Nova Fleet

Despite the spaceships, the premise of the game remains peaceful and avoids violence, instead focusing on something many incremental games do well: mining. The gameplay loop revolves around a fleet of ships that you direct toward asteroids with a mouse cursor. The cursor acts as your targeting area, and your ships will attack anything found within the targeting circle. It starts out tiny, allowing you to target only one asteroid at a time, but it can be expanded to cover several rocks at once. You start with only one ship, while the other 14 ships are unlocked by destroying the required number of different types of minerals and stones. These new mineral types have to be unlocked through the upgrade tree and do not appear on their own, so there is still a specific progression path toward unlocking new ships. Meeting the requirements only unlocks the ships, however, as you still have to purchase them with money. Interesting thing about ships is that they have roles, so while some are attackers, others offer support, increase the amount of gathered resources, or expand the targeting area. You can create any fleet you want, even add same classes to boost their roles, but you need at…

A nice, small, entertaining game. It offers enough upgrade options to keep you motivated to keep playing.

Unfortunately I must give a negative recommendation for this incremental. It starts out ok but never really hooks me. Gameplay loop is repetitive and really never evolves or grows. Chests feel almost not worth for the time you waste destroying them. Upgrades are basically the same all the way through, only take 5 rounds instead of one to afford a single upgrade near the end. Seems this is added just to waste the players time, not really add to the gameplay. Expeditions don't feel worth while either, just some small additional income I hardly notice.

Fun game, about 5 hours playtime and good music