Fringes of the Empire Reviews

Fringes of the Empire was released via early access back in November and according to the developer is expected to be in early access for at least a couple of years as there is only one person (Mad Merv) working on this title. He expects the game to increase in price when the game is released. The full price is £14.99 which I personally was happy to pay as I love single player roguelike shmups. I've played the game for several hours so far and although at times I found the game a little slow, most of the time I throughly enjoyed playing the game. You can see where enemy ships are located via the mini map that is provided. The developer has promised ship to ship encounters (i.e. being able to board the ships and fight your way through the enemy ship; however, at this time there is only ship to ship fighting via the usual lasers, photon and rocket weapons). I've still to find many of the promised thirty plus weapons and allthough I've encountered quite a few weird and wonderful looking ships there's a lot i've still to discover. There is a level editor and in future there will be scope for shareable moddale content, so the potential for unlimited content if this game becomes popular is petty much assured. The art style is original and IMO excellent, with a retro feel, but without the pixillated graphics older games have. There's a large number of enemy ship types (86 at the time of writing) as well as friendlies that can help defeat stronger enemies. The game also has RPG elements with upgreadable weapons, ships and crew training. This is only an initial overview of what I've found so far. I expect to play this game for many more hours over the coming months and years, so will be updating this review as and when I am able. I will be keeping an eye on the developers updates. His last one was 31st December 2015 and prior to that about 6 weeks before release. You can see some videos of the game [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNe-0uQ2h1U][b]HERE[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-0dMXCSW0][b]HERE[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGBTaAG9Yg][b]HERE[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piHBlRrw0xw][b]HERE[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyT4l9oxIQU][b]HERE[/b][/url], and [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903YZf34zA4][b]HERE[/b][/url], http://store.steampowered.com/app/402970/ You can see the developers SpacegameJunkie Podcast via the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STXqTU8YOeI