Well worth the price of admission! – Cosmonautica Review

Playing on an iPad Air. Have about ten hours in and zero crashes, zero hitches,Mauro bugs. I'm amazed other people are reporting problems since I've had not a one. Graphics look good on my iPad Air though not as good as PC... But yeah... Good. Game seems polished and has a lot to do. Fully playable as a trader, a cargo hauler, a passenger liner, and a fighter. Perhaps more roles? There are multiple ships for each different style and since you can custom create your own ship layouts you can make ships that are multipurpose. Seems like there are tons of upgrades to research and tons of systems and galaxies to explore. There is a campaign mode and an open sandbox mode so plenty of replay ability for various gameplay styles. Mechanics-wise seems a lot more depth and attention to detail then most mobile management games I've played. One if the most baffling comments in this thread is that someone was lost and couldn't find a tutorial. This confuses me and makes me wonder if the commenter actually even tried the game... Or perhaps accidentally started in sandbox free-play mode rather then story/campaign mode. The campaign mode takes your hand and walks you through things. Gives you step by step tutorials and quests to learn how things work. There are some branching options based on which playstyle you choose but it teaches you... And then let's you free to pkY the campaign as you like and side track as much as you like anytime you like. It also starts you with a care bones ship and a ton of currency to upgrade and customize it. The game even tells you, explaining in depth, that you need to purchase more rooms, which tykes you need to purchase, how to purchase them, and where. Anyone can be confused by anything, I suppose, but honestly this games does a fantastic job of teaching you if you actually read the instructions and tips. Don't want the tips? You can turn them off and just go straight ahead and pkay freely. All in all this game could have been ported better. Graphics could be a little sharper but honestly, on an iPad Air running the latest version of iOS, they look good and have had zero crashes at all. The buttons onscreen could be a little bigger but I'm an adult with larger then average sized digits and I have zero issues touching buttons with the pad of my index finger as normal. No miss licks, no using my fingernail. It just works smoothly as I expect it should. On an iPhone... The buttons nay be too small but on the iPad they are good, better then merely fine. There are things that could be polished but if you like the management genre this is a solid 4 star. Perhaps more if it is as long and deep as it seems to be... But I'm only ten hours in. Definitely worth the price of admission.
Review by PSquar3d on Cosmonautica.