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Objects in Space
Developer Flat Earth Games
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once. From the Steam store page
200 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
43
Mixed
80 positive · 107 negative
95% range 36–50%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 80 | 107 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
274 of 547 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
43% recommend · 80 yes, 107 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 187 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (323 of 625 positive).
Players praise the game's unique submarine-in-space concept and immersive atmosphere. [1][2][3] Some players find it enjoyable for cheap, but warn of bugs and unfinished content. [4][5][6]
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Representative posts
- [1]
Space submarine. This is all you need to know. Is it worth the $25 price tag? No. Get it on sale if you can. Also, this is abandon-ware. No more updates from dev team.
- [7]
I can't begin to tell you how much I love this game. It's deeply immersive, suspenseful, intriguing, and mysterious. There's plot, structure -- even if it is unfinished. This isn't like Duskers, (also a good game,) where there's just "strange allusions to a potential plot" -- no, there's a whole world in here, and you can sink your teeth into it, and chew, and eat, and feel like you ate something great. I feel like …
- [13]
A pretty unique and awesome concept, which makes it the more hurtful that the devs took the money, released whatever they had as 1.0 to fulfill their obligations, and called it quits. I wish they'd reconsider releasing mod support or the source code, so that this concept could evolve into an actual complete game, in the hands of the community. In the meantime, I would not recommend buying. Why give more money to …
- [5]
I love this game and want to give it the thumbs up. I just can't in good conscience. It is very broken and the dev has abandoned it. It crashes all the time and at some point it will crash every time you attempt to get back on your ship. Not allowing you to proceed any further. I'm 50 hours in and am going to have to start from the beginning because I have only one save file. I recommend maintaining at least two …
- [6]
I really wanted to like this game. It promises to be a hybrid of Elite Frontier and Silent Hunter, both of which are great games from the past which I remember fondly. There is some good gameplay here, at least early in the story mode when you get to fly around completing contracts, trading goods and carrying passengers while exploring a new and unfamiliar universe. Unfortunately, the game then starts to crash, …
Summarised from 34 of the 200 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Objects in Space talk about unique submarine-in-space gameplay; those who didn't talk about frequent crashes and bugs. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 200 · most liked firstA pretty unique and awesome concept, which makes it the more hurtful that the devs took the money, released whatever they had as 1.0 to fulfill their obligations, and called it quits. I wish they'd reconsider releasing mod support or the source code, so that this concept could evolve into an actual complete game, in the hands of the community. In the meantime, I would not recommend buying. Why give more money to people who is not even trying to earn it anymore?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space submarine. This is all you need to know. Is it worth the $25 price tag? No. Get it on sale if you can. Also, this is abandon-ware. No more updates from dev team.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi folks! I'm Elissa. I am an experienced #GameDev & writer. In the past decade and change I did TownCraft, Metrocide and Objects in Space, amongst other things. And after a few years hiatus, I am now working on & live blogging a new project - Deck & Conn. https://www.elissablack.com/tag/devlog/
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfinished and abandoned by its developers. Fun for what it is—and quite novel—but please don't support this behavior by purchasing the game. The new indie-industry standard of "forever in early access until it isn't" is both unsustainable and evidence of a larger malaise in game development.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last update received from the devs is below for those interested. Think it's worth it if you can get it for dirt cheap, but there's pretty much no value to it. You'd probably be able to kill some time but that's about it. // Update on Objects in Space By leigh on October 4, 2019 Objects in Space has been a huge project for a very small team. We’ve put all our hearts and souls into it for many years to get it to 1.0, implementing as many changes as we could between Early Access launch and now,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has much more potential but just like the company name, well what in the world am I thinking. Game abandoned, story not finished. Bugs not fixed. Should have been made free and code released so that someone can fix it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is abondoned. Don't buy. No more support, no more updates.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i really wanted to like this game. The idea of piloting a spaceship just via a load of Nostromo-style readouts and chunky buttons and levers really appealed to me, and I love the graphical style as well (though the spaceships looked like they were made from Duplo). But the game was abandoned after just a year by the devs, and now the font rendering has made all the text in the game- you know, the main way you actually play this game- completely garbled for me. Text doesn't scroll up and down…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Step 1: see that game supports Linux. Step 2: spend more than an hour debugging game crash on startup. Step 3: find that text rendering on Linux is utterly broken (a cardinal sin for a game centered around staring at text displays). Step 4: realize that game has been abandoned since 2019. Step 5: write this review
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an interesting game, a lot of good ideas including opening up the game to control by hobbyist built control systems, but it's buggy and the developers openly dropped support for it. Don't waste your money, wait for it to either go open source so that the community can finish it or for a competitor to write something superior. Or for the developer to start supporting it again (but don't hold your breath for that).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like being in a submarine in space. The only one of its kind that I have seen. I think this is why people are so upset that development has stopped. We need more games like this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game and want to give it the thumbs up. I just can't in good conscience. It is very broken and the dev has abandoned it. It crashes all the time and at some point it will crash every time you attempt to get back on your ship. Not allowing you to proceed any further. I'm 50 hours in and am going to have to start from the beginning because I have only one save file. I recommend maintaining at least two alternating saves. So if the most recent wont let you proceed you can go back a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good promise for a game. Unfortunately, it was released in an unfinished state and then the developers did a few small patches to fix some major issues and ditched. Game was never finished and likely will never be finished. It has no official mod support and there are some bugs that break the game. It is understandable for a small dev to be slow with updates and even for a game to be rough around the edges. They are charging $25 for this. It's not finished. It has been over 2 years. It will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had potential, but now abandoned by the devs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice game but keeps crashing for no reason. Can't complete long missions. they look good but its just frustrating. I should be able to get my money back. Too bad for the dev's but can't play. A game is supposed to be played. Updated crashed in 5 minutes play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PS: If you want something similar that has a future, search for Ostranauts in steam. Look...its a good game. I followed this game years before it launched back in 2018. I was very hyped. BUT its sad that the devs abandoned really quickly and left bugs and no ending. With this you can get minimal 20h of gameplay easy and fun. But remember its not finished and the later you go more bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. It promises to be a hybrid of Elite Frontier and Silent Hunter, both of which are great games from the past which I remember fondly. There is some good gameplay here, at least early in the story mode when you get to fly around completing contracts, trading goods and carrying passengers while exploring a new and unfamiliar universe. Unfortunately, the game then starts to crash, basically because the developers ran out of time when the game was only about 75%…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is not finished. It's just a demo / prototype.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned. Was fun though! For those who want to scratch the same itch, take a look at Sailwind...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game had great promise and was abandoned. Is practically unplayable. Avoid this game, and avoid the Dev's other games in the future.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is wonderful, it's a shame it was never finished
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've owned this game for years. It is an absolute travesty that the game was left before it was completed. For anyone who is thinking of purchasing, one of the last updates including modding support that exposes the entire games assets (think new nebulas, chips, NPCs, stories, ships, etc) that, if someone with enough time on their hands, could technically create whole new assets and content. The problem is that there's no official tools, so all of this creation would need to be done by hand,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy and abandoned. It's hard to see the dev move on to bigger and better things, and get praise from industry figures, when they seem to have just got bored and and abandoned a project like this. Especially frustrating when this had so much potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has been abandoned by devs in non playable state, which is unfortunate since was a cool concept in several ways.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BRILLIANT IDEA BUT IN PRACTICE PIRACY - ie the devs still sell this for 20 quid yet it is not finished or supported and they have even posted to basically say that they have abandoned it. If that is the case then do NOT SELL IT. Serioulsy is it even legal to market and sell a game on this platform which is not complete. IMO steam should refund everyone
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How is this abandon ware still for sale @21 euro Game could have been good if they didn't abandon it and its broken.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If the game were stable, then it would be great but, as is, it's quite frustrating. After you've played the game for an amount of time, the game will crash, it's guaranteed to happen. What makes it worse is that there is no option to save, only saving automatically when you dock. You will lose hours of game play and, have nothing to show for it. Don't think this is a unique experience, just look some other reviews if you need evidence. Development of the game seems abandoned, so don't cross…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →56/ Objects in Space (game, 2018) This game is a UFO. It's not for everyone, but it's immersive if you get the hang of it. It's an open world 2D stealth-action space trading game 🤯 set in a cluster of star systems lightyears away from Earth. For lovers of Nostromo-style buttons and screens. 🤟
positive · AI labelView post →It´s a good game, the best space trucker sim out there. It´s not unfinished. It´s a complete game and quite enjoyable. Interesting concepts. Developed by an Indie studio (two persons) but worth every cent. It´s a shame they abandoned it after release because it has great potential and many room for improvements but is not the disaster it seems if you look some angry gamer´s reviews.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fantastic demo A very nice idea that was never fully developed and has been abandoned. The interface is clunky and painful to use with many clever features being utterly useless, for example buying Black Market goods - you cannot hide them from scans nor does going "dark" prevent you from being scanned resulting in huge mounting fines for carrying cargo that no-one wants to buy. Equally there are only 3-4 ships which vary in very small ways. This is a nice tactical and "realistic" sequel to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On 04/08/2026, the game is sold for 20.99€, this is unacceptable, this is a very small game with ZERO updates in years: no additional content, no improvement, no new features. The game itself is very limited the "gameplay loop" is covered in a few minutes/hours. I really wanted to love this game, it has a lot of amazing ideas, but for the price it's being sold AND the total lack of updates in YEARS, added to that the limited content/features -> I can't recommend the game. If I were fully…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandon ware that had so much potential, so much so I sank 20 hours in early access when it ultimately disappoints. I would not recommend or buy anything from this dev again early access.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As the other reviewers have said, so much promise in this game. The atmosphere, the many parts you can purchase to upgrade your ship, repairing circuit boards, so much to like about this game. The developer abandoned this game, and has kept it at the $25 price point. This should be released to the public so it can be picked back up, or sold to another developer, something, anything. This game had the making of a fantastic space sim. Unfortunately, it is now a cash grab and abandoned. I cannot…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd love to recommend this game, but at this state, it is not more but a presentation of what could have been. It is broken, there are several, inevitable gamestoppers and it is also generally not ready to play for more than a few hours. I love the concept of the Game and it is a shame that it is abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developer cut and ran. They could easily salvage their reputation by making it open source, but calls from the community are met with radio silence. Such a shame as this could be something huge with an open source community and a few streamers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev ran with the money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned. POS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →0/1, devs abandoned this game and did not open source it. Shame on them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful devs. Abandonware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well what about to say ? it could have been a good game but nope the Developers suddenly without any reason took the money and Raise the middle finger to the supporting community and abandon this game fully and run away for the next scam. it looks like the Developers wanted to develop a game at the start and got suddenly bored very fast and dont like to finish it or anything else. And left a totally Half baked unfinished buggy mess of a Rudimentary game. Even the start level of the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great idea, actually got to beta test it back in the day but its sadly less stable now than it was then. Would be nice to see it released to the public in some sort of moddable form it would likely form quite the cult following.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love how this game is on sale 9/2/21 when its been ABANDONED AS ♥♥♥♥ FOR YEARS!!!!!!! I love it such a cool game such potential but devs game up. WTF on sale should be free. SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE OPENSOURCE SO THE COMMUNITY WHO LOVED THIS GAME COULD HAVE KEPT IT ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GOING. But NO!!! Abandoned......
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →crashed and runs like ass the devs are just in it for a quick buck (check their development history)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned like all their games end up. Avoid all this devs work. They never finish anything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good concept of a game, but very flawed in many ways. Also abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing potential, but very obviously unfinished and unstable to the point of being almost unplayable. In two sessions of under four hours I've lost all sound, the music player has broken repeatedly, and I've had a crash to desktop that lost an entire multi-jump journey. For the £3 I spent on it, I've had enough fun playing with the various systems and I'd certainly recommend it on sale as a curiosity - the atmosphere is top-notch and the ship systems are uniquely brilliant. However, it's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I very much want to like this game, but its UI is just too physically hard to use, impossible to customise properly, and difficult to penetrate. The main gripes are: The cursor locks to in-game displays, but is entirely detached from the sensitivity settings of your mouse in any other moment, and so it feels like dragging your mouse through mud to interact with anything. If there is scrollable text on a display, you can't use your scroll-wheel to view more - but using your scroll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a very fun, great game. Then the devs left it ;-; Had SO MUCH promise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never. Ever. Ever. Believe in the hype. Followed these folk on Social Media. Followed their Youtube. Hoped that these guys would go the distance, but they didn't have the heels. AbandonWare, and they were so close to creating a cult indie hit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was abandoned by the developers, don't buy!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game, but no further support is a real bummer, game crashes pretty frequently
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't begin to tell you how much I love this game. It's deeply immersive, suspenseful, intriguing, and mysterious. There's plot, structure -- even if it is unfinished. This isn't like Duskers, (also a good game,) where there's just "strange allusions to a potential plot" -- no, there's a whole world in here, and you can sink your teeth into it, and chew, and eat, and feel like you ate something great. I feel like this game opened my mind, and created a new space. I still find myself…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware of a game I've been wanting to fill the void in my heart for space sims. Literally the formula in a space game I've been searching for. And it drifts away from my grasp once again. Get it on sale if you want. But it's an endless wandering journey into nothingness from here.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →505 is known to abandon half baked early access game...this one is an example. so much good can be done but well, no more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crashes very easily when chasing bounties inside a large asteroid field. This is quite frustrating.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game with fantastic potential but unfortunately it is not being developed anymore. It's too buggy to recommend despite the enjoyable foundation. I'd still pick it up for $5 to play with but I can't recommend it for full price. Hopefully someone else runs with the submarine-in-space theme and fulfills the promise of this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As others have said, the game has a significant amount of potential but has been utterly abandoned by the developers and is a glorified cash grab.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the IDEA of this game. The abandonment is what made me refund my 10 spacebux. Do not buy unless you find this for damn near free. EDIT I bought it again. I don't know why. It is a ton of fun. Immersive all the good stuff. Just not polished in all the right areas. If your're curious about it, buy it on sale, and I mean on sale for CHEAP. Refund it if you don't like it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Objects in Space" is an unusual specimen on Steam, it's not shovelware or a low effort 2D retro pixel platformer or a mobile app. This is a serious and genuinely made PC game with a very welcome amount of depth. This is a space trader game spiritually following games like Privateer, Freelancer and Elite, but without the space sim components (and this is a major drawback). The depth and complexity of the game add considerable value, as you're free to engage in whatever activities will make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have never seen so much wasted potential in a game before. I cringe every time that I look at this game in my library and finally decided to write a review. Basically, this is everything that I wanted in a space sim, except for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ devs who abandoned it.
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