Jumpdrive Reviews

Paragon is great. This is a fork of the Pioneer Space Sim project, with considerable enhancements that make it worth charging for their efforts. If you're undecided about Paragon, dip your toe in Pioneer then come back and show these guys some money. Essentially this is a remake of Frontier Development's "Frontier" games, the sequel to Elite. If you want to play Elite, check out Oolite, which is a free project as well. If you're a player of Elite Dangerous, you might consider picking up Paragon as well, because while not multiplayer enabled (someday please?) this is a spiritually similar experience, albeit with much more "space trucking" and less of an action component. It's a pretty chill, relaxing game, and autopilot handles the majority of navigation tasks for you.

Finaly they have implemented frictionless space which gives the sim a real space feeling. I don't feel like driving a truck or airplane in space anymore. Also, by doing this, my space ship does not run after moons and planets that either turn or move too fast for my ship. I can now accelerate indefinitively! Don't trust the graphics, this game ain't about graphics, but about being a sandbox where you can explore a vast amount of star systems (when I say vast, I am not talking about 25 or 50, but lots). It is a great facelift of Frontier - First Encounter that appeared in the early 1990s. Thumbs up for the idea.

Well I liked the game alot and bought it very early in the alpha stage but after coming back to it to check on progress it turns out it hasn't been updated in more a year or so at the time of typing this. It's a shame as this had huge potential since the market for good space sim games is very limited at the moment (especially on steam), I'll continue to play it every now and then since I still like it and the game file itself is small but I can not recommend for new players,

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! This Game is basically a fork of an open source game called Pioneer which has had some graphical and UI changes made to it. The 1.0 "Release" is a complete joke, even the game itself proclaims it is alpha, and even still calls itself Paragon in some of the text in the game. The Dev's claimed to have been silent while working hard towards release and yet the last code commit to their github was back in mid 2016. They abandoned this and then hoped by reducing the price and calling it "Released" that they might scam some extra money out of the STEAM user base. Don't fall for it! Go to Github and look up Pioneer, it's more finished than Jumpdrive, is essentially the same game but free. Also features that don't work in Jumpdrive that are directly copied from Pioneer, actually do work in Pioneer. Just as an example I can't change my character's name and nothing is displayed in the portrait. Both these features work perfectly in Pioneer. Also I was lucky to make 10 minutes in Jumpdrive before it crashed. Played Pioneer for 5 hours straight after I found it and got myself a copy. This game is going into my dead category and is being replaced with Pioneer and all it's free goodness. Incase Steam allows it I'll try posting a link: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim If the link doesn't work just search Github for pioneerspacesim. If you check it out you'll find a lot of the minor art assets were lifted straight or minimally altered when Meteoric Games decided to steal this piece of Opensource Joy. PLEASE VALVE, STEAM NEEDS TO DO BETTER AND REMOVE GARBAGE LIKE THIS FROM THE STORE! THIS IS A BLATANT RIP-OFF AND IS IN NO WAY A FINISHED GAME!

[strike] I love this game's aesthetic themed like an 80's sci-fi movie with retro-futuristic synth music, but unfortunalty this game has become unplayable. It also seems development has crashed into a wall at 100 MPH because there hans't been any updates for a decent amount of time without a word. At anytime before it stopped working I would've recommended this game, but unfortunately I can't. [/strike] So the devs of Meteoric Games reached out to me on my poorly written review I typed on my phone when I was bored to give the game another go, so I did. My points still stand. The game looks A+ for an independently made space sim, and the soundtrack still gets me pumped, but the large problem is just that; it's independently made. I'm not saying indie space sims are bad, but it's still too early in development for this game to be playable. - It's highly unstable and crashes happen in ways that confuse me. The crashes are frequent but never happen doing the same thing i.e. fast traveling, jumping to another system, or simply requesting take-off. - The new autopilot fast travel is frightening. One second you're in space, the next you're colliding with the inner mesh of a planet (it teleports you inside the planet). It was fine when autopilot actually flew you to your destination, albiet it would occasionally smash you into a station or planet. - The camera controls are stiff, and the flight controls for the mouse are too touchcy. - Things I haven't tested are combat, missions, trading... but that's only because I can't get to that point. Kudos for the team reaching out to it's audience, but sadly this is a review for the game; not the team's performance.

Game had huge potential but the new Dev team just disappeared. The official website is down, along with the foruns. Another Early Access letdown. Dont buy it.

The game is far, far from complete and abandoned by the devs. If you're looking for a good space sim, try Elite: Dangerous or the X series.

There is one thing we have to get out of the way: Jumpdrive was Paragon which is is a mod/fork of the open source space sim Pioneer, a modern reworking of the great space sim Elite by David Braben that we were all raving about since 1984. As it stands this is as close as you are going to get right now to having Elite itself on steam, which is no bad thing ...... Well worth the purchase price for that little convenience alone. So the 80s style comes as no surprise, and the artwork (cockpits etc) are good quality. Music is top notch as well, hinting at radiophonic and kraftwerk, it goes to make a perfect background to this space sim. Runs like a dream and you can max the graphics on a modest PC. It really does have the spirit and feel of Elite. So my recommendation is a thumbs up with crossed fingers, trusting that the development of Paragon will continue along its own lines and not fall down like so many other early access titles have been doing on steam over the last few months.

Unfortunately, this game has become all but unplayable over the past months. Issues ranging from consistent long load times (or the more likely failures requiring hard resets) at start up to freezes at the end of nearly every jump and worse. I gave it a shot because of the cheap price and concept, but as of 12/17/2014 it may as well be a pet rock. I wish the dev team good luck and hope one day to be given a reason to revise this review, but I cannot in good faith recommend this work in progress and suggest others avoid purchasing this alpha title until extensive work has been done to improve the overall game environment.

This game was abandoned for a long time, with no updates or progress. Then we got one patch, then months later, it's now "released." However, as I write this, it still not only calls itself an "alpha," but still uses its old title "Paragon" inside the game. It seems as if this has been "released" with no changes or updates in several months, and much is still broken. To test it, I took a simple delivery mission. I took off, jumped, then tried to autopilot to the base, which was planetside. The autopilot would fly toward the planet, then away, repeatedly, for half a dozen times at least. I then used the autopilot to dock at an orbital base, which did work. I then left the orbital base and once again set course for the planet. This time the autopilot properly approached the base, but brought me in and landed me sideways, only righting me once on the ground. Upon landing, the mission would not complete, even though I'd made it to the prescribed location before the deadline. In the contact list, no ships were listed, even though I could see several with the good ol' Mark 1 Eyeball. Do not buy this game. It's not in any way finished. Far from it. Just stay away and go buy Evochron Legacy, or play Pioneer (the original version of this game before it forked off) for free. Update: Here's a video I did showing just what a mess this "release" is. https://youtu.be/zUfXFHzHw-g