Derelict Void Reviews

Interesting concept. A bit hard to start out and unforgiving if your RNG is bad. The biggest starting tip I can offer is make sure you're at least traveling slowly while you explore new modules because you can do both at once. Don't worry about running out of gas, you're most likely to starve to death first,. (It helps that you can burn anything in your Mr. Fusion engine) *edit* Wow this game really hates letting you even come close to winning. Only buy if you enjoy suffering. *editx2* Actually, I don't really suggest this game at all. It basically just f*cks you and calls that gameplay. I had a perfect game with unlimited resources and it made me lose about 30 seconds before I won with a HUUUUGE random resource loss, instant starve to death. Ship breaking Glitches are common, bits get deleted.

SPOILERS INCLUDED First things first, The game is great and has a very neat aspect to it in which you are stranded in space and need to explore for resources and in a life and death situation. You are never guaranteed to find the resources you need, which is perfectly acceptable as the RNG of this game. So far I've only done one run and it seems that I was a lot more lucky than most since i got the void engine and never went into the yellow on resources and gained 4 out of 5 main components i believe being the water purifier, the scrubber the food synthesis and what ever the 4 edged building was, the thing I failed to get was the building that produces hydrogen. So when the game smacks you in the face with survive for ten days without any warning and halting the ability to continue exploring for that duration or even a chance to explore before hand is what kills the you and the game. When I was "smacked" I was able to survive for 6 days and could have won if I had only gotten that last building, what killed me was the lack of hydrogen, which was used to make food with the synthesis and with no other way to make food efficiently I had sadly died. To sum what I wrote up the game is extremely brutal even if you had a lucky game like me, if you fail to get all of the building before you have to survive the 10 days then you are screwed over since there would be no other way to gain the needed resources other than the 5 building. But what mattered was that it was fun I just wanted to rant about how close I was on my first run tbh 1.3hr run. :p

This game is hard. Brutally hard! Its a survival game, but you are most likely gonna die 99.9% of the runs. I've had runs where you are dead in 4-5 jumps where I didnt find food (happened more than once) Very simple to get the hang of the basics, but brutally hard to survive...... So if you like a challenge, go for it, but you are warned. I think this game needs a way to turn down the challenge for beginners :) Some might not think its fun loosing that many game sin a row.

With a design focused on RNG that cannot be mitigated and very frustrating requirements to have any agency in the game this is one experience you can be happy to skip. A game like Frostpunk shows just how poorly this game was designed.

Good game but is a little repetitive for now hope the difficulty can be changed now so you can have a relaxing play though or for first time players. buy but wait for a sale.

The game is brutal but fantastic. It certainly does not cater to the mindset of there is always a way and instead in my opinion portrays a somewhat more realistic experience of the survival rate of a cataclysmic event. It is a fairly simple game but you'll need to use any small advantage you can gain to actually survive and many times a bit of luck. You only have enough water for one trip before you die. Do you go for a guaranteed water source? Maybe a riskier water source that contains enough to give you a bit of breathing room? Or do you attempt to salvage a hull that you've detected a water treatment plant on in the hopes that some clean water will be stored for your immediate needs and you'll be able to use that facility to further your chances? Every option requires consideration of what might happen during that event or in the future and sometimes it doesn't matter how well you planned because someone gave up hope and threw a spanner in the works dooming everyone. As you play you'll learn about the possibilities of each event and what rewards or penalties are given to you giving the knowledge to progress a little further each time. Despite the negative reviews (of which are mostly about the game difficulty) it is enjoyable, and deserves a chance and each playthrough is fast enough that you won't feel you've wasted hours to die unfairly. Spoilerish: Some tips to success: Don't waste time, always keep your ship moving. Pick up a hull, start exploring and move to the next. The extra mass of a hull will make a trip less efficient, taking longer and costing more, but you can choose to travel slower and more efficiently to counter that at the cost of a longer journey. But during that time you can finish exploring the new hull and doing what you want with it before you get to your next destination. You'll have to learn to judge how to use this as you go. Take your time. Attempting to rush through the story is not always the best option. Move buildings off of new hulls to be discard last. Using the repair option takes time, and during that time the parts are still on that hull, but moving immediately removes it from that hull to take a bit more time to place it elsewhere, allowing you to discard that hull and continue with a slightly more efficiency journey without waiting a few hours. In the same sense, rubble is useless and can be discarded without fully exploring it. Residencies appear to be the same taking a fair while to explore without offering anything unless you plan to use them. Sometimes you might be best to stop your crew exploring a residence to explore a storage first so you can discard, saving you a few hours. Gaining crew is important and rare, which you should attempt to do at any available opportunity if it won't kill you (Expand the resource info panel to see actual numbers) but you can still survive without taking every opportunity to gain one. It is still best to ensure you have enough resources available for when the event occurs as it will make life easier. Spoiler: When you are reaching the finish, I've found it best to end on an asteroid you can continuously mine, this can give you a steady flow of secondary resources used to fuel your production of primary resources. This should massively increase your chances of success if you had any hope to start with but no guarantee

This game has a major game breaking bug. Whenever I load a new game, the ship doesn't show up. neither does the tutorial pop-up or the help window. first time trying to play the game, and will never play the game again. -10/10

I am only 3 hours in, and the game has been a lot of fun. I have perished EVERY game I have started as the RNG has been very brutal. I definitely think the difficulty could be toned down a bit. Nothing like having DAYS of resources, just to have the game force additional people on your ship. Those days of resources turn into hours very quickly, and before you know it, you are simply running for resources to survive instead of building your ship. To add to this, the game is still constantly hitting you with disasters which seem to increase as the game drags on. Another issue is that trying to become self sustainable is about impossible as none of the factories produce much. Again, I am only a few hours in, and I am sure I am missing some things that would make the game a bit easier. I plan to keep playing and experimenting, but as of now, unless you are into extreme hardcore survival and a lot of disappointing deaths, I would wait to buy until the game is a bit more balanced. I will revisit this review after I have spent more time in the game.

It's not good. In summary you 'travel' between text-based encounters and watch your resources count down. There's a basic 'city-building' thing on your ship where you might get a factory or two to slow down your resource drain... but if the RNG is unkind to you, you'll run out of oxygen, food or water. It might be unkind, but this is like a pre-early access game prototype.

I have played this game a few times and it is highly, highly frustrating and unforgiving. Its a very open/shut game with very little challenges or seems to be so far. No matter how I try, there is no longevity to it. You are extremely limited in what you can do. You are basically on a survival mission across the cosmos. You have to find resources and derelict containers to keep your ship ongoing. This sounds fantastic in principal, but it seems to be based a lot on luck. What annoys the most is that you can't BUILD anything. The game seems to focus around finding particular kinds of buildings. And you have to travel 8hrs average at a time to get anywhere. You have around 4 days of each supply left. But every time you get to a place, it takes an age to search each part, at the same time eating valuable resources. Then you will find a building you need! Awesome, I can produce the resource I need. Ah, but wait - most of these buildings are missing parts. And you have to find another building with missing parts to build it. Ironically, you will find buildings with other parts but you can't salvage those. So guess what? You will last 3 to 5 days of gametime and thats it. The only positive point is that graphically its pleasing. But you are extremely limited to what you can do. It feels like a linear game of luck. It just doesn't have enough substance to keep me entertained. Have to ask for a refund. It looked and sounded a lot more interesting from the description than the actual game content. It feels more like a mobile game than a PC game. 3 to 5 pounds would be a fair price - I am curious to see what other people think or maybe I am doing something wrong?