Vanguard Galaxy

This game is a cat. You can play with it, then go to school/work, and leave the cat at home, to play with itself. Then you come back home and continue playing with a cat. Just leave some food for it in the bowl and it will feed itself while you're away. Day after day after day. Has asteroids, ships, pirates, shipwrecks, guns, space stations, forging, refining, buying, selling and Explosions! Best cat ever!

Prologue is stretched out long enough to the point if you don't end up liking the game you can't get a refund. Now its just a paper weight in my library.

I've barely started playing this game, and I'm already aware that any action or event that has a percentage success rate, is pre-rolled, so if you saved the game, then made the attempt, failed the attempt, reloaded the save game, then redid the attempt, you would also fail... i reloaded the same save file just prior to an extraction attempt with a success rate of 52.1%... 15 times, note: ***15*** times, they >>>ALL<<< failed! If the success rate is supposed to be 52.1%, then it should only take 2 or 3 reloads to succeed with such odds. My conclusion is that it's pointless to reload save files just to reattempt any failed events, you either walk away and start over, or continue and write off whatever got lost because you weren't good enough with the statistics required - it's better to assume the autosaves are there just to avoid losing hours of progress because the house cat managed to pull the power plug from the wall socket, while manual save files are merely a quick way to record your embarassing failures permanently

I have played EvE Online nearly since launch, and I still love it, but becoming a parent limits time drastically. Since I can't truly AFK EvE without a good chance of coming back podded, especially with Goon Squad's lust for random destruction, jerks, I needed a fix, something worthy of EvE, even if on a temporarily smaller scale, i'm sure this game will grow, and I found it with Vanguard Galaxy. I literally just bought the game a few weeks ago and I have 42 hours played with my busy schedule. I love it, the afk mode is flawless and I can actually be entertained while parenting, like watching a favorite show. Highly recommended for parent gamers who love EvE and space games in general. Ship variety is awesome!! The music rocks as well!!

Not a bad game but if you are looking for a true idler I would probably look elsewhere, at least as of right now.

boring after a few hours

Really liked the premise of this game. The gameplay loop is solid in theory--missions spent salvaging/ mining/ fighting, coming back to sell and upgrade. However, I can't recommend this to anyone looking for an idle game. I bought this game specifically to be an idler. Surprise!--the idle functionality is locked behind multiple quests. Hours later (+ getting stuck on the AI Core quest), I still cannot access the idle functionality. If you advertise idling as a base feature of the game, it should not be locked behind j actively play the game for multiple quests on end. People who buy the game for the idle feature presumably have a reason for not being able to actively play, myself included, or we wouldn't be buying idle games. Just quit in frustration after spending quite a while (most of in demo before buying the game--with some real life AFKing) doing the quests and then trying to get past the AI Core quest to unlock the freaking idle mode.