Astroneer

Our analysis

Promising Early Access survival-crafting with engaging exploration.

Our analysis

A relaxing, bright, and good-looking crafting and exploration game across seven planets, with a clever power and tether system and solid drop-in co-op. The core loop of mining, researching, unlocking, and building is fun once you get better tools, though it grows grindy and repetitive and lacks deeper content like base defense. Marred by surprisingly many bugs at full release, but still a better-than-average game worth picking up.

Our analysis

Great exploration crafting game with some Switch-specific performance issues.