Space Rangers HD: A War Apart

As someone who is new to the series, I enjoy many aspects of Space Rangers HD. Music is good, graphics are ok, character and ship variety is decent, and it has a massive trove of stuff to do. It's fun being part of a galaxy with acting AI for every aspect from ship captains to planet governors, all competing to improve their standings using the same rules as the player. Land based battles are cheesy due to some weapons significantly outperforming others and AI's having massive resource advantages, but they're still fun. However, it's difficult to enjoy the game when it crashes every 40 minutes. The stability is poor and it's hard to have a good game with such frequent issues. Another big issue is that you have to either sacrifice yourself to the auto-battle gods or manually assign each weapon to a ship within range, but only when it is your turn. Enemies can change who they target with weapons on the fly, but you are trapped to wait a turn before you can change your targets. You can't even return fire if someone attacks you in the middle of your turn, so you're stuck taking shots without being able to do a thing about it. Early game this is devastating because you can lose a third of your ship's health before you even get a chance to shoot back at a pirate, and by then the battle is already lost. Space Rangers HD is fun and worth the $4 sale price, but its issues will probably not be resolved anytime soon by the developers.

Great game I played 15+ years ago. Still just as fun!

This is the game from my childhood. I played a lot in SR1 and 2. And I'm more than happy, that i can do it again in modern systems.

Recommended with Universe mods

The subject line says it all, basically. Even despite there being some font scaling options and lowering the resolution, in my setup with my visual ability, the UI is unusable before I even start playing. Too bad I bought this long ago - I would return it otherwise. I appreciate that there are many young developers with great sight and giant work monitors, so this issue might escape them, but in this day and age even many indie games manage to either design a UI big enough from the beginning or offer scaling options to increase text and UI size.