Naev

This a great stragey game, start off slow, work up from there. It is just like "Endless Sky" but a more modernized version. Linux games have come a long way since to beginning, but if you want a space adventure game, where trading, travel, mining and combat are all combined. Heres a classic!

good

better than endless sky. great escape velocity clone

W story

Okay. i know I might have 30 minutes in this game but that's closer to 2 because i was debating if i even wanted to play this game because within the first ten seconds i found a game breaking bug. Starting a new run, if you try to rename the ship ai after putting something in, it just softlocks. Within the first MAYBE 20 seconds of the game, you can get softlocked. If that's the kind of polish this game has, I don't want to put time into it. If this is some rare bug that only I'm getting, maybe that will change, but it was extremely offputting finding a softlock like that instantly. Additionally, but not as bad, is that when the game launches it opens bigger than my screen and i have to manually re-size it. Not a big deal, but combined with the above it just feels so unpolished and thrown together. I know the rest of the game is likely much better, but this just really threw me off.

This is a cool space exploring/fighting/trading which somewhat reminds me of the earlier Elite games. Lots of different ships, equipment and quests. I do find the fighter bay system and weapon assignment a bit confusing still so some tutorial videos would be nice. I'm surprised it doesn't have a bigger following and more active community. On a personal note, I would like some sort of difficulty system because I am just really bad at anything that requires quick reflexes making fighter and disabling missions really hard. I'll probably give in and cheat eventually.