Startron

I'm absolutly hooked, this game is fantastic! The ascii graphic is an artistic choice, but very nicely done, i love the intro screen with random planets. For walking in stations (which is 3D), i set the graphic to chunky, this makes it less detailed but less annoying, also i disabled 3D shading, because that makes those ugly, vertical black lines. The game is much deeper, complex and detailed than it looks and i'm sure, with their few hours playtime most of the other reviewers never saw them. First you just flying around, learning the basics. Later you makes a mining -> refinery -> factory production line to get some cash. You mine resources and buy them to repair your ship, you buy ship addons to make your life easier (but you need a place where they can install them!). You will find black holes, binary systems, [spoiler]lost colonies[/spoiler], etc. Sooner or later you find out there is a story in this game and you lost in the details. There are [spoiler]warring factions,[/spoiler] [spoiler]pirates,[/spoiler] [spoiler]space creatures,[/spoiler] [spoiler]ancient and forgotten places[/spoiler], [spoiler]super weapons,[/spoiler] [spoiler]terraformers[/spoiler] and [spoiler]probably a way into another universe[/spoiler]. You can play card game or video games in the bar also there is a bounty hunting, but i didn't tried that yet. As far as i can see, everything in the game has its meaning and place, like there is a pest, which creates something which cannot be found elsewhere. The in-game cosmic database is helpful, but still you have to figure out _everything_. Also some information is redacted, you have to figure out how to see them. The game is rather relaxing, its difficulty comes from the figuring out part, but that makes it so good. Also i can't stop exploring the galaxy, it is too much fun! :)

ascii/nonmouseable UI isn't necessarily my cup of tea, but this showed up in my queue and i respect the passion put into it--its cool. might check it out more later on in its development cycle. the framework is impressive, and its free

I think this might be to space sims/4x games what Dwarf Fortress and rimworld were to colon builders.

This game is beautiful i really enjoy the aesthetic

Really really cool and groovy. Walking around a world rendered in ASCII, seeing the sunrise, is so trippy. It activates all the neurons that feel new things. The music is great, and there is so much soul and cuteness in it as well. It focuses on the fun of exploration and automation. (Something that modern competitors often miss!) I totally recommend it, from someone who's played a LOT of space games.

Despite only having barely over an hour of play time, and despite this game's version being quite far from 1.0, I wanted to drop a review to help boost the algo. I'm blown away by the ambition of the dev. The game is basically sci-fi Dwarf Fortress but with graphics that includes both 1st person and various zoom levels of 3rd person. Given how active the dev is, I'm torn between wanting to explore the game now vs letting the dev cook up a more complete package first. Even if the dev were to abandon this game today, I'd still recommend any indy game connoisseur to poke around it for a little while due to how novel and intriguing it all is.

The depth and effort on display here is astounding. I really look forward to seeing how it updates with time and I haven't even gotten fully into the depths of it still. This is truly a magnum opus of a text-based game.