Stellar
HIGH Great mission variety, good pace.
LOW Only one mission piloting a ship?
WTF How does the swimming work?
Heavenly Bodies Review
Tag: Space
Chorus Review
Ravishing Dark Redemption
HIGH Too many to list here!
LOW I wish I knew more about Nara’s past.
WTF Why are there so many mission-breaking bugs?
Residual Review
It’s No Man’s Planet
HIGH A solid gathering and crafting experience.
LOW It’s hard to decipher the graphics at times.
WTF Won’t that robot ever shut up?!?
Stellaris: Nemesis Review
I Became My Own Worst Enemy
HIGH Surviving long enough to witness a galactic empire rise to glory… or infamy.
LOW Having my empire absorbed repeatedly by mid-game.
WTF The xenophobic AI humans hated me while I was playing as human.
Interview With Glen Pawley On Star Dynasties
When it comes to sci-fi settings that stretch beyond the stars, it feels like the stories too often land on a spectrum between Star Trek‘s pristine bureaucracy of benevolent space colonialism and the mythopoetic swashbuckling of benevolent space colonialism in Star Wars. Star Dynasties, the latest grand strategy from Iceberg Interactive and Pawley Games, tries to have it both ways by using a galaxy-shaping disaster as the excuse to dive headfirst into the administrivia of intergalactic feudalism, texturing its space colonialism with a tangled web of shadows and political intrigue.
Kosmokrats Review
Comrades In Space
HIGH Original and unpredictable.
LOW The levels with asteroids, ice on the components and incoming fire.
WTF How are they growing potatoes out here?
Everspace 2 Preview
The original Everspace — which I Did Not Review back when it came out — was something of an oddity. A space combat roguelike, it inserted some pretty stunning production values into a subgenre that, at the time, was largely confined to low-budget indie projects. We got the gorgeous vistas and exciting dogfights of a modern Freespace successor, but folded and fitted into a digestible run-based structure.
This Is Not A Review: Spacebase Startopia
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Spacebase Startopia available on PS4, PS4, XBX/S, XBO, Switch and PC, developed by Realmforge Studios and published by Kalypso.
Redout: Space Assault Review
34BigThings Does What Nintendon’t
HIGH It’s Starfox 64 with humans and modern quality-of-life updates.
LOW No open-flight mode for free-play dogfighting.
WTF Honestly had no idea what character I was for the first 30 minutes.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw Review
Some People Call Me The Space Cowboy
HIGH An addicting and ambitious space combat and trading sim.
LOW It could be friendlier to newcomers.
WTF This is probably the closest we’ll get to a Cowboy Bebop game.