Dust Fleet

Looks like a solid game.

This game is a real shame. It has the frame to become the next Star Wars: Empire at War minus ground battles, and the Dev fumbled it so heavily, its frustrating beyond belief! Pretty much everything is bad. The player faction, the UEN, is badly balanced and designed, that you are forced to capture and reverse engineer the enemy ships. Missions have checkboxes, meaning if you don't check that box, you can abuse it with mining the map clean and then continue, giving you an early boost in resources needed for a good start. Just don't buy it, go straight for Empire at War, that is the superior expierence overall.

Homeworld receives a strategic dimension. Only problem - too short.

Very "Homeworldy", just finished tutorial, too soon for full review. Seems I have muscle memory from homeworld and those buttons and mechanics are not completely the same, also not all features are there it seems. (maybe I just failed to find it) * no ship formations? * managing carriers & fighters seems clunky. * If I have fleets in map mode (2D), why don't they translate into deployment (3D) (group assignments), am I missing something? It's FUN tho!

Nice game

A fantastic space RTS with a good 4x mode, let down by seriously compromised enemy AI. In every encounter in 4x mode, all enemy ships will blindly rush toward whichever of your ships is closest and sit there shooting until someone is dead. Scripted missions fare a little better with what I assume are handcrafted events and orders per ship. It's a real pity because this would be a 10/10 for me if the enemy could display even a hint of tactical competence. Also performance suffers severely when multiple graphical ability effects are stacked, meaning that your healing ships become more of a liability than an asset because using ten of them at once will slow a high spec machine to a stuttering crawl. Despite that I still recommend this for what is an audaciously ambitious game for a solo developer.