Wings of The Universe

The game feels like an Excel spreadsheet that suddenly learned to fly through space.

Game is planned to shut down by the "end of October", 2026. Proving why Stop Killing Games is a necessary customer rights movement

"Wings of The Universe" was an overambitious attempt to make a ripoff of Star Control 2 (which you can play for free on Steam as The Ur-Quan Masters), only this is worse in every respect and the developer abandoned it. What do you do in the game? Fly around in a weak SpaceWar! style arcade shooter thingy and pretend it's a real, finished game. Or, you know, play Star Control 2 if this is the kind of thing you bought a 5090RTX to play. The developers abandoned this 1 year and 8 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2025. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Even though this is "free", …

Wings of The Universe is a highly ambitious 2D space MMORPG built around the idea of giving players considerable control over how they participate in a persistent online galaxy. Instead of concentrating on a linear campaign, it combines exploration, combat, mining, trading, manufacturing, faction politics, territorial competition, and cooperative play. Developed and published by Lukas Tokar, it carries the character of an independent project that attempts to deliver systems normally associated with considerably larger online games. Its greatest strength is therefore not visual spectacle, but the breadth of its interconnected ideas. Players are given freedom to pursue different roles rather than being forced down one rigid progression path. A pilot can spend time searching for resources, mining asteroids, trading goods, completing missions, fighting hostile forces, or cooperating with other players. Those who prefer organized multiplayer activity can join squadrons and factions, while more independent players can concentrate on building their own wealth and equipment. This freedom helps the universe feel more like a sandbox where personal objectives determine the experience instead…

4/10

.