Into the Stars

But I don't. This game is unfinished, there's no real way to get around that; it is not ready for sale and has game breaking bugs. Into the Stars puts you in the captain's chair of a space ship tasked with humanity's survival against a relentless alien threat that will pursue you without mercy. Sounds cool right? Well this is more of a space oil rig simulator as you're just collecting and using resources, hoping to find some uninteresting upgrades that are merely linear improvements over what you have now, and sending your crew down to planets and through the ship to deal with problems. There are no meaningful decisions to be made in this game as an event with three choices have the same chance of success. Navigation is tediously slow and combat is as exciting as watching your avatar's arms rest on their chair. Haven't been able to finish the game either because it keeps crashing and deleting my save file. TL;DR This game is unfinished and released with massive bugs still present. An interesting concept with an inherently flawed and boring core game play loop.

A mediocre, abandoned game. I backed it on Kickstarter, lured in by the promises of a good game, and was fooled, like many. I waited all this time, after trying it just after release, hoping they'd patch it because it was barely playable. then I simply forgot about it. Over a year later, I discovered it again. it is abandoned. no updates, no fixes. Don't bother.

Imagine you're half way there to the finish and then due to bugs your population begins to die out and due to bugs there's no way to stop it. Frustrating? Hell yes. And won't be fixed because it's several years old abandonware (perfect name of developers: Fugitive... lol).

...in a different reality. Where do I start with this one... well, first of all you should click on the "Begin" button in order to quit the game. It's a signal the game gives from the start. Other reviews here are true - the game process is monotonous and repetitive. But what is the worst is the amount of random - it is way too much. You can pick just 6 crew mates from the start and then you send three of them to the surface of the planet, order them to explore a site and one of them gets suddenly gets killed. And you don't seem to have a way to resurrect or replace the guy. This all means you have way less control over what happens to your ship or your crew than you'd like to. There is no strategy pretty much or even things like tactics. The almighty random beats it all. And the story is kinda boring. I'd really like to love the game but I can't. And it's a pity as it looks like this game was loved by its developers.