Very interesting concept, very weird decision to enable Early Access on such a "Pre-Alpha" early stage. A space game with decent simulation and an actual interesting plot which challenges you to break away from its chains? Definitely interesting. In A.R.M. you are a (possible) criminal locked up in a Mining Barge, and mining asteroids with a mech for as long as the system tells you to is your sentence. If you try to misbehave, they come for you. If you try to escape, they come for you. Your mech has upgradable parts, and there's a modular damage system. There's a really cool system by which you use the ARM tool of your mech to pick things, like bombs, wedges or other tools, and you can also activate a jet on the "hand" in order to propel whatever you're holding, or use it as a reverse thruster. Never seen that before - very interesting. There's other simulated variables, like heat, oxygen, fuel, energy, battery, and newtonian flight. However, this is all there is to this game at t...

Not ready for prime time. No save game, controls are awkward and feedback is unclear and strange. I've tried to play the game numerous times, but despite manipulating everything I can't seem to refuel and then my ship spontaneously gets damaged despite not moving anywhere. Maybe that is user error but it's totally baffling to me. No, I don't want to have to read some how-to outside of the game, either. If the game doesn't present itself, them it doesn't.

I love the concept and the dedication that these developers have put forth recently. Almost any other dev group would have scrapped/abandoned the entire game, leaving it unfinished. I really think that if they had more exposure to the gaming community, things would have progressed a lot further! These devs have kept working on this game despite all of the negative reviews. I approve of these devoted devs and I think that the steam community should give them a chance. I think that this game could eventually be as good as Subnautica, P.A.M.E.L.A, and space engineers. This game has major promise and the devs are committed to making this an awesome game. These devs can use all of the support possible..... (and mabye some english spelling and grammar checkers and editors)

It's not ready AND it's designed for a VR headset.

Avoid at all costs. Please look up the developers and the game before even considering a purchase. I bought the game back in 2016 expecting it to be treated like other early access games; incomplete to start with but slow, eventual progress towards a polished game. The game concept is the only redeeming quality, but its worthless without an actual game to back it up. True to their name, the devs have engaged in nefarious practices such as false advertisement, including padding of the feature list. See the right side of the store page? Several of those features don't even have a purpose in a game like this, much less are actually useable - the game has no multiplayer whatsoever, yet is tagged for PvP and Co-Op. They've clearly labelled the game to get on as many lists as possible. They've also randomly increased the price of the game to more than AAA-levels ($75+) periodically. The game has not received any update in the public branch in over 3 years, and their internal dev branch (a...

This game has been dead since almost the day i bought it...don't bother buying this please save your money. Steam shouldn't even be selling it.

Don't buy it now I'll check again one year later

Note: I'll potentially change this review if can actually get the game to work, but for now I feel like I probably wasted my money. I'm playing this game on the Oculus Rift. Firstly, the game won't even run from within SteamVR, but fortunately I found a forum post in which the devs suggested running the game exe directly and that worked. Second, and this is the game-breaking part: no inputs work! The mouse and xbox controller work to move the game cursor around, but that's it. Headtracking is fine, but from the very first instance of needing to select something in the game (menus prior to playing seem to work fine), xbox buttons, mouse buttons, and keyboard keys do nothing. So I'm dead in the water right from the get-go. I found a post in the forum in which several people indicated having the same problem, but the dev responses weren't helpful and I don't know if those other players resolved their issues. The forum posts from devs seem to go back to early December and then nothing...

The game has some serious graphical glitches at the moment that make it almost unplayable: textures are low res, shaders are broken (the planet is surrounded by a black border which pops through all foreground objects), lighting and shadows are borked. Worst thing is I posted about this two weeks ago and there's been no developer response at all. Its an interesting concept but unfortunately the game doesn't work at the moment. Also, the HUD doesn't look like it does in the first dozen screen shots. Its some really ugly placeholder looking thing.

I'm going to say that while this might seem a neat game, the visuals are very different than pictured, much worse, and the beginning tutorial, what there is of it, is horrible. For example, at least for me the mining arm is unselectable and completely immobile. Maybe various features are broken, but how to mine and collect ore is something that seems to need a while to pick up - I've broken mining arms, run out of fuel, run out of battery, and restarted a number of times. Maybe it all becomes better with some upgrades, but I can't even figure out how to sell the small amounts of ore I do collect.