Void Destroyer 2

Is this the definitive 4X and Dogfight combination space game? Not quite. But for 8 Euros its a fun game to sink a few hours into. The Ships control well, and especially flying smaller craft is fun - dodging around larger ship's firing arcs to get into range. Larger ships move lumberingly, as you would expect, and i can see how some players would prefer piloting a slow but powerful ship instead as well. Overall, having played a bunch of similar games, i'm impressed at how intuitive and 'correct' flying a ship in VD2 feels compared to those other titles. I really like the way the ships and stations look in game, as well as the bullets and missiles. In larger engagements, it can get a little crowded of course, but i don't see a way around that either. I've seen other reviews critisising the look of the game though, so i guess the graphics are very subjective. Just based on those two things alone, this game is worth giving a try. The best part of this game IMO is flying around with a s...

The game has great concept. I like first half of the game, it is exactly what I was looking for. Combat is amazing, missions are nice and later wars against factions are great fun. Ship mode graphics are very crisp. I like the style, although it is clearly product of a small budget. Up to this point, it is great game, challenging, but fun. Sure, it crashes every 2 hours randomly, but whatever. I can live with that. But at the mid or end of the main story, it is clear that the developer had little to no resources for actually finishing, polishing and balancing the game. I get it. I bought the game at full price for 9 euro, which means he gets maybe 5. And I suspect majority of purchases are during sales, which makes his revenue (not profit) in range 1-2 euro per copy. I pity him for this, he deserves more money for such great game, but it is what it is. I think the main problem is there are too many systems that he could not possibly balance or even deprecate as non-function...

Fun until you find one of the game breaking bugs that ruins your play through

I like what the game was aiming for, and it seems to have been made by a dedicated team. It is sort of a more chill/lite version of X4. However, there are some serious issues with the game that mean that I cannot recommend it. If they could be fixed, then the game would be decent. The game has serious instability. Luckily autosaves are frequent, so you usually don't lose much progress. But when it crashes at the end of a big fight that may have taken over 30 minutes that is very frustrating. The "tactical" screen is abysmal, it has zooming, panning/rotating and sensitivity issues. Homeworld 1 figured out how handle commanding units in 3D 25years ago, so I'm not sure why devs struggle to replicate it. The automatic fleet combat is core to the endgame, but the calculations are not explained, so getting fleet composition correct is a guessing game.

No, this is a bad, broken game. I regret the time I have wasted learning, and playing, and more than anything, suffering through it. 1. Crashing. This game crashes, a lot. At first, it doesn't seem that bad, a crash every hour or two at most. With the autosaving that sets things back no more than 5 minutes, as missions and battles are short. But get farther in where you have maxed fleets, and crashes happen constantly, every other battle. These battles are long, and cleaning up fighters can often be a grind, then having the game crash to do it all over again. Or 20-30 minutes of tedious fleet and base management. Infuriating. 2. UI. What a mess, and an unintuitive one at that. Who thinks hotkeys like Shift+C to open coms to request docking with station is a good idea? But the issues go far beyond hotkeys. The UI is poorly designed, so selecting and moving ships, managing bases and fleets, setting up trade and mining, it all a huge pain to do. Even just finding where ships are in...

Game states that it partially works with my Xbox controller... well it does not. On the input menus it doesn't let me input anything, and as i start a new game, the ship is controllable for the first 5 seconds and then nothing, can only shoot... and again the input menus do not work, tried with different controllers to be sure. Quickest refund i have ever asked for in my life.