Star Nomad

Star Nomad

Huy Phan · 2014 · Indie, Strategy, RPG, Space

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About Star Nomad

Star Nomad is an arcade top-down retro-scifi 2D sandbox spacesim. It was created as an arcade tribute to classic spacesims of old such as Elite, Wing Commander Privateer, Escape Velocity and Freelancer. If you are a fan of these games, then you're in for a nostalgic ride!

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* A simplified arcade take on the often complex sandbox space-sim genre.
* Freedom of play-styles.
* Be a Cargo runner.
* Be a Mercenary unleashing firepower for wealth!
* Be a Miner seeking rare ores.
* Be a Merchant trading in goods!
* Be a Smuggler dealing in lucrative drugs & evade the law!
* Be a Pirate attacking merchant ships, become infamous & fight for anarchy!
* Join huge multi-faction Fleet Battles!
* Dynamic faction standing system, where your actions will determine friends or foes.
* Multiple ship classes to fly, including drone carriers & the mighty Yamato Battleship!
* All ships are up-gradable with modules.


In Star Nomad, you roam free in the Wildlands Sector immersed in a sci-fi noir setting rich in depth and humor. While a sandbox at heart, it's also heavily story driven with a personal plot inspired by WW2 & classic sci-fi/cyberpunk such as Blade Runner, Johnny Mnemonic & Gundam that puts you right in the pilot seat to determine the outcome of an escalating corporate war!

Star Nomad has a semi-permadeath system whereby you will lose your ship, but insurance will payout most of the ship value in credits. Death does sting, so take care, please read the brief manual (accessed via this store page, on the right) before starting your piloting career!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Sep 27, 2023
Star Nomad is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is published as "Star Nomad Elite (Oreo+)" on the app stores, in case you want to have a crap time on your mobile phone instead of having a crap time on PC. Valve does suggest we should say what we like about video games as well as what we don't like, at least this is making an attempt at being something a little deeper than a 2D retro pixel platformer or an Angry Birds ripoff or whatever. It's trying to be a space trading game where you tap your finger on your iPhone to move a little non-Newtonian spaceship around a top down map, stopping to grind trade stuff (buy low, sell high) etc... that wouldn't be bad if there was a technical implementation with any substance behind it, but this is a basic low effort 2D "retro" mobile app. Games don't live in a vacuum, this is competing with games like Starfield and Elite Dangerous here on Steam, and it's turning out about as well as that boxing match between Mike Tyson and Stephen Hawking. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements …
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 12, 2022
Huh where am i what's going on? There's pirates lemme at em' *Continues to die three times* Random lady "Help! pirates are attacking!" Me: "Nah fam, good luck tho"
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 6, 2019
♥♥♥♥♥ game. Not even basic intelligence for the pirates. The game is merely a grind fest - the pirates are omnipresent, and will only target YOU. It's all RNG, anytime a pirate shows up, you die and lose your cargo and ship and equipment. Anytime there's no pirates, you make some money, but not fast enough to upgrade into a ship that can reasonably defend you. And as soon as you upgrade.. the pirates upgrade too! Screw this.
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Recommended Jan 14, 2024
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing. Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side. With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of y…
Recommended Sep 1, 2022
asd
Recommended Aug 25, 2021
A quick space explore RPG game. Cheap. Worth the price. Not much but I guess it passes muster.

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