Shortest Trip to Earth

[h1]It's okay, I suppose[/h1] I sank 35 hours into this back in 2019. Now, in 2025, after playing Breachways for a lot of time I felt like returning, and sunk another 35 - so it would be weird criticizing it too much. Still, game has some issues. [list] [*]Not even a sign of FTL-style scarcity. Fuel is abundant, you grow more food than crew can eat and your ship is a literal money printer. [*]Crew/module management is ridiculously time consuming [*]Ocasional bugs, some of which are pretty annoying and sometimes deadly [/list] Also, game sounds pretty weird at times, with all these talks about sex toys and stuff. Other than that - it's a decent FTL clone and I like it.

Tl;DR: Gamebreaking bug which is unlikely to be fixed. Not recommended. Overall it seemed a great game BUT one recurring bug ruins it for me. What is happening? To understand what the problem is we have to set the scene. This game is a roguelike game. This means you cannot go back. A crappy battle? Deal with it or fail. It is also a spaceship sim. You have to install modules assign roles and manage your ship. This can be a timeconsuming and pretty involved process. To enable swapping of loadouts you can save them. Since you need multiple loadouts for example travelling you have fuel efficient engine and gardens to produce food. Then you might have 2 or 3 diffrent layouts for diffrent combat situations. You switch between them constantly. Now comes the gamebreaking bug: Now and then the loadouts completely break. Suddenly your combat loadout loads half of your travel loadout. Crew is assigned all over the place and refuses to properly load into their slots until multiple reassigns. Since all of these take time it might turn a no-brain battle into utter devastation ruining a multi hour run. In normal games you would just load a pre-fight save and have minor annoyance. In this type of game it ruins the game. Since it is also not receiving updates for a while now, this bug will probably remain.

Fun game with solid replayability.