Ceres

The good: - System Designs are well thought out, robust, and add depth to the game. - Concept is great: Squad/Small Fleet in space (been waiting for something like this for awhile). The bad: - The art style falls into that awkward category of games that look old but don't pull it off in some charming way. - Character portraits look like they were made in EVE Online in 2003. - It's difficult to get into without going through the tutorial which is bland and more or less like reading a manual. The ugly: - Precise navigation feels impossible. I can only guess I'm doing something wrong, whether in map mode or in 3d space, I can't seem to get my ships to arrive at the right x,y,z coordinates without major headaches. - Interaction with objects is difficult as well. Non-ship interactible objects seem to be the worst offenders. - NPC Ships can (and will) follow you across the map. While I don't generally mind that idea, it only leads to frustration. One time I was trying to read quest text,...

From what I could experience in the first 10 hours of game play its clear this title has a lot of potential. The graphics are good without being too demanding so heavy fighting hardly slows down at all, making for some seriously nasty battles. It feels balanced and the ship modification adds a real personal feel to what I do and how I play the game. The only time I failed at a mission so far was due to the tricky nature of disabling a ship without destroying it, as you need lasers or boarding drones which turned into a bit of a game of hide in the bigger ship's blind spots. The learning curve can be a little hard but if you played and loved games like Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, Freelancer & Independence War, then this game is right up those lines. For the new players, heres a few quick things I learned that were the most useful starting out: [olist] [*] Create a group for your ships with ctrl+F1-F4 to make fleet orders easy, else you will have a lot of trouble with collisions a...

Very deep, very detailed tactical game with very deep, very detailed character, crafting, ship, customisation, mining, looting mechanisms... I liked it. I always waited games like this one... Yes, it is not an AAA game from a big game company... But the trick is that... You cant get a detailed game like this one, from a monsterous game company... They just want suck the money fast, so they create same games, with different graphics and stories, over and over... But, at the end, they are same games... same details, same mechanics, same, same, same... You can get a game with this detail level, only from a "dedicated- one person-idealistic-young developer", and of course, you know the story... The game is so detailed, so good, so dreamy for core players but not for the casual mainstream players... And game will not sold too much, so the developer and the distrubutor have to change the next project to less detailed, more mainstream, more casual game... A great game, not for e...

[b]The Bad:[/b] [list] [*][b]Bugs, and lots of them.[/b] Most of them aren't game-breaking, but they range from annoying to downright obnoxious (e.g., duplicate "outlines" when in tactical mode, formation bugs that prevent you from placing ships properly, drones stuck hovering ~100m off your ship that won't return, mods that stop working, repair systems showing offline even when idling at shipyard with no damage, etc.). I did encounter one bug on the final mission that did break my game, and reloading from saves didn't resolve it. GG I suppose. [*][b]Poor Optimization[/b] Generally the game performs well, but send out 20-30 drones, or turn on tactical mode with active scan up during a larger fight, and I've found the game will often slow to a crawl. There also seems to be an issue where the game becomes painfully slow regardless. My only recourse has been to save/load which fixes it for a time. [*][b]Ship Control[/b] It's VERY difficult to manage your ships properly aside from pausi...

When i first found the game and played the demo for 5 mins, my first thoughts were "why isn't this in the top sellers?" I played EVERYTHING since homeland, and it left me wanting. There was always something missing. When i first started battle, i did bite off more than i can chew. Usually i would just have given up. But i was playing Ceres - so i turned my armor towards the heavy hitters, where it was thickest, moved all power from weapons into engines and systems, and commanded the crew to focus on repairing the most critical parts of the ship, while preparing to jump the hell out of here. I send all the drones to attack, hoping they would catch some of the fire, and took over control of the ship manually - there were heavy slugs incomming, and someone had to dodge them after all. With my mineral resources used up by the repairs, the energy almost out and modules in critical damage, i got just enough space in between me and the bulk of the enemy fleet, to speed up for the jum...

I been playing the game from the point it came out. It is a very good game. I love space sim's and this one up there. I see great potential. You can salvage ship's. I like looking for them. You can also capture them free money. Or just blow them up cuz u can. U can hire people and send them to there death's for your ship's are worth more then there. Mining easy and it helps on your repairs. You can also build. Like all new game's it has it bug's. But i posted what one's i found and almost immediately i got a response from the Dev. All in all it a great game. I really enjoyed it and will continue to enjoy it. Cannot wait for the add on, tho i know it too soon.

First I have to say that I really want to like the game. And I certainly want to support the developer. But I make the review for customers like me. Its really hard to find a game to compare Ceres with. According to the developer it has been inspired by Homeworld. But in Homeworld you just do one fixed mission after the other. In Ceres you have a whole solar system to explore. So its like a mix of Homeworld and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident and a touch of Eve-Online in an Open-World setting. While this is in principle a good thing the execution lacks some basic things which make the game pretty hard to play (at least from my point of view). I did the tutorial and double clicked on the instrucotrs ship as it requested from me and my ship launched some missiles. The instructor fired back and my "mission" was over. I left the game frustrated for some weeks and came back. Tried the tutorial again. Got stuck somewhere and left again. Tried 3rd time after some weeks and it hung somewhere but...

I like this type of space game. I am a big Nexus fan and so far this game is reasoable like nexus for me to enjoy. Is it easy to get your hands around all the control from the get go. Well no it takes a bit of work to figure it all out. Is it 100% polished - ie finding bugs is a chalance. Not quite. However the comunity hub is very active with answers for your questions. Also the developer is online all the time taking feedback and working on improvments. (Note I dont usually even take part in forums - However I'm enjoying this game and would like to see it improve thus I'm actually getting involved.)

I very much enjoyed playing "nexus - the jupiter incident" and was very happy to see, that this kind of game has a rebirth with Ceres. Ceres is a very deep tactical game with tons of possible tactics with different type of ships. You can modify your ships very nicely with different modules and together with the huge amount of possible ships you can try more or less anything you want. Pro: - very deep tactical game. - many different ships and modules/weapons - perk/skills for captains,AI and crew - board, hack or schredder the enemy to pieces - trade, bounty hunt, explore or be a humble miner (to some extent) Con: - trying to maneuver in combat is a bit tricky (micromanagement) - graphics are a little bit old/simple, but i find them very appaeling anyway - there are some bugs/glitches left, but they are minor. for beeing developed mostly from one coder, this is really great.

This is an Awesome and well ballanced game. Well designed with a lot of ship controls and customization. Great combat action and exploration.