I bought it on day 2 of early access, and it was an absolute mess then. Inconsistent performance on Windows AND Linux, hilarious bugs and barely any features to make the game feel worth playing for more than an hour at a time.

Fast forward a year later, they finally release the For Science! (sic) update. I could barely notice any bugs (especially mission-ending bugs, like certain landing legs enabling fuel crossfeed through decouplers???), the performance was at an acceptable level for my specs and there were actual game elements to make me want to come back! Re-entry heating was also finally added.

I haven’t actually played it recently, as I wanted to clear my growing Steam backlog, but it only seems to have gotten better since. I read the patch notes for 0.2.1.0 and 0.2.2.0, and they claim that they remedied orbital decay and sinking into the ground with time warp. I’m eager to see the colony update, as that would bring a huge and actually new feature into KSP2.

I think that a few criticisms of the game are a bit overblown. But I recently found out that the game was announced to release in 2020, and now I see the reasoning behind some of the reactions. I was also worried when Take Two was shuttering Intercept Games, but from what I’ve gathered, the devs went back to Private Division, where most of them came from anyways. I think that 0.2.2.0 was also released after the restructuring, but I could be wrong.

I see why some people despise it, but I think that the development is going a lot better than some people claimed it would when it launched into early access. For Science! releasing is already proof of that. I do realise that 1.0 is still years away, but when it’ll arrive, it’ll all be worth the hassle. I might not recommend you to buy it unless you know exactly what you’re getting, but it’s not like I didn’t have fun with it. I wouldn’t say that I got my €50 out of it, but I expect the final game plus DLC (the third star system) to be at least €100.