In Spacebase, no-one can hear you scream ‘but it’s only an alpha.’
Spacebase is pre-beta. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly pre-beta it is.
Spacebase: the unfinal build.
My god, it’s full of missing features.
They should’ve sent a QA guy. So alpha. So alpha… I had no idea.
I’ve been playing Doublefine’s new strategy-management game Spacebase DF-9, which launched on Steam’s oft-abused Early Access service yesterday. I’m comfortable with saying that now probably isn’t the right time to buy it – i.e. it feels too early for early access – but I’m equally comfortable with appreciating what it’s ultimately aiming to do even if it’s nowhere near doing it yet.
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