Exocraft

Exocraft puts the emphasis on building and driving strange machines, so the player is really dealing with a vehicle sandbox rather than a simple racing game. By our assessment, that mix is the interesting part: assembling a craft and then seeing how it handles usually gives this kind of game its charm. The downside is that vehicle-building games can feel fiddly if the parts system is too loose or the controls do not click. In practice they tend to be about tinkering, testing, crashing, and adjusting, which is fun for patient players and exhausting for anyone who wants instant payoff. Exocraft sits closer to engineering toys and construction games than to pure action, and that is what gives it a niche. It is not the kind of game that tries to impress by speed alone, and the pace is usually slower than the name first suggests.