misterhaan
  • Spacebase DF-9

    22 hours playtime

    no achievements

i was excited for this game when they started working on it and when they abandoned it and took it out of early access and called it version 1.0 (same thing happened with gnomoria, but spacebase df-9 is even more buggy and incomplete). there’s still a lot of potential here and it’s sort of fun to start out before you start running into all the problems. they said they added a modding system, but it’s not steam workshop and i never tried it. it’s seriously amazing it’s for sale and isn’t marked early access, since it becomes obvious how unfinished it is as soon as you get past the earliest stage.

if you’ve had success with mods or an unofficial patch let me know and i might try it again.

Vito

I know, such a shame that this wasn’t finished. Your review describes exactly my feeling towards it. I haven’t tried any mods…

‘Gnomoria’ is the same story you say? That’s unfortunate, it’s in my backlog as well :(

misterhaan

gnomoria is the same in that it also came out of early access because the developer wasn’t going to work on it anymore rather than because it was done. it doesn’t necessarily feel unfinished though if you weren’t playing it during early access and enjoying the monthly updates like i was. there’s enough there to get a lot of enjoyment out of it, where spacebase i built a moderately large base and felt like i’d experienced all of it, even though i didn’t research everything. gnomoria has steam workshop mods but i haven’t tried those either.

Vito

Good to know. It’s unfortunate that it didn’t get finished, but it sounds better than ‘Spacebase’. Still, I am glad that you made me aware of it, now I can go into playing it with slighty lowered expectations :)