Atrox is useless (Except for gas)
Auto scrap farms are overpowered (Infinite resources)
Glacio bytes overpowered (10k per min lmao)
Large rover is overpowered (Unlocked all cores in an hour)
Clay is hard to find (Idk if its just me or if its just rare)

Still a 10/10 game tho (This ♥♥♥♥♥ fire play it already)

I want so badly to love this game.
I want to cherish and adore and play this game endlessly.
But alas, good things are only good things for so long, it would seem.

The DLC is not the problem here. I'd be fine with paid DLC, assuming it lived up to the polish and breadth of content the rest of Astroneer provides.
No, it is the content of said DLC, and the overall course of the game as a whole that has thoroughly gotten my space goat.

Astroneer was once a lonely voyage amidst the stars, much like No Man's Sky once was. I am one of the few who preferred that endless emptiness No Man's Sky once had, and revelled in how cold and lonely Astroneer's world was.
But then Xenobiology shook the foundation of the game. Suddenly there were other sentient beings on these planets. Not only that, they were your friends.
The logs and data from other Astroneers in the constantly expanding lore also shattered the loneliness.

While some may see goodness in this, I saw frustration, and a dark path on the horizon.
Astroneer is no longer the game it once was. No longer the slow cosmic voyage to carefully navigate hostile and utterly empty environments.
The space I found beauty in has been filled with adorable gastropods and log books.

And worst of all, the DLC on the horizon promises an honest to god antagonist.
System Era had been teasing at some overarching story for some time now, but I never cared about that. I loved my base with its constant mechanical whirring, and found it sufficed as my only companion.
I don't want a galactic war, I don't want rival tech.

I bought this game because it was Astroneer. Not No Man's Sky, not Deep Rock Galactic, not Helldivers, not Elite Dangerous. Astroneer.
I miss when things could be quiet.
I miss when I was alone in this space.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
✅ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ You will get eye cancer
☐ Get a pepper spray for your eye instead

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Won’t ever touch any other game anymore
✅ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Tic Tac toe is better

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
✅ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
✅ Kids
✅Teens
✅ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
✅ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
☐ Search the galaxy for dark matter fuel to run

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
✅ Easy
☐Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
✅Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
✅ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
✅ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
☐ Until GTA6 releases

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
✅ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
✅ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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