Zigfrak

A game this cheap has no business being this good. Despite an interface which can be a little tricky to learn, this is a solid game experience. Destroyed ships litter space with tons of loot: ammo, guns, vendor trash, crafting components, etc. So much so that it can be a bit overwhelming in the early going. I've only scratched the surface of this one, but it seems surprisingly deep.

GET THIS GAME! Unless you're Maverick. Zigfrak is a pretty awesome game. It's amazingly beautiful, but for reasons I can't begin to fathom it has never overheated my laptop. Not even when I accidentally left it running paused and the temperature in my room was in the mid-80s during the afternoon hours (my room sadly faces west). Even games that are 3D only as window dressing tend to overheat my laptop (RTS games, XCOM Enemy Unknown, and many others). This game I could probably leave running for a week. This game is what I'd term a casual space RPG. What I mean by "casual" is that it tends to avoid the micromanagement most RPGs entail. Unlike most casual RPGs it IS pretty and there's a very wide variety of enemies and components you can add to your ship. No really, there's TONS of things you can upgrade your guns, shields, armor, missile launchers, whatever to. Going along with the casual game theme, they're often whimsically named. Inconvenient realism tends to get glossed over in this game. You're only allowed to carry so many of each object. Once you hit that amount, it automatically converts those items into the type of credits you spend at a trade station (there's at least three forms of currency, which makes game economics all kinds of interesting). The author loves puns and references. There's an alien weapon type called "strange." So one of the weapons has an effect called "When you're strange." And given that certain of the higher-end weapon names are prepended with "tweaked" they put in one weapon called "Tweaked Morrison." The references vary between movies/sci-fi (obviously) but you can also find weapon types like Larry, Curly and Moe. I want to hope that Moe is the most effective, with Larry being the less-interesting mid-range model. It's also a fairly sandboxy game. While there's an arcing storyline, you can freely ignore it if you want, and just go about fighting, looting, crafting or whatever. The author is AMAZINGLY responsive and non-dickish (even when folks are being critical). Seems willing to take a look at your saved games in order to track down bugs (or just fix your stuck game for you). It's almost unbelievable how responsive he is given that it's a $5 game. I almost feel guilty mentioning that it's fairly easy to come by coupons for this game... The only reason I mention my friend Maverick up top, it's not his type of game. While I wouldn't call the game overly easy, it rather shamelessly lists as one of its selling points that it's a click, kill and loot game. It even describes the things you kill as "loot pinatas." I like the honesty there, it lets you know that this wasn't done by accident or poor design. This game is for people who like getting loot. It's a nice palate-cleanser for my Shadowclan friends *snickers*. Money is easy enough to come by (and if you putter away a few hours in certain areas you'll be absurdly comfortable). You could also avoid doing as I did to get a "more balanced" experience. It shouldn't be TOO hard to get the things you'd want to buy (in the unlikely event they don't drop as loot somewhere).

[i]The short review is buy the game, the dev is a hobby dev and you'll probably jump in and out of the game every now and then for your monthly Zigfrak fix. Which is good for addicits because something is always coming and everything adapts/levels with you so you'll need to adapt and change. Every battle is different. I've a guide http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232839816 I've a letsplay [b]COMING[/b] Though lets just think a minute ... [/i] Do you care about reading dialogue ? > if yes, Awesome. Buy this game . go explore and kill or whatever you want to do...while thinking about your decisions > if no , Awesome. Buy this game . go explore and kill or whatever you want to do...while not thinking ... just destorying Do you think you'd carry around that lvl 3 Quirky SmartAss Missile until your level 15 because it looks cool? > if yes, heck yeah its awesome. > if no, hey look, something else thats not just a reskin of other stuff with better stats but, actually a different item. Have you seen a spaceship shoot homing mines that actually act as mines that act with proximity to targets? > obviously not, becuase you're currently reading this review and you probably haven't played this game. Ever wondered what it'd be like to be stealthed in the middle of a Five Faction Battle ? > You get a stealth cloak in the third major quest. Ever wondered how much loot that battle results in ? > Its alot though you'll have grab what you want quick cos there are always scavagers and Enforcers about. Ever battled your-AI-self? > you will, it is a random event, one of you will die. Confused Painful memorys? > yeah, you've just killed your self, saving your past self from killing your future self. Yay future self. You woke up? > yeah, it was all a dream. Look out! Giant space bats are attacking you from the rear. Been eaten by a god-like entity? > you can do that, there is an epic 100 - 1 battle. Ever played poker in-game against mob-bosses for control of sectors as well as cannolle? > you can do that, watch them though cos Lenny cheats. > Sammy the Rat is actually a Rat. you'll need to read that document you just received Don't want to read? > ♥♥♥♥ it kill them all and earn glory through bloodshed of possible poker cheaters. Read the document in the end and had a good laugh? > sadly i got the joke after killing all the mobsters ... [lie] "its in the mail" Ever played hide and seek with a non-entity-entity? > you can do that, it is fun.

This game is a total wreck at this point. Not that it had to be. What happened? you ask. What started out as a very promising "Diablo in Space" indie game, turned into a schizophrenically drastically borked example of possible mental illness. Everything wuz awesome. Then one day... The developer began making really weird updates that drastically changed the gameplay altogether, to the point it can, in my opinion, be easily perceived as: TROLLING. Eventually, the last update the game now has a forced weirded out FOV and cinema black bars and lens bend making the game utterly visually destroyed. It's like playing Skyrim, then Todd Howard has a mental breakdown and makes the player's view to look like they're looking out from a fishpoop stained dirty fishbowl. You gotta be kidding me. To top that off, instead of the normal start, imagine some weird acid-trip crap the player has to do, flying through rings and fighting with a bizarre UI and broken gameplay. DAFUQ? This game should be banned and all the people who bought it refunded. I wouldn't even give this 0 out of 10. I'd give it negative 50 DKP minus. The developer pulled this game from the Steam store, cuz he probably knew how they'd bend him over for it, and then appeared to feign ignorance and go "Whuuuut? Whuh? Did I just pull a Georgey Lucas and no one a'toldy meeee???" Lmao. I paid $5 when this was on sale. I hope Steam enjoys their cut. The other guy too. Lol.

Zigfrak - неплохой космический инди-шутер, с картами. Жаль только разраб не осилил докончить разработку, и решил снять его с продажи. Снять временно, но нет ничего более постоянного чем временное. При этом, можно скачать эту игру с сайта самого разраба, но непонятно какой именно билд - http://zigfrak.com/ (под лого ZIgfrak на сайте, значки версий). Подробно описывать игру смысла уже видимо нет, отчасти из-за обилия годных обзоров на неё, отчасти по причине нынешней недоступности. Поэтому будем кратки. Плюсы: - большие космические пространства. - по своему забавный сюжет. - неплохая боевка. - много лута. - много заданий. Минусы: - управление с которым надо осваиваться. - не всегда понятные эффекты, особенно по урону. - недоделанность. Как итог: сыграть было забавно, для инди-проекта разраб неплохо постарался. Жаль его запала хватило ненадолго. Купить её теперь нельзя, но кому интересно, можно глянуть хотя бы видео ранних билдов с прохождением оных, от разраба. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09gSqnotck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvdQF5nQxD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxyKh113MLE [i]P.s: если этот обзор был для Вас полезен ставьте лайк, а также добавляйтесь в друзья и подписывайтесь на меня как куратора - [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28776273/] Обзоры онлайн [/url][/i]

This is a shell of the good game it used to be. The developer overhauled the game way too many times, kept a bunch of systems and features that don't work well between overhauls, and replaced the tutorial with a sequence that makes you think the game is broken. Most of the overhauls had no purpose, the dev just wanted something to change even though at a time, things worked alright. If the game could be unpatched to what it was around 2014-2015, I would recommend it, as it is there are way better space sims.

Ok About this game. Its very Space Opera Like. The story line starts normal and has alot of mysterious things in it. However everything is presented to you in the old school way of massive text. Controls for this game are mouse and keyboard. I suppose you could use xpadder and map some keys to a controller....but you would still have to click on things. Learning curve for this game isnt too bad but it does take getting used to. Like not realizing you have to click on things on the right side of the screen and not from your inventory. They do a fairly good job during the tutorial showing you things. And you can skip it as it tells you in the text. Again massive text to read. Game play wise its ok and takes a bit to get used to. Other people compare this game to descent or freespace...um no....not even close to that sort of control This one is more simple and reminds me of games of a few years ago. In a way this is a very nostalgic game in that way. Music is not too bad....graphics are not the greatest but they are not too bad either. You can tell they are hand drawn or hand painted on some. So let me review...Good things about this game. Its a Hardcore Space opera Lots of things to get Not saddled with stupd things like runing out of fuel or oxygen at least that i have seen. Simple control scheme Alot of extras including a plethora of weapons and ammo types Typical mystery space style lots of things to find Now for the bad things Walls of text..yes alot of text...to find out what to do you must read. some things not clearly explained so it might take a bit to find what you have to do. control scheme is mouse and keyboard only Very nostaligic feel which might not be what gamers want. Not all loot goes to your ship no matter how close you are...thus you have to click on alot of stuff. Can only tractor in 1 thing at a time at least what i have found so far. Its a very long game not going to be completed in 4 or 5 hours so maybe not for the person who wants something mindless So in the end I recommned this game to people who like Hard Core Space Opera with mysterious alens and are not afraid to read alot of interesting things. I dont recommond this game for people with a short attention span or people who dont like to read or people who simply want to blast everything and be spoon fed. I hate to say this but the negative reviews I think are from some people who wanted some "just blast things and get spoon fed" type game with "no effort required" type game. I will say though....you will know if you like the game in the first few hours or not.

Combines the feeling of getting that epic Legendary drop from games like Diablo or Borderlands with solid 3rd person spaceship combat. Coupled with some nice customization options, lots of weapon variety and a fun story and you have a real winner on your hands. For $5, it's an insane bargain!