After 75 Hours I Think This is One of the Best Space Sims On Steam - Delta V

In my head cannon my character from Hardspace Shipbreaker made enough to free himself and this is where he went with his ship that he put together.

Delta V is one of the best games ever, period. The solo dev just keeps on releasing updates with tons of fixes, rebalances, and new content. I come back to it time and time again. Plays great on the steam deck, too! It starts out as a mining game, but eventually you can work as a ship salvager, towing in whole ships to sell or fix up and use yourself, or join the police force and become a bounty hunter and hunt bad guys, or build a racing ship and meet up for races, and more. The ship I'm currently using has a massive round drum for storage that opens from the side, and it's not centered on the ship, so it will tend to turn in a circle when you apply only forward thrust. Very interesting challenge to fly! But it has a TON of storage, and i just float slowly in one direction while rotating in place to melt rocks, and wait for my drones to grab ores and pull them back to me to gobble them up. What Splat said about the microwaves is only partially correct. In their default tuning, kind of in the middle, they're not very good for mining, or combat. But you can tune almost every part of your ship to alter its performance, including weapons. You can tune microwaves to be better for melting ice, which imho makes them the best mining tool in the game, especially if you have a couple of them. You can also time them to the opposite end to make them better for combat, but at each end of tuning, it makes it less effective for the opposing activity. Edit: I thought it was a solo dev but I could be mistaken.

They managed to hide their game pretty well too. ΔV as a title....could not even find it typing "Delta V". I guess it makes it more indie lol 🙂

DV or delta v (the statistic in game not the game itself) actually refers to the total possible change in velocity before you run out of fuel. For example accelerating from 0m/s to 100m/s will consume 100 DV. It has nothing to do with rate of acceleration

Enceladus En-se-la-dus It's a moon, not a snack

Spent a good 20 hours on this game before getting kinda bored. My favourite thing about it is how the dev announced a furry portrait DLC on april fool's day... and then went ahead to release it a couple weeks later. Also just realized the logo for the Nakamura Dynamics company just says "baka gaijin".

I grabbed the bulk freighter with microwaves and haul drones. Not to hard to make a million credits in a run with that set up but it is a challenge because your ship is so heavy and unresponsive. Its a trade off but felt so good to me. I gobble da rocks, nom nom nom nom

Note that while most things being sidegrades are true, there are a few options, specifically with regards to power, that are pretty much strictly superior to another, with the exception of cost: For example, the Yama SSR-series reactor cores provide far more heat for their mass than the SO-6 fuel rods. 12x SO-6 fuel rods provide 12 GW for 6000 kg, while the Yama SSR12 provides 30 GW for 5000 kg - but it is also over three times as expensive. Also, while a military-grade turbine provides 500 MW for 5000 kg, a twin turbine plus an MPD5035 APU also provides a total of 500 MW (200 MW from the turbine, 350 MW production and 50 MW consumption from the MPU), with a mass of only 3500 kg in total. But again, upgrading a twin turbine to military is 90k, while an MPD5035 is 300k. Also, I personally like using an MPU just to be able to run a lean ship. With an MPU that recovers propellant and an efficient main torch, you can run a standard or even short-range propellant tank and still get very high dive endurance - and the ability to use a fast transit into the rings as well, which saves three and a half days with every dive. And regarding the potentially lengthy repair times... that is one use of having multiple ships, beyond having different loadouts (e.g. a K-37 with a gungnir and an arm specifically for combat and salvage): You can use your other ships while one is in the repair docks, so you keep making money during that time!

punk rock indie spirit makes me think of starsector, or rebel galaxy. love your channel! keep doing it

Chad devs, extremely fun and both relaxing, yet gripping gameplay. The demo is the full game, there's no reason not to give it a try.

Love that they have a module called the Kzinti Lesson. Essentially, a ship drive’s potential as a weapon is directly proportional to its efficiency as a thruster.

"The developer is kind of an eclectic guy" Eclectic: wide variety of non-related tastes in culture and media. The word you are looking for us likey eccentric: " someone a bit weird or unusual that not everyone can relate to"

Thank you so much for covering games like this! I got this game a while ago because of your previous coverage of it and love it so much still that I even watched this video in it's entirety. Keep the experimental games coming! Whenever you find gems like this please share them!

Hey Splat! Just wanted to say I’ve been subbed for a couple of years now and have always enjoyed your content and enthusiasm for the indie games you play. That is all. Cheers brother! 😎🤘

I love this game so much. And i love the way they word the bug reports like in universe news reports. I love how intimidatingly huge the space is. It’s so unique . I’m so excited to see you play it

Been coming back to this game for a long time now. Love that the dev keeps updating it. So relaxing of a game

I've never commented on your Delta V videos, but because of one of the first ones you posted, I've been playing this game off and on. Absolutely love the unique game this game is, and wish more of my friends felt the same way.

This game had been my favourite for those exact reasons since early access. I absolutely love this game and bought it for all of my friends. Now I fancy to play this game. Im so glad someone has bigged this game up thank you bro. 👊

You recommended this game to me many months ago. I will never forget it. Thank you for this game and I'm glad to see you revisit this game.

Love it, currently a bit overloaded on games, (aka Quasimorph addiction in full swing) so will have to just wish list it. Thanks for all the intersting content, I find so many of my next games from this channel!