Often so I tend to never write reviews as it was either mediocre or unneeded, but I deem this game worthy of a positive review and that says a lot in my books. As a fan of the Homeworld franchise with the aesthetics of this game matching it, it's a plus, Hardspace Shipbreaker is also a new niche in my games library, something which perhaps never has been done before in the market:

You are not the hero, you are not the, "one". You are a shipbreaker. A blue collar worker striving to eliminate his debt from the conglomerate Lynx Corporation. Through the careful disassembly, quite literally as the times I've blown up the ship and myself, you aim to reduce your debt to 0 and end your indentured slavery to the corporation. The core gameplay core is fabulous, albeit needing refining but what do you expect, it's an early access game and I have high hopes for this one. The developers have shown to respond very well to criticism and implementing what the community wants, an example is the recent open shift update and rapid patching of bugs.

Now, do me a favour and buy the game. You'll like it, and it's going to a great cause in the gaming industry to create something NEW and original. Now, you probably don't like reading to a certain extent so I'll give a summary.


TLDR:


PROS (AS OF RIGHT NOW):
- Great game play loop
- Something new in the market, it's fun as well.
- It's almost a puzzle if you're into that sort of thing, but it's also not. It's your way to disassemble the ships, so do with that as you will.
- Developers show dedication to the game, patching bugs and providing updates to adapt what the shipbreaker community wants. Alongside this, great communication.
- It's fairly cheap, good hours to get out of this one (as of right now I have 29.1 hours but I see myself playing a lot more and we haven't had many content updates yet. I've already had my money worth and many others have gone beyond that)

CONS (AS OF RIGHT NOW):
- Only 2 ships with variations. The developers have stated the next updates is focused on providing new ships, so it's not going to be an issue.
- Doesn't run smooth on older machines (for reference I was using a GTX 960 before moving to a GTX 1660 and I was hitting around 25FPS on the 960, with hitting around 40FPS on the 1660).
- Mediocre graphical optimisation, but the developers have stated it is an aim to be met shortly. I have no issues believing this as the work they've done already to patch bugs etc have been apparent.

Often so I tend to never write reviews as it was either mediocre or unneeded, but I deem this game worthy of a positive review and that says a lot in my books. As a fan of the Homeworld franchise with the aesthetics of this game matching it, it's a plus, Hardspace Shipbreaker is also a new niche in my games library, something which perhaps never has been done before in the market: You are not the hero, you are not the, "one". You are a shipbreaker. A blue collar worker striving to eliminate his debt from the conglomerate Lynx Corporation. Through the careful disassembly, quite literally as the times I've blown up the ship and myself, you aim to reduce your debt to 0 and end your indentured slavery to the corporation. The core gameplay core is fabulous, albeit needing refining but what do you expect, it's an early access game and I have high hopes for this one. The developers have shown to respond very well to criticism and implementing what the community wants, an example is the recent open shift update and rapid patching of bugs. Now, do me a favour and buy the game. You'll like it, and it's going to a great cause in the gaming industry to create something NEW and original. Now, you probably don't like reading to a certain extent so I'll give a summary. TLDR: PROS (AS OF RIGHT NOW): - Great game play loop - Something new in the market, it's fun as well. - It's almost a puzzle if you're into that sort of thing, but it's also not. It's your way to disassemble the ships, so do with that as you will. - Developers show dedication to the game, patching bugs and providing updates to adapt what the shipbreaker community wants. Alongside this, great communication. - It's fairly cheap, good hours to get out of this one (as of right now I have 29.1 hours but I see myself playing a lot more and we haven't had many content updates yet. I've already had my money worth and many others have gone beyond that) CONS (AS OF RIGHT NOW): - Only 2 ships with variations. The developers have stated the next updates is focused on providing new ships, so it's not going to be an issue. - Doesn't run smooth on older machines (for reference I was using a GTX 960 before moving to a GTX 1660 and I was hitting around 25FPS on the 960, with hitting around 40FPS on the 1660). - Mediocre graphical optimisation, but the developers have stated it is an aim to be met shortly. I have no issues believing this as the work they've done already to patch bugs etc have been apparent.