SPACE PIONEER SWITCH REVIEW FREE

This fast action-packed top-down shooter will test your combat skills and tactics to the max! From cybernetic arachnids to venomous hornets, stand against massive bosses, each with unique offensive and defensive capabilities. To make it through hordes of aliens, you need to be a skilled, versatile hunter. Every time you play missions have new objectives, enemies and additional challenges. Recover stolen disks, defend probes, repair crashed craft and complete missions to earn loot and unlock awesome gear and skills. Combined with the dynamic objectives system, the gameplay is truly infinite in Space Pioneer. The endless universe has countless hostile galaxies to conquer. Make your way across fantastical planets from the icy tundra to the lush jungles brimming with flora and fauna.

Explore strange new worlds with your trusty robot sidekick. Lock and load! Discover new planets, chart incredible worlds and reveal ancient secrets. Explore the galaxy as an intergalactic bounty hunter. The universe is a dangerous place – and you’re on cleaning duty. Orbit.Welcome to our review of Space Pioneer, an ambitious game out now on Nintendo Switch! As it is, those issues do spoil orbit.industries somewhat, leaving it firmly middle of the road. Building, expanding and reinvesting is strangely fun, and if it wasn’t for the control issues, this would be on for a pretty good score.

You can take charge and amend every little bit of life aboard your station keeping people happy and efficient is quite involving on its own – and that’s without doing any of the missions. In conclusion then, orbit.industries is a game that will appeal to the control freaks out there. For someone who, like me, has been addicted to Elden Ring, say, this is almost the antidote. Other than that, this is quite a calming game, with no stress involved, and even when everything is going down the tubes and you have negative Kreedits, it’s still quite Zen. It does make things harder than it should be, to be fair.Īnother issue seems to be the Galactic economy, as the reward for doing jobs seems to be nowhere near what it costs to run the station, and this makes everything jolly hard. Now, with a mouse, you’d assume this is nice and easy, just click and away you go, but with a controller you have to kind of aim a beam of light to the node you want, and hope it selects the right one. The biggest of these is an annoying imprecision when trying to select a particular node to build on. There are niggles, especially with a port of a fairly complex game from mouse and keyboard to controller, as you’d expect.

While I had to move a bit closer to the screen to read what I was meant to be doing, it all works fairly well. There are missions and contracts on the left, a bit of info about the selected mission in the middle, and then the interface with the station A.I. The final screen is where we can accept jobs, and is a very text dense, quite small text kind of screen. There are up to three connectors on a module, and they need to be linked into the existing circuits in order to provide (I assume) air, power and all the things that are required to live and work in space. Once a module has been constructed and attached, it then needs to have the plumbing attached, which is where the third of the aforementioned screens come in. Helpfully, each module has a symbol assigned to it, and the missions that you can undertake also have symbols against them, so if you are lacking a necessary module it is easy to see what you need to build.

SPACE PIONEER SWITCH REVIEW FREE

As you start off a mission, there are a number of free nodes available that you can plainly see, allowing you to attach modules to them, such as extra habitation, giving you more workforce, or an administration centre to allow you to perform extra tasks. The external view of the space station is the screen that we need to use in order to build new modules and attach them to the station. So, orbit.industries isn’t going to blow your socks off with its presentation (indeed, they remained firmly on throughout the entirety of the review process), but how about actual gameplay? What is it like to be a bold Space Pioneer, building a space station using only your wits and available money? Well, slow, is the word that springs to mind, along with ‘strangely calming’ and ‘almost zen-like’. Or if you run your station as efficiently as I did, telling you that funds are critically low.

Sound wise it is all very minimal as well, with a robotic voice over teaching you the basics and introducing each step of the missions you have to complete. Looking at the endless reaches of space is quite nice, and being able to zoom and pan the view around your station is decent enough in a relaxing kind of way. And this is the sum total of the visuals, and while it wouldn’t make my work laptop sweat (and that’s not a great machine, folks) it is sufficient for what orbit.industries is trying to do.

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