Endless Sky

Fun little space RPG, but it is hard to play on big screens, as almost everything is too small and the placement of text boxes will take time to get used to.

Old school, and full of choices! Think hard before accepting every mission!

This is a very entertaining game about a space travelling ships / fleet. Solid 2D tactical space combat with nice graphics. Very nice story campaign with numerous side missions -> story wise a nice universe. It is possible to start without fighting, however later on you will and for endgame you need to fight. The full story is not possible without fighting. But you can prepare via trade or missions or even fighting. However the story is a bit illogical (the further you go away from the starting empire, the stronger the enemies are). So you get stronger ships from the other empires only, and some necessary equipment for the endgame. I just don't understand why this game is free of charge, while other, worse games need to be paid for.

not played it much but damn its fun so far

Much like Between the Stars this game has lots of text in a box encounters at their space stations which is a good thing. However it is a top down low rez space game regardless of the action type which keeps you from enjoying your pretty space ships. Lots of equipment choices on those ships and even a few ones that affect the crew of your ships. It uses the crushing debt to buy your first ship trope but as usual it really isn't that hard to pay back the loan. In fact I'm on my second loan. There are no crew interactions as far as I can see which is where between the stars actually shines. The "story" is beginning to ramp up the political aspects and maybe they will allow you to do business at pirate bases without attacking other ships. All in all it was well worth my purchase at the sale price.