Single-player SS13 made for/by insane people. First off, a lot of the criticisms floating around this game are 100% valid, quality of life is very much an afterthought especially once you get into automation, and a lot of systems could use a second pass or a better tutorial. Still, it's in a very playable state, and i've come to love the jank of passion...
Ostranauts2026
Early Access
Ostranauts
2026 Kitfox Games71Good
Playtime
MarathonIt typically takes about 200 hours to finish the game, but players put about 80 hours into it on average.
Playable on
- GeForce NOW
- Steam DeckVerified
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- $19.99
Game modes
Details
- First access
- September 10, 2020
- Launch
- August 3, 2026
- Developer
- Blue Bottle Games
- Publisher
- Kitfox Games
- Themes
- -
Overview
Ostranauts is a detailed simulation of owning and living aboard a spaceship, in a solar system where honest living is a slow death sentence. Set in the NEO Scavenger universe, where Earth has suffered cataclysmic collapse, the rest of the System lives on in a state of capitalistic dystopia. Players will create their captain, build or customize their starting ship from the spoils of their career history, and find ways to keep fuel in their tanks, food on their plates, and the debt collectors at bay.
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Reception
Players76
Good- Steam76from 2.9K reviews
TLDR; Right now? No. If you like space, or simulation, it's alright. It needs more time in the oven. Feel free to enjoy from the sides up till then. I'll update it one day when the updates have gotten through. If you are a fan of the whole "simulator" genre, I recommend it. Not highly though, especially in this state. As much fun as 1.0 provides, it...
So, in the past weeks I've ramped up 50+ more hours of Ostranauts and it's time to write a review. The premise: Ostranauts is an ambitious scifi sandbox in which you start out as a shipbreaker in our sol-system, where corporations have pretty much taken over completely and dictate the lives of the citizens while you just start out to make your living...
I absolutely love this game. I will continue to play it. I also cannot recommend it to anyone. It's obtuse, opaque, and counterintuitive, and that's the charming part. At 1.0 it still feels mostly unfinished. The UI, the message log in particular, manages to hide most important information buried under white noise. For instance, the AI will periodically...
Just like every single other review mentioned - this game severely lacks QOL to the point where it renders some quests and play styles completely inaccessible (for example, if you start this game expecting to be a badass bounty hunter you will be sorely disappointed since it provides zero tools for locating your targets in the vastness of space - have...