Endless Sky

This game is amazing, but the tutorial is horrible. I honestly love this game, but it took me an hour to figure out how to actually play it because the tutorial is practically non-existant. But once you figure out how to use everything, it is really fun. Controls hint: tab = shoot arrow keys = move L = land M = map (click places on the map to choose where to hyperspace jump to) J = hyperspace jump Other tips: *Land your ship on a planet to replenish hyperspace jumps *Take jobs to earn money Those are not all of the controls. They are just some of the controls that you will use more often.

Absolutely incredible. Some people see "2D" and leave. Not me. I love space, and I love this kind of game. The commerce is relaxing, and the combat is intense. This is what indie games should be. Better than NMS AND FREE! Would be 10/10, but -1 for no music.

This game, where to start... As of the Coalition's update (0.9.5 unstable beta) there's the depreciation of modules and ships to contend with. If you like the previous version, just go to the github and get a previous version. 1. Anyways: the map is big, still expanding, and has plenty as-is to offer. There's aliens, civil wars, and planets to conquer. You can be a humble merchant, trading and hauling for steady pay. There's also passenger courier work which require the safe-keeping of those aboard to arrive at their destination. Escort duties involves distracting and attacking pirates then escaping before your objective gets destroyed. Bounty-hunting requires combat reputation, so getting a bigger, stronger ship and going pirate hunting will build up your rep to be given those high paying contracts. Or even do some of each just to make end's-met. 2. When starting out, even if you want to get a feel for the game on your own: TAKE THE TUTORIAL!!! It pays, it gets you going in a defin...

-Transported Scientists from Memory to Firefly and back -Delivered Apples to Calda -Civil War between "Republic" and "Free Planets" broke out shortly after doing some "special mission" involving recon against pirates, leaving me wondering if Militia-Captain-Whatever Winters was lying to me so I would accidentally start a rebellion and ruin my perfect credit score -Transported Workers to Muspel -Attacked by Pirates -Destroyed Pirate Interceptors while Interplanetary Defense Fleet finished destroying disabled Pirate Cruiser -Cargo Bay too full to collect loot -Jetissoned Family of 7 hoping to "escape the pollution and crime on Bivost and settle on Nifel" and a tourist headed to Pearl -Just kidding, that would have tarnished my perfect credit score (800, which, yes, actually IS a factor in this game) and would have only freed up passenger cabins anyway, not cargo space -Checked my stats and noticed that I am considered "Almost Dangerous" according to my combat rating, which seems pretty g...

How is this game free? I have no idea. Could easily be worth $20 or more. One of the greatest aspects of this game is its ease of organization and navigation. There are so many ships, weapons and stars that you could very easily get lost and frustrated trying to remember where everything is had the developers not taken that into consideration. You can see the prices of everything in every system and where every piece of equipment you've discovered is sold. You can access everything's stats to plan out trips.

Yes.

I grew up on Escape Velocity, it was my first true gaming love when I was a dweeb in the early 90's with a "Power Mac" (oxy-moron back in the day aswell). This game was my life, doing fly-bys with captain hector, doing medical-supply runs to Spica and space-bombing planets into submission... this game seems to live up to this and more. Just started playing but I cannot stop, it is scratching that itch that no game was capable of doing. Thank-you devs!

A wonderful 2d Space game. Construct a massive fleet, rule it all. There is nothing more satisfying than amassing a fleet of 300 heavy warships and watching them fill the whole screen.

I recommend this game only if you have literally nothing better to do, either because you have WAY too much time on your hands AND you don't have enough money to buy an actual game. Assuming most people don't meet both conditions, I can't recommend this game. At least it's free, so only my time has been wasted on this game, and at least I have a decent chunk of time to waste right now. Otherwise I would have stopped at 2 hours. If you're the kind of person who doesn't want to binge this game, I just say don't get it. You probably don't even need to read this rant. But if you do, maybe you'll get a few ideas on how to make a better game than this. It's not that hard and you could probably justify charging money for it - these guys certainly wouldn't get my penny for this one if they did. - The graphics are terrible, underwhelming. Free game, so easily forgivable. Stock footage images in the places where you land and each one doesn't feel alien or outer-spacey at all. Annoying, but agai...

The fact that this game is free amazes me. The quality of the content is great, I think it's great that a little game like this, that doesn't rely on fancy graphics, and yet is so compelling to play has been released for free. Commendations to everyone who contributed to this fantastic piece of work!