Between the Stars

The Expanse like story? Stargate SG1 Earth Style Starships?? Yes please! Best Space sim/RPG I've ever played.

Disgustingly replete with references to Freemasonry, complete with an admiral named Mason. The story starts out making the player feel like they have meaningful choices. All too soon though, you find yourself strapped to the rails as you helplessly watch your character make utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid decisions in order to advance the plot in it's prepared direction. At one point my character was actually given a flaw for not agreeing with a woman's actions after she betrayed her own military over a suspicion of treason without any actual proof. Just because her guess happened to later turn out correct, suddenly she becomes the new quest-giver and my character's only available response is obedience to the new regime. I deeply regret not only the investment of money (even though it was on sale) but also the loss of my time spent on this game. I begrudgingly give it a second star because the combat wasn't too bad.

From six years back to this? Weird.. its trash..

This game has such a potential. After some hours of play i seen so many good ideas. One time is a space simulator, other times it is a D&D game in space. It is marvelous. I am looking forward for the "ready game" if the 0.2 version is soo good. I waited a long time ago for this type of game.

This game is the desert without the meal. It gives a good experience with the scripted missions, and a terrible experience with the rest. While unfinished, the scripted missions are pretty darn good, and the dice-based "ground" combat is surprisingly engaging and even innovative, but once you run out of scripted stuff the universe is desolate and empty. You feel like you've had a tasty desert, but without having had any sort of meal you are left hungry and even though it's still in development I'm not of the opinion that this will change. You see, a good game in this genre generally implements the generated missions, trading system... all all the re-playable parts first as its meat-and-potatoes and then bolts on the voice-acted scripted missions as the desert. That's because the re-playable stuff is way easier to develop, not requiring voice acting. So it's possible that once the scripted missions are complete that the developer will go back and add more meat-and-potatoes game play, but as it stands now, I hope rather than believe this will happen. Recommendation: avoid for now, go get games in the X series,