Preview RPS takes a look at Spacebase DF-9

[Whisky]

Tags: Double Fine; Rock Paper Shotgun; Spacebase DF-9

Rock, Paper, Shotgun takes a look at an Early Access game every Monday, and today they decided to visit Spacebase DF-9, Double-Fine's space-station simulator. Take a look and see what they think.

And exploding. Small asteroids smash into my base, setting my refinery on fire, as my astronauts attempt to stamp out the flames (while others, less concerned, continue their calisthenics). I instruct my builder to install a fire extinguisher, and we all wait while he first slowly welds it onto the wall, then quickly yanks it off the wall and uses it.

Soon, I’ve got a couple more things built. A bedroom with one bed for everyone to share. A small room for scientific research, in hopes that I’ll someday have enough residents that I can assign one to science duty. A food replicator, so my residents can eat (I’m thoughtful like that). Then we receive a notification: a derelict ship has appeared nearby. A dark shape is suddenly sitting there, quiet and mysterious, in the space next to us.

 

[Haba]

No thanks. Stop providing Rock, Piss and Shitpaper with free traffic.

 

[MicoSelva]

Now, that's just lazy, Whisky. You could have quoted at least a snippet.

 

[Whisky]

Now, that's just lazy, Whisky. You could have quoted at least a snippet.

Whoops! Fixed.

 

[SuicideBunny]

Take a look and see what they think.

it's rps. what they think is irrelevant and mostly worthless.

 

[Trash]

They make a spectacularly early product that is at its very best reminding me of Theme Hospital sound like an awesome story engine like CK2 or DF.

 

[Bubbles]

And yet the game isn't even cracking the Steam top 100 the day after the article was released. Could it be that the public is tired of sci-fi games?

 

[BvG]

No thanks. Stop providing Rock, Piss and Shitpaper with free traffic.

Still better then strategyuninformer...

For me the more pressing problem is, that when news is re-aggregated like this on TC, the article never links to the actual game that is talked about.

 

[DosBuster]

Oh man I bet the alpha cost 3.3 dollars

 

[thesheeep]

Theme Hospital in space? Why not, could be fun.

 

[Misconnected]

Theme Hospital in space? Why not, could be fun.

It's a lot closer to Space Colony than to Theme Hospital.

 

[thesheeep]

True, but I found Space Colony to be pretty much Theme Hospital in space, too