Captain Forever Remix

If you're looking for Captain Forever, buy the Trilogy. Or maybe Reassembly. This game is sectioned in levels; kill the highest-tier enemy, and you get teleported to the next level shortly after. When you teleport, all ship modules left in the field vanish, so you have to hurry. To be fair, the enemy AI leaves you alone before the teleport, but personally the enforced fight-rebuild phases felt very restrictive compared to the original seamless experience in Captain Forever. It's annoying. The art style is... okay, but the accompanying characters and dialogue were plain immature. They also block your sight when talking. If there's anything I like about this game it would be that there is a healing module. Elsewise there is a variety of weapons, but most just get outranged by lasers.

I really wanted to like this game, but it has way too much of what I call 'developer difficulty' added to it. That means the developers created it and knows every single thing about the game, and how to best take advantage of all the little secrets. Any complaint simply gets a 'get this gadget' response. As if 'getting that gadget' is some easy task that is quickly found. Then you have to add it to your ship and hope the next encounter does not simply blow it up along with most of your ship. So you basically start over with each encounter unless you get lucky with left over scrap. But then, you have very limited time to collect that scrap, and add it to your ship before time runs out and you are sent to the next sector with a half built ship. The biggest complaint many gamers have with the game is the timer for building your ship after a fight. The devs have done nothing to address that complaint except tell you to find the time+ components for your ship, like that is some easy solution. A better solution would be an option for the player to decide on less or more time, or to turn it off completely. I am not that good a player I guess since I could not get past the 2nd ju…

Although the premise seems fun, the execution is flawed on many levels. You spend 3 minutes building hurriedly your spaceship that hopefully doesn't go in circles too much just to see most of its elements getting destroyed by the passing much stronger enemy. The combat strategy element is almost non-existent as you only try to orbit the enemy on the right side with clunky movements. No point farming and building bigger spaceships as the elements are always lower class than the target opponent's whose cannons will quickly reduce your setup to no weapons or messed-up thrusters heap of space junk. It would make more sense to allow the player to slowly collect and store higher-tier parts to use in the initial setup and letting them choose how challenging playthrough they wish to have. To sum up, the game just makes you frustrated and ultimately see the pointlessness of your effort.

Honest to god, just spend your money on Captain Forever Trilogy. Much better game.

It is a fun arcade game for what it is and that is why I recommend it. That said, The game needs some serious updates as there is a lack of game mechanics and elements that by the time you unlock all the kids, you are really burnt out over. No resource saving, just DEAD and everything you worked for over the past hour is lost. Trying to build your ship, what a pain! You better move quickly else the timer will run out and half the stuff you wanted is gone. I made serval attempts on easy and got to Pluto once due to BS WTF moments like a perfectly good ship with shield getting one tapped. It needs balanacing, it needs multiplayer, it needs quest or something because killing other ships and grabbing their parts does get old. I do not see this game ever getting the love it deserves so it is what it is and honestly I think the developer knows this game needs more but is just a bit unwilling to add more.

while a neat idea, in practice the gameplay ends up being 90% trying to find literally 1/2 a second of not being constantly harassed enough to build a even slightly usable ship. what initially seems like a cool dynamic ship building and combat game ends up being a extremely tedious time of not really getting to play the game. even just the time between levels is not really enough to build much especially with the time pressure of losing all the parts you dont desperately attach.