Ten games to keep an eye on over the coming year.
Rodina http://elliptic-games.com/
Rodina is space exploration RPG not only can you fly from seamlessly from space to the planets surface but you can also get out and explore the planets surface as well the interior of your ship. A demo can downloaded from the site and and you can pay for access to a very early Alpha of the game.Truly a game with huge potential, a 21 century Sundog.
Pulsar:The Lost Colony http://pulsarthegame.com/
A co-op game or single player game where you explore stations and planets in a randomized galaxy to find clue to a lost colony.Where each player can take on one of the five classes and have their own responsibilities on board the ship. Along with crew permadeath games will last anywhere between 30 second to 30 hours depending how good you and your shipmates are.
Pulsar has taken the idea of Artemis and FTL and run with it to create a unique game.Alpha begins this month on the 25.
Kinetic void http://badlandstudio.com/kinetic-void/
An open world space simulation with in-game ship builder which allows player to construct their ship piece by piece.Along with a physic engine and procedurally generated galaxy,randomized factions and detailed economy.
The game is available on Steam early access
Intersellaria http://mastercoldrice.com/interstellar/
A 2D adventure RPG game in the mould of FTL crossed with Starflight where you can explore planets in 2D platform mode,manage and improve your crew and ship and trade and communicate with alien races.
Early Alpha out now to Kickstart backers.
Rogue System http://www.roguesystemsim.com/
Rogue System is hardcore space combat flight sim with the aim of bringing the classic space combat game into the 21 century. With detailed simulation of ship systems and damage control.
At least that was the original intent as I believe the game may still be a hardcore simulation but may have moved to open sand box game play.
No Alpha has been released yet.
Enemy Starfighter http://enemystarfighter.com/game/
Enemy Starfighter puts you in the cockpit of the universe's most mobile and lethal interceptor and also puts you in command of an elite fleet of Imperial warships. And that's about all anyone know of it.
Approaching Infinity http://ibol17.itch.io/approaching-infinity-early-access
A classic rogue like game pursue combat, quests and loot in an ever expanding universe or trade goods between sectors. Discover schematics for new items and hire offices and level up their skills with five different paths to victory.
Try the demo or buy into the current Alpha.
Void Destroyer http://www.voiddestroyer.com/
Void Destroyer combines elements from space combat simulators and real time strategy games, fly any ship under your command and build stations for production and defense, research new technology's and control ship crew.
Out now on Steams early access.
Wayfarer : The Outer Reaches http://brightspritegames.com/
Open world sand box game with maybe just a single ship to fly and walk around in. the game can be played solo or co-op and you will be able to send crew to the planets. Other than that not much know about this one although they seem to planning a kickstart for this year and they have been Greenlighted on Steam.
Skyjacker http://www.skyjackergame.com/
SKYJACKER is a first-person free-roaming space combat game with seamless travel from the planet surface to orbital space stations as a pirate you will roam the galaxy pulling off heists and hits for a variety of criminal kingpins. Good performance in missions will bring cash which can be used to buy upgrades and missions on the prate stock market or recruit others to you gang.
Old demo can be download from the site and the game has been greenlit on Steam.
Hmm... I wonder which of these will actually be released with anywhere near the quality being promised? I feel a growing sense of frustration that many exciting things are ever are on the horizon, but nothing ever really seems to appear (well, except for X Rebirth, and who could possibly have predicted what a disaster that would be?).
I have a little bit of optimism for the less ambitious ones (at least graphically, but of course graphics can be a lot of work) like Interstellaria, although I think the graphics in that one are a little TOO retro. I have been following Wayfarer for a while, but the developers have been rather silent for a while, so I am no longer terribly optimistic.
I have played the demo of Skyjacker, and it definitely shows great promise. In conjunction with many of the videos I have no doubt it is already a great game. Unfortunately, they failed their Kickstarter, so I fear the developers may let the project evaporate. On the bright side they DID get greenlit, so you never know, maybe we'll see a full release. I love that Skyjacker has aliens which actually look ALIEN! Game developers usually seem particularly bad at making aliens, this was an aspect of Star Citizen that I was EXTREMELY disappointed with.
The rest, sadly, at this point I'm extremely dubious about.
I think you have take this genre with a pinch of salt as to weather all the feature promised will make it into any of the games, it is after all being driven by the indie developers. Five years or so ago when SSC started most of the games which were available were just another version of Elite or Wing Commander most were made by the smaller PC developers and as a result they were not keen on taken any risks.
In the last two year their has been an explosion in this genre, that list only represents a fraction of what is out their or being worked on and of course not all of the games will get to the finish line. But what I fined really exciting and different from the late 90s early 2000 is that their is a real drive to do some thing different this time not just make the same thing over and over again with better graphics. Where this motivation has come from I have no idea, maybe it's a combination of things, better tools, the internet, Kickstarter or the feature creep of Star Citizen, who knows?.
Where this motivation has come from I have no idea, maybe it's a combination of things, better tools, the internet, Kickstarter or the feature creep of Star Citizen, who knows?.
I think it comes from the fact that most people are bored with playing the same generic games that big companies put out every year, usually just improving graphics if it's a series and adding a single new feature that they promise will revolutionise the genre … Indie developers might promise and hype a lot as well and not always deliver on the promise, but at least we try to make games that we ourselves want to play 🙂 and usually those are way more fun (imo)
And of there is a more tactical space sim like Starpoint Gemini 2 😉
www.starpointgemini.com
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