I saw this game/simulation thingy on Steam yesterday and thought it looked pretty nice.. is it worth getting?

play the demo.

For 8.99 give it a go. Looks kind of cool

I bought it today, played through it twice in 1 hour and 25 mins. Its pretty fun but I wanted more from the game, I'd be cool if they updated it or made it modible

I want it, but even though it's only £6, it doesn't look worth that. I got Saints Row 2 for £5, so I have high standards for low priced games, I guess.

I got it and went through a complete game in about 2 hours. It's kind of neat I guess. There is certainly room for improvement though, possibly adding more missions or features would be a good start. The gravity can be kind of fickle at times too when you are trying to get things to orbit.

Really 2 hours? Whats a complete game though? The QL made it seem like it was maybe endless?

Sounds like this is more worth 10 bucks. I got the misadventures of PB Winterbottom for 5 bucks and beat it in about 2 hours. I think this game sounds like it should be in a similar price range.

After watching the QL, I just want to make big ass solar systems and wreck shit.

@avidwriter said:

Really 2 hours? Whats a complete game though? The QL made it seem like it was maybe endless?

Nah, it's not endless. After you gain a certain amount of mass you become a black hole, at which point the lone thing you have to do is devour the entirety of the universe you're in, effectively creating a "Big Crunch"/"Big Bang" scenario.

Funny thing is, my first playthrough last night, I just wanted to see what the black hole was like, so I just pushed hard to get there, and I think I hit the "big crunch" in under 1/2 hour. I gotta play it again and try to build systems. I was having a bit of fun as a planet with a force that started kicking some ass once I got up around 100 kills. I tried a couple missions, and they seem pretty interesting. Enough to make this game worth playing at least a handful of times.

I think I saw some binary star systems when I was flying around. How do you accomplish that? It doesn't seem like you can attract other stars when you're a star, but maybe I just wasn't flying at them right. Or do you have to build up one of the planets in your orbit until it becomes a star?

As simple as this game is, I think I need to go look for a FAQ or strategy guide! :P

Played it some more just now, and managed to get a system with a large star, three mid-sized stars, and 10 planets, 6 of which had life. I just kept getting my planets to absorb more mass, and 3 of them turned into stars in quick succession. Then it seems that the smallest star in the group gets the mass added to it when you absorb a planet, so I just kept doing that for a while. Pretty neat floating around with a quad-star system...at least until you reach a certain threshold and black holes start showing up, and you promptly get sucked into one. :P

Am in love with it. It can be hard and a bit tricky some times, which just adds to the experience. Definitely a game worth playing casually.

@umdesch4: I was wondering if Black Holes ever appeared on their own. Only time I've seen them is when I've been a Black Hole myself.

@Sir_Ragnarok: Yup, I got eaten by one in my quad-system configuration. At first, I was oddly getting pulled off course, and I started seeing other systems sweeping across my screen in arcs. One fatal change in direction later, wham! Straight into a black hole. I guess I was messing around too long, and a black hole spontaneously evolved or something.

@Althox: Couldn't agree more. When you want to just lounge back in your chair and throw on some tunes and kick it with the arrow keys...this is your game.

Game's sick as hell.