Nexus - The Jupiter Incident

This is a middling review and the game is currently on sale. I would recommend checking it out for $2. The game is very particular and has good core systems with a great deal of promise. However, the game also hides information and this obscurity makes it more difficult. Would you like to know how many weapons and of what type a particular weapon generator can support for constant firing? [b]You can't.[/b] There is some information that was data mined by the community, but there are gaps and the game should present this to the user regardless. There doesn't seem to be good range data for weapons and the interaction between subsystems for ECM/ECCM and hit rates is hidden. Even things that should be possible (what % shield drain per second am I managing or just a %) to display in the UI in combat are not present. The ship manual control some times appears to bug out. If you set a ship to focus, bring the shields up, power up certain weapons, and then issue a move command the systems you enabled may or may not stay online. This can be disastrous if the ship barrels into combat with partial shields when you, the commander who explicitly enabled shields, were expecting a full charge. Movement within 3-space is not handled well. It's easy to conceptualize a projected array of points aligned to, say, adjustable cubic or spherical volumes to make navigation easy. This could have been combined with weapon arc/range displays but instead, again, it is a guessing game. All that said I still found the game intriguing enough to grind through the campaign and work out the puzzle like mechanics with multiple restarts with different loadouts and approaches for missions.