Artemis is a diamond in the rough. It's very much unlike any other space sim I've ever played. The game has you play a starship bridge officer, responsible for controlling one of the ship's systems. Pretty cool and all, but there's a twist. In most space sims, a player is responsible for running the whole ship. He controls the weapons, he directs the ship to its destination, and so on. Artemis is different in that each of the ship's systems are run by other players. The bridge crew is entirely composed of humans, not AI. There are five stations to man in Artemis: Helm, Engineering, Weapons, Science and Comms. Helm controls the ship's movement. Engineering deals with repairs and modifying the power levels of each system in the ship. Weapons handles, well, weapons and shields. Science has control over the sensors, scanning targets for information on its systems and crew. Comms handles communication with other vessels, both friend and foe. This 5-man setup provides a lot of depth to the...

Me: "Helmsman, set a course for DS3." Helm: "Aye, Cap'n." Me: "...A little more to port, Helmsman...no, MY port!" Helm: "Warp?" Me: "No, PORT." Helm: "Roger." Warp Drive: BRRRRRRRRRRRRWWWWWWWWWWWOOOO Me: "FUUUUUU-MR ABRAMS, KILL ALL POWER TO THE LENS FLARES AND THE WARP DRIVES!" Engineer: "...So am I Mr Abrams?" Me: "You said your name was JJ, right?" Engineer: "Yeah." Me: "THEN YES, YOU'RE MR ABRAMS!" Engineer: "Killing warp power, sir." Me: "Jesus, thank you Mr Abrams. HELMSMAN! You're relieved from duty, report to the galley and bring daddy another beer." Helm: "Sir, I'd like to lodge a formal complaint, I have a problem with the way you're running this crew." Me: "SAYS THE GUY WHO WARP DRIVED US SO FAR INTO THE FUCKING SPACE BOONIES THAT WE CAN'T EVEN FIND A SPACE WAL-MART!! You overshot DS3 by five sectors!" Easily the best 35 bucks I've ever spent on a video game.

Artemis is a fantastic game, best played with friends, in the same room. I know that many people play it on a VPN, but there's nothing quite like all playing together. Drinking encouraged, almost required, for maximum enjoyment. The game is low-to-medium hardware intensity; whatever machine is running the Main Viewer should have a decent video card, and be comfortable with multiple outputs if a laptop. One of our players successfully plays with nothing more than an iPad. Support since 2.0 has improved dramatically. The biggest issue is players not knowing the nuances of their individual roles, and what buttons are where (since they've moved since 1.6).

"It's Star Trek, Jim, but not as we know it". Don't go in expecting the full Star Trek experience because you will be disappointed (unless you get a game master). However, if all you're looking for is joining a Starfleet ship, this game exceeds expectations and then some. What you see is what you get: you and a group of friends fly a spaceship, each member getting their own interface. While some interfaces may seem daunting due to the amount of information displayed (particularly engineering), each one of them is well designed and surprisingly intuitive; you'll get used to the controls rather quickly. The gameplay is rather standard as far as Star Trek flight sim games go (mostly combat), but it does deliver this sense of belonging to a rich universe (even if the map is the size of a single solar system) Speaking of solar systems, the world objects (or rather the lack of) are the only drawback of the game. Maybe I shouldn't expect much from game that takes up a quarter of a gig, b...

QUICK DISCLAIMER: Ignore my hours of playtime as reported by Steam. I have played a few times and most of the time I am running the EXE outside of Steam. I probably have several hours of game time now. This game is a little buggy, a little uneven, and does not feel like it's yet been fully realized. Having said that, I can still fully and wholeheartedly recommend it, but with a few caveats that I will get to later. The bottom line is: this game is so much fun! Seriously, if you are into, or were ever into Star Trek then you owe it to yourself to get it. Artemis is a simulation of what it might be like to be part of the bridge crew on a starship like the Enterprise. Here's how it works: You run one instance of the game as a server and then each player (up to six for a full bridge crew) runs another instance and those clients connect to the server. Each player picks one or more stations to manage (captain, helm, tactical, engineering, science, and communications) and each station get...

TO PLAY THIS GAME YOU NEED: 1 PC to act as the server. One player can also run the game client on this PC and man a station. Up to 6 crew member devices per ship. They each need their own device (PC, iOS or Android). They each mann a station - helm, weapons, engineering, comms, science etc. You can have 1 or more ships. Ships can be on the same team or competing. You need at least 2 players per ship. You always need 1 server running. CAN I PLAY ONLINE? The game is designed to be played on the same LAN (WiFi network) and it is super easy to do so. You can, however, play with folks online but this requires port forwarding or Hamachi to set up. Hope this cleared that up for you. IS THE GAME FUN? Yeah it's mint. Feels like Star Trek. Accessible too - I played with my parents and sister, who are not sci-fi fans, and they all loved it.

If you like star trek, team work, or fun, then buy this game. Then struggle to get 6 people to sit down and play it.

When I ordered the helms man to charge into an enemy missle to save a cruise liner I knew this was a great game

I've had this game for a long time outside of steam. I just want to say that it is a great time with friends and this game has made many updates and changes over the years and is definitely worth the 6.99 price tag. This also requires no vr equipment and can be purchased on Android and iOS. What this game requires is a minimum of 3 computers. One server and 2 clients with more clients as necessary. You can connect any device to the server whether it is a phone, tablet or pc and the game will connect everyone to the same game. The server doesnt even have to be a PC. I've found if you also have the Android version(havent tried this with iOS) you can run a server off a tablet or phone. though I've not fully tested this under a full simulation. This game has lot of flexibility with mods as well. So if you the style of the Star Trek ships there is a mod for it. There is constantly new content being written by the community too as well as the dev. If you buy the game here on...

The multiplayer doesn't work over internet. You'd need to create your own server, open a 2nd instance of the game on that computer, and know how to do port forwarding on the host router. The instructions are nonexistent for setting it up