Zero-Point

It's not awful but it is bland and generic. It's impossible to recommend this game. [hr][/hr] Why not? It promises to be FTL in 3d. With a 3d ship interior and 3d model crew moving from station to station. It looks fun but it isn't. It's much less than "FTL in 3d". What it is is FTL's core game mechanics but without all the nice touches that elevated the experience of playing and suffering in FTL. The part that is fun is the weapons and combat/targeting, upgrading ship systems, traveling from point to point etc. The new 3d gimmick plays much worse unfortunately, and other additions are few and of mixed quality. I don't mind FTL-like games existing. Doom-likes and rougelikes, or metroidvanias. I sometimes want more of the same. But this is considerably less of the same. How? Towards the end of development, subset games hired a professional writer to go over event text and dialogues, and it shows. Even though the story and writing is simple, it is GOOD!. In Zero Point, everything you ...

While this is admittedly another FTL clone that is ultimately inferior it does replicate much of originals charm and so I will narrowly recommend. However, I will change my review to negative if the developers fail to - relatively quickly - implement new features that set it apart from the game that inspired it. I like the 3D elements and how you can interact with the environment like stoking the ships pet or opening the doors by clicking on them. I'd like more fun features involving that. I'd like more away mission scenarios, teleporting to abandoned stations, ghost ships, mysterious mining outposts. Maybe even simple planetary away missions to make exploration interesting. I think the writing is pretty good too which is important as this has been lacking in other FTL clones and the multiverse mod. Basically the game is good but it needs a lot more to sustain my interest