Eslander Alpha

Awesome game! The story is really nice and the atmosphere is really good. If you want to play something for killing some time or just want to try something new, just try it. You will like it :)

After playing this game for an hour I am confident in saying that I am never going to open it up again and that I wasted... Well, a few bucks since I got it on heavy rebate during the Winter Sale. I knew what I was getting into to be frank. This is obviously a FTL clone. No, not FTL inspired: it is clearly a clone. They took out absolutely everything which made FTL interesting, including ALL the QoL features and the one single thing they added is the possibility to free roam the "galaxy", a map stitched together (I can only assume) in a single evening. Problem here is that what actually made FTL great was the tension, the fact that you had to make the best of your time to upgrade your ship going forward or you'd just end up dead. Yup, that's the kind of detail Eslander decided to go without. Every single action you do in this game is going to scream at you in a way which is going to drive you nuts. Simply said, the dev (and the game itself) do not respect neither you or your time. You could simply go anywhere, brainlessly mine or explore a planet using the "minigame" (which is so simple I would not even call it that) and continue farming until you have enough money and level to equip anything you want at the space station. There is no real continuity, no real point whatsoever in doing anything. If you like having something play in the background while you play games then this is it... Except that the game is what you're going to ignore here, clicking once every so often to keep it going. In my limited playthru, absolutely everything is the same. Star systems are the same (all those I've seen seem to have a bug where the inner planet don't move in its orbit for some strange reason), enemies all act and look like to be the same, what you have to do to "win" a fight is always the same... Oh, have I mentioned yet the incredible amount of syntax error assaulting you every three sentences too? The tutorial force you to start a new game (assuming you even find it in the first place) and is a very simple list of description of what things do on your ship. Nothing tell you what you should actually do (or what there is to do, which is close to nil to begin with) and you have to guess how everything work because nothing will unless you bother searching for a function and finding it yourself. There isn't even key bindings in the options, which is almost a crime all by itself. Oh, and as an aside: what kind of game start with all the options turned off, including [b]the sound and music volume[/b]? This one does. I'm so glad I have the habit of always checking options of every single game I play before I actually start playing it. TL;DR: FTL is still greatly superior to this garbage in every single way. I would not recommend anybody get this game even under heavy discount.

Very nice game.