I didn't seek this out, I just happened across it in the GOG discounts feed, I'm completely blown away by how much I enjoy the gameplay loop of this game. To me, flying and fighting in this feels very much like freespace/tiefighter and the like, no adjusting reactor output levels and shield allocations tho. I guess that's what some people are complaining about when saying it's "no spacesim"? To me this is not a deal breaker, since that similar decision making and complexity happens in this game in the form of passive, activateable and consumambe addon systems to your ships, which together with the time constrained resource gathering systems feels very satisfying. Also I guess simulationwise it's kinda weird you can stop time in the heat of space combat to ponder which powerups to construct from the raw materials in your cargo, but I can't come up with a better system. If you couldn't craft stuff in combat, it would be infuriating to constantly feel like "I brought the wrong tools to this encounter" especially when enemies jump in triggered by you exploring. Absolute 10/10 game experience for me, I feel bad for paying only 1€ for it. I'll wait for the discount to end and then buy the deluxe + expansion to compensate.
