Derelict Void

I have played this game a few times and it is highly, highly frustrating and unforgiving. Its a very open/shut game with very little challenges or seems to be so far. No matter how I try, there is no longevity to it. You are extremely limited in what you can do. You are basically on a survival mission across the cosmos. You have to find resources and derelict containers to keep your ship ongoing. This sounds fantastic in principal, but it seems to be based a lot on luck. What annoys the most is that you can't BUILD anything. The game seems to focus around finding particular kinds of buildings. And you have to travel 8hrs average at a time to get anywhere. You have around 4 days of each supply left. But every time you get to a place, it takes an age to search each part, at the same time eating valuable resources. Then you will find a building you need! Awesome, I can produce the resource I need. Ah, but wait - most of these buildings are missing parts. And you have to find another bui...

It's not good. In summary you 'travel' between text-based encounters and watch your resources count down. There's a basic 'city-building' thing on your ship where you might get a factory or two to slow down your resource drain... but if the RNG is unkind to you, you'll run out of oxygen, food or water. It might be unkind, but this is like a pre-early access game prototype.

This game is hard. Brutally hard! Its a survival game, but you are most likely gonna die 99.9% of the runs. I've had runs where you are dead in 4-5 jumps where I didnt find food (happened more than once) Very simple to get the hang of the basics, but brutally hard to survive...... So if you like a challenge, go for it, but you are warned. I think this game needs a way to turn down the challenge for beginners :) Some might not think its fun loosing that many game sin a row.

I am only 3 hours in, and the game has been a lot of fun. I have perished EVERY game I have started as the RNG has been very brutal. I definitely think the difficulty could be toned down a bit. Nothing like having DAYS of resources, just to have the game force additional people on your ship. Those days of resources turn into hours very quickly, and before you know it, you are simply running for resources to survive instead of building your ship. To add to this, the game is still constantly hitting you with disasters which seem to increase as the game drags on. Another issue is that trying to become self sustainable is about impossible as none of the factories produce much. Again, I am only a few hours in, and I am sure I am missing some things that would make the game a bit easier. I plan to keep playing and experimenting, but as of now, unless you are into extreme hardcore survival and a lot of disappointing deaths, I would wait to buy until the game is a bit more balanced. I will r...

Great idea for a game but seems inherently flawed due to the fact the whole game is based around RNG. You start with a very small ship and 50 people as crew. The crew needs basic resources to survive like food, water, and oxygen. You have choices of where you would like to travel and there is a random chance that you will receive some of the resources listed above along with a bunch of of other resources like hydrogen (ship fuel), carbon, waste water etc... I have had multiple play throughs where I literally only live for the first 3-5 jumps because I didn't receive the basic life sustaining resources and my crew died. This game is similar to a city builder but instead of being able to build the "city" you have to take what you find and hope that it is what you need. This adds a unique feel to the game but makes it brutally difficult even on the easiest settings. You actually cant build anything in the game, you can only relocate certain buildings and combine parts of existing b...

Even on the easy setting, getting the needed resources is far too hard

Game balance is way off in several ways. Food, oxygen and water consumption is too high. Lots of buildings that dont work till you find more of the same to use as parts so you end up with a bunch of non working junk. Nothing between events to manage so you use the next event button A LOT. Game idea is interesting, however it is mostly just a clicker.

The game relies to heavily on RNG and 9 times out of 10 its weighed against you. Its no use talking to the devs because you only going to get the "its a feature" line from them and then them saying git gud at playing our game we have no intentions of changing. if they would show the game some love and actually do some of the stuff that the players are asking for it would be alright, however as is it wouldn't even be worth it if it was free because of lack of support when it literally just came out like a week ago

The game is brutal but fantastic. It certainly does not cater to the mindset of there is always a way and instead in my opinion portrays a somewhat more realistic experience of the survival rate of a cataclysmic event. It is a fairly simple game but you'll need to use any small advantage you can gain to actually survive and many times a bit of luck. You only have enough water for one trip before you die. Do you go for a guaranteed water source? Maybe a riskier water source that contains enough to give you a bit of breathing room? Or do you attempt to salvage a hull that you've detected a water treatment plant on in the hopes that some clean water will be stored for your immediate needs and you'll be able to use that facility to further your chances? Every option requires consideration of what might happen during that event or in the future and sometimes it doesn't matter how well you planned because someone gave up hope and threw a spanner in the works dooming everyone. As you play ...

With a design focused on RNG that cannot be mitigated and very frustrating requirements to have any agency in the game this is one experience you can be happy to skip. A game like Frostpunk shows just how poorly this game was designed.