Rodina reminds me of a 3D starbound or FTL. I've never played FTL but it's more or less a game where you can design your own ship and fly around and gather books/weapons/upgrades and fight random enemies and stuff. Now, content wise, this game is pretty lacking in "stuff to do" or "goals". It's pretty sandbox, which means you more or less have to make your own fun because besides flying to random asteroids that look the same and visiting the four planets surrounded by enemies, there isn't a lot to do.
That said, if you like designing ships and just enjoy a game where you can fly around in a spacecraft, this game is for you. The ship designer is great in my opinion. For a 3D game that's pretty simple, it's surprising good with the ship designer. Now, it has a set size (amount of tiles) you can use to build a ship and at this point in time, all the stuff to build with is infinite. Regardless, I still had a lot of fun designing my ship. The movement and placing detail is pretty good and very specific. It's hard to explain how it works but if you play it, you'll understand.
Like alot of other games, it's in early stage development which means it is constantly worked on and still being made, but playable. Despite the developer saying that it is prone to crashing, It only ever has done that to me a single time and the game works pretty well for my old shitty laptop. Despite the graphics being like most 3D space games being, because of the wise scale space stuff, your ship looks like a blob and the planets are pretty un-eventful being one color while the terrain is kind of generic blobby roughness. The game has potential to run slow because of the large scale of the worlds and stuff, but if you have basically anything better than my craphole laptop, it should work very well.
They recently added fires on your ship. So you have to stop doing whatever your doing, grab a fire extinguisher off the wall and fight some fires on your ship. It didn't work super well for my computer, but the great thing is, you can turn them off. You can edit pretty much anything in terms of difficulty for the game including combat, movement, and how difficult it is to enter an atmosphere. I thought it was pretty neat.
You can buy it on steam for 15 dollars or you can buy it off the developer's website.
http://elliptic-games.com/
An interesting thing is you can pay whatever you want for the game because he runs the price on a "buy it on a tier system". Anything below 15 dollars, you get the game exactly how it is but no access to future updates. If you wanted to buy the game as is for $1 dollar, you can! As long as you are ok with not having updates. Anything over $15 dollars and you have access to future updates and you get a steam key. The rest of the tiers are like, you get special credit or mentioned on the website or your picture plastered on the front page, and various other donation spotlight crap. Either way, I liked the game personally for what it was worth.
If you don't want to buy the game, you can try the demo out on steam or his site. The demo is supposed to only let you play for 60 minutes, but it hasn't booted me off and I had three hours on the demo before even deciding to buy the game. The only thing about the demo is you can't save your game. Meaning, if you get any upgrades for your ship, you won't be able to save it. However, you can save your ship layout design so even if you can't save your game, you can load up any ship design you want or made previously, and switch them at will whenever you want.
The soundtrack for the game is also fantastic and it goes great with the game. The soundtrack is one of the things that kept me playing.
Here are some pictures off the website. Kind of large images so they are in spoilers.
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