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67. The Kerbal Space Program 1.2 update is AMAZING.

KSP was already one of the finest games I've ever played, despite the fact that it is bug-ridden rocket science and early on it didn't even have a tutorial.

But now most of the bugs are fixed and some of the infuriating annoyances, like incurable ship-wobble, have been rectified. Rigid attachment and autostrutting saves dozens of parts per build, making bigger ships possible. Being able to visualize fuel flow and set flow priority takes things to a whole new level. Creating communications networks is way more interesting than it sounds (I finally have a use for those drifting second stages: put a communications relay on it and it's a Molniya orbit station!). Even the fonts are better vectored, so they're easier to read. The ginormous modding community is cranking out updated files every hour, and hundreds are already up to date. If I ever get tired of the miniature Kerbal solar system, there's the incredibly difficult Real Solar System mod.

Getting from 0.90 to 1.2 took about two years and was exceedingly painful, with the latest game build often being totally broken for days at a time. Now, the exploited and overworked space-nerd half the dev team has left, leaving behind the console-programmers and marketers to carry on. So this could be the apoapsis of Kerbal Space Program's ballistic trajectory.

If you get it, be sure to copy a version of this week's build to something other than your Steam folder, so you can come back to the one that actually works when they break it and don't know how to fix it.

This update is currently PC only, and their success with the console versions has been... very Kerbal, which is not a compliment. But if you have a hot PC, want to better understand the fundamentals of physics, aerodynamics, and orbital mechanics, and have hundreds of hours of your life to lose to nail-biting reentry attempts and low-fuel landings, this version of Kerbal Space Program has no equal and may never be exceeded.

(Edit: What are the finest games I've ever played? A short list would surely include:

FTL
Homeworld
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Fallout 4
Rome: Total War (not the fiasco remake)