Inevitability

A fun cheap little game in development , meaning theres bugs but nothing too bad. Would definetly recommend this to friends and would also like the maker to keep on going with this great spark of an amazing game.

Inevitability is a space exploration game where you are given a ship and essentially set free. You can do the game-given quests or just run around shooting ships to get better ships. It could use some polishing, especially in explaining how game mechanics work as I don't understand things like how to heal my ship, but it has some cool features like planet mining. My favorite part thus far is ship combat as you can dance circles around ships that don't have tons of drones and lasers shooting at you, and as you pick the opponent apart you will see parts of the ship break off for you to collect. It's only $5 and goes on sale often.

Wanted to like it, it seems like a neat concept, but the execution simply isn't that good. Very little explanation, a bunch of hotkeys you have to remember, clumsy menus... In the end it really comes down to how unclear the game is about what you have to do.

Well, I must say I think it's a pretty decent game. Which is weird I wouldn't think I'd go for a game such as this but since seeing the success of other small indie developers such as the team who made owlboy, I'd thought to myself that there must be tons of other great games by small teams or single devs. IBeside the occasional freeze in frames and somewhat awkward ship movement, the game runs damn smooth and feels very natural. One thing I liked especially was the ship v ship fights and while I'm sure that this is a good bit into the future, I would like to see some form of pvp with other playes of inevitablility. Whetther it's the dev intention or not for the game to be strictly pve, I personally would love the ability to take resources and compete with other players for planets/or even solar systems and have some sort of territory control or something I don't know. Besides that, I can't really think of much and I'm excited to see what the dev has in the future for this game.

At this point this title should still be in early access. The game i just barely playable crashes on occassion and has terrible tutorial and game explanation support. I like the idea of the game but it still needs alot of polish ad work to make it worth while. the graphics for one are poor to say the least. The components of the ship ad station pieces need alot more explanation and basic game mechanics need alot more explaining aswell. Starting off in story mode with little to no idea of what your doing is horrible then again to face off with some big huge hulker pirate with loads of guns and drones right off the bat is no way to show a new player the ropes of a game. I tried for over an hour to figure out this title with little luck and believe me luck you will need if trying out this title for the first time. For now till alot more updates and features come out i have to give this game a thumbs down.

I don't fully reccomend the game as it is quite flawed in many ways but it is a simple somewhat enjoyable space shooter with upgrades, the rest of this review is mostly gibberish honestly.

I do enjoy the game even if the battles with ships seem to lag like crazy for me and sending drones seems to be the safest option at winning. I was playing human story mode and i was going along fine for like 5 quests maybe and just ended either due to nothing being there or a bug? and I am in good standing with all factions now just from going into their systems and finding trading stations and then simply spamming the trades not caring what I gain or lose now ending with 99-100 with all faction.

I'm not sure if the drilling/lasering for resources has much point, seems to just be something to slow you down honestly as I switched from laser to drill and just spam click my mouse to move the probe around and can pretty much absorb a whole planet fairly quickly if I wanted to, I'm sure I'm abusing the system as holding down mouse would slow me down but I've no patience for that it seems.

the plent resource gathering kinda reminds me of the free game Dig-N-Rig just without the conveyor belts and it's in space, heh.

Really cool idea, really poorly executed. The game lags like crazy during battles. SHip randomly explodes It's incredibly frustrating to spend 20 minutes building up a cool ship that explodes for no reason. There is a tutorial, it basically shows you how to move around, but nothing much else. So when yoou try playing story mode, you're left alone to figure out the mechanics of the game. Story mode is also very confusing. I was told to go places with no idea where they were, or how to get there, and space stations were randomly destroyed by pirates, not sure if that was intentional or not. Hope to see some improvement, but for now, I wouldn't recommend spending your money here.

Uhhh.. its a really good game. but. Its then nothing. if you get blue beamer. and find the big pirate ship and you can shoot it inside it. and then you got a so much parts. But its really good game. ill give it 7/10 good music. good gameplay. and its so good.

It looked like it might be a bit of fun, especially for the low price, but the controls are funky and the art inconsistent, and everything is just a bit clunky.

Honestly, so far, I enjoy the whole idea of the game and would love to see it developed further, but there are far too many bugs, almost to the point of being unplayable. I constantly crash after certain points in game as well. On the bright side, there is a dedicated developer who listens and responds well to it's players. Assuming that he continues to build on to this game, I will come back once these game-breaking bugs get fixed. For now, it needs much improving. Unfortunately, until the game is at least playable, I would not recommend this game.

This game is very hard to really review. Let me go over some quick bullet points before I go throwing around my 2 cents.

Things that are objectively good:

-Absolutely GREAT Dev. Amazing guy and actually CARES about how his game's finished product will be.
-Frequent fixes, patches, and support all around.
-Gameplay is simple enough to get and so are the controls.
-Fairly cheap for what it is and how well it actually runs.
-Block based physics building WITH collision damage being a thing for once in these kind of games.


Now, Some things that are objectively terrible.

-Music. All of it but the main menu.
-AI (Which is being fixed in the update after this review, But I'm going to add it because I don't really know how much the AI will be repaired.)
-Building mechanics are VERY precise. Extremely so if working to replace one block in the middle of your ship.
-Some of the art is... I hate to admit, But it's terrible. (Something I hope to be fixed soon, Granted nobody falls down the stairs again.)
-Lacking of PASSIVE inertial dampening causes me to sometimes slam into shit and makes me want to die a little inside.
-NO REAL CLEAR DESCRIPTION OF ANY BLOCKS EVER. Most are straight forward, But some are just 'WHAT DOES IT DO?!'
-Drones being complete crap in battle. Really only good for repairs.


Ok, Now that those are out of the way... Let me actually go through why I would in fact recommend this game with the stuff I said is bad.

The game itself for a lacking of a better word is rather basic, And simple too play. It's got the potential to be a master-piece among the titles of 'King Arthur's gold' or 'Terraria' given time and more development. It has great replay-ability if you're into building and simple physics-y games. The mechanics of the game aren't fully flushed out yet in terms of resourcing from the feels of things, But this is something fixed over time rather then all at once. Even 'Space Engineers' took well into months of Dev with a whole team of people working on it to tweak it to be any fucking good at all.

It's actually very fun for being very simple. It feels fun all around for the most part and with new content being added each update and the updates and fixes being quite small and frequent, I usually look forward to seeing the game after each update.

One of the points that I feel though is that story mode is a little lacking and lack luster, But the open sandbox play is still quite fun.

Now, The draw backs that the game has CURRENTLY that I feel will be more influential and flushed out later are the factions. The factions to me seem reeeeeally pointless... But I think it's not a lacking of effort, and more about needing to have more time to really implement them.

Let me just mention the Dev though... He is actually REALLY nice and can really take, and often does, a lot of criticism. Really what some people need to understand is that he is only ONE GUY who does pretty much everything from what I hear, And almost never gets any outside help past some occasional forum suggestions for things he already actually has planned. Who else can say that they alone made a game that has even HALF the good things I've mentioned above?

And with all this being said, It all really boils down to, Yes the game is fun, runs great, is done by one very fantastic guy with an idea, and has just god awful music with an amazing, Passionate Dev whose not going to abandon his project just because some child doesn't understand the game creation possess.

Overall, I'd say the game deserves a chance and is actually VERY MUCH WORTH the cheap price $5.

7/10, Recommended to people who like and enjoy the simple things in games.

UPDATE! 2/7/2023 -
Abandoned. Feels unfinished still. Eh... Backed the wrong horse on this one. Avoid.

Game is entirely broken. Cant even get past the tutorial cause it sets your resources to minus numbers.

This is a great game! I wish the ship could turn using something other than the mouse ,like q and e but that is all i have to say. Just an overall amazing game.

This is one of many cases where an indie dev team aimed for the stars without having the staff to back it up, and it's mostly a bit saddening imo.

As others have said, this game isn't all that polished, has a mid-to-bad soundtrack, and doesn't really explain anything about itself.

I think the devs wanted to make a deep space sim game without realizing how much work that requires, but as-is it feels like an arcade game - and while that's not a bad thing, it is for a paid game on Steam. Arcade games are meant to be played a handful of times then dropped shortly afterwards, but a released game on any platform is meant to be played for some time over the course of however long you wish to play it.

I'd recommend against this simply because it promises to be more than it is.

I have to say though, for a small team (or even a single person, can't tell which it is) this isn't too bad.

I just wish it was given the time & resources required to fully realize its concept.

In contrast to my other reviews, I'll try to keep this one short. I'm getting a refund, and here's why:

This game is not complete. Not only content wise (description here is highly misleading), there are rendering bugs, weird gameflow issues, weird design decisions and probably a bonus memory leak.
I know the game's just ~2 USD (and trust me, it shows!), but since space games are my favorite theme, it really saddens me to see the wasted potential here. A month of two of polishing would've made wonders for this project.
It feels like an Alpha at most. I'd probably be way more accepting if it was Early Access, and wouldn't go for the refund.

PROS:
- Very neat concept, hunting ships and mining for new parts, then building your own ship.
- Ships and drones work as intended after built. Decent customization allowing for faster/agile ships, versus bigger and tankier ones. Drone focused, missile focused or laser focused. Balanced builds. Etc.

CONS:
- Weird UI, Weird control scheme. Constructing the ship is more annoying than it should, with a very small grid without a zoom feature.
- Graphical and sound assets are bad. I usually don't mind this, but when I see a robot-human drawn in paint it kind of hurts.
- Terrible writing, with insane amount of typos and weird content. "These are spiritual beings that possess trees for mobility" is probably one of the most intriguing things I've ever read.
- Rendering, UI and AI issues.
- Very dumb or silly AI.


Hopefully we see more updates from the devs. It seems they finished the hardest/worst part (technical issues, procgen, sandbox world, ship building, faction, quests and other systems), and didn't care for the rest..or polishing the finished systems.

WIth a dozen other similar games either released or in Early Access at the moment, Inevitability sits in a very rough spot.

On one hand, the game's still unpolished at the time of this writing. It could use some texture work, balancing, new parts, et cetera. The dev says they're working on it.

On the other hand, the gameplay is neat and the dev is really responsive to bug reports, suggestions, and general requests. And not touchy about said suggestions, which is a nice change from some other games I've played. :V

In general, within the quests, you go from mission to mission. Every now and then, you'll get jumped by a few ships from a rival faction - just to keep you on your toes. Weapons include direct fire, missiles, and turrets, The current best strategy seems to be to load up on shields and just make a Borg cube, but I suspect gameplay will grow in that respect.

Treat it like an early access game without the tag, and... well. I've spent 5 bucks on FAR worse games than this. IMHO, it's a worthwhile buy, especially at the current price. Get in early, and you can probably help mold the game too.

this game is put together in a very strange way, i like the part that you can mine a planet but apart from that the control is unfriendly, there is no information about different ship module in the game, some of the MUSIC in this game is horrifically composed that kills the mood instantly, feels like playing a game that is about cowboy chasing rabbit.
the art style is simple and interesting that reminds me ascII games.

(THIS IS A REVIEW THAT CAN CHANGE DEPENDING ON FUTURE UPDATES AND DEVELOPMENT)

The game uses an interface control that is not user friendly and rarely uses the mouse at all, relying instead on alt, control key, backspace, and spacebar. The ship editor puts you into a mining screen instead of an actual ship designer screen similar reassemble. I have yet to figure out how to return to open space from a planet's orbit.

I couldn't care less about the graphics and sound, it's just the playability that is wonked.

Suggestions: reset feature for tutorial so you can start it over again and a more robust tutorial session. Also fix the ship editor so you are not dropped into a mining operation.

This game suffers from far too many faults.

The description given in the infographic under "About this game" is generous to a fault.

Here's a list of places the game falls short:


The music is corny, the sound effects are horrible

The controls are often confusing, leading you to constantly hit F1 to review them, which shows a help page which is also confusing.

The flow of the game is poorly described. It took me a bit to figure out that the probe you are gathering with at the start isn't the ship you will eventually design and iterate on.

The faction system makes no sense. The universe seems way too large to bother exploring and each system seems to be owned by a faction. You gain and lose faction points extremely fast with different factions for doing different things. There seems to be no benefit to the different factions? I'm not really sure what the whole point of the system was, it was poorly balanced and seemed irrelevant in the end.

The 'storyline' was just a very short series of quests where I basically just ran around shooting things. Never felt threatened by the enemy, there was no sense of progression here, and nothing interesting.

Combat is too easy, just circle strafe, throw drones at them and they'll never hit you. Once you get enough drones you can kill anything pretty much instantly. Even before you get drones just circle strafe and shoot. Hell, if you don't want to circle strafe, just strap ~10 extra power and shield modules to your ship and you will be unkillable in that way.

Ship design is also poorly balanced and poorly explained. There's a life support/power system that I think was supposed to constrain big ship design, but really doesn't serve a purpose because you just throw on enough parts that everything is green and you're good to go. Many of the parts have parameters that are not explained, and the numbers seem to make no sense. Often there's one 'best part' which outshines other parts in every category, so you just strap a ton of those on your ship. Would have been better if you had to balance things out instead of just throwing a bunch of parts together.

I really wanted to like this game, but the design is terrible on almost every level.

There's potential, but this is not a finished game (even if they say it is). The controls are confusing with little-to-no explaination/help and the ship creation is shallow to say the least.