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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.4 hrs on record (3.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 9 Apr, 2015 @ 7:02pm
Updated: 9 Apr, 2015 @ 7:03pm

Would I recommend this game? /♥♥♥♥. Yes./ That's all that needs to be said. Don't be fooled with the little time I have on this as of right now, 2.7 hours. I've been playing this for years. Since Build 24. YEARS of being part of this game. Hard at first. Once you spend some time with it though, I'd say a good solid 4 hours, you gain an understanding of controls. For soldiers. It may come faster to you, but the piloting of ships took me a long time. It's gentle but heavy. The AI makes it seem like they stop instantly, but they don't.

Enough about that. Review stuff, that's why you're still reading this wall of text.

Positives!
- Sandbox. So many ways to play this, I can't say I've had a game go the same way. Ever.
- Hardcore gameplay. It's not for the average person looking to waste some time, unless of course you want to watch your own units die to the random ship failures.
- CRABS! Have you ever dropped a green box crammed full of alien crabs? Doubt it! But you want to now, don't you? DO IT. Never before have you seen the world shift into a lagtastic slow-mo while everyone around the impact site turns into a puddle of red goo as crab shells rain down over the battlefield!
- It's still in development! You'll be seeing builds faster than I did, and that's exciting, because this game needs more love! Keep it up Data!
- Mods, Mods, Mods! Hit up the workshop and add some things! And if you go to the DataRealms forums, you can hit up the modding community where it started. The latter is a manual installation, but it's a simple folder into another one.

Negatives. (Are there any? Maybe.)
- Fullscreen is a total pain in the ass to get to work, and the normal size for the screen is a pain in the ass to look at.
- Learning curve. A lot of games have them, but the controls are a little weird with this. The Pie menu isn't as sensitive as I'd want it, but it does what it needs to once you remember where things are located on it.

I wanted to think of more negatives, but I just can't.

TL;DR: BUY THE GAME. CRAB BOMBS. SHIP DEBRIS FRIENDLY FIRE. BLOOD SHOWERS. BULLET CASING PILES.

10/10 would spend 20oz of gold to cram 500 crabs into a green box and drop it from orbit, killing all life in a 500 miles radius.
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