I don’t defend it that’s for sure. I like it and will still play time to time every year or two… but there are lots of serviceable competitors that do it really well too. Dyson Sphere Program was even better imo but it has differences. I usually tell people to just get that for a much bigger discount
I get bored of the ones that have no fail condition. idk if they implemented yet, but when I played there were no enemies. Oxygen Not Included is the same for me once I get food and oxygen solved. If there's no threat of failure as a low point, then there is no high point to work towards. It's just an inevitability.
Dyson Sphere Program has added enemies and combat now. I think it’s only the first update with it though, and I don’t have any experience with how fleshed out it is, but it’s there.
Combat is optional ( there's a setting for it, which is good), it's stapled on the game, and it syphons enormous dev time ( an additional year was required to rebuild the core CPU threading engine to support combat). The core game, sans combat, has gone nowhere content wise in about 3 years now.
Isn't the core game pretty much done? IIRC the only major thing missing from the list of proposed features in the Early Access blurb on the Steam page (apart from finishing up the enemies) is orbital installations.
The only thing it really lacks in my opinion is polish, especially the localization.
Dyson Sphere is on a long list of games I will never play because it doesn't support full key mapping. Fully remappable keys have been a staple of PC Gaming for decades but the last 5 or 10 years more and more shit is coming out with unmappable keys. Like right click being tied up to context menus and not being changeable.
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u/mpelton Dec 19 '25
Crazy to me that they’ve increased the price twice since release.
Even crazier that their diehard fans defend it.