ΔV: Rings of Saturn
A physics-based mining sim, set in the thickest debris field in Sol. Every action has a reaction, lasers are invisible without a medium, and your thrust is a potent weapon. Find trade, adapt your equipment to your playstyle, hire a crew to help. Unravel the mysteries of the rings, or just get rich.
ΔV: Rings of Saturn is a space, sci-fi and physics game
developed by Kodera Software
and published by Kodera Software and Kurki.games.
Released on July 21st 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 12 languages: English, Polish, Simplified Chinese, German, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian and French.
It has received 2,739 reviews of which 2,568 were positive and 171 were negative resulting in a rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.
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Requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11
- Processor: i3 2.4GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel UHD 730 2GB VRAM or equivalent
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Try running the demo to verify if your system can handle it
MacOS
- OS: 10
- Processor: Intel, M1 2.4GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB VRAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Try running the demo to verify if your system can handle it
Linux
- OS: 64 bit
- Processor: i3 2.4GHz or equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel UHD 730 2GB VRAM or equivalent
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Try running the demo to verify if your system can handle it
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Redoing this review after throwing thirty or so hours at the game - I'll leave it below if you want to behold my initial exuberance. Delta-V: Rings of Saturn, in short, hits the spot. UI is good, the flight assist is well done, the general difficulty is manageable, and the setting is enjoyable, though you'll be getting most of your lore via ship snippets and NPCs. Generally embodies showing more then telling, and it's an enjoyable 'physics puzzle' to boot. The biggest complaint that I can muster is that the game is exactly what it advertises itself as - A (2D) physics-heavy space-mining sim. There's a lot of QoL baked in, and tools that you can buy to ease the tedium (mining lasers are AMAZING) but barring luck, you'll mostly be smashing, chasing, and selling rocks. It can be very meditative, but as long as you're playing conservatively, once you have the controls down and understand what all the numbers mean, it's not particularly challenging. Unless you run afoul of a pirate. Or get a little too eager to chase down that 500kg chunk of high-value ore. Or just drift too close to one giant mother-hubbard of a NPC ship that will cook you alive just with their maneuvering thrusters. One bad crash, one combat encounter, or one bad decision can absolutely wreck your ship. The game usually gives you an out with the pirates, but the danger goes from zero to a hundred very quickly, often in the middle of an otherwise super chill run. I'd personally love to see an extension of this game, a broader simulation, more content for this intriguing slice of sci-fi the devs have given us, but for now? It's pretty damn good for a ten dollar game. Also, there's anime and furry portrait packs if that floats your boat. --------------------- Good lord, this is worth so much more then ten bucks. I was tentative on this purchase - I do have a love for hard sci-fi gaming in general, the more plausible and grounded the better, but in my experience, the price you pay is in gameplay. Terrible UI, unintuitive controls, more menus then you can shake a stick at - I normally dread trying out these titles, no matter how good the premise is, because I expect to get drubbed senseless by all the things I need to play the game before I can even touch the core gameplay loop. I was stunned at just how much Rings of Saturn exceeded my expectations. The autopilot, if you want to use it, does the vast majority of heavy lifting for the necessary high-precision maneuvers for navigating the Rings. You want to match velocity to something? Left click. You want to go somewhere? Left click that somewhere. You want to brake? Hit X - The autopilot will slow you to a (Relative - This is space, after all!) stop. You want to chase that chunk of high-value ore and increase your speed to overtake it at a leisurely 2 m/s? Left click, drag your mouse a little so the autopilot aims 'past' the object in question. That's it. And because of this one absolutely beautiful quality of life feature, you can really relish in the simulation aspects without being (as) terrorized by it in doing the most basic element of interacting with your environment. Right now, as I write this review, every time I engage forward thrust, my ship veers to the side, unbalanced by the cargo container I have attached to my low-stress hardpoint. This would be *incredibly* annoying if I had to manually pilot for every single maneuver, but instead it's a neat part of the physics simulation. I could talk about the incredible depth of being able to modify even your starting ship, the plausible (and awesome) propulsion concepts that, fingers crossed, we might see in practice in 20-30 years, the fact that you can totally change your playstyle with in-situ ore refining and propellant processing, your ability to launch drones to do all the close-up mining, the ability to sit on ore and wait for good prices, or the ability to amass a mining fleet, but I don't have nearly enough playtime to do all of that justice. I'm pretty sure I will sooner rather then later, though. Who needs sleep, anyway. Shout-out to the devs: You should be proud of the game you made. Rings of Saturn is expectation-defying and fantastic. I really can't put it any other way.
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fix the moronic tutorial, you are not developing a game for yourself but other people edit : changing to positive, adding some suggestions 1. the very beginning of the tutorial there is too much stuff thrown at you, the blinking X for me personally was a sign to close the message rather than press X, with every piece of the screen being explained with some tooltips its pretty common that people will just be annoyed and stuck right in the first screen. From steam discussions its evident im not alone. 2. I like no handholding approach but there are many things in the game that are not explained and one wouldn't figure it out without people in discord (which is why i continued playing) if no one answered I'd probably leave the game in my steam dump. -for example, the ship stops refining resources despite everything being seemingly ok... the problem? you need to push resoruces to the back of the chamber for it to start processing, good luck figuring it out, but thats not the best part, that little area where refining happens is small enough for 2 nuggets to get stuck and not let anything pass... happens constantly and sometimes i have to unload my full cargo and collect it wasting bots just to fix that annoying situation... -or you have haul drones but for some reason when they go after resources they do not bring it all the way, just leave it in front of the ship... apparently i have to open the chamber manually, ok fine (nothing says how that works) but nothing also says that you can double press the button to keep it open... as a result i played most of the 40 hours actually letthing the ship chase each nugget... while i could just vaccum everything up. -no ability to pick which personal goes into derilict ship, just pray its not someone essential for the rest of the mission... -when astrogator for whatever reason is not on the ship all your locations suddely have lower expiration... which makes you think you spent 50 days on a single run and time flies quickly, instead make those deactivated or unavailable but don't reduce the number arbitrarily... a tooltip like (unreachable without such and such specialist)... maybe this is handholding but i do not see how someone would figure this out without someone specifically telling them or searching in forums... no handholding should work when you are completely off the forums and discords, if you have to do it to progress then its just annoying and not fun there is no sense of discovery from stranger telling you how things work... -swapping equipment selling/buying is always at the same price, but for some reason ships arent, not cool after you realise you sold a bunch of ships just to buy them back later when you have enough cash to spec them out... again annoying
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Delta V: Rings of Saturn, Is it an action packed game? No Is it a 'edge of your seat' game? Also no Is it heavily story driven? Yes and no - Does lore and random story-esk events count as story? it does right? Don't dismay though, it's an interesting title. It does have combat, random encounters, and random story encounters all while you're diving into the rings to get that next sweet haul. Mine loads of space rocks, dodge asteroids while your cargo bay is fully loaded and pray to everything that there isn't a moonlet in your way when you're leaving at 50 meters a second - that's where a lot of the enjoyment comes from this title (at least for me). The 1 ultimate objective - mine the rings, pay the crew, make money, buy a new ship, equip the ship, rinse and repeat. All in the meantime you're juggling random encounters. Be it pirates, rogue AI/drones, the 'space police', other miners, space stations and probably so much more. In short, is Delta V for everyone? God no. Is it for a certain niche of people who like simulators that require some brainpower rather than some titles that only offer brain-rot? Yes, yes it is
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An utterly unique labor of love, Delta V: Rings of Saturn is deeply married to the concept that space physics should be as correctly and (brutally) accurately represented as possible. This is definitely a "learn by doing" sort of game, and has a high degree of required skill and precision to all the components. Essentially nothing in the game is subject to "video game logic" and will affect you as fairly as it is supposed to. Alternatingly meditative and palm-sweatingly-stressful, it is a wonderful niche little game, and reasonably priced, to boot.
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I found this game like so many others in my library by watching Splattercat covering it on his youtube channel. However, I stayed clear of this game because of the way that he described it. Allthough he said he loved the game and it was very fun to play, he also said that it was for a very special kind of player. What I should have realized by now is that pretty much every game that he say is fun to play I end up feeling the same way when I play it. I actually kinda bought this game as an afterthough, as I was really going to get another game, but as I was going to purchace it this game was in a 2 game pack to allmost the same price. Remembering Splattercat's video on the game I though why not, and I am so glad that I bought it. I can't even remember what other game I really wanted because Rings of saturn have taken over my life since I bought it. At the writing moment you can probably see that I have 32 hours into the game. What it doesn't say is that I have pretty much played the game nonstop and those 32 hours are not spread out in that many days. This game scratch an itch I didn't know I had, the gameloop is so satisfying. Gathering ore, go back buy equipment that makes gathering ore easier and go out and gather ore again. After a while you encounter events, other ships out in the rings friendly and not so friendly. There is a surpricing amount of lore hidden in the rings for you to find. I find gathering ore like almost a zen like excersise, it's very grindy but I love it. And even if the game is not on sale it's very reasonably priced, actually it's very cheap considering all the hours of fun you are going to have if this happen to be your kind of game. If you are on the fence about purchasing it, don't. Jump of the fence and get it, it's not much of a gamble as cheap as it is, and if it do happen to be your kind of game you are going to have so much fun playing it. This is a very well made game.
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Online players
50
Developer
Kodera Software
Publisher
Kodera Software,
Kurki.games
Release
21 Jul 2023
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