Space Pirates and Zombies

INTRODUCTION i wish there was a "meh" option and i should give this game a negative review but because the game is so old and was created by two people and is still a better option then a lot of new games made by bigger studios I'll give this a thumbs up. i started playing this back in high school and beat most of the game and then left it alone until recently where I beat this in the last couple of days. What I realized is that this is basically a Ubisoft-style game. This is because it basically takes some really cool ideas you won't find anywhere else and then throws them into a grind-fest where if someone was fun once you have to do it 100 times to the point where it is no longer fun. That's probably my biggest issue with this game: it is so unreasonably grindy. You need to keep your resources topped up to keep making progress in the campaign and it takes so long to collect resources that it just gets annoying. And then on top of that you'll keep getting events where your mothership will get attacked and you just have to sit through that and it takes a while. On the one hand I like the challenge of your main base being attacked but on the other hand there's a point in the game…

What's not to like, I did all of the achievements even. TotalBiscuit gave his voice to one of the best space top down shooters ever made. Only eclipsed by the one and only starfarer, or starsector as it is named these days. Visuals that still hold up nicely, I guess because they are sprites made with love and not 3d crap that gets outdated fast. I mean sure, there are some parts that look a bit off, but it's overall still very nice. Well, I guess you can see that on the screencaps on the page. Lots of color, nice unique ship designs, decent effects. Audio, THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THE SCIENCE IS LEAKING OUT! Well apart from that line that has permanently sunk into my neurons I can't remember much. I think it was nice overall, I kinda remember the ion beams and missiles having decent audio. On top of that the gameplay offers quite a few builds, some more valid than others. At least on the harder difficulties some are quite hard to make work, like it's a lot of work to even punch through shields if you focus on weapons that are ♥♥♥♥ against shields. It offers fun progression. Also there are "officers" that give rather insane bonuses at later stages, although you really do …

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

Space Pirates and Zombies, developed and published by MinMax Games Ltd., is an ambitious hybrid that blends top-down space shooter mechanics with elements of open-world exploration, light strategy, and RPG-style progression. What initially looks like a straightforward arcade experience gradually unfolds into something more layered, where fast-paced combat is only one part of a broader system built around resource management, fleet building, and navigating a dynamic galaxy. It is this combination of systems that gives the game its identity, even if not all of them are equally refined. The game begins on a relatively small scale, placing the player in control of a modest ship with limited resources and capabilities. From there, the experience expands outward into a large, interconnected galaxy divided into multiple star systems, each with its own factions, conflicts, and opportunities. There is an overarching objective tied to reaching the galactic core, but the path toward it is largely open-ended. Players can choose how they engage with the world, whether by taking on missions, trading resources, engaging in combat, or simply exploring. This freedom creates a sense of agency that …

Works still with Win 10. No bugs seen. Should run on a toaster. Mods are in the Community Hub Diskussion as the website was nuked.

Doesn´t work in 4k monitors.