Flatspace IIk

Don't let the low play time fool you, I've been a player of Flatspace for a long time, the original, II and IIk. Don't let it's top-down gameplay fool you, this is easily one of the most immersive space sims I've ever played. The weapons, ships and upgrades are all beautifully balanced; the AI is tough, but fair; the combat is tight and responsive; and the controls are easy to get your head around. The game is set to a fantastic, etherial soundtrack by the developer that beautifully fits the universe. Choose from a plethora of roles, ships, hardware, factions, allegiances and more! Will you be an asteroid miner, scouring asteroid fields and nebulae for precious resources? A daring trader, shifting huge cargos from half way across the galaxy and fending off pirate attacks? A loyal officer of the law, responding to destress calls and upholding the sparse laws of this harsh galaxy? A bounty hunter, hunting down the alien menace and the galaxies most wanted for cold, hard cash? And so much more! The massive world can either be played with the Standard map, or a randomly generated one tuned to your specifications. Or try your hand at Combat Training, and see how long you can last against ever increasing waves of enemies! Dive into the world of Flatspace! You'll find yourself playing an instant classic, and may have trouble getting out!

For sure shows it's age, this cult classic is a fun space romp. Lots of replay value, Lots of character options. No shortage of things to do. Customization allows for a easier or more difficult experience depending on the whims of your play style. Lacks on some quality of life matter; gamepad support, trade good menu navigation, and a few other bits, but over all a decent game. 7/10 I go in to more details with review over here: https://oldmanmordaith.com/2017/04/24/flatspace-iik-steam-brings-new-chance-for-cult-classic/

What else is there to say.... This game will be remembered buy us older gamers! ;) Some may complain, but when this game was made the style was considered unique and good! Believe it or not but there is so much to do in this game one could find themselves lost in IIK Space for many hours... The main aspect of the game is all about exploration and trading and it does a great job of achieving that! Some parts of the combat can have a bit of a learning curve but once mastered it is quite fun especialy when you build up enough credits to upgrade your ship/s Some may have issues with the UI and it is understandable but after playing it for awhile you will get used to how it works and makes sense! It is an older game but has always had a long fan-base so it is great to see it make it to Steam! :-)

Probably the worst experience I've had with a game on Steam in over ten years. The darn thing TAKES FOREVER to start, and when it does it crashes as soon as one tries to adjust ANYTHING in the graphics settings! I'm sorry, at 53, I don't have time to wait for your game to boot up after nearly 5 minutes to then have it crash and have to cold-reboot. And YES I adjusted the resolution in the cfg file and followed EVERY troubleshooting suggestion in the readme. You guys need to fix your game and bring it up to 2018 speed. For now... REFUND. Good luck!

Flatspace 1 and 2 were classic space opera games i enjoyed very much in the past, what i love about flatspace 2 the most is the gameplay, for example i like to begin as a police officer and scoop up pilots that eject after turning on my sirens, the strategy to this is to shoot them slightly and scare them continuously without killing them and keep using the comms to make them eject from their ship, then I turn them in at a police station I can make big bucks chasing the highest criminals of the galaxy this way...But i usually end up a freeform mercenary or jerk, I can also sell people as slaves once i get a bigger ship like the bus and capture random pilots that i offer to independant space stations, anyways this game offers many gameplay opportunities that you can figure out on your own and custom galaxy is fun, I like galaxy with tons of asteroids and nebulae, I can only recommend this game to people who want a good arcadey feel combat but also immersive roleplay gameplay, and that's a good classic!

Very glad to have this game again, been a long term fan of this series, and now it's on steam.

Game unplayable. The control scheme is very awkward. Mouse sensitivity goes from slow to at 1 to all over at 2. Ship controls are based on moving the mouse right and left to move a ship-orbiting reticle that the ship points at. It would be much better if it followed the cursor, or just turned the mouse control of the ship off. Avoid at all costs unless you like pain.

I think this could be a fun game and it ticks off many checkboxes that I would look for in a game like this but the control style is very counter-intuitive. When your ship is pointing towards the top of the screen the controls act normally, left it left and right is right, but when you're facing towards the bottom of the screen those are reversed and moving the mouse left turns your ship right and vice versa. I tried to mentally adjust for this but after a while I just started to try and keep my target in the top half. It made dog-fighting nigh impossible. If there was a way to toggle control schemes that would be wonderful but I couldn't find any setting like that. The UI does also have a somewhat clunky feel at times. For example using F1 to bring up the help menu doesn't bring up a menu so much as an overlay that can then be overlaid itself by other menus. Keeping track of what windows respond to what commands (for exapmle the map only responds to the space bar and not escape) is challenging when first starting out. Consistency is a good thing in a well designed UI and this one has some room for improvement.

Played it before the steam for endless hours. Trading, cops, pirates, aliens, this game has it all. You can earn the money the way you want. Go criminal path and hunt down people using scanner and steal their cargo or become a bounty hunter and shoot down those space pirates. And the soundtrack is amazing, really love it.

Loved this game back in the day. Saw the reviews and was thinking I never had loading issues on my old machines, I can say don't know if they fixed others issues or just my 3 year old computer runs well, but it loads quick and I have had NO issues. I enjoy the regular game as I like getting to the powerful ships. I never get to far on ironman, got up to a destroyer once. Also the replayability of trying different professions is cool.