Space Merchant

The odds are there that you'll run out of credits and potentially hardlock yourself into starting over. How so? The missions that pay out credits almost exclusively seem to require a ship with the ability to fight. However, the Targeting System research doesn't unlock until you research the Comms Array or whatever research. On top of that, locked research doesn't tell you what you need to research to unlock said locked research. Also, expect to WAIT for literally everything. Need to buy something? Wait for it to be delivered to you. Need credits fast and want to sell something? Wait for it to be sold. Need to fabricate more fuel? Wait for it. Need more room for crew members? Wait for it to be built. Want to research something? Wait for it. Literally everything demands that you WAIT before being able to do something. Pretty damn obvious that this is a mobile port when you can scroll menus by clicking and dragging the mouse around. Surprisingly very little meat for gameplay here though. Send your ships on missions, wait for them to arrive, collect rewards, and wait for ships to return to base. I got bored, slapped the game with Cheat Engine "for the lulz", and am now at the phase of "zero interest". Playing legit, you might get a few hours out of this one.

its not bad but it iS a long grinder with quite a bit of time wasted awaiting more quests. not even close to as fluent in gameplay as the original. the concept is there and aside from the fact that fuelling the ships requires credits, as the resources are scarce enough to never be enough, and credits missions being bloody rare and barely enough to cover the fuel cost, i would say this is an ok game. if you can hang around long enough after the squeeze of scraping by at the start, enough to put many players off (other devs tease you in, these clearly decided to squeeze players out instead....odd choice), this develops into a fine time sink. unfortunately for me, nothing was explained right from the tutorial and my builds were wasted so have to start again, and THAT is not nearly as fun an introduction (as already mentioned) to this game as these devs seem to think. once you get your head around the build mechanics and what builds to put where and just how long and grindy getting them is, switch to slot 2 and start again, otherwise you unlock to much during research and quests dry up. early quest rewards really need tweaking to give creds as well as research points or the tutorial needs NOT waste 6k coins on a ship captain you dont actually need yet. don't know anything about the DLC as it all looks way over-priced for 2 decade old graphics games. i may be an a-hole but im not gaping or rocking so few brain cells its a 'yes' but only by the skin of it's teeth

☀️