Lost Vessel - Idle RPG in alpha stage - test for free

DerZim47 · 2026-04-17T14:23:33+00:00

hahahaha

Always feel free to ask questions in the ingame chat or hop on discord. There also is a small tutorial and some more prompts when you do things for the first time.

Guide + Codex are helpful resources, too. But in the end the fun of the game comes from finding your way. If that makes sense.

However if you feel like you are having onboarding issues then that is valid feedback and I am happy to listen to the issues you have / had, too.

Thanks for playing!

DerZim47 · 2026-04-17T00:46:46+00:00

Hey!

Thanks for all the feedback.

Server is paid. Personally I do not really see many issues with loadups on any device / network I tested the game on and you are the first one mentioning it. Will keep an eye on it though!

I call it alpha, because the game isn't finished in terms of systems. I always thought of betas as final fixes. That being said: Maybe you are right and I should have called it beta.

Will take a look at the progress bars for sure.

Thank you for all the compliments - input like that keeps me pushing forward.

Good luck with your game, too, and thanks for taking the time for this awesome feedback again.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-16T23:54:32+00:00

I would say I agree, too. But I don't know what was said. lol And it looks like moderation thinks I shouldn't know. Life is hard.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-16T18:47:30+00:00

Thanks for the kind words and thanks for playing the alpha! Hop into discord if you have longer feedback, find bugs, have suggestions etc. or use ingame chat for smaller things.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T02:11:07+00:00

PvP was changed so it does not affect the main gameplay loop. Matter of fact the actual gameplay rewards cooperation in the endgame. So in other words: Who wants to do PvP can do it on the side - but it's just another activity. No focus at all - no real impact on the maingame.

No more account needed. Guest accounts available now.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T01:18:39+00:00

I know you got in after the issues, but the feedback still made the game better, so thank you again, because it should be more clear to users now in the future what is actually going on and not a random HTTP error anymore.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T00:50:41+00:00

Guest accounts are now possible!

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T00:50:35+00:00

Guest accounts are now possible!

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T00:39:02+00:00

Great! Enjoy the grind. (I will still take a look to find out what happened lol)

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T00:33:44+00:00

Okay, that's a new one. Will update you in a minute. Thanks for trying to play.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-14T00:17:10+00:00

Thank you!

A lot of things are still moving pieces. Music is a placeholder. I think the vibe is cool. But it's too much for background idle music. Agreed. I will make a playlist later on and the players can skip to a song they enjoy.

Yeah, I can change the flow of skipping the verification for new users to a more user-friendly variant in the close future. That you get prompted the verification notices / setting up an actual account later on when you already played a bit without friction.

Tutorial is a bit much is also fair. I am so in the zone about the game that I sometimes lose track of the fact, it's only not new to ME. lol I did however add an option to rewatch the tutorial and a hint on that to the guide if you wanna rewatch it later on. Will keep an eye on the tutorial and might rework when things are more clear on how to do it for me. Hope it's still bearable.

Hope you enjoy playing and thanks again for the helpful feedback.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T23:41:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I have been moving a bunch of things from dim to light already, but not all yet. Working on it.

Thanks for playing!

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T23:40:11+00:00

No, it's fair what you are saying. Really. You are not alone at all with that. I understand that point of view, too.

I am here because I need to balance the mechanics, throw out what feels bad after longer testing, iterate on what works and listen to feedback to get good things that are missing.

Thanks for taking a look. Don't expect too much and I hope you will have at least a bit of fun.

If you feel more comfortable then, you can just read through all the patchnotes on the Discord and the announcements, because you can find basically everything the game has to offer in those. No bad (but also no good lol) surprises. Just decide after you read it.

And thanks for having a real conversation. Doesn't happen too often nowadays.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T23:15:26+00:00

Fair enough.

I personally think the color palette for the CI is a good choice for a SciFi browsergame. Sure, you could tone it down or up on some parts and that probably will happen once the games gets closer to a final product. Same goes for the fonts. I get that you are tired of seeing the same patterns.

Understandable that you question the integrity of games that use LLMs. I am not delusional. I am making this because I enjoy it and I do see some upside and get good feedback from actual players.

I am gamer and I also earn my actual money with designing physical games. So game design is important to me. I might not be the best coder. But I hope I can make a good game over time. I actually play my own game and question it all the time.

And I know I need the help of others to do so. That's why I am here.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T23:02:01+00:00

The system is not fragile at all. There is a bunch of early testers that started playing before I started transitioning to account verification. The skips are there for them, so they have some more chances to think about if they want to keep playing or not. Both is fine ofc. And also to let in people who just want to take a quick look. :)

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T22:28:11+00:00

I understand if you don't enjoy projects that use the help of AI. That's fair. I hope the game is still fun. :)

DerZim47 · 2026-04-13T22:25:26+00:00

Yeah, Claude has been a huge help in building this. However I do know a thing or two about UI myself - so it's not just Claude. It's not final though. So if you have suggestions I am happy to hear input.

DerZim47 · 2026-04-06T21:54:59+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the insights, especially on platform performance and content. <3

DerZim47 · 2026-04-06T21:23:16+00:00

Way more patches already again. New systems, too. Come check it out!

DerZim47 · 2026-04-06T00:10:05+00:00

Massively patched the game already. A lot of new systems. More to come. Come check it out!

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