The Thing: Space X

If you need 36 achievements, don't want to play, and just want to farm — this is exactly what you need.

Launch the game.

At the main menu, press 39 keys (if you want, I can send you which ones).

Close the game — and that’s it, the achievements are yours! Easy and simple.

The game is pretty decent, an arcade shooter with a spaceship and enemies, but I didn’t play through it. Just jumped in for the achievements for a couple of minutes. If you want to quickly boost your achievement collection, this is perfect for you.

Slam your keyboard once then close the game. You're welcome.

An older styled game with not very much to do besides shoot some objects or ships in space. Get a highscore of 69 and never play again. On top of this you can press every letter/number on your keyboard to get all of the achievements.

Overall - 1/10

Easy to get all achievements 100% just press all of your keyboard letters and numbers

not really good. there isnt much to do and its not even great on what there is

The Think: Space X is unjustly short and repetitive. There are no add-ons, no in-game purchases, no save points, no trading cards, no multiplayer/online play options, no differences between spaceship options (besides appearance), no pausing/saving options and no recognition for beating the game (besides maybe personal bragging rights among your friends). There are overly simplistic achievements that artificially boost your game play stats. By modern standards, yes, it is a cheap game. And to be honest, I bought it almost exclusively for the achievements. However, after beating the game a few times, I have some additional thoughts...

First of all, the soundtrack is FIRE!!! Pump up the volume and raise the roof!

Next, IMHO this game was more so designed to mimic 1980's space invader games than it was designed to be an achievement clicker. It is a throwback to the arcade era that dominated the late 70s, 80s and early 90s. I think the developers just didn't spend any time or effort integrating quality achievements into the game play before adapting it for Steam. I can understand how it comes across as an achievement clicker. The achievements are unrelated to game play and are earned by simply pressing various buttons. The easy achievements and bargain bin price point are likely used to attract as many buyers as possible with as little effort as possible. There's clearly no love for the game amongst it's own developers. That being said, the game itself is EXACTLY the kind of game you would beg your mom for a few quarters to try and beat to impress your friends back in the day.

The difficulty is based on physical ability and basic hand eye coordination. I.e. how fast can you press the spacebar (or MLB or MRB) and for how long can you keep it up while simultaneously evading enemy projectiles? While faser, laser and machine gun attacks are linear, missiles don't have to be. Once released, your missiles are collectively controlled by the movement of your space craft. You can use this to your advantage to help alleviate some of the stress on your wrist (and your spacebar). By coordinating where you launch your missiles and how you move after they are launched, you can break through enemy armadas faster and with fewer missiles. You can also speed up and slow down your progression through space by moving to the right (faster) or left (slower). Because you can anticipate when enemy ships will arrive (using the progress bar at the bottom), you can slow your progression if you need more time to rest your wrist or speed it up to capitalize on your own momentum. It's cool there are different weapons, but the control layout is really weird and unchangeable (spacebar= missile, RMB= laser beam, LMB= machine gun, F key= faser, use WASD or direction keys for movement).

The final boss is very disappointing, so the game does end on a bit of a flat note. And at $0.99, it is arguably overpriced given the extremely short game play (I've played for less than 40 minutes and have beaten the game 3 times) and lack of replay incentive. Fortunately, I got it for $0.49 on sale. At that price, it's worth the money.

Despite it's flaws, I had fun beating this game.

just to make some achievs..
in the rest ... just dont remember this game anymore

Awful game
Probs worth about 10p for a play for laughs

6/10

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Highscore 50, i am such a pro, try to beat me, this game is hardcore. Your chance to reach the first boss is 0,1 %

It's been a while since I've played a horizontal shmup like the Thing: Space X. If you only want to buy a game for A-Z lettered and numbered achievements for your profile, this might be the game for you. If you're into an enjoyable, little space shooter, then keep on going. Some of the design decisions resulted in good laughs.

Let's start with the good. The presentation is fair, it looks nice and then it goes downhill from there. There's some big electronic beats that are so intense it's hilarious for a game like this. Other than that, a lot of the music fits.

Now it's time for the unique hook this game has concerning gameplay. Each projectile you fire takes a second to drift out below you and then fire forward. The trajectory of the projectile depends where your vessel is from where it's launched. If it's above, the projectile will skew itself upward. Even after your projectiles have gone off, you can steer them with your ship. If you haven't moved it will fire forward.

Here's the thing, enemies come toward you rather than the projectile which drifts below you before it launches forward. So having your projectiles fire forward is futile. This forces you to move up, down and all over the screen. In fact, you can move off the screen if you'd like. Enemies fire at you from off screen behind you as well. That's quite a big sin. I suppose the trick is, never let them get behind you.

For each projectile you fire, you need to mash that space bar once. So it turns into a game of endurance, because your projectiles are so inaccurate. Another issue is your projectiles destroy enemy projectiles. Sure that's good, but that also protects the enemy as well. When your aim is so inaccurate, keeping any enemy alive is a danger.

Enemies always move toward you, so if an enemy rams you, you're dead, but the enemy stays alive. There's a bigger issue, because you spawn where you die and there's no invulnerability, so you can waste all your lives because you died once.

If you destroy the enemies before the next wave? You'll have to sit and wait before there are more foes to fry. It gave me time to write down notes for this review. At least there is a bar at the bottom to show when the next wave is coming.

There's a bigger sin here. If you beat the boss at the end, you meet up with a space ring. Using this space ring you launch off... and nothing happens. The game just sits there. You're off screen. There is no second level, there is no loop back to the start of the only level. You'll find no congratulations or victory. That's it. The game refuses to do anything after that.

There are a few ships to chose from, but they all perform the same in game. It's laughable that the selection cursor fails to keep up with your selection. Sure you can pick your vessel, but it takes a few seconds for the cursor to catch up to you.

For an arcade style score chaser like this, I'd also like a high score or a leader board, but both are no where to be found. It's a game to get people A - Z achievements for pushing a keyboard.

It's tough to recommend. I did have a few laughs for a minute at the design choices, but the game is shallow and there's no need to stick around. Its tough to recommend The Thing: Space X under any circumstance. Then again, I did buy it in a cheap Steam bundle, $2 for 15 games. This developer is dealing in bulk at a cheap price.

How many keys does your keyboard have?
Mine's the classic European type I think.
Well, we've got all the alphabet letters and all the numbers, and that makes 36 overall.
36 achievements in this game, and they'll unlock by pushing the corresponding button one time each.
Quite difficult and challenging, definitely something that asks you to play the game even more and makes you eager to complete and explore it.. xD
Ok, coming for 0,99€ at least they're just trying to grab some money from guys like me and they don't ask 2€ or more..
So, what's the game about?
It opens with the same Unity settings we're used to, graphics, full screen or windowed, and so on. Play it windowed, I think it's better, if you really bought it and wanna play it xD
The main screen has only the Start button, which actually isn't a button (I tried for like ten times to click on it but no way, keyboard only ahahah), hit Enter and choose your level.
They're pretty much all the same. And don't think that there's a pause button: P only unlocks the corresponding achievement, Esc.. well, Esc shuts down everything without even asking.
As I was saying, at least formally you can choose between different ships and levels but actually they feel quite all the same. And the design is so basic, pixelated and abysmal that you can't even tell the differences between them until, maybe, you see them shoot.
The game's a shooter, an arcade-like one: you move with WASD your spaceship, you have three lives, a terrible soundtrack that you can't turn off (no menu at all as I said, no pause, anything) and some "checkpoints" on the bottom row that indicate the progress on that particular level.
No autofire, no upgrades: click and shoot, get to the boss and finish the level.
No leaderboards or high scores and such, if you're interested into these things.
The funny thing is that the game is completely slapdash (just searched in the vocabulary for this term xD); for example, when you die the game will progress 'till you get to the end with the GAME OVER screen.. or the fact that all the enemies and even almost all of your spaceships' bullets are the same, and you will find yourself dying from getting hit by tons of enemies out of nothing.
So, there's no difficulty progression and this game lacks also the most important things a shooter must have - upgrades, extra lives, money to collect, customization, different bullets, shields.
This game has nothing. Worse than the Commodore64 things we played when we were just kids.
Avoid at all costs!!

This a fun game if you have noffing to do ;)

Takes less than a minute to get all the achievments ,the game itself though is trash.

Overall:2/10.

Dont buy the game

+ free 100% achievements
- the ships feel all the same, most weapons simply fire in a straight line with one bullet per mouse click
- no spawn protection often resulted in loosing several lives instantly
- low enemy variation
- no menu, pressing escape exits the game. Since there is no config or tutorial either, the only way to restart seems to be restarting the whole game
= at least they put in free dubstep/electro soundtracks, mostly from Machinimasound https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl-jVSaMOXYIkyC5o9HyNWA

If you manage to get a coupon for this, be happy about free achievements. Otherwise, keep your hands away!

WARNING: Stay FAR Away.. At ANY Price!

IN FACT... I'd highly recommend staying away from anything these developers put up on Steam as this game proves they care NOTHING about quality or selling you a good bang for your buck. They have poorly reviewed games before this that I see now, and have two more upcoming games in the next week! .. Ugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K47-QVUwNc

My Score: "AVOID at ANY Price"