L.G.C. |Reviews| — Spacebase DF-9

This week your intrepid heroes enjoy seizure menus, install DirectX compatible sound cards, and tend bars.

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Game: Spacebase DF-9
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/246090/
Devel: Double Fine Productions
Engine: Buddha Moai engine
Price: 21.99 CAD / 20.01 US / €19.99
Wazzat: Sim / Strategy

Makes with the working

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Don’t have a “DirectX Compatible Sound Card” but it still worked.
Yes by all rights the 1.0 release was fail-sauce but 1.06 has most everything sorted.

J-

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Catalyst drivers bros (in game text non-existent or garbbled)
Open sauce yey
SteamOS runs fine (Nvidia surprise)

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Shiny / Sounds

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I would give it 3 but that menu is seizure inducing
Really, that swirly shiz bang effect every, fkn, time, it opend caused me physical pain.
I guess it had sounds but didn’t bother. You can only play a simulation /w Slayer with the possible exception of Enya

J-

The music sort of reminds me of FTL’s. Except worse
Everthing else is pretty middle of the road

P-

Brings back memories of the old Theme Hospital days.

S-

Catalyst drivers bros (in game text non-existent or garbbled)
Open sauce yey
SteamOS runs fine (Nvidia surprise)

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Control

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The physical controls worked without issue.
Digging into four submenus for every other item can eat a glorious bag of dicks.
After 20min I noped.

J-

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The game has a really hard time explaining its mechanics properly.
I guess that was something they were going to improve in the final version.

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FUN

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Sims in spaaaaace!
I can’t hate it. Really, if I was stuck on a island organ I would take a game like this ..and a satellite phone.
That said, my brain nopes at resource management games. Why? Because it’s work and we should be getting payed.

J-

This game reminds me a lot like FTL
You know, minus the exploration, adventure, high stakes and overall fun
MOTHERFUCKER I DON’T CARE IF YOU WANT TO BE A BARTENDER, I NEED YOU TO BUILD OXYGEN RECYCLERS OR I’LL JETTISON YOU TO GET THE OXYGEN I NEED!
I do like the names they give your crewmen though

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It was aiming to be Theme Hospital in space but it ended up being a very, very boring FTL where instead of going on an epic adventure you just micromanage a bunch of whiny bitches.

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