Eterium

Let's play "align your crosshair with a randomly-moving yellow pip" for three hours. There is almost no gameplay between "enemy ship is so far away that it is nothing but a radar highlight on your HUD" and "whoops it's zipped past me again." Missiles are nearly useless, between the low quantity of the missiles you can carry and the number of enemy ships, and the frequency with which the enemy uses decoys. Guns are mostly spray and pray, since the yellow predictor pip moves - as far as the player can tell since you can never actually see an enemy ship - at random. Maybe I'm just bad at it, but the learning curve is very steep and there's no feedback to tell you what you're doing well or doing wrong or how to get better. As little graphics as this game actually has, it is incredibly intensive on your hardware. My computer runs Overwatch at 2560x1440 with all the graphics settings maximized, and it's a stable 60 fps. I had to lower Eterium's resolution to 1080 and drop the graphics settings to medium just to get it to a playable 30 fps. I really wanted to like this game. I love non-technical flight sim combat games, and I relish any chance to use my joystick. But this didn't feel like flying. It felt like trying to put your cursor on a randomly-moving point... and not much else.

this is a very niche game that gets a not-recommended from me. the game does nothing well. the story is bad, the character animations are laughable, the music is cheesy, and the controls are wonky. the gameplay is slow-paced and decent, but does not make up for all the other flaws of this game. yes, this game is cheap, but there are much better games you could be playing, especially in the space-sim genre.

This game mechanically plays like a smooth, slightly modernized Wing Commander. The gameplay is really smooth, and I love it. The story has issues. They keep throwing words at you (farragut, Iradani, Alliance, etc) with no explanation as to who you are, what this war is, and why anything matters to anyone. It's really quite poorly written, and you basically have to force yourself to pay attention to the generic smug anime hotshot pilots. Additionally the anime-looking characters do not fit the aesthetic. If they are an homage to some 90s space sim with which I am unfamiliar, I just didn't get it (nor care for it). Overall I have just enough nostalgia to enjoy this, but it's not really amazing. Play this if you miss 90s space sims.

Не понятно, скучно, криво и ни одного русификатора.

Came out in 2014, looks like Starlancer (2000), stole mission briefing squares from Freespace (1998) and I still can't really complain about it. If Wing Commander, Starlancer and Freespace would have been hacked together, this probably would have come out and I have to admit: I've really missed games like this. Clunky yet deep. That being said, I'd still rather recommend Freespace 2, modded with current FSO mediavps to look absolutely fantastic, but this game here gets an honourable mention.

Kosmiczny shooter ze słabym sterowaniem i słabym wrażeniem ze strzelania. Grając miałem wrażenie że to nie ja gram a ktoś obok mnie. Czekałem tak sobie, że może się to rozkręci, ale nic z tego. Pomysł bardzo mi się spodobał, stylistyka starych lat w płynnej ilości klatek na sekundę i nieco ulepszonej wizualnie szacie. Filmik pokazuje fajne zadymy. Niestety tylko raz na jakiś czas to tak wygląda, zwykle jest za mało akcji, walki z dwoma czy trzema przeciwnikami, które mnie się dłużyły, głównie za sprawa sterowania. Słabo też moim zdaniem sprawdza się radar. Oferowana jakość pewnie by wystarczyła do gierki z craftem, farmieniem, rozbudową i doraźnymi walkami. Jest jednak za słabo na kosmiczną przygodę wojenną. Grze za friko dodałem jedno oczko, ponieważ nie posiadam joysticka, a gamepadem mi zupełnie nie szło. 3/10.

Moving my mouse is lagging even on the main menu. Is joystick required?

Bleh.