Games like Endless Sky?

[Bosniper]

I'm specifically want it to have a good story like Endless Sky. I can't find any with such good stories other than EV:Nova.

[larrybagina]

Star Control 2 is considered the best top down space game ever made. It's only one story, unlike this or EV, but it's pretty expansive. Big galaxy, lots of aliens, all of the ships are unique. There are teams who have taken the original code and updated it to work with modern systems.


There's also Star Control 3 and it's pretty hated.

[larrybagina]

(the original Star Control has no story but it is fun to play with a friend)

[Thannsen]

Dear Bosniper,

I remember an older game (10+ years) called "Solar Winds" (iIrc). It gave me hours of fun.

Regards

[LordInsane]

Good story is partly a matter of personal taste, I guess - I find EV:Override's to be pretty darn good, and while different in its own way up there with Nova. Of course, if you have Nova, Override is there as a TC, so you might already have experienced it.

Sadly, it seems that more than a few EV-esque games with potential simply never get as large and relatively completed as Endless Sky. Take Naev, for instance - it is not that its story is bad, but for its years of development it has much, much less of it implemented as missions in-game than Endless Sky.

Originally posted by Thannsen:

Dear Bosniper,

I remember an older game (10+ years) called "Solar Winds" (iIrc). It gave me hours of fun.

Regards

20+ years.

[larrybagina]

Oooh, I forgot about Solar Winds. I played the shareware half of that again and again (this was before everyone had Internet), and when I moved out into the real world I finally got my hands on the second half and it was so disappointingly short.

[larrybagina]

I hate to drag up a four day old thread, but I just remembered Starscape.
Great game, like an advanced version of asteroids where you're fighting off aliens and mining and upgrading your ships and starbase, plus a few bossfights. It has a story but nothing as big as the one in ES, EV or SC. If you're more into the top-down combat aspects of a game like Endless Sky this is for you.