There's just too little meaning to anything. It's meant to be a sandbox, but there's no life or soul to the universe. The stations are a spreadsheet. Nothing has a story to it. There's no sidequesting that I found. The main quest line is slow. It's like the complaints about Stellaris, except Stellaris at least puts in little mini-stories. This is certainly not a spiritual successor to something like Escape Velocity. It's less a sandbox, and more of a desert.

Star Valor is an ambitious attempt at a space opera where the top down dogfights are the centrepiece. On the plus side there are tonnes of ships and gear, the gameplay is simple but engaging, the aesthetic and backgrounds are just epic enough without being cartoonishly over the top and the music and sounds really add tot he atmosphere. On the downside, however, the balance is all over the place, the role-play aspect is sparse (despite there technically being 5 main factions) and there's almost zero story other than the one in your own head. Additionally, the early game is decent the mid game is grindy and the end game is practically non existent when you get there. I don't want to be too negative, I have had fun with Star Valor I've played it for a decent chunk of time and for what it is its good; I just wish it was deeper and better so i could spend another 90 hours on it, because Star Valor despite the flaws it has is really close to being amazing.

It is a decent space rpg. However, the grind is a bit too much for my taste and the real deal killer for me was the save bug. As my game time got longer and longer the save would crash more often to where once I was at the 20 hour mark about 1/3 of my saves would crash the game to the desktop. This wouldn't be too bad except the game crashed before the save kept. Therefore, I would lose all my progress from the last save 1/3 of the time. This was just too soul crushing for me to continue playing with.

While it is a fun game, there are a variety of problems that I think stem primarily from how the game is being developed. Saving in this game is seemingly, quite horrid. Enemies (their positions, their types, their weapon load-outs) seemingly re-roll on relog depending on distance. I was defending a station when I got killed, and when the game reloaded, suddenly the enemy fleet was point-blank on the station. I was then, repeatedly, killed by this sandwich several times over until escape. The game had auto-saved me here, and my last manual save was fifteen minutes ago. Because, on top of this, the game does NOT support multiple save files. The developer themselves stated it was because they wanted to "prevent save scumming features" before adding it in. This does mean, that if your auto-save and your manual save gets corrupted, you could lose all of your progress. And it brings me concern that perhaps the Developer, might care a bit more about making sure players play their game '...

Pffffffft, it's pretty hard to post a review on this, but in the end....nah, can't recommend it. It falls incredibly flat. It's trying to be the 2D space sim we all want but the industry stubbornly refuses to make, but once you get into it the whole experience is way too shallow and eventually just becomes frustrating. You start off grinding out mining and trading, and it's what you expect and that's fine....almost. The galaxy always seems to end up populated mostly by empty space and pirate controlled sectors rather than civilizations and trade lanes. The most successful galactic empire in this game is the pirates. Seriously. That's a joke based on the facts. Sounds good if you want to be an explorer buuuuut....you just build a ship for speed and move across each sector like a window cleaner to uncover it all and move on. So the trading ends up kinda....meh. The mining starts off great and ends up....meh. Problems are starting to appear. The game is all or nothing. Want to trade...

This game maybe interesting at the beginning, but very quickly its becoming dull and just boring. This game is essentially a dummy that tries to look like a game. All the game mechanics are empty and have nothing to really offer. The game is designed around early game and have nothing for late game, main story is extremely short, rewards for doing boring repetitive quests are so small that at midway trough your progression they become useless, level cap for systems is 52 which becomes too easy if you have at least normal load out at level 20. Relation ship with factions doesn't give you anything besides access to their specific ships, which are useless by the moment you get them because there is no endgame. Game will just stops scaling for you when you reach lvl 20 which is only midway to the max lvl. When you get coolest ship you can get or built an fleet, there is suddenly nothing to do, at all. Developer expect you to drop the game and just begin new one, the whole game is built aro...

Its mixed feeling about this one. Its a lot of potential, but lacking something. Feels like similar but worse version of "Space Rangers HD: A War Apart. I would suggest better playing that game.

Game is great over all, 7+/10... The Game UI is mind stabbingly awful (I knocked off 3 points for that alone) but like stockhome syndrome, love it anyway... I managed to push past UI issues and enjoy the over all game play loop.

100% a space combat sandbox. If that's your thing, it's fun for a bit. Otherwise, it's very shallow. You get money by fighting (or mining, which is trivial with drones), upgrade gear on a size 2 or 3 ship until it's so fast that nothing can catch you, then quickly realise there was no point to any of this. Every system is empty and uninteresting, every station has the same fetch/fight/deliver quests, trading isn't worthwhile, salvaging space trash gives the same 3 items most of the time, and the galaxy is mostly static and uninteresting. It's the same all the way out to the edge of the galaxy - even finding the secret faction achieves nothing. Factions need stronger identities outside of ships, there needs to be more of them, and they need to be clustered together more often to give the RNG galaxy some form and function. This would fix trading i.e. if miners always sold cheap ice and metals, then some industrial faction always bought metal at high prices. If that's too static, combin...

I would like to recomend this game, it's good. Flying is fun, equiping your ship has meaningful consequences and you have a wide variety of stuff to use. Sadly the quest system is broken and there is no main quest. So once you finish the tutorial, you do random procedural quests for a while, but then realise it's all very samey.