Awesome game... but – SimpleRockets Review

The concept and general gameplay is really great but the satellite mission controls don’t seem to work quite right. Four control thrusters are required to yaw because it uses the left/right thruster to do this motion. This can just as easily be achieved with the forward/rear thrusters utilizing only two. The above issue causes several problems. 1) Uses fuel quicker. 2) Requires an understanding of center of balance when there are no indicators where that could possibly be. No weights or dimensions of the parts are provided much less an accurate tool to locate the thrusters on the correct part of the body. This results in unintended yaw when trying to maneuver left and right which causes unintended yaw. Additionally, there is no way to turn the control thrusters off for other portions of the flight. This means your burning control thruster fuel the entire flight and by the time you’ve aligned with the satellite you’re low or out of control thruster fuel. Finally, the controls for fine maneuvering do not respond correctly. The forward button works as intended, tap it, hold it and the ship moves as you would expect. The back, left, right, and yaw controls don’t. You have to hold them down before that do anything, at which point they start burning hard, creating uncontrolled movement. Add this together and it turns “challenging” into wholly frustrating. I am loath to try the Simple Planes as I imagine it relies heavily on The maneuvering controls and would have related issues.
Review by tom198&;$; on SimpleRockets.