In The Black

My career as a merc is only just beginning, but if you like the sound of what In The Black is looking to achieve, it's well worth checking out. The flight model and ballistics are designed with realism in mind, which makes combat cold, brutal, challenging, and highly satisfying when a plan is executed successfully. For fellow fans of The Expanse, there are not many games that come as close to simulating what it might feel like to engage in the space battles of that show (both long-range and CQC). I have a soft spot for sci-fi and various space sims, and would LOVE to see ITB's philosophy and mechanics incorporated into a more fully-fledged simulation or MMO adjacent game. For now, though, I'm happy hopping into a quick contract or multiplayer match here and there to satiate my thirst for nuclear-powered space combat, in a ruthless future we will (thankfully?) never experience in our lifetimes.

The graphics and visuals are great. I'm still playing and haven't finished it yet but loving it so far. I would recommend the devs to not set the FPS to max by default! My PC fans started working and making some noises. But it got fixed when I changed the FPS to 60.

So When I first got this game. It pissed me off quite alot due to what i generaly beleave where bad idea they added. Like repair costs for your vehicals and the grind taking so long after just 10 or so ranks. However. I think I was being abit to harsh on the game. There are still things that really annoy me like glitches and bugs some of which are game breaking in places but the dev team have blown me away. Interacting with the community to the point that they have even replyed to me in youtube comments and steam discussions. At the moment the game has a very war thunder feel and that worries me abit because I didnt like the direction war thunder went and it took them years to turn that round. Im very worried the same thing will happen to this game but with a dev team working this closly with the commuity I beleave that future updates will only game the game better. Big shout out to the devs. Amazing work. Keep it up

I think they have the underlying tech for a good game working, but its not fun. The fact that its only only and I've not seen another player in 18 hours of gameplay is concerning enough, but the grindy progression is a bigger issue. This is an early access game. I'm assuming the devs want people to be able to play around with all the ships, make tons of loadouts, experiment around and find bugs and flaws. But the amount of time you need to sink into *severely* repetitive SP and MP matches to buy anything is absurd. Why would I sink 100+ hours into a shallow early access tech demo just to try the bigger ships? Its not worth your time.

fun! simple interface and straightforward game. controls seem complex at first but after playing for a couple of hours you get the hang of it. love the ship customization and want to unlock all of them; they have sick designs! a lot of potential in this and i'm excited to see where this goes.

Edit: 30/05/2026 Must say the recent patch has fixed the issues that I had with this game and it is now in a playable state and worth getting. the Outfitting is now relaiable and the reintroduction of CoOp has made this a well worth acquisition and has significant replayability. To the Devs: Keep up the good work. Original Review: 14/05/2026 Great premis and if it gets some major work done it may be worth the buy but in its current state it is pre-alpha at best due to too many major bugs and stability issues. The lack of offline single player is a major issue as well but the basic problems of the game reguarly glitching out and failing to register outfitting changes on ships and then "loosing" the parts and your currency after paying for them and the extream grind of making ingame currency is just untennable. Further my recomendation is if the online single player has to remain then CoOp needs to be reimplimented to at least justify the requirment. Overall I can't recommend this in it's current state and DCS or even Star Citizen is a better buy for value for money and time. If it gets some major stability work done and either PvE CoOp an offline SP then I will definatly revisit.

Its not terrible for early access but it has a lot of potential. The biggest issue with it right now is the hella grindy progression but again, early access.

The recent changes is getting the game into the right direction and to be honest, I can't stop thinking about playing it. If you want a realistic space fighter combat then this game is for you. putting the color customization options to leveling system is a good option and make the ship more special in its own way

...and if this game become like ED ? yeah i know is a big "jump", the game he way is now is cool, is a cool game, the little i play seems to me the game is just one thing, combat, but even just that the game is cool, controling the ship with keyboard and mouse in my opinion is much better than ED and SC, i need test with joystick and throtlle, but for now just playing with keyboard and mouse is fun conroling the ship. i recommend the game but the conent is little but is fun.

Awesome game, fells like playing Diaspora mod for bsg again