Finally got around to playing the game...man what a ride it was...

Listen...this game isn't the best, it's quite bad in many aspects, but it has heart put into it, so if you're like me and you appreciate hard work and love put into a game, you will enjoy this.

The game is like 50% text adventure (that means a lot of reading) and 50% space combat(similar to everspace).

So the bad:
-well, the combat feels bad. You're piloting a capital ship, but it feels to manoeuvrable and light. There no sense of impact or feeling of weight.
-the camera is abysmal. Idk how you F up such a simple thing, but it's just bad and makes me sea sick sometimes.
-voice acting is meh at best
- you can see the low budget all around
-highly repetitive missions
-bugs
-balance is non existent. You will breeze through the game because you're so much stronger then the enemies it's not even funny. This is by far the worst offender since it makes that 50% of the game harder and harder to stomach since it gets more and more boring

The good?
-good looking
-great sound and music
-But by far the most important thing was the story: it's really really good. I was kept glued to the screen reading the text adventure part. I loved every second of it and even if the game doesn't have the gameplay of something like Everspace the story is so much better. It keeps thing tense and sometimes it doesn't take itself seriously, but man...the ending, that was something else. It was PHENOMENAL. So in the end was it worth it? yes, but just focus on the main story and don't bother with anything else. That's the only part, sadly, where this game shines.

So yeah, I hope, just like the guys behind Everspace, that these devs don't quit and keep making games. If you didn't know, those guys started from a small phone game with space ships and now have one of the best success stories in gaming with Everspace. I would love to see more games in this universe and hopefully Isolated games managed to get enough success to provide it. I'll be the first one to buy it for sure.

Cheers.

Fun campy Starship Captain game for any fans of space based pew pew combat. Captain your own starship that moves more like a corvette class ship with how fast and quick it can turn. Get loot, dismantle loot, research gear, and craft new weapons and tools. Some RPG like stat points and some light RNG dice rolling mechanics add some randomness to the random and story driven encounters.

I had a blast playing through it.

Was fun enough. Got my moneh worth.