Reviews

• gamedeal user

  May 18, 2014

  The only way I can describe this game is predatory. It's grossely misleading - class action lawsuit misleading. And I don't use that term lightly. They compare it to Descent with a fully destructable enviornment, but it's more like an amateur Unity project. First off, you need fuel. Remember those old Nintendo games where you had to constantly pick up fuel to keep moving? The ones where taking just a second longer to get the fuel meant losing the game? Well, imagine that in a 3d enviornment while you're being shot at and you have no clue where the fuel tanks are. Do you get into cover (yes, you have to take cover in your space fighter)? Then you just used fuel and probably can't reach the next tank. Do you rush to the next tank and fight from there? Then you'll get your oxygen system taken out and die. The AI always knows where you are and has pixel perfect aiming, even when you're trying to shoot back at a target no bigger than a pixel. There are hardened turrets stationed everywhere. So some stuff is destructable. Tunnel through it and flank them? Nope. That uses your fuel. You HAVE to take the shortest route possible or you run out of gas. Even better, if you're fighting outside, there is a solar flare every 10 seconds or so. And yes, it will kill you. So you have to spend more fuel trying to hide in a meteor cave (how does this protect you from a SOLAR FLARE again?) or try to dash through a cluster of enemies which while tear you to pieces. On the odd chance you do collect some resources, they're just used for a really basic crafting system. Bottom line - stay away from this garbage and the developer. They also made Space Engineers, and I refuse to give them another dime until they fix this game.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 14, 2021

  Was abandoned by devs and "Finished" far too early. Cannibalized for Space Engineers (Which I have heard is great, but refuse to buy after this game)
• gamedeal user

  Jun 27, 2014

  This game has the privilege of being one of only a handful from my Steam library that I've actually asked to have permanently removed from my account by Steam support. Cashing in on the nostalgia for classics like the Descent series (all of which are vastly superior to this dreadful "game"), Miner Wars 2081 is a broken mess. Everything about the game is just "off" somehow. The scale is really weird and difficult to describe. Rather than feeling like you're flying around in a spaceship inside an enormous space station, it feels like you're driving a Micro Machine around someone's living room; nothing's got a sense of proportion or frame of reference and the design of the space station interiors seems designed to confuse, with little in the way of landmarks or anything that might actually make it look like it could be inhabited by actual people. The combat mechanics are basic and the menu/inventory system is a nightmare to navigate, let alone understand. The voice acting is pretty poor and what little I could glean of the story from the opening mission made no sense, being totally without context. After the first mission ends you're dumped into a world/solar-system map with no idea where to go next or why. Pretty much wherever you do decide to go, some people will autoamtically attack you, but it's not made clear why that's happening either, or if any of the ships are meant to be friendly. Finally, the setting is so utterly absurd that it does nothing to help this sorry excuse for a game. The idea that anything on/around Earth could survive its destruction by the Sun exploding is total nonsense. That functioning societies could spring up from the debris and even start building new structures in a scant few years after an apocalyptic event is the metaphorical icing on this turd of a cake. I cannot urge you strongly enough - do not buy this game under any circumstances.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 2, 2014

  When I first bought this game I was hoping I could step off my ship... so if you're looking for that it's not here! However, this game does bring a certain addiction with it. The gameplay is relatively simple, your ship is flown in a bigger ship that travels around a certain area of space which is controlled by different countries or factions. There is a storyline to follow and is a decent one at that. Like every game I play though I base its greatness largely on the game play. This game is about what you can expect from any first person space shooter game with a multitude of upgrades available (from armor, to weapons, to ammunition type, engines etc...). Adding the ability to dig through rock or mine adds a different paradigm to the game (... sort of. You can mine and then sell the rocks/element types). There is a different drill though if you press "m" that just rips through any asteroid in your way. This is not only pretty cool to mess with physical features of the map, but launching a few missiles also changes the shape or hole size in the asteroid. Although I personally like playing it, for it to really stand out and be something else and differentiate itself from any other game I can't really say. It is definitely a fun game to play, and worth a buy if on sale. The amount of control you are able to have on how your ship moves/rotates/displaces itself is quite notable in this game. If you really like having control of your space craft, this is it! Beware though, some players may find this repetitive. RATING : 7.1/10 [table] [tr] [td]Gameplay[/td] [td]B[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Story / Campaign[/td] [td]B-[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Visuals / User Interface[/td] [td]C+[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Sounds / Music[/td] [td]B-[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Replay-ability[/td] [td]B-[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Overall [/td] [td]B-[/td] [/tr] [/table]
• gamedeal user

  Sep 22, 2014

  Of all my early access regrets, this is by far the most regrettable. It's the early access game your friends warned you about, where the developer just up and disappears. Especially disappointing because this game would have promise with some polish.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 19, 2014

  it's an incomplete game perading as a complete one, full of bugs and glitches and no support their home page forum is a ghost town
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2014

  I enjoyed it, and that's because I got it very cheap and went in with low expectations. It exceeded tham, a little. They built a world that the game could only make use of about a third of, so it seems like a game that was going to have much more content. What's there works and is fun. People who remember Descent as awesome might be hyping it up a bit in their memories... This game has what decent never had - an open world (space?) design. It might only be half implemented, but I'd probably still rather play it than an updated Descent. Just get it cheap or on sale and don't expect to have your mind blown.
• gamedeal user

  May 3, 2015

  To start: I loved playing this game. To a point. The controls seemed awkward at first, but once I got the hang of them, it turned into sheer awesome. That is, for a while. I've played through every single level of this game. Twice, actually. First complaint: I have never received a single achievement. There are 12 achievements. They are all based on story progression. I have none of them. I beat the game twice. There is an issue there. Next, the... sheer incompleteness of it. There are a huge number of extra missions and things, and... Well, you see, by the end of the game you have three allies. Before a certain point, you only have one. Then, I think, you go up to three. Then back down to two, then up to three again. No matter what time during the game you venture to the optional side-missions, you WILL have all three allies. Even if you have no idea who the hell they are, or if you currently believe that ally to have DIED HEROICALLY. He's just hanging around with you in a sidemission. But that's not even the worst of it. Some of the sidemissions are just plain crap. You have, basically, a bunch of random crap that's really not useful at all and maybe a few mineable things just... there. Around you. Blow 'em up if you like. Maybe a few enemies will wordlessly appear. There's no mission. It's just... There. Pardon for the lack of specifics, but it's been a while since I last played, but... One of the 'sidemissions' is New Moscow, or something like that. The Russian's big main city... Er... Sorry, did I say city? I meant a few defense turrets mounted on buildings that you can blow up if you shoot a hell of a lot. There's not even a shop. Which reminds me, if you expect all the shops to be actually functional, you'll be sorely disappointed. There's quite a few that are just completely and totally nonfunctional. Heck, the 'shop here' button shows up. Mash it 'til your keyboard breaks. Have fun. No point to it. And then there's the mining. I could have enjoyed that so much. I love mining in games. I LOVE open world sandboxes. But you know what? I hated it here. I'd prefer to just waste a missile on a uranium deposit instead of take the time to actually mine it. And I tried. Oh, I tried SO hard. But the default mining equipment is the ONLY mining equipment. There's no way to enhance it. So the 3 or 4 seconds it takes to mine ANYTHING will ALWAYS be that way. And it's just plain not worth it. Not in the slightest. MAYBE if you're mining one of the really, really valuable resources, but still. You can find more money by just looking around and looting things. And don't bother with the secret rooms. They have nice loot, but not nice enough. And beyond that, sometimes the game just stacks crap against you to a stupid extent. One level, the offensive turrets are literally indestructible. Literally. You actually HAVE TO disable them through the control console for them, or you won't even be able to progress in the mission. I blew up the generator that powers the console for those turrets... And wound up trapped in the level, basically. I couldn't do anything at all because I had disabled the console which I literally could not progress without accessing. And the game just... kept going. Didn't really care. And one of the secret rooms I mentioned before? I found it. I could see inside it. I then spent ALL MY AMMO and EVERYTHING I could think of on trying to get into the damned thing. There was nothing. At all. Not in the slightest. This game is a brilliant, beautiful START. ... But it's only a START. It needs to be refined. It needs to be FINISHED. It needs to be added to. And the worst part? The very end of it is just an enormous cliffhanger. And I haven't heard of Miner Wars 2082. They got their money and they're done. You see this on sale? Maybe you get it. Just don't expect things to be perfect. It won't be perfect. It'll disappoint you in a dozen different ways. But if you can get used to the controls, like I did, you might just find you enjoy it enough to bother paying... say... five bucks. I don't recommend it at-price. If you get a sale, MAYBE. But don't expect it to be complete. You've gotta take it into your own hands a little. And don't be afraid to change the keybindings. I definitely had to.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 8, 2015

  A bland story, a "open world" that again is bland and boring. This was supposed to be an MMO out in space however they either didnt have the budget or didnt have the right people to make it. So we have this game instead. Dont even get me started on the resource system that is in place. Apparently in the near future its going to look a like the present. You need oxygen and unlike star trek that has a life support system this game has a scuba type oxygen tank meter in place. Save yourself the $10 dollars from a dead game. Go buy almost anything else besides this game. You have been warned.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 17, 2015

  Miner Wars is a shoddy, half-done mess whose developer realised at some point in development that they couldn't deliver on any of their promises, and rather than doing right by their community, decided to cut and run by shoehorning in a half-baked story campaign and calling it a finished product. That they still dare to refer to it as open-world is a farce. Avoid, and be wary of the developer's other products.