Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures

Oh man. Where to even begin with this one? Yet another game that came completely by surprise and has truly shocked me with just how much there is to it. On paper the concept sounds simple enough. You have a starmap, and like in FTL, you need to get from the left side, to the right, where some sort of boss encounter awaits you. Defeat that in order to win. But the similarities to FTL end there. Where FTL was a rather simple, quick affair, this game is incredibly complicated and will make for very long runs. Firstly, there is so.... much.... content. So freaking much. And so many different interlocking mechanics. It seems so incredibly daunting at first. I mean, just look at those screenshots on the store page here. No matter which one you are looking at, it has SO MANY THINGS on it. A bazillion icons and tabs and stats and who knows what. And every one of them matters somehow. Heck, there's enough stuff to fill up a 125-page manual, which the game does in fact have. Fort...

This is a game for a very specific type of person. If you're a person who who loves an extremely deep, stat-heavy game and could care less about graphics, then you will LOVE this game. The developer threw everything but the kitchen sink into this game, but the graphics are very basic. You can land on a planet and gather resources or life-forms, engage in fleet battles, chart wormholes, answer distress signals, board other ships, repair those ships and get new crew, capture ships, trade, engage in diplomacy, upgrade your ships, buy new ships and weapons, gather research, send probes into anomalies, attack starbases and outposts, unlock artifacts and special abilities. The list of things to do goes on, and on, and on! The tutorial is long but only because the game is so complex, expansive, with such a steep learning curve. I can tell right now I could sink 200 hours gameplay into this before unlocking the highest level races and artifacts. UI is well-designed and all aspects of the game...

superb gem of game! it has all the feel of a 90s era game like Star Control or Star Flight, Starships Unlimited or countless other space exploration/strategy games of then. there is a lot going on in this game, the 2d minigames are many and varied, from blowing up asteroids for rare power crystals, to boarding a distressed ship and taking out the alien invader while trying to repair the ship and extinguish fires, to firing research probes through anomalies and wormholes, and alsovisiting planets to collect materials and other surprises . the gui has alot on it but it it is all explainedd and one gets the hang of it pretty quickly. i prob like this more than other similar games like endless sky or unending galaxy, because in this game you have alot may freedom to go at your own pace, time moves only when you do. i like the varying types of stations you can go to - general space stations, spaceship factories, trade centers as well as merchant ships. the game hasa alot of random event...

I love this game! Reminds me of the old-school SC1. Exploration is cool, ship building is detailed and fun. I could get lost for hours. Would highly recommend!

Amateur hour. The tutorial STILL has problems right at the beginning when explaining picking race. Do not play witht he arrows, they do nothing, just click the NEXT button. Secondly it will point to the alternate race selection method, a list at the bottom of level 1 races. The NEXT button will ONLY appear IF you select the TOPMOST race(boleeni IIRC). Mission gameplay consists of a bunch of shallow arcade minigames. I have not gotten to fleet battles yet, but I'm going to have to go with a NOT recommended unless on a good sale given how unpolished this 'release' is. I have MANY more polished EA games... OTOH I also have abandoned EA games but TBH this is the ROUGHEST game that I have played in years...

This game is an excellent successor to the Starflight/Star Control series. Many of the mechanics you liked in those games are here with improvements or added complexity. On top of that there is a thriving economy, political race scenarios, RPG level progression but for your fleet, artifacts, exploration, comets, asteroid fields, nebulas, wormholes, resource gathering and more. At first (like the Starflight/Star Control games) it seemed difficult to master the moves and strategy to progress, but with an excellent 125 page manual, vibrant forum and SUPERIOR support from the developer you find it becomes easier. At this point, the 'civilization' syndrome kicks in, just one more turn, one more battle, one more warp to a new system. Overcome the steep learning curve and you will be rewarded! Thanks to SpaceGameJunkie for recommending

any space fan will love this game lots of minigames and lots of upgrades all this game eneds is an online leaderboard very well do reccomend this game tutorial is thorough

Great. A very indepth space exploration and combat game. Whilst people may complain about graphic quality- use your imagination- that's what we had to do when i had a Vic20. Hopefully some DLC might arrive soon.

The core gameplay mechanic is a series of gemeric mini games, the best of which is ripped off whole cloth from Star Control 2. The tutorial is 2 hours long. Do not recomend.

I love this game. If you played Starflight or similar games, you will love this game too. Deep, deep, deep... and arcadey minigames like ship boarding and asteroid variations and a planetary lander and more. Heads up - V-sync ON and Monitor at 60 Mhz, game needs to run at 60 FPS or it too fast to play (FPS tied to refresh rate, and gameplay speed is tied to FPS)