Tiny Space Program

Going through the tutorial, I click all the buttons it tells me to click to do a scan of the moon—and at some point it just jumps back to the middle of the steps and I have to repeat them again. Did I do something wrong? I don’t think so. Anyway, the tutorial guides me through the same steps again, and this time it all works. And then, nothing. The tutorial doesn’t tell me that I need to wait. I assume that I probably do, but there’s no UI that shows a timer, or an animation, or anything. I click around various places, assuming there probably is somewhere to see the progress, but I can’t find anything. Just as I’m about to give up and come back a few hours later, it finishes. The next tutorial quest is to send a manned mission to the Moon, but to do that I have to click on an astronaut icon that’s hidden in the middle of the notch. Seriously, what iPhones do you test on in 2026 that don’t have a notch? Turning the phone upside down ;so a different set of controls is hidden by the notch), I get past that and launch the mission. And now I’m again waiting. How long? No idea. And no idea how to find out. Searching the UI, I find that the arrows on the bottom tool bar that didn’t work last time I tried them now tell me to hold them instead to cycle through ships (the left one) or outposts (the right). Not what I’d expect arrow buttons to do, but fine. Holding the left arrow to find my ship does nothing at all. Just for the hell of it, I hold the right arrow to scroll through outposts, and it takes a second or two, but then it clicks and I have a completely different screen where I can see stuff about my lander and jump to a screen to manage it or something. Is it already on the Moon? I don’t know, and I don’t know how to find out, but I’m guessing yes There are a ton of controls here, and I have no idea what they’re for. More to the point, I have no idea if there’s anything I’m supposed to be doing. The tutorial remains silent, except that at some point it tells me “More options will be available later in the tutorial” when I click something. I eventually find a screen with a button to return the lander to Earth and discard it. And apparently the next quest in the quest tree is to return a lander to Earth. So should I click it? Or is there other stuff I need to do first, and clicking it now will break the tutorial or the entire game? Or is the tutorial already broken and will never suggest anything again anyway? Let’s take a wild guess and send it home. And again, it looks like I have to wait, but with no way of knowing how long? I figure out how to get back to the original view somehow. And now the tutorial is finally telling me I can use the arrow buttons to cycle through ships, after I already had to do that to get this far. And it tells me what 2 of the other 9 buttons are for, and that I’ll want to use them later. When I scroll around to see if there’s anything else to click, the tutorial pops up to tell me that upgradable buildings will be available later in the game. And that’s it. I have no idea what to do next. I assume at some point my lander will return home, I won’t be notified, but if I go look around I’ll eventually find out, and then I’ll get the next quest? But who knows? This is a shame, because this looks like a pretty cool game beneath the bugs, bad UI, and broken tutorial.

A lot of weird bugs, and the UI on the left is too small to click through the IPhone camera UI, nothing too crazy though, very fun

Consequently after getting a new device I’ve lost all my progress in the app. Highly frustrating since i actually spent money in the app for some of the packs. Otherwise i had enjoyed the game while it lasted before essentially making me restart