Preview: Hardspace Shipbreaker (Steam Early Access)

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp.

Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 2850mb Download size.
  • 3 save slots.
  • Graphics-Resolution, fullscreen mode, v-sync, and texture quality preset.
  • Controller support.
  • Invert axis and sensitivity sliders for both the mouse and controller.
  • Two modes-career and free play.
  • Ship dismantling gameplay.
  • Scanner-you can see weak points, materials, etc.
  • Level up and get upgrades for your tools and spacesuit.
  • Oddly satisfying.
  • Huge puzzle element to it all.
  • Zen-like experience.

Cons:

  • The huge learning curve with the controls.
  • Tutorial kept bugging out and not letting me finish it.
  • No Steam achievements.
  • Had to replay the tutorial many times, couldn’t get prompts to show or I wouldn’t be able to do something.
  • The controller will sometimes not be recognized on the menu and then next time it will work just fine.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!