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Please add a dark mode or compatibility with dark mode extensions.
I really like this style of game, but I can already tell the UX is going to put me off. Want to buy your next iron miner but it costs more wood than you have? Simply click back, click wood, click upgrade storage, click back, click iron, scroll down, click build. Clickable elements that move often in response to game updates are frustrating. Everything being nested in layers of tabs is frustrating. I can only imagine how it will scale up as the number of resources and actions grow.
developer response: Thanks for your detailed comment. You can click on Wood directly from the Iron page to operate on it, and the same applies to other resources. I agree the UI feels a bit awkward on PC screens, as it was mainly optimized for smaller displays. Currently the focus is on late game content. We’ll be developing a dedicated UI for desktop screens later on.
The UI makes me feel like I'm about to take a survey.
The balance is really quickly time-wall-y, especially with prices increasing so so so much faster than resource gain, with almost no multipliers in sight. Can be a lot of fun with a Dark Mode, the ability to switch between resources faster, maybe a split list of all the resources on pc, that you can choose to expand instead of clicking in and out to upgrade or purchase things, and a couple of balance updates. Great start!
developer response: Thanks for your detailed suggestions. Dark mode and a PC-specific UI will be the next main focus. Resource growth does ramp up quite sharply at the start, this was designed with late-game balance in mind, but there’s definitely room to refine the early-game experience, and I’ll keep working on that. Hopefully, the offline rewards help even things out a bit.
The UI makes this impossible to enjoy for me
the UI is waaay too clunky for me to enjoy this
Looks like a straight copy of space company, Plays like Space Company, Has the same UI as Space Company, Has the same research/Tech/Space stuff, therefore this is just space company lol
oh wow
the no-frills ui style
i've never understood people using this kind of ui for games
The idea is pretty solid and fun, with two major issues: 1) The interface is pretty annoying. It's hard to tell what you have available, how much, where, without clicking over several tabs. 2) It's hard to tell when you have unlocked new things and where they are. The balance also seems kind of early release, like I have unlocked a lot of new resources but not new mechanics or machines to use the resources on.
Isn't this just Deep Void Gate just worse UI? I mean all the mechanics are the same.
Something is unclear or incorrect about dark matter gain.
"Each achievement tier rewards 2 dark matter"
Well, since I bothered getting a load of extra achievements without my possible dark matter increasing that doesn't seem right. Maybe they mean achievement level?
Also, I could swear there was something that allowed you to turn your power into resources... haven't managed to find it in this version.
good game
Lack of dark mode in 2025 is pretty funny
the moon png is killing me
Seems I'm going against the grain here lol, but having played both, I honestly prefer this UI, at least on a functional level, to the Space Company UI. This isn't nearly as pretty, (I'm exclusively PC and not typically a fan of mobile-style UIs, but this is built for that so I can't complain) but it functions better (hyperlinks yay), and has a better overview of resources (personal preference, likely), and has less odd UI text size/placement/empty prime space. I will say that this has very little personality or charm, both in the visual sense and in the gameplay sense, but I do find it far more tolerable to actually play. Still looking forward to the PC UI though!
The description does make me think of how modern (almost all?) MMOs fail, though-- it doesn't matter how good your late-game is if you can't keep people hooked long enough to get to said late-game. I do think this would benefit from some early-game balance/tweaking, and some personality, that sets it more apart from existing games and makes people want to get to this mythical wonderful late-game. It does sound like the early/mid balance is at least on the dev's radar though, so I imagine that will improve with time!
Unfortunately, I left the game one day with a positive energy inflow & stable resources (no negatives), and after closing the game and returning the next day, I somehow had -5000 energy flow. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off any machines (unless there's something I'm missing), I'll have to destroy most of my machines and spend hours rebuilding them and just... hope this doesn't happen again? Regardless, even considering this and the early-mid game balance issues, I was having a lot of fun with this until then! I will likely return after a few more updates, and start over if I can't manage to fix my situation. I hope development continues!
Also, thanks for adding dark mode!
This looks and feels like a clone of Space Company.