Starcom: Unknown Space

Great game, a mix of essentially a text based advneture and 2D space combat. The story and ingame events are incredibly imagninative and creative, honestly I found myself wondering how many but plausible things could occur when you send a team down to a planet. There are many interweaved storylines and civilisations to encounter. If you're a fan of Startrek/particularly voyager or Stargate or that sort of space exploration genre and reading such that you can fill in for action scenes with your imagination you'll love this game. The combat itself is realtively basic - 2D manouvering like an updated version of the old asteroids game, however you can update and engineer your ship, discovering alien and developing new technologies to improve your combat perfomance, not to mention that although the mechanics are relatively basic there are several different weapons fighters/missiles/shields/lasers/cannon etc. etc. add to which you are nearly always outnumbered and may well be out classed. You can also gather materials and build the new technologies and improve your ship which includes some engineering consdierations especially with respect to heat and power management. One brilliant thing about the game is that the stories/sidequests often allow you to avoid combats that to start with seem unwinable by doing something relatively clever (Although in retrospect rather obvious - I'm just not that bright!) and "save the day" very much in the theme of startrek/stargate etc. You can also upskill your crew to whom you get attached to and will helpfully (or sarcastically) help with both the story and can improve the performance of the ship both in combat and outside it. I really enjoyed the game overall, to the point of being sad when it ended, if you like the idea of a space going adventure discovering stuff, mysteries other civilisations then I can't see why you wouldn't love it.

I was a bit skeptical since the game was not 3D but how wrong I was. This is the best experience location game I have ever played. Just go, buy it and thank me later.

Very fun game, surprising amount of depth with the research, ship building and different enemies. The exploration was fun and I ended up missing things until I came back later with better crew skills and upgrades to spot stars further out. Quite enjoyed my playthrough of it, though I think I will give it a year or so before I do a second playthrough of the game. Would definitely recommend it if the trailer catches your attention.

First game in a long time that gave me that one more turn feeling. I couldn't put it down, always one more system to explore, one more fight... Plays great on the Steam Deck too. My only minor complaint is the map is physically too big for the number of star systems. Wish it was smaller or there was more systems to explore but more systems would probably be a distraction.

This game has a very repetitive game play, the graphics could've been achieved back in the 90 with an Amiga 500...and you better get your reading glasses clean and ready to read away because text is abundant, plentiful...Sounds ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up huh? And yet it works, there is some undertone, some vibe to the whole game that make it very absorbing. You know what it is? It invited you to imagine, most of things related to evey character, world, your crew, you end up imagining and getting more engaged by such exercise,and that's what any piece of good artwork should achieve. So suck it AAA games!!! art is not a recipe, Is looooove and passion over things you like, that end up liking to others.

Only 20 hours in and so far its been fun. No issues with bugs and gameplay is intriguing, and Ui is user friendly.

What an amazing game, I played for 3 days straight.