Starcom: Unknown Space

Two dimensional game - simple to play, can be challenging to succeed at times at higher difficulties. Quests challenging if a bit janky. Fun ship builder. Linear progression, again simple. but little replayability value. 30 hours to completion w/taking my time and I'll likely never play again..get it on sale.

A fun space game. Immersive, well written. The combat system isn't infinitely complex, but it has enough depth to entertain any upgrade-hungry player over the roughly 20-30h campaign. Can recommend.

Its one of the best exploration games I've played in years.

Space exploration, ship upgrades and customization, a little bit of asteroid blasting here and there to get minerals, scanning planets for research data and unusual stuff,, what's not to love? I liked it all, though there were times when I felt lost, but that's appropriate, no?

Действительно классная игра, с большим миром и приятно продуманным сюжетом. Есть разные пасхалки, и смешные ситуации. Экипаж не пустые болванчики а иногда общаются и подкидывают подсказки по прохождению. Игру рекомендую также из-за приятного строительства кораблей, ибо есть возможность собрать ундервафлю и насылать ненасытный рой истребителей на своих врагов (они в ужасе, чес слово), можно закосплеить орешник ну или просто врезаться во врагов на полной скорости (думаю понятно что больше всего в игре мне понравилось)

Very cozy space exploration game. It feels like a love child of early game Stellaris and Mass effect, you get the fun exploring and probing vast new star systems, engage with different aliens, find mysteries, and you get the ship building with lots of flexibility. Graphic is solid and even the officers on boards has personality. Battle has some depth but nothing too crazy. Will highly recommend for any space fans 27.3 hrs for full achievement. Still great besides lategame space travel is a bit tedius

OK, so I REALLY want to like this game. There's a lot about it that tickles my 'tism just right, but it's got some pretty major issues too. I'm going to list what I've run into so far in the hopes that maybe the developer will throw a patch its way. In A LOT of battles, enemies just keep warping in endlessly, resulting in death every time, no matter what tactics you use. There are some pretty major jumps in difficulty that come out of nowhere, and this makes it extremely frustrating when you have to spend 9/10ths of every battle crawling away from the enemies while more warp in just so your ship can auto-repair at an absolute snail's pace. Which brings me to the next problem, a lot of the ship's stats don't do what they say they should. I've put a lot of points into engineering, which should make my ship repair faster. The stats page says that it should be repairing at 2.4% per second, but it still repairs at the same 0.3% per second I started out with. Installing more crew quarters makes no difference at all. Again, making fights super frustrating when I have to disengage and run for a solid three minutes while my ship barely fixes itself and all the enemies respawn. It doesn't help that your ship, no matter how many upgrades you add, handles like a fully loaded dumpster whose wheels have fallen off in a gravel pit. It's SUPER grindy. I've researched two ship classes higher than the scout you start with, but it makes no difference because the resources you need to actually craft those ships literally never appear. Meanwhile, enemies keep getting bigger and stronger while I'm unable to upgrade my ship to a class that could actually fight them. There are also a lot of smaller issues, like getting a mission telling you to seek out a K-class star, except the game doesn't label stars by class, it labels them by color. Or how about five hours in, everybody just abruptly stops giving you missions. I've explored every star system on the map that isn't protected by an absolutely insane amount of enemies, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to be doing. The battlestation skill only works about half the time as well, sometimes it just doesn't do any repairs at all. I really hope this can get fixed, because for the first few hours it was giving me a Star Trek: Voyager feel that I was liking a lot.