Wow, absolutely incredible game! I played for what felt like hours trying to get to the moon but ran out of fuel in the end haha. Oh well, I really enjoyed it. The progression is really well balanced and well planned.
A couple of points of critique:
- The build UI in the shop could use some work, it's very bare-bones and a little hard on the eyes. Maybe you could give it the same kind of treatment as the rest of the shop, that part looks very nice.
- Late game, the lower altitude asteroids become a real problem. It's very hard to dodge them even with the radar because you're going so fast. I had 3 of the quantum propellor things and the asteroid radar and still kept running into the lower asteroids, which cost me a lot of fuel and ultimately caused me to run out of fuel and lose.
- To add to the previous point, it would be nice to have an option to leave an asteroid early instead of having to wait for your battery to run out. Late game I was stacked on batteries and every time I accidentally landed on a lower asteroid I didn't want to mine so I just sat there and let the battery run out (which took forever haha)
- Make the game loop just a little bit shorter maybe. I was really sad when I ran out of fuel because I felt like all my work had gone to waste. If the full loop was about 15-20 minutes I would have tried again but it takes too long to go through a full game
Overall really great game, 5/5 from me. Hope you keep working on it and add more polish!