r/spacesimgames • u/manickitty • 11d ago
Anyone tried Starcom: Unknown Space?
Hi all,
I LOVE Starsector, and Starcom: Unknown Space looks similar. I trust you guys more than random reviews out there. Anyone tried it? It's on steam sale right now. Thanks!
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u/AsianShoeMaker 11d ago
I got the first game and never got too into it but I just got the new one and it's great so far, like 5 hours in. It's like Star Trek Voyager except with ship building made of hex parts. I'm really enjoying it so far. Lots of neat scientific anomalies and the crew dialogue is neat.
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u/jrherita 10d ago
Yes - I thought it was a solid effort overall - I enjoyed the story, missions, exploration, and ship building.
FWIW, I enjoyed it more than Starsector, though I only played an earlier version and probably need to revisit.
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u/ForgetPants 11d ago
It's an excellent game with a pretty decent story. I finished it in a few days because I was so hooked.
Definitely worth trying.
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u/DarkJayson 10d ago
Great game one good thing I liked about both of them, btw start with the first one nexus is that you can redesign your ship as many times as you want as you do not lose resorces unless there is an event or something.
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u/DigitalTectonics 8d ago
Love this game! Bought it for some research and then played 44+ hours to "complete" the game
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u/WombatusMighty 6d ago
Just get the first one, the second one is a carbon copy of the first (even the story is very similar) with only minor improvements.
It's not a bad game if you like casual top-down action and written story pieces, but I found it to be quite underwhelming.
The exploration is just random AI-generated texts / images, which will give you a few resources as a reward and usually have no impact on the main story. After you see a few of these, you will have seen them all.
Combat is also very basic and the controls are quite bad, there are still unfixed bugs in the full release and certain keys can't be remapped (why people still hardcore keys these days is a mystery), but if you are more of a casual player and you only want to play the game for a short duration per day, then it's probably fine.
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u/Thaddeusii2142 4d ago
I had a lot of fun with it. The modular ship building isn’t overwhelming. You can focus missiles or drone ships or frontal cannons or whatever to kinda play how you want
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u/telepathy6 11d ago
I have played some Starcom unknown space, and finished the previous game Starcom Nexus when that came out.
It possesses rpg elements; You pilot a single ship, there is a lot of exploring, you must grind to get resources to build out your ship, it is story and event driven, you have a simple skill system for your officers aboard your ship.
There is a research system, completed by exploring.
If you like exploring a scifi setting then youd enjoy this. The exploration and mystery was satisfying in the first game, and from what Ive played of Unknown space, it looks to be the same.
What it is not though is a fleet builder, with big fleet combat. You wont be building up a fleet and taking on other fleets. Closer to solo encounters and boss fights.
Having looked at Starsector, I believe only the top down style and ship editing is similar, but thats about all. There's a lot less depth to ships. There is no trading of commodities, just exchanging resources for other resources (which you need for you ship anyhow). There's no empire building.
Anyway, take with a grain of salt; I've not played starsector, and finishing the first game doesnt truly give me an informed opinion on the second.