Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Feb 12, 2017

  It's OK, but this is a game I'd price at sub $5. There's literally 1-2 hours max of gameplay before you've pretty much done everything there is to do in the game. It's early access still, sure, but unless they're holding back some seriously different game mechanics, there's just not that much here. I wouldn't say it's not a fun game... it's just that it uses up all of its fun really, really fast.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2017

  Overall great game for it being super early access. There isn't much to do, yet, but I like getting to the point where I'm bringing in more cash than I can spend (about 15-30 mins of gameplay) and trying to design cool space stations. Just need more modules to add, currently there are a few locked. This game isn't for someone looking for a lot of action. I find it to be more of a relaxation game. When I'm stressed I get on and build a space station and zone out for about an hour. Pros: + Graphics + Relaxing + Replay value is there (Building new stations) + Very few bugs + Updates seem to be on schedule Cons: - Needs more modules - Camera movement (Have to click and drag mouse. Would prefer to be able to use W,A,S,D as well) - Would like to be able to save built stations edit: this feature is present with arrow selection on the right hand side of the main menu.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2017

  Looks very promising, very relaxing music to go with a relaxing game. Game is still in its infancy, I would consider it a two year old that has just figured out how to walk and you can see the potential of a real runner. This is a simulation if you expect aliens to show up and lasers to defend your station, you are out of luck, I think. The developer is pushing for as much realism as he can get away with and still give us a fun time in playing it. Oh, I was hoping for "Rocket Man" or "Major Tom" but that is probably asking for a bit due to royalties. ++++++++ Game has been released, a few pretty harsh bugs that were not in Early Access showed up. Bad news I lost all my stations, good news, I got to build them all over again with better designs! Love the gimbaled nodes, so I can have rotating structures. Game is lacking in that we cannot build large rings, agro modules, or expandable large structures. It is desiged for a casual gamer who wants to spend a few hours putting a little station together, I kind of over did things and built stations a couple of orders of magnitude bigger. Still the game managed to handle it well and I had fun. So I recommend it for the guys who in the middle ages would build little ships in bottles. Here we build stations in Space instead. ++++++++ Good News is that the game is pardon the pun, stable. Saves appear to work again and we have large nodes and 3 sizes of Agro modules. Cost a bundle tho and they use up a lot of water. The game is now at a state it should have been on release. I think the publisher rushed the developer and that caused all the issues we saw at release.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 30, 2017

  (Linux Review - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) [b]Stable Orbit[/b] is a space station management game with detailed, realistic graphics. The game runs very well on Linux, and I've not encountered any of the issues reported by users of other operating systems. The game centers largely around managing resources to support the station's crew. Crew members earn money by completing science experiments. Earning potential scales with crew size, and larger crews require a larger station. Building onto the station increases heat absorption, and heat must be radiated into space to prevent station damage. The passage of time is controlled by the player, allowing for a stress-free gaming experience. Stable Orbit is an early access game that, in its current incarnation, lacks depth and difficulty. The only challenges occur early on, as one struggles to understand how resources and systems interact. Once figured out, designing a stable and profitable station is trivial. All in all, Stable Orbit is a good game. It is well-suited for people with limited amounts of time on hand, as well as those who do not wish to devote a lot of time to a game. At the same time, Stable Orbit is ideal for anyone who wants to spend hours building the largest station possible.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2017

  Not going to post a recommend but this game is very incomplete! Not like a Kerbal Space Program if that is what you are going for.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2017

  Okay... I was failing hard at this game. I was building a habitat as a first step so I required twice the resourses. Please put a total crew capacity in the status bar so it would initally read 0/1. That caused a lot of pain! I would still like the following reasonalbe changes... Ability to cancel research, Change research prioirty, have crew stay if they've just been resupplied (2 weeks worth of O2 is not critically low in the early game). Research should also scale with your progress so that you cant select a $600m item which might be impossible to complete without you running out of supplies. Key mappings are not explained (if exist at all). "R" for reasearch window would be great. Large Truss has a couple of backwards ports on it. * Edited review on 03-Oct-17 - 1.02: Status bar has been fixed in place and the UI scaling option is gone and ultra widescreen res does nothing. Not the fix I was looking for.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2017

  As of now, public full 1.0 release, I cannot recommend this. 1) There is no tutorial what-so-ever in game. You are thrust looking into your initial 'base' piece. 1/10/2017 2) Running in windowed mode seems to just 'shrink' textures and text, making models look very poor, even with max AA, as the edges are jagged. As of 1.0.2 the textures are still jagged in windowed or fullscreen, even with AA. It's more irritating on the edges/lines of objects, but it's a personal issue. 3) Because there is no tutorial, and minmal UI (Aside from the messages on the right slide-out window) you can't tell what is happening, where the contracts are... no 'summary' of stats or what is going on. 1/10/2017 4) No keybinds or keyboard shortcuts displayed, if there are any 5) 1/10/2017, patch 1.0.2, The game really does lack any depth, after about 4 hours of play I had a huge station, self-sufficient, with everything researched. There was nothing else to do except expand and upgrade solar panels. You only realize how little content there is to work with after you get a stable station up. Once these issues get addressed, I will update the review, but in it's current state, without watching outside sources for tutorials on how to play the game, I cannot recommend it.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2017

  Great concept, just not that fun. A bit too buggy and a little too dull, which is unfortunate because there is the bones of a decent game here. It plays a lot like a prototype. The ideas of game systems are present - research and development, crew and resource management, events and emergencies; but there really is nothing to them at this time. This is a game of trial and error, starting over and again to discover the correct sequence of moves. This should be the first stage of early access, with another 2 years to put some meat on the bones and give it a good polish. But this is the full release, where the developer and publisher have given it their stamp of approval and sent it out to the world as a mark of thier best effort at a complete PC game - what have we become. tl;dr - This is a 6/10 mobile app charging 3 times what it's worth. Come back in 2020 if you really love space stations.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 2, 2017

  Give it just a little longer, maybe a year and a half... it has huge potential but it is too early ATM.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 8, 2017

  This is a fantastic game. Just know that you're buying into a game with a bit less replayability, but hoepfully we'll get more content as time goes on. The game is beautiful, the science is fun, and there is so much potential for this title.