History VideoGame / HardspaceShipbreaker

** There's a bind for each of the player's hands to cling to surfaces with their magnetic gloves that can be used to move around or brace yourself for impact/charged pushes. They're so strong that they'll hold you firmly in place even with the full force of a room decompressing in your face. This will also prevent a nasty bug with fuses that causes them to rocket you across the bay. Likely into a wall that will break your helmet. In addition this will also help with coolant/fuel tanks. By making sure the piece they're attached to isn't moving at all, magnetizing yourself to it, and holding your brakes you can prevent the tanks from rocketing away, striking something, and violently exploding.

** There's a bind for each of the player's hands to cling to surfaces with their magnetic gloves that can be used to move around or brace yourself for impact/charged pushes. They're so strong that they'll hold you firmly in place even with the full force of a room decompressing in your face. This will also prevent a nasty bug with fuses that causes them to rocket you across the bay. Likely into a wall that will break your helmet.

* TimedMission: Outside of the first couple of tutorial missions and Free Mode, every 'shift' is limited to 15 minutes or so in length, as well as your suit's fuel and oxygen supplies. You can buy O2 refills during a shift and find refill canisters on most ships though.

* IndenturedServitude: Your status. Right off the gate you're saddled with a $999,999,999 debt due to the costs of getting you to outer space and it's just the tip of the iceberg: Equipment rental fees, habitation rental fees, interest, and other miscellaneous fees end up charging roughly $500k ''a day''. You also have to buy your own oxygen, tether charges, suit repairs, equipment repair kits, and thruster fuel on site. It's also possible to use your LYNX tokens to purchase all your Cutter gear from the company and outright remove the associated rental fees which gets rid of ''an overwhelming majority'' of your day to day expenses once you own it all. By the time you own all your gear your daily static fees will total out to $75,000 a day before interest your ever decreasing debt kicks in.
* InterchangeableAntimatterKeys: Utility Keys are used to cut the flow of power from a ship's reactor to its thrusters. These keys have to be found in ships, but they can appear even if a ship has nothing to use it on. In this case you'll just put them in your pocket and hold onto them until you're working on a ship that does, at which point any of your keys will work in the terminal and you're unable to retrieve them once used.

* LaserCutter: One of your primary tools is the Stinger laser cutter. Whilst it's only good for small things at first, the player quickly receives the Splitsaw upgrade which allows it to slice neat chunks out of glass, aluminium, and some other materials. The Splitsaw can be further upgraded later on to let it cut through the tougher nanocarbon and titanium components as well.

* SandboxMode: If you just wanna cut ships apart for practice or fun (for example, seeing what happens when you overload a reactor or depressurize a larger ship), you can play in Free Mode instead; no limits, no restrictions.

* SpaceIsNoisy: Not here. To get any kind of sound feedback, you need to install a sound 'resynthesizer' which is more or less what it sounds like; it analyzes the environment to create sound cues for you. Upgrade it and you'll hear fuel flowing through pipes if you grab them with your grapple gun or your glove, and so on.

A six-degrees-of-freedom first-person PuzzleGame from Blackbird interactive, known for ''VideoGame/HomeworldDesertsOfKharak'', ''Hardspace: Shipbreaker'' follows the player character as they seek to escape Earth and WorkOffTheDebt they owe to the [=LYNX=] Corporation - by scrapping and salvaging decommissioned starships in orbit above Earth.

It's simple, really; disassemble ships and throw the parts into the correct chute or the Barge below. Oh, did we mention most of these ships are still powered, pressurized, and often full of other potential hazards just waiting to be unleashed by a careless Cutter? Do try not to explode...

** The tutorial missions give you an unlimited amount of health, fuel, and tethers so you can get used to the controls and early objectives in peace.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: Technology like your tether gun runs on 'Van der Waals fields'.

* BottomlessFuelTanks: Not here. You'll need to keep an eye on your jetpack's fuel gauge; if it runs dry, you'll be limited to using your grapple gun's retraction function and your magnetized gloves to move around. For the ships themselves you may also need to drain or burn off their fuel supply in order to safely detach some components.
* CloneDegeneration: Weaver used to be a Cutter, until there was an unspecified issue with cloning that prevented him from returning to the job. Now he helps teach new Cutters the ropes.

* GuideDangIt: Understandable for an early access game, but there are a few functionalities that would REALLY benefit the player to know early that the game doesn't explicitly tell you during the tutorial at this point such as...

** Combined with the hand binds listed above the Sound Resynth upgrade lets you hear things like the rush of fuel or coolant in a pipe, which is otherwise only indicated by lights on the pipes themselves. Or a sound cue for unplugging fuses before removing a power generator on a Gecko.

* SpaceWestern: The game has some vibes of it, especially with the soundtrack and Weaver's southern accent.

* WorkOffTheDebt: To the tune of $999,999,999. It's going to take a ''while''...

A six-degrees-of-freedom first-person PuzzleGame from the minds behind ''VideoGame/HomeworldDesertsOfKharak'', '''Hardspace: Shipbreaker''' follows the player character as they seek to escape Earth and WorkOffTheDebt they owe to the [=LYNX=] Corporation - by scrapping and salvaging decommissioned starships in orbit above Earth.

!!Examples:

* SpaceWestern: Definitely some vibes of this, particularly with the music.

** Combined with the hand binds listed above the Sound Resynth upgrade lets you hear things like the rush of fuel or coolant in a pipe, which is otherwise only indicated by lights on the pipes themselves.

** There's a bind for each of the player's hands to cling to surfaces with their magnetic gloves that can be used to move around or brace yourself for impact/charged pushes. They're so strong that they'll hold you firmly in place even with the full force of a room decompressing in your face.

** You drain the coolant from the pipes in Geckos by removing the three small canisters from inside their Enviromental Control Unit's central compartment.

->''"I pray to the stars and heaven above,'' \\

''If there comes a time where where he and death meet,'' \\

* NowYouTellMe: Can happen to you during the reactor tutorial if you follow Weaver's guide on how to remove the reactor just before he tells you that you should clear a path since the reactor's going into meltdown once it's nudged out of its position. Cue the player panicking and trying to get the reactor to salvage area before it melts down completely.

* IndenturedServitude: Your status. Right off the gate you're saddled with a $999,999,999 debt due to the costs of getting you to outer space and it's just the tip of the iceberg: Equipment rental fees, habitation rental fees, interest, and other miscellaneous fees end up charging roughly $500k ''a day''. You also have to buy your own oxygen, tether charges, suit repairs, equipment repair kits, and thruster fuel on site. It's also possible to use your LYNX tokens to purchase all your Cutter gear from the company and outright remove the associated rental fees which gets rid of an immense sum of your day to day expenses once you own it all.

** To combat how easy it is to get lost and disorient yourself, the HUD will automatically light up with relevant directional markers as needed. For instance, it will point to the correct chute when you've grappled an object in need of deposit, and will helpfully direct you to the Master Jack when you're low on Oxygen or other supplies.
* BigDumbObject: It wouldn't be a game from the Homeworld 'crew' without some of these. If you actually bother to look 'up' (relative to Earth) you can see orbit is filled with ''dozens'' of stations. The biggest, directly 'behind' the Master Jack, is the local railgate. To a lesser degree, the bay, Master Jack, and the Jax are Big Dumb Objects that you get to work with; the Master Jack is where you start and end shifts (and resupply during them) whilst the Jax can be used for grapple/tether maneuvers.

* EarthThatUsedToBeBetter: It's still inhabited, but it's resource-poor and suffering from overpopulation issues; Humanity has spread out across the solar system via the 'rail gate' network, literally catapulting people and supplies to their destination with giant mass drivers.

** Your grappling hook has a reeling function that works to draw small things to the player or the player to large things. Especially useful for plucking long things like long storage bins through doorways.

** Combined with the hand binds listed above the Sound Resynth upgrade lets you hear things like the rush of fuel in a pipe.

* LaserCutter: One of your primary tools is the Stinger laser cutter. Whilst it's only good for small things at first, the player quickly receives the Splitsaw upgrade which allows it to slice through glass, aluminium, and some other materials. The Splitsaw can be further upgraded later on to let it cut through the tougher nanocarbon and titanium components as well.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The VariableMix western/country background music is just music for the player, right? Nope! If you take damage, your helmet's radio will malfunction and the music will change - typically to something completely different, and often rather more comedic or dramatic. This lasts for a couple of minutes, after which [[PercussiveMaintenance the player character smacks their helmet]]. One of the data logs notes that LYNX psych-profiles their workers to determine what type of music they'd like best and forcibly pipes it into their helmets at all times.

->''"I pray to the stars and heaven above,''
->''to return my daddy to those he loves.''
->''If there comes a time where where he and death meet,''
->''bless the next Cutter that takes his seat."''

** There's a bind for each of the player's hands to cling to surfaces with their magnetic gloves that can be used to move around or brace yourself for impact/charged pushes.

* IndenturedServitude: Your status. Right off the gate you're saddled with a $999,999,999 debt due to the costs of getting you to outer space and it's just the tip of the iceberg: Equipment rental fees, habitation rental fees, interest, and other miscellaneous fees end up charging roughly $500k ''a day''. You also have to buy your own oxygen, tether charges, suit repairs, equipment repair kits, and thruster fuel on site.

* WorkOffTheDebt: To the tune of $999,999,999. It's going to take a ''while''...

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: See the red and yellow markings around the Refinery and Processor intakes? Anything past those marks will automatically be pulled into the chute, saving you the effort (and danger) of herding them that last little distance. That ''does'' include '''you''', though.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Assuming you're playing in standard mode, it's $150,000 per clone and that's it. There's also Limited mode (where you only have 30 revives before game over) and No Coverage (where even a single death ends your effort), but both modes require reaching a certain Certification Level in a standard/unlimited run first.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The VariableMix western/country background music is just music for the player, right? Nope! If you take damage, your helmet's radio will malfunction and the music will change - typically to something completely different, and often rather more comedic or dramatic. This lasts for a couple of minutes, after which [[PercussiveMaintenance the player character smacks their helmet]].

* BlackComedy: Much of the game's humour is built on parodying corporate dystopia. [=LYNX=] issues their Cutters with a space suit that's almost 50 years old, charges them a daily rental fee for all of their equipment, and claim that the suits generate lots of "passionate feedback" from their staff, for instance. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what they really mean by ''that''. Then there's your suit;

** Combined with the hand binds listed above the Sound Resynth upgrade let's you hear things like the rush of fuel in a pipe.

* HollywoodMagnetism: Your gloves are stated to have powerful magnets in them so that you can use them to move around and hold onto things. Whilst aluminium and titanium ''are'' magnetic, 'nanocarbon' probably isn't. Why these magnets don't mess with things you touch or hold isn't explained either.

* SpaceIsNoisy: Not here. To get any kind of sound feedback, you need to install a sound 'resynthesizer' which is more or less what it sounds like; it analyzes the environment to create sound cues for you. Upgrade it and you'll hear fuel flowing through pipes if you grab them with your grapple gun, and so on.

* UsedFuture: The game ''runs'' on this. You're issued an almost fifty-year-old suit design, and the first 'real' ship class you get to work on (after the basic drone) was decommissioned entirely when the railgate network took off.

** There's a bind for each of the player's hands to cling to surfaces with their magnetic gloves that can be used to move around, brace your self for impact/charged pushes.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: See the red and yellow markings around the Refinery and Processor intakes? Anything past those marks will automatically be pulled into the chute, saving you the effort of herding them that last little distance. That ''does'' include '''you''', though.
* BlackComedy: Much of the game's humour is built on parodying corporate dystopia. [=LYNX=] issues their Cutters with almost 50-year-old space suits and charges them a daily rental fee, and claim that the suits generate lots of "passionate feedback" from their staff, for instance. Doesn't take a genius to figure out what they really mean by ''that''. Then there's your suit;

* CoolStarship: You're being paid to take them apart.

* FinalDeathMode: Once you reach a high enough certification level, you can start a new run with no cloning policy; no revives. Don't fuck up.

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Your helmet comes with a snazzy mix of XRayVision and AugmentedReality. Using it is almost essential to figuring out how to safely disassemble ships. By default it can only cover major structural elements, but upgrading it unlocks alternate modes that highlight component types and hazards, and can tell you useful information (such as how to safely remove fuses) when you look at things with the visor active.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The VariableMix western/country background music is just music for the player, right? Nope! If you take damage, your helmet's radio will malfunction and the music will change - typically to something completely different, and often rather more comedic or dramatic.

* WorkOffTheDebt: To the tune of $999,999,999. It's going to take a ''while''...
** What's worse is that billion is actually just the tip of the iceberg. Equipment rental fees, habitation rental fees, interest, and other miscellaneous fees end up charging roughly $500k ''a day''. You also have to buy your own oxygen, tether charges, suit repairs, equipment repair kits, and thruster fuel on site.

* WorkOffTheDebt: To the tune of $999,999,999. It's going to take a ''while''...

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Assuming you're playing in standard mode, it's $150,000 per clone and that's it. There's also Limited mode (where you only have 10 revives before game over) and No Coverage (where even a single death ends your effort), but both modes require reaching a certain Certification Level in a standard/unlimited run first.

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Your helmet comes with a snazzy mix of XRayVision and AugmentedReality. Using it is almost essential to figuring out how to safely disassemble ships.
* GrapplingHookPistol: Aside from your Laser Cutter, you have the Grapple/Tether gun. It's mostly used to move things around, but you can also use it to launch yourself around - either by accident (trying to push something much heavier than you will push ''you'' instead) or on purpose (''a la'' BuildingSwing, just in zero G). You can also use it to shoot tethers that link things together or pull them towards a certain point; super useful for moving things that are a bit too heavy to push around normally.

* SpaceFriction: There's a modest amount of it in the bay; this is presumably a function of the Jax or other equipment in the area, to keep unlucky (or careless) Cutters from ruining the whole place with shrapnel flying everywhere. It can veer a little into AnnoyingVideoGameHelper territory though, if objects you want to drift into a chute keep stopping instead.