Kerbal Space Program

An essential sandbox for anyone with an interest in space, rocketry, or explosions.

Don’t let the cute characters fool you: Kerbal Space Program is serious business. This is a game that lets you, essentially, recreate the incredible efforts of NASA or the Soviet space program during the mid 20th century.

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Kerbal Space Program is exactly as fun as it seems, with challenge and entertainment to spare.

Kerbal Space Program does the improbable: it makes learning a complex subject fun. Its cute, clueless characters and sense of humor turn a hardcore physics simulator into something replayable and addictive. Designing, flying, and then retrying missions again and again is a tough challenge that goes right up to the brink of frustration, but the eventual success of achieving virtual space flight is ...

Even the smallest accomplishments feel like massive victories, and once you experience that euphoria, you won’t want to quit. Watch your ambition soar.

With this in mind, it is fitting that KSP came out of the Early Access birth canal, because it is a game about small, incremental and profound changes. But it is also more than that. It is a game about embracing engineering and being unafraid to encourage craziness, so long as it can be physically done. It is a game that does the very idea of Science, with a capital S, proud.

Kerbal Space Program exceeds expectation in every possible way. It goes without saying that a disclaimer of “Not For Everyone” is slapped over this game, and you shouldn’t come into this game thinking it’ll suit you because you like space. But it is undeniably victorious in its effort to capture the essence and wonderment of space exploration. Surprisingly engaging to play alone, yet leads to some...

A look of playful wonder is in your little Kerbal’s eyes as you count down to the launch of your new spaceship. Does this look of awe change as the struts on your scaffolding break under the weight of 20 perilously placed fuel tanks and your half-cocked creation falls on the launch pad? Does it change when you blow everything in a last-ditch attempt to save the mission from failure, sending the sh...

No time for caution.

This game simply should have stayed on PC. With its confusing control scheme and burdensome cursor navigation, it was never destined for consoles. I imagine that the game’s success on PC made it a pretty safe bet to make some money on consoles (and I’m sure that with the initial $40 price it did just that), but it simply doesn’t port well.

Kerbal Space Program’s selling price is moderately steep even during sale events, but the sheer amount of gameplay hours you can get from it is all worth it. The mere fact that there’s some real science going on behind the game is telling us that this game is no joke. It is frustratingly fun and it does make our inner rocketeers go all giddy every time we reach a new milestone in our space journey...