Space Raiders RPG

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: [b]IndieGems[/b] if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.[/url][/quote] [i]Space Raiders RPG[/i] is a game that has been ported over from the free mobile version that has in-app purchases. The Steam version costs base price of $4.99 USD and while there are no more purchases to be made, there is still too much time wasted sitting and waiting. In turn, this now becomes a background idling game instead of an active game half of the time. It leaves the player waiting for timers to count down, while trying to do something else productive. You can always shorten the waiting window for the passive parts by paying in-game gems, which is directly from the mobile P2W version. Instead, you have to scrounge around for these gems instead. The mobile port attempt without too much change is evident from the beginning, when you look at the information pages, and the click to drag parts of the pages clearly indicative of finger touch motions. In addition, there are places where the game tells you to "tap" on the screen. Also there's no quit game option, only you can leave the game by p…

Definitely a mobile port. Extremely dense text intros and tutorial. No music. Lots to do, but it is all under a veneer of freemium economy. Needs more work to be worthwhile on Steam. https://youtu.be/hV9F5GgC1gY

As the others have pointed out, this is a freemium mobile port, with the only change being that the ability to buy things with real money in the store have been disabled. Like the $12 to buy one time "insurance" in case you lose a battle is gone, but still visible in the tutorial screens. Any time you want to upgrade your ship (the main progression options in the game) you have to stare at a timer bar (the first one I saw was 3 minutes, I don't know if they get longer as you go on) with an option to skip the timer bar for premium currency. Since the game was originally balanced to "encourage" you to buy premium currency, but now you can't, I suspect the balance of the PC port is off and that the game will become increasingly unpleasant/unbalanced (by design) as you go further in. If I want to subject myself to a freemium experience, I've got much better options on my iPad. I play games on my PC to get away from pay to win designs. There is potentially a lot of content it seems, so if the dev put some effort into properly porting it to PC I think it could be a good purchase.

Very funny time waster. Thank you !!!