
You’re now an Operative, a free agent and a speculator in the claustrophobic terminally ill city of (Misplaced) Optimism, the last crater cluster on barren mined-out Titan.
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This game is worth more than its weight in all the IDM songs it ships with
One of the under-the-radar greats! I still hold on to my original copies on CD. No game has ever been quite the same for me and I've gone back to it repeatedly for over 20 years. I bought it on sight to support it and deeply hope to see a sequel or true remaster one day. This game is worth every penny if you want a true unique experience from the late 90's. The game does not disappoint and allows you to have complete freedom to do as you wish.
This is a rare gem! I played this game for 100s of hours in the early 2000's and really happy it is brought back to life, truly :). It is kinda sandbox trade / fight / build game. See it as a far predecessor of the X3 / X4 games. The plot is nice but short, the game is more about enjoying the eerie foggy atmosphere and the surroundings. There are a couple different moths (planes running on solar powered batteries) and a couple weapons to slap onto them. This game stems from a time games came in a box with a manual in it to read before starting to play, Expect no tutorial and prepare to jump into the deep end :) See you in the city of Misplaced Optimism!
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Desolate, murky and inhumane. There's just nothing like (Misplaced) Optimism.
[b][i]Hardwar is a Sci-Fi Retro Flight simulation with cool music and atmosphere. You are a freelance "Moth" pilot trying to survive in the city of Misplaced Optimism on Titan. You can become a merchant, pirate, bounty hunter or scavenger.[/i][/b] Gameplay: https://youtu.be/WkXpOSOD11s You will explore the world of the planet and visit various cities located inside craters connected by a network of tunnels. The colony fell into decay, and the colonists lost the ability to travel in space after large corporations left the planet. Now criminal gangs rule here. The local police cannot resist them. Everything changes when an unidentified alien ship crashes. You must get ahead of your competitors, find aliens, and help them repair the ship in order to leave the planet with them. The original version was made for PCs in 1998 (developed by The Software Refinery and published by Gremlin Interactive/Interplay), and then in 2023 Funbox Media, Jordan Freeman Group and ZOOM-Platform.com release a Steam version.
This is one of the *best* all time space pirate fighter/trader games ever created of all time. I will argue that no single new game today even remotely compares to this one. All someone would have to do is remake this game with today's technology and you would be a millionaire. I absolutely do not understand why that hasn't been done yet. The replay ability of this game is unbelievable. Try this game. You absolutely will not be disappointed.
This game has got the hardest licensed soundtrack known to man holy ♥♥♥♥
This game was under sold and unknown by the gamers of the time. I was lucky enough to have a friend back then to tell me about how cool it was. It's a top ten for me and the replay-ability has proven worthy for all these years. One of the best games ever!! IMO.
I was really looking forward to playing this again, but I can't get it to work. Crazy neon broken graphics followed by a game freeze. It's a shame, I loved the game back in the day.
Некоторые игры хороши только в своё время. Это пример того, что игра выпущенная в 1998 году, по моему скромному мнению, должна остаться там же. Сегодня в это играть уже объективно тяжело.
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