Spacebase DF-9 begins to fold.

Interesting. This is one of the games I held off on because of my experience with GODUS. Perhaps 22cans saved me some money.

I haven't played it since the most recent updates, but last I checked, crew members' moods were all over the place causing them to get in fights and make it difficult to build things up and gather resources. Once that and some other bugs are fixed and it's a little more polished, which sounds like it'll come around next month, I'd say it might be. The only downside is that it still feels pretty shallow for its type of game. Here's a rundown of what you do:

Build base.
Mine asteroids to build base.
Respond to random passersby requests to board, yes/no as base resources allow.
Expand base to accommodate (via bedrooms/oxygen/energy/growing food/etc.) more crew members.
Handle asteroid collisions (i.e. put out any fires they start).
Handle intruders with security officers/security systems (kill/stun, if stunned, possibly bring over to your side).
Explore random derelict vessels that appear (find stuff/salvage the ship for resources).
Do research to get some mildly better stuff and cures to treat diseases.

Uh...Do all that until out of research options and you run out of resources to build your base and/or your crew all goes insane killing each other, I guess? That's...really about all there is to it, I think. It's not really bad or boring or anything, but it just doesn't feel like it's as fleshed out as it could be. The derelicts, unless they've changed, don't really tell much if any stories. The asteroids are solid, there'll never be a surprise mining through them. The passersby may sometimes turn out to be pirates and if you reject them, sometimes they'll come aboard anyway, but that's about the extent of their variance from what I've seen.

Interesting. I do own DF9 and I think it's miles ahead of Godus in terms of gameplay value. I do agree that currently the only goal in it is to balance O2, power, food, etc. needs of your base and a random raid. Some objectives are going to be an interesting addition.

What is different between DF9 and Godus is that one did not have a KS and generally has a low profile, thus low cash injections, (even though it's backed by DoubleFine). Peak players for godus is 6k, for DF9 it's littel below 1K. DF-9 is made by something like 3 guys with additional help here and there. Communication wise I didn't get too much involved in DF9 community buy as a outsider I aways enjoyed alpha videos that came out with each version. All in all it seems like the guys had a clear goal in mind and with each release got closer to it.

I just brought the game recently while on sale on Steam. I had not realized that it was still in "beta", but having played it a bit I can see that. I am sad that it will not get as many features as they said it would but it is an OK game so far, but then I have not played it all that much.

df9  company is the same as from the brokenage disaster   and the different  in godus and df 9 is  godus can be played for free or you pay upfront  in df 9  you pay upfront  but dont Forget they will release the sorce code  this means sooner or later everyone will have the Chance to Play it free  cause People like you payed for it

Well the response to this over in the forums certainly turned into what one would expect, outrage and lots of unwarranted vitriolic rants. Some more level-headed responses to, but much of it's either intermixed together or drowned out by frustration. =/

It's a really awkward situation with many of the Early Access titles, for sure. I don't think that most people confuse it with eventually turning into a huge triple-A success or anything, but I do think they confuse, often due to developer incompetence at communications, what will really be in the game and what won't and why this is the case. While in this situation I think this was the case of poor business handling on Double Fine's part, I do agree with Tim's response that to improve this in the future, they'll strive to be far clearer on the feature lists presented. However working along with that, I think, would be explaining why features may be cut at some point, even if they're in the category of being assured for release.

It's very much like our situation with Godus. We're especially frustrated with some of the features disappearing from the game, not because we don't understand the idea of iterative development and all that stuff, but because that's a very lacking response. "Why was feature cut?" "Iterative development." "Okay, but why...?" "Iterative development."

I guess that's slightly better than silence, but not by much.

Also, Totalbiscuit's weighed in on the whole Spacebase fiasco.

Oh yeah, I heard that about Dishonored. I heard that about Age of Mythology. I heard it about many games of the past and present. It's all about the style, but for some strange reason people seem to expect everything to be photorealistic and super high res or something. That can be impressive, but only if it flows well with the overall stylistic design of the game.

Absolutely. On a general level, I only ever pick up Early Access titles in bundles, so I don't pay too much and I have a bunch of other games to compensate for if it turns out meh. Godus was the one exception to that, and I still only picked it up on 50% discount. Definitely seems many more don't play it safe that way.