Orbit Economica

Very pricey but the gameplay has multiple layers. It's like Patrician 3 but with a 4X game going in the background. Supply and demand, wars, combat, diplomacy, rebellions, competitors, You are essentially playing as the Spacing Guild from Dune. The UI needs work, some QOL features like hotkeys to pause or start the next turn are missing. Reducing the amount of clicks to trade would be nice in the beginning.

Do not enjoy. The menus are rather annoying since you cannot drag the tutorial around. The text on it's background is uncomfortable on my eyes personally. Perhaps will try this game another time but for now I'd rather have my thirty dollars instead of some mercantile 4x rpg where you start as a single ship.

So I start off with an old rustbucket and the tutorial is nattering in my ears about installing ship modules. I accidentally close the tutorial. I don't know what to do so I pick up a load of "research documents" and then travel to a nearby star hoping there's a market for them. There is and I make a tidy profit. So I am slightly less broke. So I pick up some Ore for cheap. Everybody loves ore, right? Go back to the first planet and I know they need ore this time. Rinse and repeat except I add in a third leg to the route with an agrarian planet for foodstuffs and biomass. I'm thinking about investing in a biomass generator but realize first I need to save up for another trade module in my ship so I can double up my profit. Tip for beginners- load up on cheap gas but don't overdue it as the more fuel you carry the less room you have left. I haven't gotten far enough to launch any wars yet but I do have a decent trade network going.