Deck & Conn

Lovely game. The tutorial surprised me with how useful it was. Managing the different systems is challenging but fun. Progress happened faster than I was expecting, after four patrols I seem to have garnered enough rep to fully upgrade my ship. But still having a great time.

Great atmosphere, sounds and is fun to play. This is a turn based sequence game, meaning that you can't just shoot or fly away. You have to go through the required steps every time and at the same time keep an eye on potential enemies and make sure that you have enough power. The game gives you help doing the right sequence for the task, but it doesn't hold you hand and gives you everything on a plate. You have to figure lots of things out yourself by trail and error, which makes the experience even better. You can even do (almost) everything from the control panel by typing in commands rather than clicking on the buttons buttons! You need to have patience until you learned the all the correct sequence steps, and when you do it really makes you feel like a commander on a space ship. Highly recommended!

Having a ton of fun so far. I have wanted a game like this for a while. Will update my review as i play more. Very Addicting.

Still kind of bare bones and repetitive. But that's the nature of simulation and sandbox games. Even Skyrim was blamed to have short main questline and no easy to follow guidelines at the time. A good sidetracking with nostalgia fetching cosmetics.

This feels a lot like Trade Wars on a BBS or FTL with more control over where you go. Nice strategic depth during combat; it feels like your choices matter (including the occasional bad choice!)

Really pleasant surprise that just randomly popped up on my radar a few weeks back, a game that scratches my very specific autistic itch of a 90s-core throwback ship command simulator in the style of EGA Trek (but without the weird racism). There isn't a huge amount of content on offer, just procedurally generated patrol taskings where you go, sail around (it's a *ship*, not a piddly little space fighter) and look for enemy ships to engage, take as prizes, respond to distress calls from merchants and... that's kind of it? Not hugely mechanically deep and complex either, it's no Dangerous Waters, it's not even Highfleet, but it makes up for it with style and wonderful tactility. I really hope it gets expanded upon, it's a really good starting point mechanically and I'd love to see new ships, new weapons, new enemy ship types and patrol objectives (I can't believe I'm saying this but give us convoy escort taskings please), maybe even fleet actions? I won't mind if it isn't either, a passion project is a passion project and unlike the average Steam user I wouldn't dream of slapping on a thumbs down just because a solo developer working in her spare time dared to not adhere to a live service update cadence, but well, a game like this is a rare treat. Either way I can see myself enjoying this every now and then even if it never gets an update at all.

Id say its pretty good sized for 15 bucks I have played 3 patrols in about 5 hours and it says you can do 8, so far so good, reminds me of s simplified sub game, I would warn if you are expecting a big 20 hour campaign, or varied scenarios you will be disappointed. I think it is a good base of a game and I would be interested to see if they add DLC for more weapons systems or scenarios in the future.

I will agree the lack of save option during a patrol is a problem. I actually missed this during my review as I didnt try to save the game during a patrol so hadnt encountered the problem myself yet. That being said I would still say this game is easily worth the price of admission. It's 12 now and 15 at full price. For such a cost I am not expecting a AAA game that will keep giving me content for years to come. I wanted to have that old school feel and solid gameplay. This game does deliver that. I do believe they need to tweak the mission generator (along with adding as save) as a first update. Ive seen a couple of complaints about getting the same patrol multiple times, but the patrol they are mentioning isnt the patrols I have been given. That tells me that there are many different patrols but for whatever reason the game keeps repeating the one you are given. I think you might be given a general "go here" order, but then it becomes random events after that. At least that is what I have seen. I have been given "patrol B1" more than once, but what happens when I get there is different each time. Regardless dont let the detractors fool you. There is a lot to like here and more depth than is obvious at first. The lacking a save option though is a serious mistep that needs to be corrected.