App Store Editors’ Notes

Incremental games, simple right?

Typically incremental games feature text or basic graphics and nearly fully player driven. SPACEPLAN adds a relaxing and beautifully simplistic environment to take you through the silly but enjoyable story line. The ending makes all the effort worth it, providing an end goal not typical to the genre. Playing through this relatively short game in this genre took me 3 days playing a few hours a day. The price tag had me worried but in the end I felt it was justified in the end to consume the atmosphere that I can tell Jake enjoyed crafting. I wish it was a bit longer, I am sure some amazingly creative ideas can come out of the plot and mechanics of the universe we are playing in and would love to see the app updated to include more replayability. I would recommend this game for those who enjoy a 410-like art style and want a fresh take on an incremental game.

Oh Boy

Your probably wondering why a clicker is $3, if it’s worth it, and if you should buy it. If you want the short answer, yes, but only if you like clickers. If want reasons why this game stands out (or if your one of the devs), then continue reading. This is the best clicker I’ve played. It took me two days to beat it. I wish there was more. But after seeing the small team that worked on this, I was not disappointed. Yes, it has an end. Yes, it’s a clicker. Yes, it’s $3. But oh boy is it an experience. As you play and progress the story your AI companion says funny, witty things. The dialogue does not seem forced either, it all flows. My favorite part about the story is that the final step of your SPACEPLAN is to make it into a game for mobile devices, wich is a clever meta moment. Now, I don’t need to say much about the gameplay because it’s a clicker. But, unlike other clickers, this one has no micro transactions, no premium currency, it’s fun, and it actually is challenging at points. Challenging in the way that you gotta time something perfectly, not in the way that you have to grind. Lastly, the ending. I don’t want to spoil anything, but it is an amazing experience. I’m still on the fence on wether this should be $3 or not. But if the price drives you away, remember that you would probably spend more money on a worse clicker, with no ending or satisfaction. And if the money goes to one of my favorite game companies, it’s well worth it.

Awe-inspiring and Incredibly well done

From the art style to the jokes to the story, all of this game was incredibly well done, and then they rebuilt the game, making it even more amazing and jaw-dropping. I played the game years ago and enjoyed it but after a while it got boring. I came back to it today and saw the new update and said “hey why not” so I redownloaded the game and played for probably two hours straight. Every moment was something new, the developments were well timed and the incremental portion was well balanced. By the time I finished the game I thought ‘what a wonderful way to close’ this games last scene was absolutely mesmerizing and I enjoyed every bit, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to anyone. There was a bug I encountered sometimes where after I delved into Saturn I could not see the word outputter’s updates, it was stuck on something along the lines of “hey there’s alternate reality us” and did not update further. Another bug I encountered was that if there was an animation going on and I was switching screens between the word outputter and the planet looker or system peeker I could not see it when I went back to the planet looker or system peeker, this happened mostly late game. Sorry I wrote an entire essay but I had to get all my thoughts out, this is one of my first reviews on this app for good reason, nothing compares.

You need to have this game!

We all know as humans that he are quite powerful ,but the universe dwarfs us and we are very small. This game just blowed you away literally. This game gets to have a bind with you and you can't stop. I'm not going to spoil the ending ,but it will make you rethink how the world works. People who have already played know what I mean. It shows how scary and vast the universe and how lucky we are to be alive. You go around MULTIVERSES trying to find one pesky species that destroys everything including themselves. You go around searching for something so insignificant. BUT it's the human species is the only know living one in the universe. It makes you think how vulnerable we really are and this game changes you as a person forever. I believe people who are polluting the planet, breaking peace, and are destroying everything should play this. It takes a few days at most to complete and is priced at a small cup of coffee. You won't regret it. If your feeling depressed or lonely I recommend you to play this game I know it sounds insane ,but after playing this you will truly see how lucky and special you are as an individual person an individual cell an individual atom.

Best clicker ever created

When I first downloaded this game I was sure it would be good, but after playing for about 30 minutes I realized how amazing it is. The game is so much more than a clicker, it’s a full on story. It brings you through this amazing experience with an A.I. that talks to you and explains things. As you go through the solar system in your spaceship you see tons of cool mechanical designs. There is an actual challenge, and the game has goals that you work towards making it one of the best and most unique clickers I have ever played. You will love this game even more if you are into futureistic stuff. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone who wants a mind blowing game that’s not too long.

No.

I have played all kinds of apps and all kinds of clickers. This doesn’t have much in the way of either. As an app there is almost nothing to it, the soundtrack is decent but doesn’t justify its price tag. It’s easily the most unambitious clicker and that’s okay, but it’s also shallow. There is truly no depth here and the game is actually even more shallow than it pretends to be. (The game’s use of breaking the forth wall might impress some but it’s weak and uninspired here) As a clicker, there is nothing to it. It doesn’t even have the decency to offer extended play. You literally follow the same growth pattern two times and the game is complete. It is incomprehensible how disappointing this was, because I thought it was just warming up and then the credits roll. The only thing that made this game take longer than a few hours (unacceptable for a clicker even if it is deliberately designed to have an end) was this ridiculous resource sink toward the end. It has the player shooting away resources at tiny moving ‘targets’. Why? Simply to add some hours to a game that is void of even brevity. If this app were one dollar and sold as an art experiment or satirical commentary on the concept of clickers as entertainment in general, it’d still be a bit too on the nose to be worth it. As it stands anything more than one dollar is an insult. And for the record that dollar I think it did earn only did so for the music. It was cool every now and then. Hard pass.

Good but not $3 good

This game is entertaining and funny at times but the game is extremely short and the end was a little disappointing if you’re not 5 and this is your first time seeing a the forth wall break. There are achievements no achievements which was a little disappointing but that’s not a major flaw. What really stands out (not in a good way) was the time it took to beat the game. It took me 2 days to beat the game which is extremely short. However if it went on for infinity like some clickers there wouldn’t be many of those funny lines your buddy tells you. So I’m not sure how I feel about that. To put it short, cool concept, wrong genre of game. Would be cool if you made it a pc/ console game where you land at reearth with the graphics of the main game and explore reearth with graphics of the cutscene where you land there for like 3 seconds and just make the game an open world explorer game. 2/5 stars because it could’ve been really great with a bigger team and a better use of thought.

Falls short.

This is a nice little time waster for about 2-3 days of actively checking in while the game collects for you, as there’s no point in thumb mashing after a certain point since you generate so much power every second. Both times I’ve attempted to play through the game I got the black screen of death near what I believe to be the end. The first time was shortly after the game came out; after just a few days ago. I figured certainly the devs would patch such a game-breaking issue on an app that costs people’s hard earned money; but sadly after much time.. they have not. 5/5 for terms of quality in sound and visual mechanics. Minus 2 stars for an unforgiving and game breaking bug that seems to pop up, with no patches in sight to fix it. Buyer beware; $3 you will not get back. Pick it up if it goes on sale.

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