Sol Trader

Sol Trader is a fantastic little gem of a game! I've played enough now that I think I can give my opinion, though I know there's lots more to discover about the game as I go. I recently picked this up after eyeing it for a long while and I'm super glad I did. The dev is a super nice guy and really responsive to people, listens and does his best to make the game a great experience. I've been blown away by it so far and I think you should give it a chance because it really is quite fun. It's tricky to get into and figure out what to do, and how things work but once you get the hang of it (watch a couple tutorials), it's great fun. It's a space game with a major focus on relationships and achieving your goals with the help of many of those relationships. If you make friends and have contacts in many places, it can open many doors for you. If you anger everyone along the way and people don't trust you, you might have to resort to brute force to get your way. It's really open ended that way and you have a unique family history in every game you play, meaning you could come from a really poor family, or a super famous family (one of my games I was the presidents son). There's lots of missions for those who want to start out with renting a ship and doing local missions, or trade goods and make some coins. There's also a variety of careers and professions you can partake of, starting at the bottom rung and working your way up over time to start to make some decent money. You can also become a mining giant if you want to, or an engineer and be great at crafting. It just depends on what style you want to play. There's many places and cities to visit, lots to do in them and lots of people to be friends with and more! There are also a variety of different ships to suit your needs and parts to help those ships be better so that it makes your career choices go much easier. If you decide to be a pilot for instance, a fast warship will really help you out as you keep the peace in the cosmos! Or if you want to be a trading guru, you can get yourself a giant ship that holds tons of cargo and make some serious coin on a run from place to place! I am excited to see what else Chris will add in over time and how the gameplay will develop. Overall, it's a great game that you should definitely not miss out on! Ignore the few bad reviews, give it a chance and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I am happy to give this a 8.5/10 and if Chris adds back in the marraige/kids system and more, then I will be upping that overall as well! Please do pick this up and help support a great developer and a great guy!

Nope. 9 hours seems a fair trial. Spent almost all of it trying to find a decent cargo to haul. It feels like this is some kind of training system for aspies, teaching how to perform 'conversation' The routine gets old fast.

Few experiences deliver anything as unique and fascinating as Sol Trader. It boasts one of the most elaborate character relationship systems I've ever seen. I'd love to see how it could be deepened by making characters feel like they're a little more than who and what they know, but honestly that's just me wanting a good thing to be even better. This game delivers exactly what it set out to do: a fresh take on character relationships built on an impressively complex system of social politics and intergalactic networking.

Professional networking / career simulator disguised as an EV-like. Really impressed to see such a fresh new take on game design, I hope the developer keeps innovating with more games in the future.

It's rather simple in scope but surprisingly addictive for what boils down to a kind of light talking sim, in space. While not as in-depth as I would like to see, the weird social bent to everything in the game makes it kind of endearing and I just wish there was more background to the characters and more control over your own beginnings. I don't know if I can say that it is worth a twenty but it is definitely worth trying if only to experience a space game that focuses more on character interaction than shooting or, uh, spacing.

God awful. Boring and lacking any sort of rational, straightforward tutorial. For a game that relies on lots of text, lacks any variety in representation of textual artefacts. Littered with misspellings, errors in capitalization, and other major grammatical errors (in either American or British systems). Not worth the 5.99 I paid for it.

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I like this game, but it takes a lot to get it started. The tutorial is helpful, but there are many things that the tutorial leaves out. For instance, to ask someone about another person, you have to click on the person's (who you are asking about} portrait and then hit filter. Then you can inquire about them to the person you are chatting with. You have to have them pinned to do this. This is one example of something the tutorial missed. If you want to get really into this game, it is worth it. The creator made some youtube videos showing how to play. I watched the first episode only and it helped immensely. Anyway, I like this game a lot. It reminds me or Escape Velocity. It has very few ships (less than 10) and focuses heavily on making relationships and diplomacy. I might be a bit disappointed if I paid 20 dollars, but I paid 5. This might be because I'm not super into diplomacy/relationship games. If you like games with diplomacy/relationship building, then this game is is 1,000% worth buying full price. If you want to float around, mine, and do missions, then scoop it up on sale.

I'm really enjoying this so far. The interface can be clunky to work with at times but once you get the hang of it, it's no big deal. This game is very relaxing and chill to me, something great to just zone out on and enjoy. The music also has a nice ambiance to it. The author seems to still be occasionally updating it too so that's nice. So far I'm quite enjoying it. It's a little steep at 20$ though, I would definitely wait for a sale to pick it up, as much as I enjoy it. It's not nearly polished enough for it's current price tag.

Ich empfinde das Spiel als ein forschreitendes Experiment. Die Thematik und das Spielprinzip sind auf eine für mich komplett neue und überraschende Art umgesetzt. Es ist wie ein Puzzle und gleichzeitig sehr abstrakt aber auch sehr vertraut. Es hat viel Text und besteht - soweit ich bisher gespielt habe - hauptsächlich aus den Konversationen. Die Grafik ist zweckdienlich und die UI mit dem Update 1.2 nun wieder etwas besser, aber für meinen Geschmack noch immer etwas uninspiriert. Alles in allem glaube ich, dass sich nur wenige Spieler daran erfreuen können. Für die, die sich darauf einlassen und das generische dieser simulierten Welt erfolgreich verdrängen, kann es viele Stunden spass beim Puzzeln und Forschen bringen. Es ist ein Daumen hoch, für alle die mal etwas anderes probieren wollen. Man kann es ja zurück geben, wenn es gar nicht gefällt.