Masterspace Reviews

This was a game which i was very hopeful and excited for..... I dont even remember when the last update was and when it was updated it was one of those useless updates that add little things but other than that, this game has been a complete waste of money and i regret even looking at this game. I know i sound a little harsh but after all this, I cant even get a refund.

EDIT: ***UPDATED A YEAR LATER*** Buy Empyrion or if you really wanna waste money buy No Man's Sky! This game just isn't worth it for what it is and what else is out there. Even after a year of development and a final release I am still left waiting for Masterspace to become the game we all wanted it to be. Final Version is full of unfinished game content that was passed off as a final version game. ***Below is Original Review*** This game is buggy and glitchy making it unplayable. The first 16 hours of the game it was like any other but once you get further into the game you start running into bugs and glitches. The concept of this game is awesome and I bought it for 75% off. I would say $4 for 16 hours of game play was worth it but at the same time the games leaves you hoping it will become something great and then you realize you can't do specific things making the whole point of the game pointless. All in all I give it 1 out of 100 stars and a Don't waste your money on this unfinished worthless hunk of junk.

yeah i should have listened to the other reviews, but I thought maybe 4.0 would be "fixed". IT IS NOT. eh well, it seems like a cool concept, just a crappy programmer.

13/6/15 Full retail review not Early Access. Based on a single player game. Well It's not exactly a scam Like Linden Labs pulled with Patterns, but this title has suddenly announced after a long time away that it has moved from Early Access to final release, and in my opinion it still feels like Early Access. But let's start with positives. Although I give a thumbs down, there is still gaming to be had here. Open world/galaxy generated worlds with crafting of simple objects with of course much mining for resources. Simple rewards screen to upgrade your skills and unlock objects with the objective of building a ship to get you off the rock your on and onto another rock. And the negative is centred around the word I keep using, "simple". It's why it still feels like a development version. Gameplay is very simplistic and unchallenging, features are a bit half baked and it feels like a demo. As a single player game it is over very quickly and your left wanting much much more which is a shame as the core concept is still exciting. As an Early Access review I would be giving this a thumbs up as good work in progress, but as V4 is the release version then I cannot recommend it. Maybe development will continue and my view will change.

Awesome game concept/potential. It had lots of interesting mechanics/dynamics, and a beautiful soundtrack etc. But then the developer disappeared for over a year, then returned with a single patch and released the (unfinished) game. Very disappointing, as this game could have, in my opinion reached impressive heights. It's games like this that have made me quite hesitant of placing my faith in indepentant developers and purchasing their alpha games. I've seen several other games (like this one) grab the money, release an undeveloped/premature game, and take a hike. Shameful.

Every time you buy an early access game, it's a bet. Will the game grow to become another good game on steam? Will the devs carry it to the end? Or will it crash and burn? In this case, I lost the bet, which is surprisingly rare. This early access title was dumped into the 'finished' catagory in the middle of development (maybe a little earlier). It had no reason to be finished, everything is buggy, moreso than your average beta, lots of things unfinished, ect... And that really upsets me. I saw a lot of potential in this, it had some interesting ideas.

This is the start to a really interesting game. Now that it's "released", it will probably never become a really interesting game. First, it's glitchy. Getting stuck on the landscape still happens. If you step in a tiny hole, you might die, because the engine can't decide where you are, and beat you to death. You can't just walk up and down the stairs in the prefab towers, because you are too tall, and the engine stops your motion if you get close to a block or vertical terrain. This makes movement feel really difficult and pulls me out of the immersion. It crashes too frequently, though not so much that it can't be played. Rain still occurs indoors, and under terrain. Why build a house or anything if it's just going to rain inside anyway? Seriously breaks the immersion for me. Second, why am I doing any of this? There's no direction in this game. Not even a survival motive like that really popular game with blocks. The machines and technical progression are neat, but I just don't feel like there's a good reason to do anything. There is a rare material that's only on the asteroids, but it was kind of a let down when I got some. So, less reason to explore. Third, it's not even close to finished in any way. I haven't played much since 4.0 came out, but there doesn't appear to be a working door. So even if keeping wildlife out was a reason to build a structure, there isn't a way to do access control. A short wall will stop any wildlife I encountered, except birds, but they are pretty harmless. So why build more? Just a pile of blocks will build the "culture" score, and then what? Storage and containers seem like they are always disorganized, with no way to line them up. The textures make it really hard to see if you are looking at a flat wall of rock, or if there are holes and projections and the like. If you build on a spherical planet, it's hard to get anything level on the terrain, because the curvature is pretty extreme. I realize that's hard to get away from, but the machines in my cave-house were alway all cock-eyed, because the floor can't be made level without bricking it all up. It takes too long to build anything, too. I'm bored of building before I even have walls. This game has tremendous potential that will now, sadly, never be realized. The way the game is right now just isn't that much fun. Also, I hate the musical score, every single piece. It's well done, someone put a lot of effort into it. I just don't like it. At all.

The developer is yet another POS coward who ran away rather than either completing the game he made a decision to sell prior to completion, or at least publicly admit he was incapable of completing the game. So because he is either afraid of conflict, or an outright scammer, he contributes to the trouble legitimate independent developers are having with early access. Valve needs to hold enough of the early access funds in escrow to make it worthwhile for developers to finish their game rather than crapping out yet another set of promises stacked on top of a glorified set of legos and raking in the $$$.

It annoys me that this game has basically been abandoned and left unfinished, It could have been quite good, but the developer has obviously bitten off more than they can chew. I have brought a couple of early access games and with one or two have been very impressed - but then there are the people who don't complete thier games, cut, take the money and run, steam does need an escrow system and some minimum standards for what is considered complete. Personally I have been burnt twice now - if I get burnt again I will stop supporting early access full stop which is a shame because then the legit developers will suffer. Sit up and take notice Valve you need to do something to rescue early access or everyone will suffer. 2/10 - Massively incomplete.

These twats release an early access game and fail to update it in 6+ months. Don't waste your money on this unfinished game and for that matter, never purchase anything from these tools. Developer: Master Technologies Publisher: Mastertech