ASTRONEER

From the intuitive and rewarding crafting system to the intriguing mystery that's there to unlock, not to mention the fun voxel based terrain manipulation, astroneer has earned its place as one of my favorite games of all time.

Astroneer, tatlı grafikleri ve uzay temasıyla ilk bakışta ilgi çekiyor. Ancak oyunda yapılabilecek şeylerin sınırlı olması, 2-3 saatlik oynanıştan sonra “şimdi ne yapacağım?” hissi yaratıyor. Açık dünyada gezip keşfetmek ilk başta keyifli olsa da bir süre sonra sıkıcı hale geliyor ve oyun amacını kaybediyor.

The game itself is great, but it's just full of bugs. My friend spent a lot of time building a digging machine, only for both the machine and the character to get stuck in the planet's core. That would've been fine—I could at least dig down and rescue them. But somehow, the character glitched into outer space, leaving the vehicle stranded in the core.

So, first of all, for a release there are just too many bugs! My favorite one is when you walk and suddenly get thrown up into the air - for no apparent reason - a then die from falling damage. Really, Dev´s? About the game itself I´m a bit torn. Let´s start with the pros: There´s quiet a lot of progression in the game. You start with some basic stuff and through a lot of research, you´ll be able to travel to other planets. The machines look nice and there are some good ideas, like the trading system, that will allow you to buy resources without having to travel somewhere, just because you are missing one certain resource. The cons: While machines look nice, the terrain itself looks just awful... Almost no threats in the game - no animals - it just feels lonely. (Just some OP-plants.... yes, a mushroom can kill you) Vehicles handle terribly, get stuck a lot and are not that useful (except for maybe getting research items). The crafting system. It´s nice in the beginning, but later on you have a lot of different resources, that you can combine into other resources to craft more advanced stuff. The problem here is, that you´ll run around your base collecting each one of the required components in order to feed them to the printers. Why isn´t there a main storage where the printers take resources from? Why do I have to feed them every single one of them??? This got tedious and irritating rapidly... The game gets boring after a couple of hours, but especially the endgame, when you just run around and dig to get the "unlocks" for the ending. The bugs! So many... Overall I must say, the idea of the game is good, but it just wasn´t so much fun to play. Even if the many bugs are fixed, the gameplay would still be mediocre at best.

I've created a Metacritic account today because either the devs or some die hard fans are upvoting Astroneer on Metacritic currently which, uh, feels odd imo. As for the game, it is okay. It is not ground breaking, nor good looking, it is rather... average? Currently Steam reviews are going down for good reasons I suppose. The terrain looks ugly most the time. Check out Steam reviews for more complaints, esp. by disappointed long time players and Early Access fans. I, personally, find Astroneer a bit too buggy, laggy, the terrain with either too many cracks (mesh holes, actually) or too ugly? How did they come up after so many years in EA with such awful textures and models? This is not okay for that price. And the long term gameplay... is just not fun. Wait for a decent discount. Astroneer is no way worth more than $4-5. But, of course, it could be so much more, but my guess is, as some journalists pointed out, that the actual devs did not have the experience in handling such a game on their own, as if they did not fully grasp what survival fans need and want. But I fully understand why other players enjoy it, for sure. Cheers