Reviews

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  Eagle262

  May 18, 2016

  This is a rather fun tower defence game where you control a big ship and fight off a bunch of small ships. Its challenging and satisfying and plays similarly to the the browser game "Orbital Decay", which is quite a good thing. There are a couple minor problems (spelling errors and somewhat repetitive sounds) and one major issue: In the later levels with more enemies and more advanced turrets the game tends to slow way down to about half its normal speed and stay that way regardless of what happens on the screen until you return to the menus. This leads to much slower and less fluid gameplay as well as surprisingly long breaks in the action. This really needs to be fixed before I wholly reccomend the game. The only other thing I can really say is that its really short (only seven or eight levels) and could probably be completed in an hour or two.
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  Zinger!

  May 21, 2016

  This is a very fun game. It is a little grindy but somewhat worth it. I bought this game 2 days ago and am only on the fourth level. The rounds are hard to progress through unless you play the levels before. Comic Dust and Rust is a pretty graphicly invloved game so it would be nice to a future update with graphic conrol. Overall, this game is very fun and is great for being in it's early stages. I can't wait for future updates! Would recomend for friends. Also needs to be more clear on the story, what guns do and the beifits to using them as well as the downsides. Please fix the frame rate issue
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  NoVa

  May 21, 2016

  kinda meh, shorter than it could be, something that would be found on kongregate, and there are other games with more content for free
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  Deville

  May 21, 2016

  I enjoyed the game, but I finished it in less than an hour ....... if you could play through from planet 1 to planet 6, or there was more to do, I would say it is a good game. Unfortunately, a game where you have kinda done everything in under a hour.... is a bit disappointing. Having never played it, to unlocking almost all the upgrades and finishing the game in 40-50 min …. Too short, far too short. Not a lot of replay value either as there is nothing else you need to unlock, no need to change your weapon layout …. Pitty, as it was fun for the short while.
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  magnetic fly

  May 22, 2016

  The game is fun but short. My only major gripe with it is that the difficulty curve is pretty easy for most of the game with only one or two attempts at each level needed... until the last level. Then, possibly for lack of more content the difficulty is turned up to impossible. There are no more upgrade options left for my weapons and I've tried a number of configurations on the ship (all lasers looks cool but the game slows down to a crawl with them all firing). For what it is I'm happy to have paid 99p in the sale, its just a shame it doesn't go on for longer with a few more interesting options. I'm reccomending this purely on the fact that I enjoyed the 1.5 hours I spent on it but I probably won't be playing it again.
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  Skeltek

  May 23, 2016

  Somehow its just a cheap copy of "Orbital Decay" (free flash game). Weapons and upgrades dont show any stats(like range or anything), not even sure if the tractor beam is supposed to do any damage... I liked Orbital Decay better, wished there was a sequel, but this is a bad implementation of the game concept. It´s cheap, okay, but it didnt yield me much fun except the anticipation of a payed (implicating better) game being more fun and worked out. Anticipation quickly dissipated, what kept me playing until just before the end was the hope of it having something good that I didnt encounter yet. It was a way of killing time, but the fun/cost ratio is just 1/1, neither good nor bad. What´s the negative is the time invested playing could had been invested elsewhere more rewarding. The game is okay, but it´s a shame the Devs invested so much work and didnt give the game the last polish to make it fun. It´s probably just details missing.
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  LeTacoTuesday

  May 24, 2016

  Cosmic Dust & Rust is medicore at best. You start out in the standard spaceship with only the laser you the player controls without any turrents. Your told that you don't have enough firepower to actually win the current level your on and that you should try and get some turrents. Thats kinda hard since you dont start off with any money and you cant add turrents mid battle. So the first level starts you just have the lazer you control which is pretty shit and you end up getting absolutely obliterated by the enemy faction the hunters. After the end of the level you realize you got some money and you can just barely afford a weak turrent you buy one and play the first level again. You get obliterated but gain some more money buy another weak turrent. Have another go at the first level get obliterated gain some money. Rinse Repeat Rinse Repeat and thats pretty much Cosmic Dust & Rust: playing the same level over and over again until you can actually beat it. Its boring its reptitive and it isn't worth a single cent much less a dollar. Refunded.
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  AltarMichael

  May 24, 2016

  It's not a bad game, it's just a bad PC game. If it were a two dollar mobile game, you might be able to overlook the annoying sound effects, crummy visuals, terrible UI and complete lack of tutorial. Did I mention boring enemies? Or weak selection of boring weapons? Because those things also.
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  Pink

  May 25, 2016

  The game is kind of short and repetivtive, but for it's price, I really recommend it! You will surely get at least 1 hour of gameplay, which is somewhat impressive for a title this simple. The graphics and sounds are okay, the gameplay feels balanced, and the customization and battles are really well designed. Overall, I'd give it a 8/10
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  legendo

  Jun 3, 2016

  Fun. It's an interesting take on tower defence and I think the engine looks promising. I look foward to updates :D Feedback: Not to crazy about the upgrade menu system, it's a pain to cycle through everything. I would just go with layout that fills the screen.
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  breakthrough

  Jun 18, 2016

  My money was stolen from me. Mind you its not very much money, but the fact is pushing a patch with incompatible dlls to take the game away from me after recieving my money is unacceptable. If its only flaw was that the developer didn't know about an obscure 10 year old flash game called Orbital Decay that executed the same concept much better I could have still recommended it just to support a small indie dev. As it is, I'll be keeping my eye out for these guys for a very different reason.
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  RobotFK

  Jun 25, 2016

  Not worth an euro ,but surely 7 cents . Pro: -upgreades -spaceships -ok graphics -unique looking spacships -60fps Con: -no weapon descriptions, so you always have to take blind guesses -speed upgrade is bad ?! -6 levels -If you click new game in the titel screen ,your savegame is lost without warning (fix it !)
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  Adjaston Striker

  Aug 9, 2016

  Very nice game - the first 5 levels - then there is level 6 - the try to make a much too short game look more difficoult and longer, but it is just an overthrow of enemys to make it unbeatable. you got three tipes of weapons as support turrets, each partet in two subcategorys that can be upgraded three times again. beside this there are 4 special weapons, with also two different tipes each - rocket swarm or big torpedos in the middle of the ship and emp OR laser beam and shield OR guided rockets. An other thing you can upgrade is your HQ, engine, generators and your main turret that is controled by you. But you gain the money or alluminium for upgrade much too fast and the amount of upgrades is absolutely too small, so sadly, this game is a good idea / nice clone, but it does not reach a very good level of fun...
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  Zerkace

  Jan 9, 2017

  The game was kinda meh until the last level which is close to impossible I never managed to beat it, honestly (but apparently, it is "possible"). Short, blend and because of that difficulty on the last level: NO.
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  Vandalk

  Jan 16, 2017

  It begun as a very simple and light space tower defense, which was a good time killer. And it is, if you play it only until the penultimate mission. The last mission is ridiculously unbalanced. Even with a fully upgraded ship and turrets, it's still impossible, really bad game design. If you want something to kill some time and you really like the genre, it might be worthy on a sale.
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  Sarpedon

  Apr 30, 2017

  The first few minutes are fun.. and then it gets tedious fast. Not enough explanation of what the turrets or upgrades do. The difficulty curve is very jagged from level to level. Have to grind it out to get upgrades (that you are not sure what they do!)
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  Celtacross

  Sep 10, 2017

  Very confusing, no clear tutorial or help, and no clear plot line of how to do things...
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  SentryWolf

  Jan 24, 2018

  [h1] Let’s review : Cosmic Dust & Rust [/h1] This is a tower/ship defense game, where you upgrade the turrets on your ships while you fly to your destination, i love this types of games, but this one sadly left me expecting a bit more from it. It has all the good starts, but it doesnt make it worthy. [h1] Pros: [/h1] - Upgradable turrets, why different types of shooting capabilites. - Upgradable ship parts for more hitpoints and other goodies. - Very cheap game. - Manual control of the main cannon so you yourself can do some damage to the incoming hordes of enemies. [h1] Cons: [/h1] - Many typos, - Poor soundtrack and repetitive sounds - Poor story, - Short gameplay; - Too simple for these types of games. - Rinse and repeat gameplay, to win gold so you can upgrade. [h1] Final Review [/h1] Like i said before, this game left me disappointed, it had potencial to be a above average game, but instead we end up with an over simplistic poor game, so i sadly give this game a 3 out of 10 in my book of reviews. Enjoy Guys and Girls, and if this review helped you in any way please leave me a Thumbs up, i would appreciate it immensely.
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  Barotraumatic

  Jan 27, 2018

  This is a rather fun tower defence game where you control a big ship and fight off a bunch of small ships. Its challenging and satisfying and plays similarly to the the browser game "Orbital Decay", which is quite a good thing. There are a couple minor problems (spelling errors and somewhat repetitive sounds) and one major issue: In the later levels with more enemies and more advanced turrets the game tends to slow way down to about half its normal speed and stay that way regardless of what happens on the screen until you return to the menus Great game if you're into retro and tower defence games. It reminds me of other games that used to be like this. Being the price it was was worth it for someone like me that's into these types of games, you don't see them often but when you do see games like this you should check the reveiws and see if it's worth getting for yourself.
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  Chewy

  Jan 4, 2021

  besides the fact that its pretty much unbeatable in its current state its still a really fun game worth the $.40!