A pretty good mashup on the whole flying around in space/conquor the universe genres.

There's a lot to like here, with the story being servicable, if not fantastic, to the perks available to customize your character, to the fact you can ever so slowly start to take over the galaxy and rule it with an iron paw of doom! Dooooom!

The ships on offer are similar enough each tier that you can usually find a couple of styles you'll enjoy flying around in without sacrificing much (if anything )in the way of performance. Combat is decent, this isn't Tie Fighter where having a flightstick is going to be mandatory, but being able to pew pew the pirates and other pesky people who cross your path is still fun hours into the game. There's a number of options with the weapons as to how you want to turn your enemies into ionized gas, and the ability to research tech to improve not only your ship but your empire's capabilities is a nice touch.
The fact they allow and encourage folks to mod the game is a huge plus.

I'd really love to see this title fleshed out more in future games (Assuming there are more) as having different factions on offer, with various poliitcal aspirations and even differing perks on who you start or side with having more of an impact would be pretty cool. This is defintely a game where you can see the framework of a good building here, and hope they build bigger and better for future iterations.

There's also some stuff that really wears thin after a while. Your followers/allies careening around like drunken pinball imitators would be my personal biggest pet peeve. You set a course, jump to crusing speed and a rogue ally comes flying off from a weird angle and decides that a ship to ship headbutt was definitely in order. Thank the gods there's no collision damage or this'd be upgraded to a huge dealbreaker.
Level progression feels far too fast in the early stages with your character earning ranks in just a mission or two while rewards do little to help keep pace with the upgrades available. You can now fly a larger ship class? Great, good luck having the creds to afford it. I found myself having to skip every other ship tier just so I could afford the occasional new kit.

Overall a fair and fun title if you're into the whole trucking around in space, with some light empire management thrown in for good measure that's provided some solid entertainment and leaves me wanting much more down the line in future releases. The fact there's modding available is also a very nice positive. Kudos!

A pretty good mashup on the whole flying around in space/conquor the universe genres. There's a lot to like here, with the story being servicable, if not fantastic, to the perks available to customize your character, to the fact you can ever so slowly start to take over the galaxy and rule it with an iron paw of doom! Dooooom! The ships on offer are similar enough each tier that you can usually find a couple of styles you'll enjoy flying around in without sacrificing much (if anything )in the way of performance. Combat is decent, this isn't Tie Fighter where having a flightstick is going to be mandatory, but being able to pew pew the pirates and other pesky people who cross your path is still fun hours into the game. There's a number of options with the weapons as to how you want to turn your enemies into ionized gas, and the ability to research tech to improve not only your ship but your empire's capabilities is a nice touch. The fact they allow and encourage folks to mod the game is a huge plus. I'd really love to see this title fleshed out more in future games (Assuming there are more) as having different factions on offer, with various poliitcal aspirations and even differing perks on who you start or side with having more of an impact would be pretty cool. This is defintely a game where you can see the framework of a good building here, and hope they build bigger and better for future iterations. There's also some stuff that really wears thin after a while. Your followers/allies careening around like drunken pinball imitators would be my personal biggest pet peeve. You set a course, jump to crusing speed and a rogue ally comes flying off from a weird angle and decides that a ship to ship headbutt was definitely in order. Thank the gods there's no collision damage or this'd be upgraded to a huge dealbreaker. Level progression feels far too fast in the early stages with your character earning ranks in just a mission or two while rewards do little to help keep pace with the upgrades available. You can now fly a larger ship class? Great, good luck having the creds to afford it. I found myself having to skip every other ship tier just so I could afford the occasional new kit. Overall a fair and fun title if you're into the whole trucking around in space, with some light empire management thrown in for good measure that's provided some solid entertainment and leaves me wanting much more down the line in future releases. The fact there's modding available is also a very nice positive. Kudos!