Prospector

[h1]Not yet[/h1] The game has potential, but until they put in more work I can't recommend it. It's missing so much QOL it's baffling they decided to release it. I stopped playing at end-game because I have shipping contracts maxed and now only need to fulfil faction quests which are super awful as explained below and at this point I can't be bothered to guess how to feed animals. It's nowhere explained and nothing I tried work. * You need to fulfil SPECIFIC contracts for a particular faction to advance 'progress'. The thing is, you have up to 20 contracts at a time and [b]NO WAY TO IDENTIFY WHICH ARE FOR THAT FACTION.[/b] If you have your shiping rank maxed otherwise, you can ship hard to craft resources for no benefit because they didn't belong to that faction. * Automation is awful and barely working. Limited area on the bots makes them awful. Many areas require manual management occasionally (moth farm). The bots are too slow, take up space and have no priority, so they will feed...

Seems like a fun game a melange of astroneer forager and satisfactory and it was fun exploring the world introduced. There're flawed mechanics, but mostly prospector makes sence, fine enough for a early release. Except it isn't, which I learned after finishing the game. Even though I liked it I cannot give it a positive feedback for the "full release" label. Elements that look like a placeholder rather than mechanics implemented in a sound manner, several independently caused crashes, FPS drops, weird building rules that were left out because developer was running out of time you can say with a certainty. On top of that late game is grindy not because it requires a lot, but because it requires random items which game doesn't explain how to get. Purchase with a caution

This game truly feels like a mini Factorio — similar to Satisfactory, with a touch of No Man's Sky, but in a cute, cozy way. The developer is clearly working hard to improve it every day, listening to feedback and gathering suggestions from players. There are still a few minor bugs. For me, it's the UI — whenever I unlock something new upon leveling up, the A button overlaps the description. Occasionally, the game also locks itself at 30fps (even though my screen is still set to 60Hz). Aside from that, everything runs smoothly, and it seems like the controls are already well-optimized for a gamepad. I've added it to my wishlist and will be waiting for the full release to dive in. So far, I’ve enjoyed over 10 hours of gameplay on the Steam Deck. Wishing the developer good health and success — I hope the game keeps growing with more creative content. The possibilities are endless!

I was expecting something of Forager or Nova Lands quality but this just feels like an early-early access product with unpolished everything. Even hitboxes don't show dmg zones properly. I was able to kill the first boss while standing still and tanking all the dmg.... Yeah, dodging his skills was impossible because of how bad the hitboxes are. Not playing that

There's Moth sex

Within first ten minutes, a bug removed my ability to place anything on the ground. Then encountered a bug that disabled pickup and wouldn't renable. The final bug made the gun inoperable. These bugs cumulative and followed to each new save. Switching to M+kb just introduced more bugs.

They added tutorials, because the dev/s listens? This game is actually what games used to be, people are generally spoiled-brained. The only legit main concerns with the game is no RNG for planets like starbound - there should/could be a simple RNG system/workshop to make end-game infinite (like other games that use RNG). QOL: There's a ton of missing QOL that you'd find default in other management games, sadly were overlooked due to devs prior knowledge? Crafting needs to be redone, there should be a future update allowing workshop for worlds, and/or a simple RNG system to dynamically generate unique orders, planets to visit etc. Not bad for 10$ it's pretty chill minus the QOL shortcomings/menus etc. People complained about lack of tutorials and in days they are implementing tutorials, do you know how freaking RARE that is? I don't think people are giving it a fair shot, in non-biased fairness - it shouldn't be branded as a full game but early access with promise and not decei...

Lovely relaxing automation game with an incredibly responsive developer.

The game looks cool, the idea of the game is good, but due to the lack of a manual save (except the save when exiting the game) it makes the game tiring because there have been several crashes, the game closes by itself and the player loses hours of progress due to the lack of a manual save. No one will have the patience to go in and out of the game every 20 minutes to save. The best option would be an automatic save at each time interval, but since it's an indie game, it's understandable to a certain extent.

Simple game with simple automation. not too long, a nice game to play if you're looking for something to relax and playthrough while listening to music/podcasts or shooting the breeze on a call