Icarus Starship Command Simulator

This game is very enjoyable and a great way to spend a dozen hours. You should buy it and support this sort of thing.

I bought this years ago, but for some reason I never played it until now. If you like FTL but want a more immersive experience, get this.

BUY IT If you like FTL but thought it would be nice to board the ships yourself. This is your game. The Ability to walk around and board ships and space station is a really nice feature, yet somehow he's only charging $4 when he could've easily charged $10-$20 +Only four ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dollars! +Upgradeable (did I spell that right?) ships +High replay value +Can jump out of captain's seat to repel boarders or board enemy ships and steal them +Can store extra crew to man systems +Developer still makes improvments -Very limited weapon choice, especially for ships -Crew members will die very quickly in close combat -Limited variety of scenarios -Crew members will go mad and break your stuff in some parts of the galaxy Considering this was made by one guy and the fact that he charged so little. I would say he's done a great job making this.

It's hard to stop once you get it going.

At first, I thought this would be an awesome game. It seems to have a great concept and gameplay loop. But in the 119 minutes that I played, I encountered many bugs - too many to deem acceptable in a game that has no further updates or patches planned. Browsing the Steam Discussion forum shows more sporadic bug reports. Here was what I experienced: - Launching the game increased my monitor's brightness to maximum. It would go back to normal once the game closed. Very noticeable since I was playing in Windowed mode. - I tried to fire on the Icarus after taking over another ship and leaving the Icarus derelict, and even though I pressed YES when it warned me I would be treated as a Pirate for the rest of the game, my new ship wouldn't open fire. All modules were powered on. - Planet graphics are stretched to an incorrect aspect ratio when viewing them in the tactical overlay - The e-mail/objectives/audio log screen that opens up at the beginning...there's no way to access it again that I could find. I got a notification that I received a new e-mail but I had no way to read it. The multi-tool datapad, I assume, is how you're meant to read it, but all it does is scan the environment. This was the last straw for me. I figure if there are this many bugs just in the first two hours - 30 minutes of which were spent loading and messing around with the menus - I wouldn't make it through the whole game. It's really unfortunate because I love the first person aspect of this game. Being able to actually walk around in your ship is a great thing. Too bad there's basically no customization options. Ultimately the game feels unfinished. Some gameplay complaints: - Limited customization - Limited dialogue - Alien ships have the same sabotage/repair dynamics - Gameplay gets repetitive quickly Now I can see that Steam has rounded 119 minutes up to 2.0 hours. It's actually 1.9833..repeating, of course.

Great little indie game. Even more impressive to have been created by one person. The game feels like a 3D FTL. Interesting game mechanics and an unique idea. Well worth the price tag that will net you some fun play time for a several hours. My biggest complaint: The idea for commandeering other space craft is awesome but suffers same problem as Pixel Piracy. In that its more effective to wait and steal a better ship then invest resources into upgrading your own ship.

Hatalmas dicséretet érdemel ez a játék. Kicsit nehezen, de végre rájöttem a működésére. Minden funkciójával elégedett vagyok! A retro kinézetű űr robotok, vagy legyenek akármik! :D iszonyatosan jó hangulatot adnak a játéknak. A hajó management is jó, a teleportálás remek ötlet volt! Hangulatos az egész és élvezetes. Grafikáját mondhatnánk gyengéjének, de szerintem ez a sármja és ez is csak hozzá ad az élményhez. Mintha egy régi játékkal játszanánk, amik valljuk be sokszor köröket vernek az újonnan kiadott modern cuccokra. Én tényleg csak ajánlani tudom, főleg úgy hogy steam kártyákból összehozott 0,8 euróért vettem. Tehát ingyen volt gyakorlatilag! És mégis megfogott!!!! Ilyen gyöngyszemeket találni mindig jó érzés!

Good bang for the buck.