Cleaning Up the Tiny Planets of Space Trash Scavenger Demo - Hardcore Gamer

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Somewhere out in space is Everything, which is both a thing of beauty and wonder but also terrifying.  The Outer Reach was a section of space filled with planetary systems rich with resources for a hungry Earth, but there were strange artifacts there too.  Eventually the… builders?  Guardians?  Nobody knew for sure but they became known as the Entity, a race of powerful aliens that claimed the Outer Reach as their own.  Humanity got chased away and declared the Outer Reach off limits, and then one thousand years passed without incident there.  That’s the kind of time that can make the lessons of the past seem like quaint warnings for a long-gone age, and the Scav-X Corporation sees nothing but the potential for immense profit out there.  It’s time to re-explore the Outer Reach and scavenge every credit it holds.

Space Trash Scavenger released its demo as part of the latest Steam Next Fest and it’s a great little taste of 3D mini-planet survival base building.  Starting off on a 1×1 cube with the TRACI console giving a brief tutorial, you quickly build a small base with a few starter machines to kick off the adventure.  Basic blocks give you room to walk about, while socket blocks energize the machinery set on top of them and the solar blocks provide power.  Space has no gravity but the blocks can fake it, so even on the 1×1 starter you can walk around on all six surfaces with no worry of falling off.  While the demo is fairly limited, the number of pieces shown promises to allow all sorts of fun and interesting base design in every direction.

Once you’ve got a basic platform to build from it’s time to get a sense of the world around you, which is a debris ring around a gas giant.  “Giant” in this case is maybe a bit