Tiny Space Program 4+

For me it’s a slow paced game that doesn’t make me feel like I ‘absolutely need to do this thing now’ like other games. I usually get home from work, do my chores for the afternoon and then sit for a bit and play the game. Rinse and repeat the next day. There’s no rewards for “played seven days in a row” and such and I actually really appreciate that. I can miss a day without feeling penalized in some way when it’s meant to be a means of relaxation after a long and tiring day. After about a week I finally got a better understanding of the controls and which actions progress me in this way, as the tutorial doesn’t exactly explain much other than “push this button and do this”. I feel like other than that the game is not meant to be a button crunching game that you can gain 30 levels in a day if you just keep watching the screen. It’s just very chill. Do a research expedition that takes an hour, go searching for space rocks for about 5mins or do tours of space for space tourists. Then put it down and spend time with the family and pick it up later and choose something different. 4 stars as there are definitely some learning curves you gotta get through but other than that I’d say to keep up the good work.

1) the space station needs a revamp. The models used for the ‘mini game’ visuals are extremely hard to follow. 2) I’m lost and confused. Been playing the game for a few days, and I’m still unsure about what does what. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if the game itself wasn’t a economical version of dark souls. Every mistake seems to be a punishment. 3) Economy needs to figure itself out. When I started playing, the way I made credits were from logging in and selling the free items, then that turned into selling space rocks. And after that, you’d think that it would get easier, but now I just watch Netflix while spamming advertisements for credits. I’ve watched well over 25k credits worth in advertisements (100 credits per ad). 3 1/2) The other part of the economy needs to figure itself out. I still cannot, for the life of me, figure out an efficient way to get research. And all of this wouldn’t even be that big of a deal, if 4) the timers for the research/building weren’t so long. They almost make me feel like its actually me whose out and about building/researching myself. And I really like this game too, but these kind of things hinder the experience.

I love this game and everything it has to offer but there are a few bugs in the game that are a bit bother some. First of all, the tourist feature where you can send tourists on expeditions is great and my main form of income but there seems to be a upgrade cap a 3000 coins for either tourist upgrade and the buttons become non-functional, not sure if this was intentional but I would like to have the opportunity for more tourists. Secondly, I have built a space station around mars and whenever a spacecraft is docked there(any of the spacecraft) it will briefly appear to be on the surface of mars untill I refresh the screen(by a button press or switch to another outpost and back) where the ship will disappear. Idk why this happens but does confuse me and lead me to believe I have another ship on mars whereas I do not. I’m not sure if this happens with any other space stations around other bodies but it is bothersome. Lastly, sometimes when I seen my workers on expeditions it glitches and sends all of my workers on the same expedition except on foot, this bothers me the most and uses up my available workers so quickly, thanks for listening.