Between the Stars

Well, what can I say — I finished this game. This game is not a masterpiece. It doesn’t shine with a huge number of mechanics or incredible graphics. It definitely doesn’t have the most beautiful space visuals, the best music, or the most original story, BUT despite all that, it’s still a good game. In my opinion, the game was made with love and genuine effort. A lot of mistakes were made, there are plenty of bugs, some of them even serious, and I definitely won’t recommend this game to my friends. However, I personally had a lot of fun while playing through it. Probably because I love those space TV series from the ’90s and early 2000s, like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andromeda, and others like them. This game has the spirit of those shows, at least in my opinion.

It starts good but unfortunately falls short and boring. The good: - Ship designs - Combat (not another dog fighting space sim) The bad: Pretty much everything else. - Walls of text, too long and boring, cut the pacing of the gameplay especially during large battles - Predictable story and dialogs - Bad voice acting for certain characters, especially the protagonist - No saving during scripted events which can be lenghty - Inconsistencies and lack of depth (i.e. weapons have firing range but there's no indication of target distances) - No replay value Conclusion: a missed opportunity. The game should have been more focused on side missions, random events, exploration and free roaming rather than going through a scripted story campaign.

Cautious recommendation. Gameplay-wise Between the stars has a number of flaws. The combat is relatively simplistic despite having 6Ds of freedom. Not all systems are well fleshed out - crafting generally fails to be suitable source of gear compared to drops/stores. Ship progression is a tad wonky. Managing AI companions is a bit cumbersome. That said, story is surprisingly decent, the mechanics related to random events and crew interactions are interesting. And there are some decent consequences to certain decisions that do alter the story development meaningfully. Those elements were definitely the highlights that made game enjoyable for me.

Good base, maybe, but the design is poor. It maybe makes sense to have an hour-long tutorial that ends in defeat - but then the main game being the same? Story design is "hurry up, hurry up, do this thing, do this thing" and then the quest you're sent on is extraordinarily difficult, and you can't progress without getting past it. Apparently if you have the "right build" and the "right strat" it might not be hard, but their Normal difficulty play isn't. I don't know what the devs were thinking to but this kind of roadblock so early in the game. In general, storytelling is hard - even in the small amount of main story I've been able to play through you're repeatedly making uncued significant choices.

Fun game potential ruined by imbalances, a crappy UI, and multiple bugs..

I was super excited to try this game out. However within five minutes I hit a show-stopper bug. In the prologue, the contract never shows up in the Commercial district. It doesn't show up in any of the tabs. I read it is supposed to show in the Station tab but it's not there. It's very disappointing to run into such a huge problem right in the introduction.

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Вроде бы интересная ролевая система с навыками экипажа и бросками кубов. Игра пытается быть не аркадой, а космосимом от первого лица и вполне могла бы им стать... Но управление губит все плюсы. Видно, что игра затачивалась под геймпад и это ужасно. Даже мой HOTAS Х52, который верой и правдой служит в Х4 и в Elite: Dangerous не смог справиться с этим ужасным управлением.