Why do you play KSP?

[suclearnub]

I play KSP because it satisfied my hunger for exploring, and gives that warm feeling of achievement when I get somewhere.

It's also good for killing time.

What about you?

[Xacktar]

My favorite color is explosion.

[Vanamonde]

I like making things that do stuff. Doing stuff by itself is okay (action games), making stuff is okay (Simcity & Civ-type games), but making things and then doing stuff with them is the best.

[boa3532]

Simple enough... always been a fan of space exploration.

[IceWolf202]

I enjoy the sheer freedom of the game. There is no strict or linear way to play it, it's all up to you to set your goals and decide how you are going to succeed. It also still blows my mind that I can land literally anywhere on any world in the game.

[Duke23]

I like making things that do stuff. Doing stuff by itself is okay (action games), making stuff is okay (Simcity & Civ-type games), but making things and then doing stuff with them is the best.

Seriously this. I do like a good open world game (GTA, Elder Scrolls series) but being able to create is the best part. And of course the space exploration aspect itself... Seeing something I created blasting a little green guy into orbit for the first time was all I needed to have a full blown addiction. It's a winning combination of themes I have to say.

[Commissioner Tadpole]

Same reason as boa3532; I always liked space.

And playing Kerbal Space Programâ„¢ makes me feel like I'm smarter than my demographic's intended intelligence levels... well, at least I look smarter than most of my peers, whose definition of 'fun' is to knock down and break chairs.

Edited June 1, 2014 by Commissioner Tadpole
A Wild TYPO appeared!

[Fr8monkey]

I like a serious challenge in the games I play. KSP gives me that challenge.

[Harry Mckay]

As others have said: Being able to build something, and then play with it. Probably due to that first Lego set I got 35 years ago (my Kod, has it been that long?) It's also a nice change from my usual games which involve blowing other people up. Or stabbing them with lightsabers/katanas.

[Worst at Video Games NA]

I'm a senior undergrad physics student, and stuff like Keplerian orbits always seemed so abstract to me; KSP gives me a really easy way to play with and understand how complex orbits work.

[uui8457]

Some games give you a building to explore. Some give you a forest. Some even give you an entire city.

But only ksp has an entire solar system to explore.

[Dat_Spacewaffle]

Because only KSP can make a Michael Bay movie style explosion into a scientific thing of awesome, and the sense of acomplishment in being able to build something that can travel through space, land on some other orbiting lump of spacerock, and return to where it started

Edited June 1, 2014 by Dat_Spacewaffle

[cwhiz]

I like a serious challenge in the games I play. KSP gives me that challenge.

I agree. Good signature btw. Made me lol.

[dr_jt]

Because I can.

[rwazar]

I have over 500hours in this game and still going strong. It's challenging yet satisfying.

[problemecium]

Because it's an unscripted sandbox exploration game featuring hard sci-fi. While KSP's laws of Physics are a little messed up, things always obey them. So the experience is a lot more real to me than space games where you fly around like some kind of plane/boat and stop dead the instant you stop blasting fuel out the back of your absurdly efficient engines.

Also I have to work so hard to accomplish things that it feels like a big deal whenever I do, and unlike certain other games there aren't any (intentional) calamities that march in and smash your sandcastles just to bother you.

[Harvzey]

I always keep it open in the background, ready to tab into it whenever I get bored

It's a great fallback-to game when there is nothing else to play

[Pecan]

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept"

[SlimeCrusher]

Because you can create anything you imagine, get it into any planet you'd like, then land it on top of a spiky mountain or a deep crater. I was looking for a game like this for alot of time, getting dissapointed every time i saw a promising game, but with sci-fi aircraft, instant stop every time you stop thrusting and random battles, and now that i found it i won't stop playing!

[Aragosnat]

For the challange and I like space type games. What other game where you can a poor sod off on a 50+ year orbit around the solar system and still live? Or see the terrified expresions when something goes boom on their ship.

[Commander Zoom]

I'm a child of the Space Age - born a month before Apollo 13, grew up with the Shuttle, the Voyagers, Hubble... the ISS, Spirit and Opportunity, Galileo...

And now I get to do all that myself.

[MarvinKitFox]

I like space

I like science

I like challenge

I like intellectual games

I like explosions.

How could i *not* like KSP?

[Jon144]

I Play it because it is the best game ever made.

Need a better reason?

[Javster]

Because I'm into Science!

[Red Iron Crown]

I like making things that do stuff. Doing stuff by itself is okay (action games), making stuff is okay (Simcity & Civ-type games), but making things and then doing stuff with them is the best.

This, exactly. A spaceship Lego set where you can fly the spaceship to other planets after building it? Yes, please.