September 6, 2023 - Day 249 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 270

Game: Astral Shipwright

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Nov 12, 2022
Library Date: Sep 2, 2023
Unplayed: 4d
Playtime: 45m

Astral Shipwright is a spaceship building and trading... game.

I added this to my Steam library after the dev who created it and another game decided to shut down his game development studio, and made them both free, and open-sourced the code.

There's absolutely no intro, no tutorial. You're just in a space dock and you start building your ship.

Once you've built a working ship, and you're ready to fly, you discover that you've got no money left to buy fuel, or hire crew, or buy resources to sell elsewhere.

You delete your save, start over, build a smaller ship, buy that stuff, and spend a lot of time clicking on things in the process of buying something here, flying there, selling it, buying something else, selling it elsewhere, and slowly upgrading your ship.

It's pretty bare-bones; it feels more like a demo than a completed game, yet strangely compelling. The bones of something interesting is there, and for free, the price was right.

Astral Shipwright is:

3: OK

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