Starcom: Unknown Space Reviews

This is banger of a space exploration game. This game leans harder in the space exploration direction than games like Rebel Galaxy and I LOVE IT. This game makes me want to go back and replay StarCom: Nexus, the previous game in the series (also a banger). Pros: - Some missions have subtle clues where you need to use the well-implemented search function to revisit information/locations that new information has revealed to be important. This feature is well implemented and resulted in a bunch of fun ah-ha! moments. Cons: - I missed a few things during natural exploration and had to consult the forums/guides. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some of the mission clues are pretty subtle (but there) and I don't fault the developer when I miss clues. - There were few missions where the mission tracker should have been more explicit about the location of the mission giver for the final mission turn-in. While the log search function works great, it feels like busy work when I forgot where X race is located. Maybe space races should have labelled territories on the map?

Great amount of fun and content for your money. Ship building is super satisfying and allows for lots of creativity. Lovely humor and well written events. Combat is fun and makes you grin satisfied as the enemies explode in their little pisspods while your overpowered pinnacle of engineering, which only a genius could have designed, melts because you forgot heat management.

Just boring. Good concept but feels empty and unfinished. Played about 40 hours and at least 20 of that was watching Youtube waiting on my ship to fly to a location.

really fun! Despite the remainder of what I'm writing below, I do recommend this game. I wish it had an "endless" mode at the end. I mean you went through SO MUCH effort to produce something with such great quality, but the end it just drops to the credits. Why not make tiers, increase difficulty, increase costs, increase xp --- endlessly. Really enjoyed playing this, but it will sit in my steam inventory for the remainder of my life, since once you beat it, it's done.

Great game can just recommend this. I have seen some bad reviews wh o made me sad because this game is not a game wich takes your hands and drags you through everything. This game can REALLY be explored and you can find many cool things beside the main story and quests by exploring everything yourself. And of course you can find overpwoered enemies or spend 10minutes finding only some materials. but Thats what exploration simply is. The combat is nice and works well. espacially for the prize of this game i t has much potential and you can easy get at least 25h of gameplay out of it even when rushing the main story.

The best complement I can give this game: It gives me the same feeling as playing Escape Velocity for the first time on an old Macintosh in 1997. Exploring a huge-feeling universe, examining planets, gradually upgrading your tiny shuttle into a formidable cruiser, and getting into trouble. My favorite detail: some planets are rendered with little sparkles of upper atmospheric TLEs/sprites. There are a few little quality of life tweaks I think could improve the experience, but I still give it my unqualified recommendation for anyone who enjoys the top down space sim genre.

Its great. Dave the Diver in space. Oddly its an original feeling game, quite unusual these days. No one component is new, but together somehow its unique. A very fun space exploration and adventure game with a solid plot. I'd highly recommend it. Everything about it compels you forwards. Plus, 30 hrs to complete is very refreshing. It leaves you wanting a little more. 9 / 10

Good, well balanced game. Length is fine, story is good, lore is exceptional

Fun game, would say this is a 30 hour title before you get tired of the gameplay loop. This is much so a read for lore and where decisions have consequences. If you like reading books and playing at your pace solo its a fun starship game.

I've played a lot of official Star Trek games and to me this feels more Star Trek than any of them. I was initially a little put off by the reflex based combat but it quickly became not a problem. Truth is, the game is a little bit on the easy side in that regard, there's a very small ramp up at the beginning where things can be a little tough but it's fairly easy to build a ship that lets you just roll into a sector and pretty much wreck anything that comes near you. The strength is the exploration and story. There's a lot going on and that can be a little bit of a problem because it can be hard to remember all the story threads. Imagine watching 10 Star Trek episodes by watching 5 minutes of one and then randomly switching to another one and watching 5 minutes of that, and so forth. When my engineer says "hey, this will fit that artifact we found" I'm like "uhhh... what artifact?" But fortunately the quest log is pretty good and they do a nice job of marking your map. Side quest overload definitely isn't something unique to just this game. Definitely recommended. Feels like a space version of Sunless Sea and that's one of my favorites.