Sky of Destruction
nice game, but it seems to be stuck in early access limbo. As is, it’s kind of good. get’s a little repetitive after a while. not a bad game, just kind of incomplete.
– Real player with 20.2 hrs in game
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Update, no Updates. Bye.
I Like it so far, but there is more work to be done. The Game is updated frequently, this looks promising. The Gameplay might seem a little bit easy made, but the Hunt for Upgrades is it that binds me to Games.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
The Chaser’s Voyage
You have only one hundred days. One hundred days to pay off your debt to a dreaded pirate lord. Luckily, you have friends, and one of those friends has a spaceship… and an idea: transport people from planet to planet! Seems simple, but this part of the galaxy is riddled with endless dangers. Paying back your debt will be one thing, surviving this voyage will be another.
You are the Captain:
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Take-off on your rogue-like adventure with a fully-voice acted crew of eccentric and diverse characters.
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Take command of the Chaser and pilot it through treacherous terrain, while escaping from deadly space pirates and relentless bounty hunters!
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Manage power between the Chaser’s weapons, shields, engines, and auxiliary systems.
Pay Back Your Debt:
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Earn money by transporting clients across the sector.
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Survive multiple encounters as you travel to your client’s destination.
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Each encounter is randomly generated based on how many days you’ve survived, who your client is, and which territory you’re in.
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Make enough money in 100 days to avoid the wrath of a notorious pirate lord!
Fly Through a Small Part of a Larger Galaxy:
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Uncover tons of lore by unlocking entries in your crew journal. (Release TBD)
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Explore your crew’s backstory and learn about the galaxy through their eyes.(Release TBD)
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Learn about over 250 planets, along with the species that inhabit them, such as the Pajus, the Ka’koi, the Feaians, and more! (Release TBD)
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Witness an escalating galactic war, as two major powers fight for control of the sector.
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Use this knowledge to plan out your trips to ensure successful missions.
Additional Features:
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Enjoy the game in three modes that shape your experience.
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Fly casual in Voyager Mode. In this mode, you have unlimited respawns and plenty of options to control the game’s difficulty.
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Survive in Captain Mode. As time goes on, your adventure gets more and more challenging. You only have one life, so make it count.
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Prove you’re the best in Ace Mode. Encounter any of the hardest challenges in the game, right from the beginning, while also taking increased damage.
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Enjoy an epic soundtrack.
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Customize the ship’s colors and the metal UI color.
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Practice your skills by recreating any scenario in the Flight Simulator. (Release TBD)
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Equip over 20 insignias that change the way you experience the game. Fly as a member of a variety of different factions, take on new challenges, or even change the Chaser’s capabilities!
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Keep track of your records for each insignia across each mode.
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Alien Dawn
Edited/Update: I had a lot of fun running with the developers (Christian and Jes) the day after writing this review :D We completed my first (and currently only) escape. I’ve been playing it daily ever since, determined to stay alive as long as possible before completing a second escape. I’ve made it a few days. I just wanted to say this is a really unique game and if I may add a suggestion, I would really love to pick up the enemy heads after shooting them off. I’ve seen numerous basketball courts around the map and it would be a healthy pastime. It’d be better if I could put them in a backpack but I won’t push it. I won’t push it. You’re the best.
– Real player with 38.1 hrs in game
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If you are a lurker, like I am, then this is the review for you.
This game is made by a duo, two people. What has been achieved here is rather impressive with the amount of systems they have in place. From having a reliable Desktop and vr mode, to the humble animation of eating something, there are many things going on under the hood that many may miss. Sure, there are going to be bugs especially since this has just recently released on early access.
Early access is meant to be a time to support the development, and to directly help shape the game. This game is no exception, the developers are wonderful human beings, who listen to you and genuinely enjoy spending time with people. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen these devs do, is on a few occasions, invite those who have negative experiences to the discord to chat about where the problems lie. These devs acknowledge there are problems and acknowledge that feedback is one of the more important tools in their toolbox. I see these devs going a long way with the attitudes I have observed thus far, even before I directly engaged with them.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
Avis Rapida - Aerobatic Racing
What can I say about Avis Rapida other than this game is bonkers, and I love it.
The flight model isn’t the best (but I’ve seen worse), but it gets the job done, and the shortcomings of the flight model play into the course design perfectly.
Some of the courses tell you to do things like fly backwards, land on a wall, or land like a pogo stick.
One that sticks out in particular is a map where it tells you to pull half a cobra and fly the whole thing backwards, and then land, while still going backwards.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
Disclaimer: I was a Beta tester for this game.
Avis Rapida is a checkpoint plane racing game. You fly in a track composed of a series of checkpoints, of which there is a nice variety, from the normal checkpoint through which you can fly on any orientation to more demanding checkpoints that require you to fly through it sideways or even backwards. The variety in checkpoints allows from some pretty imaginative track design (and you can design your own tracks, too) and it’s supported by a good, simcadey physics model: You can feel, for example, how different it is to fly a plane in supersonic speeds, and the model also allows for post-stall maneuvers like the Cobra or the Kulbit. Even then, it never feels like you need a professional flying license to be any good at it, and it’s also perfectly playable on a normal Xbox Controller or something similar. The graphics are fine, the game runs pretty smooth, there’s support for local multiplayer and leaderboards, and apart from a loading period when opening the game there are no loading screens once you’re playing, which is good because on some of the harder tracks you can end up obsessively retrying and retrying to get that checkpoint just right; it has a feel similar to that of games like Trials or Nitronic Rush, where the only obstacle betwen you and the finish line is your own skill.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator
DARKKi’s Dark Star Reviews - Combat Air Patrol 2
In Combat Air Patrol 2 you get to fly AV8B Harrier II subsonic attack aircraft in areas around Straits of Hormuz (250,000km2 geographically accurate area) in and later in fully dynamic open ended campaigns with flight / naval mission planner. CAP2 is simulator and it’s not recommended for arcade pilots but great choice for people who want realistic simulator (and HOTAS setup is recommended but not necessary) with lots to offer! I would say this is not as realistic as DCS (it sits between DCS and Strike Fighter / Novalogic F-16 / Total Air War games) series but how it has modeled many things is just amazing like flight model is really good with and you can really feel the speed when flying low with 3D waves. Also this game is pretty easy to get into if you have not played much simulators.
– Real player with 50.5 hrs in game
As of writing this review it is 11/22/2017, and I nomitated Combat Air Patrol 2 because this game has the scope of everything I needed to see in a game. I mean when I first read that you’ll be able to command the LHA fleet around, I immediately locked eyes with this game. I’ve been looking for years for a “Silent Hunter” esque game that instead of submarine commanding, you commanded a carrier which is arguably a lot more challenging. Now i’m pretty sure the devs will most likely not add in a “supercarrier” such as the Nimitz, Enterprise, or Forrestal Class carriers, but it will greatly expand the game, even if you can’t fly the aircraft you launch or recover. But again, the carrier we have right now is a LHA or Landing Helicopter Assault, or to go deeper a Tarawa Class Landing Helicopter Assault is good enough. Basically this ship is built for the marines, it houses a Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is the smallest Marine air-ground task force in the United States Marines. This carrier is designed from the ground up to assault places, and the main plane you fly is basically designed for operations off this type of carrier, the AV-8B+.
– Real player with 30.1 hrs in game
EVERSPACE™ 2
This is of course a review of the Early Access version, so some of the cons I find with the game, might disappear with the final version.
*If you like Space Simulators, this is a game for you.
THE GOOD
• Lots of fun, although, (and this is probably related to it being early access) things get repetitive very fast.
• Controls are fine, you get the hang of everything rather quickly.
• For those of us who enjoyed games like Tie Fighter, Descent and FREESPACE, this is our type of game.
– Real player with 251.0 hrs in game
It has been 18 years since Microsoft released the game Freelancer. In that time, no other game/developer has succeeded in capturing what made that game great, and brought us a game like it. You can find many space games that have failed to bring us that genre properly. Many times people saying things like “Closest thing to Freelancer, best since Freelancer.” However, it’s always known that they aren’t actually that close, or nearly as good. This game however, is hitting ALL the right check boxes for being a PROPER Freelancer successor.
– Real player with 96.5 hrs in game
Reentry - An Orbital Simulator
Usually If I do a review it’s mostly something short and not really relevant. This one deserves a bit more attention.
If you are into space then this is a title you must add to your collection. At the time of writing this the sim offers 3 programs the USA undertook in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s namely the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. The developer is a one man team who so far has done an amazing job bringing these programs to live with a very high level of detail and accuracy, basically every switch there was on these spacecrafts, is or will be in the sim and will have a function and affect your systems. The simulator has a learning curve especially when diving into the Apollo, LM lessons/academy.
– Real player with 531.3 hrs in game
This is a full fidelity cockpit simulator of the American spacecraft that were used during the Space Race. To keep this review from being unnecessarily long, I am going to break down the features of this game into a list.
Features in this game (what you can do).
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Fly the Saturn V and all it’s modules, Mercury Redstone, Mercury Atlas, Gemini Titan, and drive the Moon Buggy.
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Create custom missions for different objectives and scenarios.
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Play as Mission Control for Project Mercury and Project Apollo. Please note that Mission Control in this game is not limited to just one person, and you could have a full room assisting and guiding a single astronaut. (Cockpit coop is not a feature yet, and the developer is using Mission Control to test the logic and systems).
– Real player with 104.5 hrs in game
Rocket Shipment
It’s a good game which I’m happy to have bought.
It’s all about mastering the physics of your spaceship while also managing the momentum + angular velocity of objects that you’re tasked with towing to a designated area. Sounds simple, and it is, but there’s a lot of fun in getting good at the mechanics and trying to beat levels with the shortest time / highest score / without dying. By default, though, you get 5 lives per level which makes it pretty reasonable to complete everything if your goal is to get through the game.
– Real player with 23.1 hrs in game
Rocket Shipment is relatively simple, and yet pleasantly addicting. I’ve also not seen any other games quite like it on Steam.
The goal is to fly your ship around inside of a cavernous asteroid and move cargo to a landing zone. Sometimes you have to move multiple cargo, each to a specific destination indicated by the color of the cargo and the flags around the landing zones. You start by navigating your ship close to a cargo container, and when you are close enough the container turns green to indicate that you can grab it by deploying your cable. They you must then tow the cargo to its destination. After you drop the cargo on the landing zone (and the cargo is confirmed to be “delivered”), you must land your ship on the grey landing zone.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Stationery Frontier
Remember building war planes in class with all that you have in your pencil box?
Stationery Frontier is a game that brought your childhood imagination to life,
with more than a decent configurations to choose from, for the first time in your life your ruler-pen fighter can fly without you holding it.
Pew pew POW POW!
What good is a fighter without bombs and bullets, no more imaginary POW POW, pilot your ruler bomber, or protractor fighter, and smash through eraser tanks and home appliances, in the living room, the house, and more.
Be the HERO!
We all know you have had held up you plane pretending yourself as the ace pilot shooting down bad guys and save the world.
Don’t lie to yourself! We KNOW what you did back then, don’t worry, we’ve got this covered!
Progress in the classic childish plot in single player mode and be the ace pilot that saves the world.
Play with your friends (Coming soon!)
Invite your friend to experience the dogfight once only existed in your mind, perform stunning moves and show them who’s boss!
**_Live your childhood again
Wake your inner-child,
pick up your stationeries,
Be the operator.
Defeat your enemy!
But with no boring lessons!_**
Features:
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Flying!
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Shooting!
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Pews & Pows!
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9 fighters!
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Some maps!
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Survive in bullet hell!
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Annihilate your enemy!
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Racing through loops and hoops!
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LAN multiplayer (Coming soon!)
Tiny Combat Arena
What is the experience of Tiny Combat Arena?
Tiny Combat Arena is a labor-of-love combat flight simulator that aims to strike the perfect balance between a simulator and an approachable, customizable, air combat experience. All executed in a stylized look representing a fictional Cold War-era conflict.
Sim-lite combat flight model
Tiny Combat Arena is all about the fun factor of flying, dogfighting, and close air support. Simulation elements are added to the game in service of creating engaging and deep gameplay, never just for the sake of realism. Simulation inspired mechanics, such as boosting a missile’s range by launching from above your target, create a new range of tactics for you to explore.
Quick Mission Builder
Tiny Combat Arena lets you jump in and fly by quickly assembling various types of missions. Take a placid stroll around beautiful scenery, configure a team vs team dogfight against aircraft of your choosing, or strike objectives with ground units to attack and support.
Arena Mode
Plan your moves on the strategic map; pick objectives, identify threats, choose which units to support, and where to make a difference. There is a war going on around you, and your participation will affect its outcome.
Detailed and useful database
The in-game database provides players with not only detailed statistics on vehicles, aircraft, and weapons, but also to give tactical guidance on how to approach different aircraft and respond to different threats.
