A satisfying little labor simulator in space. I found everything overwhelming at first, but by the time I finished the story campaign, everything felt a little too easy since I had learned tricks and workarounds for all the difficulty spikes the game throws at you. This is the video game manifestation of the saying "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." Taking apart the ships and dumping the parts into their appropriate bins is kind of therapeutic for me... except when a chunk I launched toward the processor bounces off an obstacle and heads into the furnace instead. Also, why can't I pull things out of the barge? I wish this game had more mechanical curveballs to throw throughout the campaign, but it's a solid experience as-is. Just don't leave the game running for more than 2-3 hours at a time; I kept running into issues where the game process would periodically spike my CPU usage to 100% for no clear reason if I left it running for longer than that.

It’s relaxing, almost meditative, thanks in part to the music and the leisurely pace. But it’s also a bit monotonous because the gameplay doesn’t change much. Sure, you have to examine the different ships more closely before you start, but once you’re familiar with the basics and know their weak spots, things don’t change much. The physics engine makes it exciting to fly around or moveing large objects and if you’re not careful … boom, 200k or so are gone. Using special Lynx's method as the backstory is a good idea, but it gets a litle annoying as the game progresses.

gameplay is quite fun, though it's quite repetetive towards the end, with not much increases in difficulty or new mechanics, the game is also quite long to complete and it does feel like it's dragging towards mid to late game, the story doesn't feel like it was fully thought through, it feels like they wanted to do more but didn't end up committing to it, the characters themselves are fine but it feels the story just isn't complete. One major complaint within the story I have is the final story mission, there's a section where for the sake of immersion the game disables your movement, stopping you from playing the game, this happens constantly, not just once which works for immersion the one time it happens, but it gets old fast because it happens every five or so seconds. I would say the game is maybe worth it if it's on a big sale, the gameplay was fun and kept me going for a while but at a certain point the game's lack of meaningful progression and obvious padding got old and I kept wondering when the game would move on to the next act or introduce a more interesting mechanic, which never happened, which is never a good sign. 35 euros is not really worth it, 20 euros is more reasonable on sale but if you're looking for a more meaningful experience and not something to play for like 2 days and never again, I'd skip this one.