Posted on: January 15, 2025

Faile

Игр: 907 Отзывов: 17

A nice relaxing space adventure

This little gem which I found by accident during the winter sale really surprised me and brought me back to 30+ years ago where I love playing classics like the Starflight games, Star Control 2 and, many of you might not know this one, the Star Saga Trilogy (which sadly stopped at part 2). These games all have the same basic concept, you get dropped into a galaxy or star cluster by some reason and have to explore, mine, make contact and fight for survival. Fighting in Starcom I liked, on normal difficulty it was fun and just enough of a challenge to be nicely relaxing. It's basically a twin stick shooter, move with wasd and aim with mouse. You get a Master of Orion like research tree, not too complex but with some nice upgrades, get to customize and design your ship, again, it's just complex enough to be interesting and relaxing. Exploration you do by flying around and scanning planets, duh. Many planets have little things to find, resources and the like, some have bigger stories where you decide on how to proceed that might have larger implications. You also meet a handful different alien races in their space ships and get to talk to them for information, trade and the like. The overarching "main" story I liked, not too complex, but interesting to follow and bring to an end. Honestly, if you are a scifi fan who is willing to read a lot (no voice overs here) like in the olden days, this is really a no brainer of a recommendation. I liked this so much, I instantly bought the next game in the series which came out last year. Gonna start that one right when I get off work this coming friday and I am, even surprising to myself, really looking forward to that.

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Posted on: April 10, 2023

Captainspire

Владелец игры

Игр: 44 Отзывов: 11

THIS is how games should be made!

I’ve played and enjoyed old Dos games. Starflight, Starship: A command adventure, Star Control, Masters of Orion 1 & 2 and this game shows me that when you take all the best elements of those games and use modern graphics and programming, you can make an outstanding game. This game does so many things right. Your tech level is proportioned well to the level of exploring and enemies you encounter. They make it so you never feel it's impossible to explore dangerous areas but also never feel like you quite out of danger, regardless of how high up the tech tree you’re in. My biggest frustration with some games had been when you reach a certain tech level, the game either favors a missile boat, a gun boat or a laser boat. This game makes it so as you increase the tech on any weapon type, they make them pretty much fun to use regardless of where you are on the map. The exploring part is superb. The music and simplistic view really make outer space seem VAST, with new discovers JUST within reach. It was the first time in a long time that the music had a kind of Battlestar Galactica vibe when I ran into the first cybernetic race. The music transitions are smooth and not off putting, placing awe and suspense in appropriate circumstances and intense battle music that builds up the tempo. This game takes nearly every science fiction trope and excels in revealing it in the game. It never disappoints. There are so many random events and circumstances that it will never make you feel like you’re being chains into a direction. It’s really a job well done. My only wish was for more cosmetic parts to be added to ship design to help allow making them look more like the famous sci-fi ships we hold near and dear to our hearts. But that’s really it. I'm getting close to the end and I'm looking forward to seeing what else will come from this team. Thank you, very much.

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Posted on: April 25, 2023

DoomFruit

Владелец игры

Игр: 895 Отзывов: 17

Exploration and extermination

A lot of other reviews said that this game is very Star Trek. It is. Lost in an unknown universe, you explore and shoot your way across the galaxy. The gameplay itself is a top-down space shooter, but unlike others in its genre there's a lot of "drag" - so your ship will come to a halt relatively quickly if you let go of the controls. That actually made the game easier for me to play. Combat? At the very start, it's not particularly good, but it gets better once you get missiles. Because every ship is made of separate components, destruction means that pieces get sent blown off into space and explode after a little drifting. That means that you destroy enemy ships piece by piece - or if you hit a critical joining segment, you can blow it in two. This all happens organically and it is very satisfying. It gets better when you acquire the Wave Motion Gun. Charge up a spinal mounted cannon, shoot a blinding bolt of energy (which illuminates *entire planets* as it passes by) and it either explodes half your target (low charge/strong enemy), explodes all of your target (high charge, strong enemy) or splits your target in two, explodes all the bits and keeps going afterwards (high charge, medium or weak enemy). This is INCREDIBLY satisfying. It's 2D, but it's some of the punchiest, most visceral starship combat I've ever had. And all because everything is made of separate destructible parts. Downsides? The ending. It happens. And that's it, it's all over with very little warning. No post-game exploration - if you want to go around the galaxy exploding things in your dreadnought, you need to load a save made before you Did The Ending Thing. It seemed like a very short game, but that could be because I was enjoying it so much and I never noticed the time passing.

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Posted on: September 3, 2024

Zeshuqurill

Владелец игры

Игр: 45 Отзывов: 3

Fun game

I really enjoy exploring the galaxy in this game.

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Posted on: September 6, 2024

andreasberg

Владелец игры

Игр: 97 Отзывов: 2

Good old fashioned fun.

Starcom Nexus reminds me of the games I used to play when I was a kid like Space Ranger and Privateer. The writing is very good and the premise is interesting. On the surface it is a space shooter with some mining and trading thrown in, but at it's heart it's a good old adventure and exploration game. You fly around space, scanning planets and anomalies, befriending or fighting alien races all while trying to piece together why you and your crew find yourselves in an alien, unknown part of space. When you scan planets you often get the chance to investigate further and you are sometimes faced with decisions that will decide your journey forward. These segments are presented as small text adventures and are varied and well written. If you are interested in these kinds of games, similar newer games I've played are Deathwar Redux 3030 and Starpoint Gemini 2. All of these games have several things in common. Among which is the ability to explore a vast slice of space and putting story above all else. They install a sense of adventure that I find compelling and that often are lost in newer AAA titles. Games like these are what GOG is all about.

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