Lakehopper Reviews

Definitely early access. Ran into some Linux quirks and crashes but fun to build airplane and fly around. Excited to see what the Dev does with it!

Here's the deal, It's an early access game, the map is quite empty however the base of a good game is definitely there. I played it for a good hour, doing the quick start mode. Got lost and never made it home, however the flying is fun and it's a pretty relaxing game. Wish the world felt more alive though, as the devs put more work in, I'm sure it will improve. As for the building aspect..it's not like my summer car, everything is pretty straight forward and highlighted and the screws are high lighted, just gotta click them and they snap in. In the future i'd like to see more detail in the building mechanic. All together, for 10 dollars it's not bad. Will you spend hours playing it, no, most likely not. However it;s got a solid base and im curious to see how it improves. 6/10.

I enjoy the premise of of the game, I do. To build and manage your own plane for package delivery.| What I don't like is the simulation. From what I saw of the trailers, I was expecting just a simple flight game. That all you have to worry about is delivering boxes and managing your plane. It is so difficult to take off that you're better off just taxiing to your destinations than bothering to take off.

This game has a lot of potential, but at this stage I can't recommend it. I really enjoyed building all of the pieces and assembling the plane. I followed all of the checklists. I've played quite a few flight sims so I know at least the basics of flying a plane. Yet with that one all I could do is careen wildly across the lake mostly completely out of control. I managed almost 50 knots once, which unfortunately isn't anywhere near the 70 knots needed for rotation, so for almost half an hour I spent my time stopping, trying to get lined back up with the long direction of the lake and heading out again, only for the plane to almost immediately start spinning uncontrollably across the lake regardless of control inputs. I really hope the physics on this can be adjusted, maybe then it'll be playable.

I think the idea here was good but this is no way near ready for putting out to the public. I get that it's early access and you'd expect some bugs but...oh my gosh it was unplayable. I couldn't even build the plane, the pieces just wouldn't stick together. Absolutely horrible. It's not worth parting with cash right now for this - wait until it gets more developed first.

game is incredible! however... i couldnt save at nest lake to be done for the night. edit. turns out i had a weird bug but now i can save and deliver packages! very good game

I can't recommend this currently, this feels more like a testing phase than a playable early access game. There is no game here, just a big empty world with "test island" deliveries to make and many times while trying to take off, the yoke was unresponsive or fuel just didnt want to work, even while full or before i sit down the fuel runs out. Very little in the way of explanation. Building the plane is simple enough but all the gameplay systems feel very "testing phase", unfinished and outright non functional currently.

I enjoyed the premise of the game. It felt like My Summer Car, but for seaplanes. I also really enjoyed having to use VOR navigation, as this is what I primarily used when I got my PPL. However, the game just feels very devoid of features currently. There's no real storyline or anything of the sort, so you're basically left on your own to pick up parcels and deliver them to random locations. I was able to navigate to the southernmost seaport (forgot the name), but from there, I was unable to actually locate the dock. There aren't really any features on the sectional besides the basic shape of the terrain to help you discern location on a smaller scale than what the VORs provide. Adding discernable features such as beacons, lighthouses, buildings, etc. would significantly improve the findability of these seaports once you're in the nearby environment. As for performance, I have no complaints. It runs very smoothly. However, it does suffer from floating point errors at great distances from the origin. By this, I mean that when you fly to another seaport, the textures and meshes begin to suffer from visual irregularities. More information on this particular issue can be found by googling floating point errors, but the most common way games with large maps correct for this is by periodically moving the player back to the origin and moving the rest of the map around them to compensate for this. This really wouldn't cause me to review a game negatively, but I felt like it was worth mentioning in case the developer reads this. The flight model is also decent. I wasn't expecting something that was study-level by any means, but it was a little annoying how it seemed to suffer with poor dynamic stability. I could be trimmed perfectly for straight-and-level flight, then the plane would pitch down rather harshly, seemingly at complete random. Correcting for this merely just got the plane into various oscillations. Adding autopilot to the game was a good move for convenience, but the implementation leaves much to be desired. Currently, there's only a toggle on/off button, and it only attempts to maintain straight-and-level flight when engaged. You cannot tell it to climb, descend, hold a heading, follow a course/radial, etc.. Adding this would be a significant improvement. Overall, the game has a lot of potential, but I think it currently needs too many improvements to be recommendable. Maybe it will be worth revisiting in the future.

This game has tremendous potential. The physics in it are solid. I love choice to essentially "build" your plane at the start. The addition of more locations, airplane parts (upgrades possibly) would be huge. One gripe that I do have with it is that the only way to steer on the water at low speeds is differential thrust, there is no water rudder. The addition of a water rudder would be amazing. Overall, great game with huge amounts of potential. Definitely keep a close eye on this one.

The navigation could definitely be improved. I understand that the game is still in development, but at the moment it feels like there is no real story or clear sense of progression. Other than that, the rest of the game was good, and if a proper story or progression system were added, it would definitely be worth playing.