HighFleet

Highfleet is one of those games that's easy to hate and hard to love. I must've dropped this game about 4 times before finally just committing fully and beating it. You're expected to fail initially. In some ways, it's a roguelite where your progress before contributes greatly to your next run allowing you to build a stronger fleet using ships you've created in the workshop. Don't let anyone tell you you can't beat the game using vanilla ships. You absolutely can while making modifications during your campaign. Once I understood the admittedly complex UI, ship customization, and intended strategy, I grew to love the game, but damn is it still hard to love. The strategy and tactics are much simpler than you think. This is not a wargame, 4x, or grand strategy title. It's a wargame-lite with a strong emphasis on guerilla tactics mixed with arcade flight combat. There is absolutely simulation, but this is NOT a sim. There is no logistics, no diplomacy, no city management, fuel is infinite...

Amazing style and concepts, but it hurts my hands to play. Shame they stopped supporting it before they finished the gamepad controls, could have made an amazing steamdeck game.

WARNING, THERMAL SIGNATURE DETECTED "is it a strike fleet or planes?"..... WARNING, VISUAL CONTACT, "Its a nuclear ballistic missile? Oh there's 7 of them? Oh its too late to dodge? Oh I have no more CWIS or AA missiles? Why is 'Tanc A Lelek' playing? ... uh oh" . . . STRUCTURAL DAMAGE RECEIVED, EVACUATE THE SHIP!

I really wish I could like this game. The world building is awesome, the systems look cool. But the difficulty curve is just too punishing. Unless you are willing to invest dozens of hours in getting good and testing out meta strategies you will just get rolled over constantly. If you get spotted by a strike group, just restart a new campaign. Miss the silent strike ? Restart. Anything that goes wrong, restart.

Nice concussion and eye retina damage simulator.

There is no ultrawide monitor support and nothing is resizable.

The entire game is poorly explained and forces you to dump hours into searching online, the UI is complete garbage for no reason, all fights are a slow and boring mess 1v3 or more because yes, the shipyard has no quality of life whatsoever, you'll place every single component and structure by hand and god forbid you miscalculate a row or column cause you'll have to erase everything misplaced, I tried to like this game, I tried to find fun here, but this is utmost slop poorly developed and explained. This doesn't even feel like a full realease but an early access, I do not recommend buying this shit even for pennies, I'm asking a refund.

RADAR EMISSIONS DETECTED THERMAL EMISSIONS DETECTED VISUAL CONTACT *Proceeds to die from a massive nuclear cruise missile spam*

This game is incredible. The art direction is so confident, and it makes the game shine. The sound is masterful. Play this game.

It's a really cool game, very characterful and pretty to look at as well. The artstyle is honestly "chefs kiss". I just really don't find the game intuitive to play, I have put 6 hours into it and I still barely know what is going on most of the time. I find that there are so many things going on most of the time that I can't properly follow that it gives me a headache. Therefore while I can honestly see the potential of the game and the effort that went into it, Its just not for me.