Omg I wrote up a whole long ass comment and then accidentally clicked away and it got deleted ughhhh. Here's my second go -
What I liked:
- The movement and jetpack was really fun, intuitive, and enjoyable. I loved flying around, the upgrades made it even better, and the gravity felt great. Landing on a planet with a thud had a great feel to it.
- The art and atmosphere were really cohesive and in general, it felt immersive
- The objectives were clear and although I agree with a lot of the comments about the lack of tutorial, ultimately, I found the game pretty intuitive to play. It's much better to have an intuitive game without a tutorial than a confusing game with one so all in all, I actually figured it out pretty quick and enjoyed the game loop a lot!
- The first thing I did was fly straight into the sun and that was very fun haha
What I thought could be improved:
- I think my biggest issue was the scaling with the orders. While I felt like the game loop was intuitive, it also was a bit unfair. On my second play through, my first order was for like, 3 radishes and my second order was for 5x pumpkins and 4x pumpkins. That's a whole lot of pumpkins for a guy who takes 2 seconds to plant stuff. I had also just bought a jetpack fuel upgrade so I just didn't have the money and I felt like I was punished for trying to learn and explore your game mechanics.
- I like that you can fly far out into space and that the jetpack required somewhat precise controls but I thought it was a little too extreme. It was especially tough when I ran out of fuel and was flying through space. I think there's probably gotta be a middle ground between flying out of control and just going straight into something. I'm glad you made it so there's a limit to how long you can be stranded out there but still
Overall, I genuinely really enjoyed this game. This was the first one I've played where I'm like, I actually would love to play a full, developed version of the game. Either as a rougelike or a farming sim but conceptually, I found it really fun and wanted to play more!