Space Pirates and Zombies

Having played a LOT of Starsector over the years, this just isn't anywhere near as good as that game. It's very outdated (yes, I know it's old, I'm not daft), doesn't look good at all on larger screens, the controls are both twitchy and sluggish at the same time (quite a feat, to be fair), the story and dialogue are equal parts awful and it didn't take long for me to stop playing and lose interest. I'd rather play Starsector. That's an incredible game, with a vibrant and helpful modding community. It looks fantastic on a 50in 4K TV, with no faffing needed to sort out resolutions. It's constantly being worked on and updated, improved and more content added. Considering what I've read about SPAZ2 being abandoned, I think I'll skip trying that one and not bother.

Fantastic old game. If you're familiar with Starsector and want more like it, this game was how a lot of people Starsector bc they played this and wanted more of it, 14 years ago. It's definitely not just more of Starsector or an inferior version of it, though. Starsector is a big sandbox game that gives you all of the mechanics and unlocks all of the gameworld right out of the box and tells you to go off and make your own adventure (I once impressed the dev of SS once by going off to the corner of the galaxy the second my game started and beat the at-the-time end-boss with the weakest ship you can start in. lol); this is not that, this game is an RPG first and foremost, a lite business sim second, a lite strategy game third, and then way in last place an okay action game. This game is about a slow-grind progression tree where you are unlocking new tech & mechanics that you can completely rework your fleet around, with an element of randomness and hunting down what you want. You need to level up a skill *and* actually find the blueprints to a part to use it. If you find the blueprints first accidentally you can decide to put points into a skill to use it, if you level up a skill…

The horrible controls ruined this for me to the point I just removed it from my account.

Pretty fun game, pretty much hooked me the moment I got into the tutorial The control scheme is easy to learn while also being complex enough to feel engaging. The graphics, especially the character portraits (they made me laugh :P), are really charming and honestly are super easy to look at. The game feels a bit easy however that may change as I progress because I haven't played that much yet The only things of note I have are the game freezes both itself and steam if I either tab out for a few minutes or if I try to close the game. I have to go into task manager to close it. This is potentially just a Linux issue. 9/10 - Would be 10/10 if the listed issue is fixed

Awesome game. I wish there were more games like this.

It's just not my cup of tea.