Crying Suns

Great game! The gameplay loop is ok, but story and atmosphere are really amazing. Soundtrack is peak, too!

Eh. Initially kind of cool but the RNG is particularly loopy, the gameplay is not as fast paced and exciting as FTL, and the game is repetitive. I don't feel the urge to keep trying. I am going not recommend as I do detest repetition, particularly when crossed with loopy RNG. It tends to mean when you are doomed it is a long slow slog to annihilation. You waste a lot of time in a death spiral.

Awesome deep sense story, atmospheric music and sfx, unique visual style. Simple brilliant.

A wonderful indie dark sci-fi with elements of FTL with some of best sprite work I've ever seen.

Very cool game. I'm not a fan of rogue-lites/rogue-likes, but in this one I spent a lot of time. + What I liked most: the story. It's... cool. Most AAA+++ games have much more shallow storytelling. It's even more funny with current AI-histeria. + It's very solid as tactics game too. I'm biased, I love turn-based and slow-paced tactics games, but I played a lot and this one is very fun. - I'm not fan of rogue-likes :) I'd happily play the same game with less gameplay hours, but with saves etc. Basically, you can ignore this cons.

First off I'd like to say this is a great game and you should play it (try the demo its basically 1/6 of the game), especially if you like FTL. The story and visuals are really good. My main gripe with the game is how repetitive it gets, there's really not that many events and a lot of them are actually not randomized so once you learn what happens it's the exact same every run, and you have to spam through all the dialogue which just gets annoying. The combat while fun at first, is not nearly as good as FTL. I will say the different ships are done pretty well, but there's just not that much variation in combat play style in general. I know it might sound like I'm ragging on the game pretty hard, but the story + atmosphere really carry here. The only negative I can say about the story is the ending (the final choice) felt very lack luster and I really wish they elaborated a bit more on it. TLDR: If you mainly care about gameplay, its solid but gets extremely repetitive. If you mainly care about story then this game is perfect.