Children of a Dead Earth

The game has been abandoned.

By far one of, if not the best game I have ever played, it really scratches the itch of a super realistic space warfare game and AFAIK, the only one like it. The building system can get super complex but you can create some really nice looking ships other modules and have a lot of fun building and learning new systems. It is really fun navigating with the newtonian mechanics as well and I think that this game does it quite well, it isn't as intuitive as games like KSP however, but I found I still learnt it quite quickly and if you are coming off of a game like KSP the movement of your craft isn't hard to learn. One thing I would note is I believe this game only runs on one CPU core, so even if you have a modern CPU it can still lag when there are a lot (Hundreds) of objects/ crafts in one battle, but under any regular circumstances it runs perfectly fine and the only time I notice any lag is when I launch high hundreds to low thousands of missiles (Which isn't something you normally are doing).

If you're a "hard" sci fi fan, there might be something here for you... kinda? If you're a fan of soft sci fi like Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, etc., there is nothing in this game you will find interesting or compelling. If you're looking for a cinematic game with space combat that resembles the stuff you've seen on TV or in movies? Hard pass. If you think games like Elite Dangerous, X4, or KSP have a steep learning curve... buddy, this game is a sheer cliff and you WILL fall off the edge. I've tried to "figure" this game out. I'm not super smart when it comes to real-world space science, but I'm not a moron, either. This game made me feel more stupid than any other game I've ever tried before. I'm not sure what it's trying to be. It's ugly. The battles are straight up ugly. I have no idea what I'm even looking at half the time. Really, is this a game? I kinda don't think so. Honestly, I've used this more as a reference guide that helps in research when writing my amateur stories. It's abandoned, but it's got a hardcore, small, cult following. If you're one of those few people who understand what the heck you're even looking at when fiddling around in this game, I envy …

Yeah, this is big brain time.

Very good

Not great. It's really just "KSP Maneuver Nodes - The Game". Why is there fuel? I know why there's fuel: So that you have to play the worst kind of puzzle -The kind where there's only one way to solve it and you have to figure out what the developer wants you to do. During an intercept, why is there no local control except to move towards the enemy as fast as possible? -Can't stand-off or move away? Why can't I exit combat? - Have to wait until the flyby is complete and you're out of range or someone dies. I don't see why I shouldn't be able to make a burn at any time and disengage. Upon plotting an intercept you're locked in to whatever the closing velocity was at the point of intercept, no further local maneuvers allowed except to close even faster! Why is there fuel? I might have been expecting a solar system-wide strategic game, but it seems limited to individual encounters orbiting just a single body. So why is there fuel? Fuel exists because despite what you may think by looking, this is a PUZZLE game, not a SPACE COMBAT game! If it does have a system-wide strategic element that I didn't experience, then to be truthful I'm kind of glad, because the maneuver node system is n…