At this point in time would not recommend this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1289Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019

    No animations for any rockets, no seeing space or where the stuff you're shooting into the sky is going. This is a glorified tech demo comparable to maybe 1/5th of a full game. Can't recommend.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5259Steam reviews · Jan 3, 2022 · 8 h played

    Do not buy. This is a scam, the game is nowhere half finished and it's been abandoned by his developer for almost a year now. It's unplayable. This type of developer should be banned from Steam.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9974Steam reviews · Nov 28, 2019 · 22 h played

    The game was released about 50% done. The updates or patches are minuscule really doing nothing. There's no game plan except of more patches coming sometime. They have a very good and complex outline of a game, But they seem incapable of finishing it. I would follow it for a while but don't BUY it ! Its now Mar 21 2020 and nothing been seriously done to improve this game. Its now Aug 14 2020 and the game is still broken. Its now Nov 08 and an update came out and made it worse Don't waste…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4164Steam reviews · Nov 23, 2019 · 6 h played

    Author's note: This review was written in early access and information (along with the recommendation) is subject to change... At least it better change! Overview The reader can infer that Space Company Simulator is a turn-based management simulation, so we'll skip to the blunt description of the game: Space Company Simulator is like the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger: It was used too early in the year and turned into a disaster. (Okay, so maybe not quite as big of a disaster as the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6929Steam reviews · Oct 25, 2020 · 11 h played

    Game was last updated 4 months ago and the update introduced a game breaking bug that can be reproduced 100% of the time. You can "play" but will have mysterious income from nowhere that continues to add up until you hit $2bil and then your game ends in bankruptcy. Developer does not communicate and does not appear to be actively developing the game. The only official updates just continue to say "update coming soon"

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  • Steam user Steam user …5915Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019

    As of now the game is unplayable, it really needs optimization. Running at 25 fps on low settings with a 1060 / i7 8700K.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8961Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2020

    Like their previous game "Race to Mars" not finished and seems to be abandoned again. So don't trust the Early Acess! As you can see the developer asked my to reevaluate my review. They did some minor updates. However, this is still a game which is not finished and it seems to be abandoned again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7778Steam reviews · Apr 30, 2022 · 2 h played

    Horrible, Intermarum have continued their Race to Mars antics.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1294Steam reviews · Nov 21, 2021 · 4 h played

    DON'T BUY THIS GAME!!!!! Previous version of this game was called Race to Mars and check it out on Steam store as it go the same reviews as this one is getting. As an owner of race to mars I got this game "free" but even for free this game is still not worth it so PLEASE don't waste you money on this game. Previous game released and stayed in EA with little development for the whole time it was in EA and was unplayable and this game is heading in the same direction - Once again don't waste…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5034Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019 · 1 h played

    Too many bugs, and to risky for me to stay at this game, after reading the community entrys, saying this is the same game as a dumped predecessor. But i must give the developer credits for gifting the owners of the predecessor this new game. e.g. the investor screen turns one day to just showing "investor 1, investor 2, investor 3" some days later the next day won't ever come. Its blacked out. I will give it a go if it lefts the early access, and the reviews are not totaly bad as now. But,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6731Steam reviews · Jul 9, 2021 · 2 h played

    I received this game as a gift from a friend. It was on my Steam Wishlist and people who know me know I like space things like this. I am fortunate. Thanks for thinking of me, friend. Therefore, I did not receive this product for free. Someone, not related to the company has paid for it. It cost money. I'm honestly surprised at how bad this game functions. I have a fairly generic Laptop. It's not some crazy custom PC. ROG Strix, 17 inch with an i7 and a 1070. Honestly, I am blessed.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7326Steam reviews · Jun 23, 2021 · 8 h played

    I really hate to put a negative review on this game. But there has not been an update to the game since January 2021. Not even any hotfixes. Even when we ask on discord we get no answer to anything we ask. I would have to say it has potential but I really would not recommend this game. I basically got this game for free due to having a game called Mission to Mars that was shut down and remade into this game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0667Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2020 · 2 h played

    I work in the Aerospace industry so I was enjoying the game until I ran into a major bug....the game hangs when I try to save. I have tried over and over again to save and I get the "Saving..." screen and it just sits there. I have to use task manager to get out of the game. Played for over an hour. This sucks. Without the ability to save, this game is unplayable. I hope that this gets fixed. For now it will sit unplayed. Once they fix this I will recommend. Update - I decided to try…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7045Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2020 · 1 h played

    Its original name was `Race To Mars`. they changed it to get a better reputation on steam! It worked... They are still yeasr behind sceduel and it is not recomandeble at this stage- even for early acess.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4550Steam reviews · Oct 25, 2019 · 2 h played

    Edit: Do not buy, this is another Race to Mars. Four months with no updates or announcements, or even trying to use what has been going on this year to excuse themselves. It is following exactly how the developers treated the only other game, which was also not finished, and is pretty much the same as this. A lot of flashy updates for a short time, and then slowly coming to a standstill. I re installed with every "update" and it seemed like nothing was really changing, so I would…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6922Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2022

    STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME AND RACE TO MARS TOO! Look for Race to Mars and read all about what happened to that effort because the exact same situation occurred here and the end result is that buyers of the game got another dud. Sure the game is a little further along than RTM but the fate is exactly the same, the lights are still on but nobody is home, save your money and go find a Space game that is complete. Get Mars Horizon, it is complete and is good to play.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8531Steam reviews · Dec 17, 2020 · 2 h played

    This game is bad and dead. No progress at all from time of release. Very buggy glitchy and not user friendly. Also the devs have 0 understanding of how rockets work in general. Stay away!

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  • Steam user Steam user …7453Steam reviews · Jun 16, 2020 · 2 h played

    Too buggy and unfinished to even warrant Early Access. It was much later that I was browsing older games in my library when I realised this is just a re-badged Race To Mars. Which was also Early Access, before being abandoned. Instead of continuing work on Race To Mars, it seems they have just re-released the same code with some cosmetic changes so they can collect more money without delivering

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  • Steam user Steam user …6711Steam reviews · Mar 30, 2022 · 15 h played

    This game is broken as hell. Notifications won't go away after viewing, blocking your view of buildings, mission control is broken, showing only a map and no way to launch your own ship. After building all the complexes, still no way to launch your own rockets. Contracts are broken, you go from sell us components once to manned flights with nothing in between. It claims to offer contract by stage, not one satellite launch mission. Wasn't a bad game when it first came out, but is suck now.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9288Steam reviews · Nov 14, 2019 · 2 h played

    Unplayable with the bugs. Tried two different playthroughs and got stuck with a bug that makes the "next turn" button impossible to click. I'll wait a while before playing this one again. Update - 12/20/19 - Three full updates since my first review, and the game is still unplayable and broken. Can't build rockets because all parts are "incompatible" no matter what rocket you're designing. No satellites to be found in order to fulfill contract, no ability to launch anything once you do…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3990Steam reviews · Nov 11, 2019 · 8 h played

    This game has a LONG way to go before its playable. Hardly any of the core game play is there, launching rockets is practically impossible. The only reason I have this game is because of it's predecessor "Race to Mars" which also never left early access. I am going to give the developers a bit more time prior to playing it again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5589Steam reviews · Nov 3, 2019 · 3 h played

    Wanted to give this a chance since the game appeared to have several of the gamebreaking bugs patched late October. As it is from my perspective the game is still not really playable, no new contracts spawned for me and numerous bugs were evident throughout (eg employee salaries will sometimes set to $0 and the employee will quit in disgust, unable to test or repair any components to assemble a rocket, not that it matters because without any contracts you can't actually seem to launch any, of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3468Steam reviews · Oct 25, 2019 · 1 h played

    I think this game has potential, it was slightly confusing at the start because a lot of information is thrown at the player, but with some time I started to understand how each system worked. I definitely think that the tutorial sections could use a bit of work to make the player experience a bit more straight forward. If you like simulation games and the idea of managing a space company definitely keep your eyes on this game!

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  • Steam user Steam user …5061Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019 · 1 h played

    Tonnes of simple grammar mistakes... Tech and Research trees are no different, everything seems to end up the same like communism... Garbage tutorial Why did i invest in this ? Would rather drag my balls across broken glass. What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rushed piece of s h i t A big Vinnie Mac on this one. No Chance in Hell.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4482Steam reviews · Oct 16, 2023

    Steam should ban these people from the platform, because fraud is all they do,

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  • Steam user Steam user …0723Steam reviews · Jun 4, 2021 · 1 h played

    Not Good cant even show us a second stage or see parts dock in space. dont buy it, it is a waste of money.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2031Steam reviews · Feb 7, 2021

    SHOCK, HORROR, GUESS WHAT: IT'S ABANDONED Even after the 'update?', play is still poor. At this rate of development i wonder how long before it gets abandoned and everyone AGAIN gets a 'free copy' of the new replacement game that we promise: Will release as a full game on time, guaranteed not as a EA.... hmmm sounds familiar. My advice is do not buy at this time, updates are infrequent and add little to the gameplay. This was supposed to release as a full game on time. What we actually…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3257Steam reviews · Nov 20, 2020 · 2 h played

    Still way to buggy to even try and play. I tried, I really did... refunded till they get a working game. BTW, it did look like it had promise and I hope they do continue to work on it. Sorry but just no, atm, no...

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  • Steam user Steam user …5514Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019

    please optimized. I can't run the game smoothly

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  • Steam user Steam user …0871Steam reviews · Jul 23, 2021 · 10 h played

    The game has very little instructions which makes it basically impossible to actually launch your own rockets.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2898Steam reviews · Apr 3, 2020 · 1 h played

    Seemed like a promising game but it crashes within 10 minutes of gameplay and i've tried multiple times. Playing on a high end gaming pc that is above the recommended specs.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2130Steam reviews · Oct 25, 2019 · 1 h played

    Start is a bit hard because of amount of information you get from the tutorial but after you get the basics it seems quite interesting. There is a lot of possible upgrades and game seems to have many micro-management mechanics, I am really looking forward to finding all of them. There are some techincal issues and minor bugs, but nothing game breaking for now. Rocket Launch sequence is one of the coolest parts, I hope that there is more control over it in later parts of the game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1956Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019 · 1 h played

    This review is for current state of game, if developers start to make some fixes and updates my recommendation can change. Game was developed for years then abandoned, now after years emerges with new name and new developer. As old game was stuck and unplayable this one is not to far from it. It is slightly more playable but after some amount of turns you get black screen and you need to force close game. I get this game because I purchased old abandoned game race to mars (something like this),…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0594Steam reviews · May 19, 2024 · 2 h played

    BEWARE! Game has never been finished and it never be. People behind the game aren`t taking their job seriously.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4190Steam reviews · May 25, 2021 · 3 h played

    WARNING! Unplayable crap WARNING! How long can it take to deliver anything to play? Common guys your game is not worth even a single beer! BORING WASTE OF MONEY

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  • Steam user Steam user …1782Steam reviews · Jan 19, 2020 · 4 h played

    To many bugs to be enjoyable. Random black screen occasionally when ending turn. All you can do is close the game. Building rockets, sometimes the boxes are hidden behind other screens and impossible to actually finish the build because you can't drag the part to those boxes. EVERY rocket I was able to build, after waiting the turns it requires to build, was missing parts after it was finished and unusable. Problem is, it takes about 2 hours to get to that point and figure it all out. If you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3081Steam reviews · Apr 26, 2023 · 2 h played

    Another abandoned steam game. Has major potential. Damn Shame.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9025Steam reviews · Aug 15, 2020 · 4 h played

    Game has a bunch of issues still. Money overflows and bankrupts you even if you have a positive cashflow. No real direction as to what to do. Hiring process is a mess, doesn't tell you want division a person should work in and you end up hiring a bunch and swapping them in and out to figure out. Hope it improves, Looks like it would be a good alternate to kerbal space program.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9679Steam reviews · Apr 18, 2020 · 5 h played

    I just cant seem to get it up.... But sadly in this situation I don't think a little blue pill will help, I've given it a good go and want to like it i really do. But certain things stop me... Like not being able to just fire rockets into space when I want to, you have to wait for contracts for you to launch your rockets. There also seems to the inability once you get to medium rockets to be able to add engines or struts because the socket for them appears of screen. Hopefully in the long…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1506Steam reviews · Mar 29, 2020 · 4 h played

    i have 3 hours and 40 minutes of play time and cant refund. This game keeps crashing and doesn't work. almost all the time i have on this game was in main menu trying to look up how to fix this. Now steam wont give me money back. I really would like to buy another game related to space because this doesn't work. But i spent all my money to this game. Please help me steam and refund this game please

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  • Steam user Steam user …9162Steam reviews · Dec 27, 2019 · 3 h played

    Good lord this is boring and poorly put together. Can't schedule a launch? Can't get contracts to complete? The contracts pay less than the component construction costs. This game just plods along and you bleed money so badly. After a couple hours I wanted to throw my computer out the window after constructing a launch vehicle I couldn't plan to launch it. Worse still, the interface needs serious help. Mousing over buildings doesn't actually work and there's a serious offset that means the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2841Steam reviews · Jul 5, 2021

    Very buggy game without clear tutorials. No updates since january.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9772Steam reviews · May 22, 2021 · 1 h played

    Absolute disgrace of a game. It's unplayable and frankly should be pulled from the store page completely, and I will be contacting support to get a full refund because it's a disgrace

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  • Steam user Steam user …8175Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2021 · 12 h played

    The game would be great, but full of bugs. Assembly items are disappearing, so you cannot complete a rocket as parts cannot be purchased or manufactured, even if you had them before. When you accept a contract, it is not clear what needs to be built, so the game is saying very often that you do not have a rocket which fulfills the contract. Eg. put an specific satellite on orbit. You build the rocket with that satellite, but you cannot send it to space at all. Some graphics are still buggy…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2696Steam reviews · Sep 17, 2020 · 10 h played

    After KSP I was looking for exactly what this game showed. Wish it would work, too many crashes, too many errors, now the cash shows mega positive but I just bankrupted out. There should be at least some points for a playable game before Steam lets people sell. Get your &^%$ together guys.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4865Steam reviews · Jul 5, 2020

    I gave it a try, just to see if the game is in a better state than from November last year. The deciding point for me whether to keep this game or refund was the launch sequence... You won't imagine what i saw. Hard-coded sequence that has no information about the vehicle. I thought i will get an ultimate pc experience of those lucky guys from mission control, i thought i will hear "Launch director, vehicle go for launch"... How hard can it be?! I think that the management system is nice (from…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6524Steam reviews · Jan 31, 2020 · 3 h played

    Played for 3 hours. Tested components once, wouldn't let me do it again. The blueprint button wouldn't work on my saved rockets. When I saved rockets all the components would be reset...so why should I save it? Had a contract I couldn't complete because I don't have access to large satelites. Need an option to mark all as read in the messages as reading/deleting is taking for ever! Just reloaded my game this morning, really looking forward to play. Lost ALL my employees, couldn't even go to…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2667Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2020 · 7 h played

    Still amazingly unstable

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  • Steam user Steam user …2411Steam reviews · Nov 27, 2019 · 8 h played

    pros a game i long ago got and thought was abandoned got bought and redid/kinda fixed cons they did a very poor job on their coding. a good example is on launch day there was a bug that would cause game to black screen all time. instead of promptly fixing it they waited a week..... a week after launch. this means near everyone who bought it refundied in inthat first week as game unplayable then. while they do do regular updates those updates are very lack luster. a few fixes and unlock…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0759Steam reviews · Oct 26, 2019

    As a buyer of their first game five years ago, I was hoping this game would be like a vast improvement on their attempts so many years ago. You would have thought that given it's now five years later, they would have learned a lot about game development. Ya know, stuff like UI design, gameplay flow, balance, optimization, marketing, community management, etc. Nope! Not these people! It's like they literally just copy and pasted their old code and swapped out their old 3D models for new ones and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8489Steam reviews · Oct 24, 2019 · 2 h played

    Game is running quite well for EA. Now in game there are a lot of mechanics and informations which are overwhelming, but on the weekend i will come back to game, because it looks very promising.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0900Steam reviews · Aug 29, 2020

    This game will not run at 60 fps, I have a GTX 1080 and this game will not get out of the mid 20fps

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  • Steam user Steam user …4092Steam reviews · Mar 24, 2020 · 5 h played

    So i know it's early access but it's frustrating how many issues there are. The potential is awesome and i can't wait for it to be bug free but in it's current state idk if it's worth it. Maybe get it for the cheap price now but don't play it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8436Steam reviews · Feb 15, 2020 · 4 h played

    Yup Yup I should have listened but I really wanted this game to be everything that it says it can be. I hope that they do continue work on it and get it working but it should NOT be in early access right now. It is really not very playable and based off of the youtube video's i've seen that discuss the multitude of bugs which I got it, its early access but it doesnt appear that they are being fixed. Again I hope they continue working on it but right now dont waste your money!

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  • Steam user Steam user …2838Steam reviews · Oct 26, 2019 · 1 h played

    Needs a lot of work - there's not that much to do at the moment other than follow what seems to be a pretty linear path. Its just not fun to play at the moment. Will see how things pan out.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2562Steam reviews · Apr 27, 2021 · 1 h played

    This game is trash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9152Steam reviews · Nov 23, 2020 · 30 h played

    The game don't work. It have a lot of issues.

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