I made it to the end with one ship xD I'll be honest it gets veeeery long in the end so we can easily get bored, it would have been more fun if I had not made all the trip with only one ship haha cause I would have more things to do except just refueling. It is pretty hard to understand at first too, idk why the blue ship is third place but the character on the left UI is in the 2nd place, it took me some time to realize, I also thought the goal was to not get damaged either my ships would sink, but in the end taking damage just did nothing, and the repair command wasn't doing anything (just got a UI with "repair in 10" and it also never dissapeared.
The buffs and the mechanic overall is a cool and fun idea, dealing with multiple ships and managing our way to the end is engaging, I would have passed on the reverse up and down 25% debuff tho, idk how I would have dealt with that with 3 ships lol, the random letters debuff was also frustrating but it the end idk it got pretty fun to deal with x)
Globally it took my half the run to understand what was happening, when we understand everything is does get cool tho so yeah I really think it's a fun idea that could work with a lot more balancing and instructions/feedback, probably a shorter level and maybe some other pickable small buffs on the way
I still had some good time, and it's look like a lot of work done for 10 days so it's pretty impressive.