Stellar Wanderer DX

Stellar Wanderer DX, is a space sim game that kind of mimics space sims out there but does it at a way that's clunky and unintuitive. On top of that the npc dps is higher than that of the player starter ship . This forces the player only into fighting and still with a high chance of losing. You can't out run enemy npc ships because your thrust is cut down so you can't . Again their dps is high and they have some type of aim assist so barrel rolls or other things will not shake them. They'll blow your ship if you run. That being said its not a "wanderer" type game its a dog fighting game with economy included. Most the story is combat. I really wanted to like this one but seeing as how i can't get past the story or into a better ship with out hours of grinding I will have to rate this down. If the economy was worth it , i would not. Even the economy is not worth it 5 coins to kill an enemy some low ♥♥♥♥ for ore. The whole point of playing a game is the enjoyment of relaxing ♥♥♥♥ to do not forcing the player into a certain box.

Elite Dangerous player here. If you are into fast paced combat with a low barrier of entry, this is good. Devs are responsive as well. Overall, this scratches that nostalgic itch and if the devs can implement co-op, it would be chef's kiss. Looking forward to more updates. Worth picking up.

Not worth the $30 I paid. It's very basic and repetitive, as noted in other reviews. Limited controls, hud functionality and content. The same enemies every time appearing out of nowhere. Even on hard it's not a challenge. Small maps. Easy to obtain the ships & upgrades. Fun for an indie game but not worth the money. It pointed me back to Freelancer which I'm enjoying much more even after all these years.

I’ve only put a little over 20hrs into the game so far, but for what it’s worth, here are my thoughts. 1) Is Stellar Wanderer DX the Freelancer of 2026? In a way, perhaps. However, there is not as much freedom of play that was found in Freelancer. I had thousands of hours in Freelance and in fact still have it installed on my PC. Granted, with Freelancer, the level of enjoyment was dictated partly by the server(s) you played on, but it did give you more freedom of action. Could SWDX become that, I think yes, but time will tell. 2) Does SWDX provide a good “bang for the buck”? To answer that, I would preface by saying that for me, I want to experience at least one hour of enjoyment for each dollar spent on a game. With that was a foundation, I would say that SWDX is good, but not amazing. To obtain the ship/equipment/weapons you need to accomplish the progression of mission difficulty, it can be a grind. 3) Would SWDX benefit from some tweaks? Absolutely! a - Allow players to opt to not take a mission and come back to it later. b - Increase the variety of drops from antagonists. c - Add a different ‘fast travel’ mechanism, like the jump lanes in Freelancer. All in all, would I recommend Stellar Wanderer DX? In all honesty, yes, but I think there is a lot of room for improvement. It’s fun, don’t misunderstand me, but it’s grindy and repetitive. I’d give it a 6/10

Leider keine Kaufempfehlung. Jedenfalls nicht zum aktuellen Preis von 20 €. Im Sale für ein oder zwei Euro wäre es akzeptabel. Hervorzuheben ist, dass das Spiel in deutscher Sprache verfügbar ist. Aber ein würdiger Nachfolger von Microsofts Freelancer? Nein! Ich habe lange auf das Spiel gewartet. Die lange Wartezeit endete mit einer sehr schnellen Enttäuschung. Mir ist klar, dass es eine Adaption eines Mobile Games ist. Daher toleriere das ich 210 Mal klicken muss, um jede Tonne Ladung meines Schiffs einzeln zu verkaufen. Auch andere schlechte Umsetzungen in der Verwaltung von Schiffen, Ausrüstung und Fracht sind nicht auf die Bedienung von Maus und Tastatur angepasst worden. Designfehler vom GUI sind nervig und teilweise auch spielschädigend. Der Schließen-Button von Dialogen ist an der gleichen Stelle wie der Button zum Verlassen der Basis. Oftmals verlasse ich die Basis ungewollt, was beim Wiederandocken zum Verlust von Missionen führt. Die Unterschiede zwischen den Schiffstypen sind gering. Im Grunde ist hier nur die Anzahl der Slots für Waffen und Ausrüstung wirklich von Bedeutung. Verfügbaren Waffen und Ausrüstung sind übersichtlich. Nach etwa 3-4 Stunden hatte ich bereits ein voll ausgestattetes Schiff. Zu keiner Zeit gab es für mich das Gefühl einer überlegenen Feuerkraft oder Ausrüstung. Schneller Antrieb? Ja, die Animation ist nun schneller. Aber die Gegner bleiben trotzdem an einem dran. Die haben das Upgrade auch gleich bekommen. Es gibt nicht so einen Effekt wie bei Freelancer, wo man in einem Wrack starke Waffen findet und dann lange eine überlegene Feuerkraft hat. Die Gegner sind hier immer gleichauf – mindestens. Die Spielwelt ist gerade zu winzig. 22 Sprungziele deren einzelne Gebiete im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes übersichtlich. Keine geheimnisvollen Wracks oder andere Objekte, die irgendwo in der Tiefe einer Zone zu finden sein könnten, wie man es von Freelancer kennt. Denn es gibt keine Tiefen einer Zone. Man springt in ein System und kann da andere Ende schon sehen. Aber wirklich schrecklich sind die vielen Bugs im Spiel. Das Spiel stürzt sehr häufig ab. Ich habe den Eindruck, die Abstürze treten häufiger auf, je weiter ich in der Story vorankomme. Die Dauer der gerade laufenden Spielsitzung hat keinen Einfluss. Teilweise stürzt es schon wenige Minuten nach dem Start ab. Gegner spawnen in Astroiden und Stationen, können durch diese hindurchfliegen und auch aus deren Inneren heraus auf den Spieler schießen, während das Feuer des Spielers am Objekt abprallt. Bei manche Schiffstypen kann man eine automatische Bordkanone ausrüsten. Die funktioniert aber meist nicht. Damit meine ich jetzt nicht den eingeschränkten Schussbereich. Nein, sie feuert einfach nicht, auch wenn das Ziel in idealer Schussposition ist. Schüsse der Primärwaffen sind gegen kleine Gegner oft wirkungslos, obwohl sie getroffen werden. Aber der größte Mist ist die Hauptmission „Triff die Phobia Korvette“, die ich nach etwa 20 Spielstunden erreicht habe. Man muss eine Korvette der Aliens abfangen, die von etwa 10 Alien Jägern begleitet wird. Die sind extrem schnell und haben superschnelles Dauerfeuer. Zudem ist die Herausforderung, dass die Korvette vor dem Sprungpunkt abgefangen werden und deaktiviert muss. Diese Mission vereint alles an Herausforderungen, die das Spiel bieten kann: große Anzahl schneller und gefährlicher Jäger, Zeitdruck und das Deaktivieren der Korvette. Letzteres zwingt dazu, Waffen mit EMP-Schaden auszurüsten, die wesentlich weniger Schaden gegen die Jäger machen. Und als Spieler hat man keinerlei Begleitunterstützung. Ich habe die Mission über 50 Mal mit verschiedenen Varianten versucht. Unterschiedliche Ausrüstung, unterschiedliche Schiffe, unterschiedliche Herangehensweise. In den meisten Fällen bin ich mit dem Abschießen der Jäger zu langsam. Wenn ich die schnell genug weg habe, kriege ich die Korvette vor dem Sprung nicht deaktiviert. Oder ich zerstöre sie, weil ich sie im vorherigen Kampfverlauf zu stark beschädigt habe. Ich kann nicht verstehen, wie man so etwas abartig Schweres in ein Spiel packen kann. Daumen runter, ganz weit runter.

I wish that Steam would have a neutral recommendation option by now, but there is not. When you start out playing it is indeed a good game and i have to say that there are no bugs that i encountered. But after a while flying from base to base, killing pirates and running some missions, that is about it. I find for a space game that after about 1 or 2 hours, the gameplay becomes boring. It is all rinse and repeat the same missions. It is kill some pirate lord here, escort some ship, transport some people,check out some checkpoints for pirates and racing. That is about it. I have to give credit for the dogfights and space flight being very good and fun to play, but the rest is just plain boring. Sorry for that. I can recommend the game for the exploration and dogfights, but otherwise no recommendation. So unless there are going to be some expansions to the game or more variations in the missions, i cannot recommend this game at this price point. I can only recommend it if there is a very good sale/discount, otherwise there are better games available.

Wer Wing Commander und Co. spielte und liebte, wird auch dieses Spiel mögen...Ich will Spaß und kein kompliziertes Spiel, wo man erst ein Studium absolvieren muss. Es soll ja Weltraumspiele geben die nach 10 Jahren immer noch nicht fertig sind. Einsteigen und los fliegen. Meine Empfehlung, auch netter Kontakt zu den Entwicklern. Die Demo fand ich etwas schwer, das ist bis jetzt bei der Vollversion nicht so der Fall. Man kann das Schiff gut aufrüsten. Mir gefällts. Habe bis jetzt 4 Stunden gespielt...Tipp: Erst ein paar Nebenmissionen machen damit man genug Kohle zum Aufrüsten hat.

Boring and repetitive. Has some nice parts - like ships and equipments slots and types, but overall it's just same few activities you have to repeat all the time, fighting, mining and boring flights with stops for boring fighting. Exploration is useless - every system is a single station and a lot of meaningless objects. I get that it's an indie game, I don't expect cutscenes or nice UI, but heck every "protect the ship" quests has same ship captain in it. Main story is some variation of repetative quests without any story behind it, at least I wasn't patient enough to get to a point where it might become interesting

Y'know, a neutral vote would have been good to have. Product was received for free in a giveaway from the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/846030/DV_Rings_of_Saturn/]ΔV[/url] guys. Stellar Wanderer DX is a good coffee-break of a space simulator remastered by Dream Builder Studios to fill in the Galaxy on Fire/Freelancer void. It comes with HOTAS support and a cockpit view feature (you start in 3rd-person but can switch it if preferred) which makes it a good space dogfighting simulator if you're in the mood for some space combat. It is also a remaster of a mobile game released around 2015, with vastly-overhauled graphics and systems that make it a good PC game. [h3]In a galaxy, far far away[/h3] Stellar Wanderer tasks you in the role of a nameless space pilot plying trades across the various sectors of the galaxy. You can trade, mine, fly around and kill targets and sometimes sell unsavory cargo. You can also take on missions on the game's many space stations which run the whole gamut of patrolling the sector, defending helpless ships, routing passengers to their destination and what not. The game also features a sizeable main story mission, but it's not long enough in general and not too interesting. The game boasts multiple amounts of equipment you can buy, but quite a bit of them are just stat stick versions of previous equipment but with better stats. There is also a leveling system that becomes rather grindy later on which you can use to give percentile buffs to ship performance. [h3]Compounding debts[/h3] As it stands, it is pretty much like the era of 2010's mobile space sim releases, with many interesting systems making for an enjoyable game, but not exceeding beyond its merits. Despite the game having large cargo bay fighters, there is no bulk-selling feature; you have to manually tap away at the sell/buy buttons to load them into your ship. The trading system is rather rudimentary, and even viewing where the highest/lowest purchase price sectors for items is a challenge in and of itself as you have to apprise through many sectors to do your trades if you want. You are asked to select a class long before you can figure out what stats exactly do. EXP Gains on that regard are rather slow as well. Dogfighting is rather minimal, with many enemy ships just flying straight at you then running a certain distance before repeating their strikes again. As mentioned, a lot of the equipment is just the previous kind of equipment, except slightly better. The music becomes rather grating at some point; I had to disable it because it was too loud and it was also a bunch of space orchestra strings. The voice-acting could use some work, but then again this WAS a mobile game made for the 2015s, which is par for the course of games of that era (e.g. Galaxy on Fire 2, etc.) [h3]Compounding gains[/h3] In spite of that, if you like collecting, there's a sizeable roster of ships, though I doubt you'd use most of them given that the BL5 is in general a great ship with 4 equipment slots and 4 weapon slots. The game's difficulty curve is noticeably more gentle than the "better" game counterpart Everspace 2, which was basically Borderlands in Space on that regard where you have to luck out on a piece of equipment, and then cry when your levels also invalidate your equipment because of the fact that the pirates have become way stronger than you could handle. As it is an adaptation of a mobile game, the specs required are criminally low. Any modern computer and even potatoes can run this at 200+ FPS. If you are running it at those specs, turn your VSync off; you don't need it. [h3]Verdict[/h3] If you have money to burn, this is hardly a problematic purchase; you can get some enjoyment out of this so long as you pace yourself. If you want, and if it were up to me, I'd wait for a 25% sale. If you wanted to do trade, consider getting either X3 or X4 (if you have a stronger PC), where you have more effect in controlling the functional marketplace there, or if you wanted to dogfight with better graphics, get Everspace 2, but that game has its own issues as well, including the fact it uses UE5. If you wanted more Galaxy on Fire 2, and you already bought that game, this game works just as well if not better. If you wanted a numerical point reference, I'd give this game a 6.5/10, where 10 is perfect, 1 is atrociously horrible and 5 is normal.

It's Ok, It is super repetitive with NPC combat. it feels exactly 10 or so many minutes apart and the same couple types of fights so it just gets annoying fast. It feels a lot like some older space sim games so it's worth a try but it got boring fast.