Space Company Simulator

Crap

Hate it, It is broken and doesn´t work.

This game is broken as hell. Notifications won't go away after viewing, blocking your view of buildings, mission control is broken, showing only a map and no way to launch your own ship. After building all the complexes, still no way to launch your own rockets. Contracts are broken, you go from sell us components once to manned flights with nothing in between. It claims to offer contract by stage, not one satellite launch mission. Wasn't a bad game when it first came out, but is suck now.

Do not buy. This is a scam, the game is nowhere half finished and it's been abandoned by his developer for almost a year now. It's unplayable. This type of developer should be banned from Steam.

I really hate to put a negative review on this game. But there has not been an update to the game since January 2021. Not even any hotfixes. Even when we ask on discord we get no answer to anything we ask. I would have to say it has potential but I really would not recommend this game. I basically got this game for free due to having a game called Mission to Mars that was shut down and remade into this game.

The game would be great, but full of bugs. Assembly items are disappearing, so you cannot complete a rocket as parts cannot be purchased or manufactured, even if you had them before. When you accept a contract, it is not clear what needs to be built, so the game is saying very often that you do not have a rocket which fulfills the contract. Eg. put an specific satellite on orbit. You build the rocket with that satellite, but you cannot send it to space at all.

Some graphics are still buggy too. But those are not that much bothering.

I hope there will be improvements, patches coming out soon as in current stage players can feel a bit of waste of time to play the game. Unless they like to struggle more than required by the gameplay.

This game is bad and dead. No progress at all from time of release. Very buggy glitchy and not user friendly. Also the devs have 0 understanding of how rockets work in general. Stay away!

I decided to give it a try after the "big update" and since it was 30% off, why not. Oh boy bad reviews were right, bugs are everywhere even my very first launch mission bugged out and I had to restart the game. After that it was a mission finished notification that I found no way to close, it kept bugging me for no reason. Everything seems unbalanced, price/time/effort/reward so it feels weird to play.

You are warned that this is not a mature game.. actually.. it is not even ready to be called early access, it is like a weekend project someone put together.

Game was last updated 4 months ago and the update introduced a game breaking bug that can be reproduced 100% of the time. You can "play" but will have mysterious income from nowhere that continues to add up until you hit $2bil and then your game ends in bankruptcy.

Developer does not communicate and does not appear to be actively developing the game. The only official updates just continue to say "update coming soon"

The developers syd the game will come out of early eccess 10-12 months after early access release but there we are 3 years later and no sign of life for almost 2 years

I work in the Aerospace industry so I was enjoying the game until I ran into a major bug....the game hangs when I try to save. I have tried over and over again to save and I get the "Saving..." screen and it just sits there. I have to use task manager to get out of the game. Played for over an hour. This sucks. Without the ability to save, this game is unplayable. I hope that this gets fixed. For now it will sit unplayed. Once they fix this I will recommend.

Update - I decided to try again. Saves seem stable this time, not sure what happened. This game just does not make sense at all. I get a contract to "perform a test on a engine supplied by ..." and I never receive the engine to test! Huh? I build one myself and test it. Nothing.
Contract lost. I unlock "the boat" engine through technology (and the technology after it) but it never shows up in the depot to construct....another contract lost. Wow. I get a contract to send a human into orbit and I have yet to build my first unmanned rocket! I have 52 turns to complete. Another contract lost. Ugh

Too buggy and unfinished to even warrant Early Access. It was much later that I was browsing older games in my library when I realised this is just a re-badged Race To Mars. Which was also Early Access, before being abandoned.

Instead of continuing work on Race To Mars, it seems they have just re-released the same code with some cosmetic changes so they can collect more money without delivering

I have about 30 hours on this strategy game. I really like the concept and play. The only problem I have is why no instructions? The in game is ok but there needs to be more explanations and how to do its....

The game was released about 50% done. The updates or patches are minuscule really doing nothing.
There's no game plan except of more patches coming sometime.
They have a very good and complex outline of a game, But they seem incapable of finishing it.
I would follow it for a while but don't BUY it !

Its now Mar 21 2020 and nothing been seriously done to improve this game.
Its now Aug 14 2020 and the game is still broken.
Its now Nov 08 and an update came out and made it worse

Don't waste your money.

**********BUYER BEWARE***********


anyone considering buying this game should look at their previous attempt at fraud "RACE TO MARS"

M.O for these guys is to develop an unplayable sim mark it as early development ... people buy it ... cash roles in ... stop development ... cash keeps rolling in ... move on to the next scam ..

**********BUYER BEWARE********

Wanted to give this a chance since the game appeared to have several of the gamebreaking bugs patched late October.

As it is from my perspective the game is still not really playable, no new contracts spawned for me and numerous bugs were evident throughout (eg employee salaries will sometimes set to $0 and the employee will quit in disgust, unable to test or repair any components to assemble a rocket, not that it matters because without any contracts you can't actually seem to launch any, of the 6 or so contracts I did have 2 were to send rockets up, one cancelled mysteriously and the other set a date in October 2000 that came and went without any rocket being launched). There doesn't appear to be any way to earn money in the game besides completing contracts and a small amount that can be made if you unlock the ability to sell components and without contracts you slowly go bankrupt.

I did so want this to be a good game and I hope it is one day but as it stands this game is a bad example of what Early Access should be about in my view; that is to say a playable core game that people will pay for to accept a few 'rough around the edges' elements, not a game that is half finished and with major bugs as well as multiple absent core elements. Asking gamers to pay 15 pounds to act as unpaid alpha testers for a game that is not fun to play is just a bit much I'm afraid.

Just looked up their first attempt Race to Mars. Went early access in 2014 and its still in early access. I wish I knew that before purchasing, things don't look good. Still haven't been able to play more than 3 turns before I get stuck in a black screen. At this point in time would not recommend this game.

Start is a bit hard because of amount of information you get from the tutorial but after you get the basics it seems quite interesting.

There is a lot of possible upgrades and game seems to have many micro-management mechanics, I am really looking forward to finding all of them.

There are some techincal issues and minor bugs, but nothing game breaking for now.

Rocket Launch sequence is one of the coolest parts, I hope that there is more control over it in later parts of the game.

Edit: Do not buy, this is another Race to Mars. Four months with no updates or announcements, or even trying to use what has been going on this year to excuse themselves. It is following exactly how the developers treated the only other game, which was also not finished, and is pretty much the same as this. A lot of flashy updates for a short time, and then slowly coming to a standstill.

I re installed with every "update" and it seemed like nothing was really changing, so I would uninstall it, and hope that the next update actually was enjoyable. No updates since June of this year, so I am no longer going to be watching this, and write it off as a loss.

Such a shame that they are giving other developers trying early access a bad name.

Before just seeing this as not recommend, please read full text.

This is probably the first review I have written, at least as far as I can remember.

I was one of the people who had purchased the original game, Race to Mars, and as such am going in quite skeptical and with a biased opinion, so keep that in mind reading this.

So far I have only put in about two hours of play time, and will edit as I get more time in.

Being an early access, I do know that some, if not a lot of things, still need to be worked on.

First thing, the main UI for some reason is very bad in the FPS department, I think it was capping around 15-20. I do not have the best computer, but should be able to handle something like that with my setup

AMD fx-6100
EVGA Nvidia GTX-750 Ti
16 GB ram
Windows 7

The graphics look reasonably well.

In the time I was playing, I didn't experience a full black screen like some other reviews stated, but did have a couple times where the screen stayed longer than I would have expected.

I did not experience any game breaking bugs, so that is a plus.

A lot of the things other reviews have stated as being a negative, like no animations for rockets or seeing destinations, and not being fully optimized, is not that big of a negative yet. Regardless of promises made, it is being released as an early access game.

Personally, I am on the fence on whether to recommend or not, but due to the experience of RtM, will be leaning more towards not recommending, at least until it is shown that good progress is being made towards finishing the product. This could easily change to recommending.

Edit 1: forgot to mention, but I did stream the time I was playing at https://mixer.com/noxadari and will be uploading it to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5g2PFreWcVcTKXS1Qzosg

Edit 2: looking in the discussions, there was a performance thread posted by the developers. It did fix most of the fps issues in the main screen, but there is still a little bit of jumping.

Edit 3: After the last couple patches, I have noticed an improvement in the fps drops that I had been getting after changing a few settings. There still isn't too much to do for my tastes, but progress is still being made. The devs are also very active in their discord server, though I have gone into lurk mode.

Update after 1 year later:

Seems like my fears were justified, the developers produced another unplayable/empty game that's not been updated for months. History repeats itself.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

--- (Original review posted 23/10/19 below)

Buyer beware, before spending your money on this game, make sure to check the forums and the history of their previous game: Race to Mars.

I do not wish for people to spend their money on empty promises, like I did many years ago.

No animations for any rockets, no seeing space or where the stuff you're shooting into the sky is going. This is a glorified tech demo comparable to maybe 1/5th of a full game. Can't recommend.

Too many bugs, and to risky for me to stay at this game, after reading the community entrys,
saying this is the same game as a dumped predecessor.
But i must give the developer credits for gifting the owners of the predecessor this new game.

e.g. the investor screen turns one day to just showing "investor 1, investor 2, investor 3" some days later the next day won't ever come. Its blacked out.

I will give it a go if it lefts the early access, and the reviews are not totaly bad as now.

But, it has potential. Don't waste it, make something out of it. And we will see again.

Regarding the bad fps a lot of people mention, i did not have any of them. It worked smooth.

Best Regards,
Jason