Qanga definitely has my attention. Also appears you can host your own servers, so no worrying about a live service game dying down the road, as we see time and time again.
I just got delta V rings of Saturn. The demo is apparently the full game but I went ahead and dropped the $6 on it to support the dev cuz they did a great job on one thing and they did that one thing well in my opinion. It didn’t come out this year so I’m sure that’s why it didn’t make your list here, none the less a neat game. The other one that could use some attention is stationeers. They’ve done so much with that game and it’s become a very niche game for building management and crafting. It’s also on sale but it’s been in early access so long it’s probably never going to be fully released.
The first Starcom was excellent, and this sequel iterates properly on it. Highly recommend checking it out, lots of fun exploration and pretty decent ship building & combat
@@pawemaleszewski133 Found it vastly overrated. Bloated with shallow mechanics, doesn't have fun combat, forces you into large fleets and isn't on Steam. Neat indie game with a 'big' scene of fan support behind it, but despite the visual similarities doesn't play anything like Starcom
Cant agree on first Starcom, didnt played this one. The first one felt clunky (there was something odd with controls and movement, it felt weird), the story was generic with stuff you did hear or read already thousand times, gameplay repetitive... you could adjust the hull and stuff i guess. I remember it was cheap but very meh for me. Excellent is very strong word either way. Mundane, mediocre, average... those are words i have on mind.
Between the Stars is good, I've got 22 hours in it. It is open world but it mostly seems geared towards a main storyline not unlike old games like Wing Commander. Except you command a capital ship in this one. You can fly around 3D space, but effectively it's a 2D game in a 3D area. During battles it can help to manuever in 3D. The missions sometimes have "choose your own adventure" parts that you mostly read, but it's well done. The game is interesting in a unique way. It's about 40% classic space adventure, 20% jank, and 40% unique ideas.
That's the most promising game I've seen in years and the fact that it's done by an independent studio is blowing my mind. Take this David Braben and Chris Robert! By the way.. VR anyone? :P
Little hesitant about Qanga. It seems to be trying to out star citizen Star Citizen with a healthy dash of Space Engineers thrown in. That's a lot to promise in one package, but we'll have to wait and see.
These types of games always end up being either super empty, much smaller than anticipated, or super repetitive. There just is no magic trick that could generate the amount of content necessary for a game like that without using procedural generation, which ends up making everything feel meaningless and janky.
NeoProxima looks really cool. The visuals and the crew records screen in the video reminded me of Norco, another great point&click game. Thanks for the recommendation
Thanks for that roundup, @OA. First couple aren't "in my bailiwick", but Between the Stars looks promising. Qanga looks intriguing - will check out your video. I'm with you on NeoProxima - the 16/32bit era nostalgia is quite attractive for those of us from a certain era! 🍻 - Thanks for the tip!
I just picked up Starcom and I have not been able to put it down. I love the ship building and exploration aspects to the game. It's also just a chill game to play.
Between the Stars is very addictive! The gameplay systems fit very well together and the story is written really good. It's really fun! Edit: Qanga looks really nice! I'll get it.
All wonderful and interesting space games. Qanga looks really beautiful with the correct lighting model, will keep an eye out for this one. I also will be watching NeoProxima, because it looks amazing also.
Look into Frontiers Reach. It's a really unique space game that no one seems to know about and is criminally underatted. No plublicity, not a whisper, nothing.
This channel, with every new video release, always raising the one and only question for me, how can you enjoy and stick with only one and only genre as a gamer?
I enjoy a lot of genres. :) It's just that this channel mostly focuses on space games. I would actually cover a lot more genres if the algorithm didn't bury those videos.
Just found out me and OA are the same age. Definitely lines up! We have so many games in common. That last game reminded me of Trade Wars. Text based game. Old school. Thanks for making this. Space flight games have always been my favorite. Always praying for another Elite Or something like a remade Privateer game. Star Citizen I thought was the answer. I invested in it 10 years ago. Not sure if my latest rig will still run it. I need to check in on Spacebourne 2.
I got Between the Stars in a Bundle, Started playing it not expecting much but really loved it. And the story is really amazing with a few twists here and there and as far as I know it's complete. You eventually even get attached to some of the characters and it was overall a very enjoyable experience.
9:57 Qanga gives me heavy Star Citizen vibes. Even the MFDs in the cockpit and the vehicle terminal. Almost like they took an earlier build and added a few assets.
I play Between the Stars, and I did want 'fighter craft' for the longest time....until I realized the problem with that. The game has advanced point defense systems that could take out a missile before it got halfway from the enemy ship and the firing tube, fighters would quickly be shot out of the way, also there are magnetic mines in the game, a capital ship can take a hit with or without shield....a fighter wouldn't last one shot, or the mines could take out a whole squadron. Now if there were 'shuttle' ships to add to your primary ship, instead of mercenary vessels, and used for special missions where you could use your reserve crew, I could see that. As for story line, it's okay, but there are a few things I don't like, for example I don't think there are enough 'middle' options which seems to be a problem with many choose your own adventure games. One example is where you can save a young woman from overdose or if she dies take her boyfriend instead for a 'redemption' arch, or save and leave him behind. You could do both. Save her, he begs to follow her, have your crew throw him in the brig to sober up and play both story lines, that give benefits, and maybe add an additional story line where one forgives the other.
Yes, finally I can state my two cents on some of the games mentioned: Lets get the big boi out of it: Qanga - I played it and it feels okay. Not good just plain okay. The music in this game seems AI generated and the characters look awful. Also the gameplay and controls feel weird. This is a game that needs polish and actually do some interesting things with the story. Overall a game that is interesting on the surface but shallow on closeup. (Although, I also dislike Spaceborne 2 while others really like it. So take it with a grain of salt, maybe? I maybe have a too high standard) Between the stars - I absolutely liked it. The mechanics are interesting and the game itself looks really great. Also the fighting is really cool. I was not expecting that much out of this game and it absolutely blew my expectations: It was amazing! Definitely something people should grab when they want a narrative and good gameplay. :) Underspace - Was something that I wanted to play. No damn space game tries to make cosmic horrors a thing and that got me hooked - But seeing the gameplay even the gameplay seem interesting. Definitely look into this now.
Not sure if you have already, but take a look at doing a video on Void Crew. Sea Of Thieves style game but in space. Just recently got it with a few mates and its really fun so far.
tbh Little Known Galaxy from just this bit that you've shown looks like SDV but with space skin on it, like animations, movement etc. just looks straight up 1:1 from it.
I picked up all the x4 expansions as they're on sale now (save timelines) unfortunately, I now have 4 expansions worth of missions and the Argons are getting utterly brutalized by some new split faction after having already incurred heavy Xenon losses.
@@davewills148 I honestly love SC! But SQ42 will bring the single player people's over.. Plus I like the cast and hoping for some decent free form end game
@@VeryBritishGaming I Agree, many will move house to SQ42, No push for Group play, everything earned in game. The only issue i have with SQ42....and ive had a copy on another side account for yrs is, the FOMO, can you imagine the tie-ins, after all, SQ42 is a promo to buy star Citizen, that's why CIG want SQ42 on console as quickly as possible. There will be a huge migration from SC, especially when its as wrecked as it is now.
@@VeryBritishGaming Its a strange game, the Concierge live in denial, many just refuse to acknowledged the state of this patch, i checked two accounts, Microtech/Orison, not using the ASOP's at the spaceport but in my hangar, choose a ship, told me it had been delivered........nothing, hangar ASOP greyed out. And after 5+ yrs i know when an issue is client side....its not, its server side. I could quite see a rolling back to 3.23.1a. Anyways rant over. Good times
Qanga looks amazing but also way too ambitious for a small team. There are also barely any videos on it and it only has 25 reviews on Steam. Seems suspicious...
I really really want to like Between the Stars but the camera control was *terrible* last time I tried. I mean, the camera has a different behavior for vertical motion and horizontal motion in every single mode, it make it really hard to shoot at things when one axis is tied to your ship heading and the other is tied to your cursor. Very disorienting. Everything else is pretty great but it's hard to enjoy the game when it gives a headache within an hour of playing.
Mainstream games industry doesnt like the genre, lots of good space games are indie, crowdfunded or passion projects. That said, Everspace 2 is a great console space game, if youre into action rpgs
Between the stars is an awful game. Half-baked features, dreadful UI, nonsensical design decisions, wasted opportunities. For instance, the game has 3d crew members, but there is no purpose (e.g. bridge, on foot exploration, story cutscenes etc) to take advantage of that. It is basically like Rebel Galaxy (the 1st game), but made by idiots.
Qanga definitely has my attention. Also appears you can host your own servers, so no worrying about a live service game dying down the road, as we see time and time again.
to be fair, "Concord" besides nuking their own servers was also a bad game.
@@zimriel true, though I wasn't even thinking of that trash, I was thinking of games that were actually fun, eg Worlds Adrift. Or any number of MMOs.
Starcom looks great! Looks like an evolution of Solar winds (1993) which had great music, story and visuals for the time.
Really glad to see Underspace getting some attention! It looks like the most faithful Freelancer remake I've ever seen.
I love Underspace, as a Discovery Freelancer player still, it gave me that similar vibe
I just got delta V rings of Saturn. The demo is apparently the full game but I went ahead and dropped the $6 on it to support the dev cuz they did a great job on one thing and they did that one thing well in my opinion. It didn’t come out this year so I’m sure that’s why it didn’t make your list here, none the less a neat game. The other one that could use some attention is stationeers. They’ve done so much with that game and it’s become a very niche game for building management and crafting. It’s also on sale but it’s been in early access so long it’s probably never going to be fully released.
Please keep us updated on Qanga, looks pretty insane but it could be a total failure on the long run too.
The first Starcom was excellent, and this sequel iterates properly on it. Highly recommend checking it out, lots of fun exploration and pretty decent ship building & combat
Own both, great games both of them
I am blown away by the new starcom. Might be a top 5 indie for me.
@@brau3690 Recommending starsector
@@pawemaleszewski133 Found it vastly overrated. Bloated with shallow mechanics, doesn't have fun combat, forces you into large fleets and isn't on Steam. Neat indie game with a 'big' scene of fan support behind it, but despite the visual similarities doesn't play anything like Starcom
Cant agree on first Starcom, didnt played this one. The first one felt clunky (there was something odd with controls and movement, it felt weird), the story was generic with stuff you did hear or read already thousand times, gameplay repetitive... you could adjust the hull and stuff i guess. I remember it was cheap but very meh for me. Excellent is very strong word either way. Mundane, mediocre, average... those are words i have on mind.
Qanga looks intriguing, I’m going to get the demo and check it out. Looks like how Star Ciitzen should be in theory, let’s see..
Starcom has Solar Winds vibes to it which I absolutely loved back in the 90's.
I didn't think anybody else remembered that game. It also reminds me a bit of Star Control 2. I went ahead and picked that one up.
Starflight
Starcom Unknown Space is such a cool game, i've been loving it!
Between the Stars is good, I've got 22 hours in it. It is open world but it mostly seems geared towards a main storyline not unlike old games like Wing Commander. Except you command a capital ship in this one.
You can fly around 3D space, but effectively it's a 2D game in a 3D area. During battles it can help to manuever in 3D. The missions sometimes have "choose your own adventure" parts that you mostly read, but it's well done. The game is interesting in a unique way. It's about 40% classic space adventure, 20% jank, and 40% unique ideas.
This is why I'm a subscriber, I discover cool space games, thanks!
With the sale going on i was hoping for a video like this, thanks Ant!
Don't sleep on star trucker, absolutely fantastic game
It's not on my list simply due to the comical esthetics. It looks too goofy to take seriously. I could be wrong though.
@@dsmluck I thought that at first too but it's impressively immersive and outright gorgeous in some places
That's the most promising game I've seen in years and the fact that it's done by an independent studio is blowing my mind. Take this David Braben and Chris Robert!
By the way.. VR anyone? :P
Little hesitant about Qanga. It seems to be trying to out star citizen Star Citizen with a healthy dash of Space Engineers thrown in. That's a lot to promise in one package, but we'll have to wait and see.
These types of games always end up being either super empty, much smaller than anticipated, or super repetitive. There just is no magic trick that could generate the amount of content necessary for a game like that without using procedural generation, which ends up making everything feel meaningless and janky.
I feel similar, haven't played either, but I'm with ya!
NeoProxima looks really cool. The visuals and the crew records screen in the video reminded me of Norco, another great point&click game. Thanks for the recommendation
yea its the only game that got my attention 👀
Between the Stars works wonderfully 11hrs in and I am a fan
Great video Ant definitely checking out some of these!
Thanks for that roundup, @OA. First couple aren't "in my bailiwick", but Between the Stars looks promising.
Qanga looks intriguing - will check out your video.
I'm with you on NeoProxima - the 16/32bit era nostalgia is quite attractive for those of us from a certain era! 🍻 - Thanks for the tip!
I just picked up Starcom and I have not been able to put it down. I love the ship building and exploration aspects to the game. It's also just a chill game to play.
Starcom: Unknown Space has been a double chocolate cheesecake of indie spaceship rpg goodness.
Between the Stars is very addictive! The gameplay systems fit very well together and the story is written really good. It's really fun!
Edit: Qanga looks really nice! I'll get it.
All wonderful and interesting space games. Qanga looks really beautiful with the correct lighting model, will keep an eye out for this one. I also will be watching NeoProxima, because it looks amazing also.
LOL, Starfield is getting elbowed in the ribs so hard in this toob, Todd Howard's going to need a defibrillator
Look into Frontiers Reach. It's a really unique space game that no one seems to know about and is criminally underatted. No plublicity, not a whisper, nothing.
I will need to try out Starcom. It looks like a single player version of the MMO Star Sonata.
Starcom IMMEDIATELY gives me "Escape Velocity" vibes and as an avid fan of the original, Override, AND Nova, I'm def getting this one.
This channel, with every new video release, always raising the one and only question for me, how can you enjoy and stick with only one and only genre as a gamer?
I enjoy a lot of genres. :) It's just that this channel mostly focuses on space games. I would actually cover a lot more genres if the algorithm didn't bury those videos.
Just found out me and OA are the same age.
Definitely lines up!
We have so many games in common.
That last game reminded me of Trade Wars.
Text based game. Old school.
Thanks for making this.
Space flight games have always been my favorite.
Always praying for another Elite
Or something like a remade Privateer game.
Star Citizen I thought was the answer. I invested in it 10 years ago.
Not sure if my latest rig will still run it.
I need to check in on Spacebourne 2.
I got Between the Stars in a Bundle, Started playing it not expecting much but really loved it. And the story is really amazing with a few twists here and there and as far as I know it's complete. You eventually even get attached to some of the characters and it was overall a very enjoyable experience.
quanga is basically star citizen
9:57 Qanga gives me heavy Star Citizen vibes. Even the MFDs in the cockpit and the vehicle terminal. Almost like they took an earlier build and added a few assets.
Qanga looks like a low-budget Star Citizen.
Still looking for something to scratch my Freelancer multiplayer itch. The custom mods and servers for that game were awesome!
I play Between the Stars, and I did want 'fighter craft' for the longest time....until I realized the problem with that.
The game has advanced point defense systems that could take out a missile before it got halfway from the enemy ship and the firing tube, fighters would quickly be shot out of the way, also there are magnetic mines in the game, a capital ship can take a hit with or without shield....a fighter wouldn't last one shot, or the mines could take out a whole squadron.
Now if there were 'shuttle' ships to add to your primary ship, instead of mercenary vessels, and used for special missions where you could use your reserve crew, I could see that.
As for story line, it's okay, but there are a few things I don't like, for example I don't think there are enough 'middle' options which seems to be a problem with many choose your own adventure games. One example is where you can save a young woman from overdose or if she dies take her boyfriend instead for a 'redemption' arch, or save and leave him behind. You could do both.
Save her, he begs to follow her, have your crew throw him in the brig to sober up and play both story lines, that give benefits, and maybe add an additional story line where one forgives the other.
Yes, finally I can state my two cents on some of the games mentioned:
Lets get the big boi out of it:
Qanga - I played it and it feels okay. Not good just plain okay. The music in this game seems AI generated and the characters look awful. Also the gameplay and controls feel weird.
This is a game that needs polish and actually do some interesting things with the story.
Overall a game that is interesting on the surface but shallow on closeup.
(Although, I also dislike Spaceborne 2 while others really like it. So take it with a grain of salt, maybe? I maybe have a too high standard)
Between the stars - I absolutely liked it. The mechanics are interesting and the game itself looks really great. Also the fighting is really cool. I was not expecting that much out of this game and it absolutely blew my expectations: It was amazing! Definitely something people should grab when they want a narrative and good gameplay. :)
Underspace - Was something that I wanted to play. No damn space game tries to make cosmic horrors a thing and that got me hooked - But seeing the gameplay even the gameplay seem interesting. Definitely look into this now.
Currently playing Spacebourne 2 they just finished their story finally!!!!
Not sure if you have already, but take a look at doing a video on Void Crew. Sea Of Thieves style game but in space. Just recently got it with a few mates and its really fun so far.
I really enjoyed between the stars! It's worth a shot, the characters and story was better than starfield
Starcom is a really fun game.
Qanga sounds like we've wanted from star citizen for years. Hopefully it goes better for the them.
handy vid obsidian!
tbh Little Known Galaxy from just this bit that you've shown looks like SDV but with space skin on it, like animations, movement etc. just looks straight up 1:1 from it.
Thankyou again for your excellent service OA. This is THE channel for space game coverage!
What is the music playing in the background on this video? It sounds great.
This looks a lot like Galaxy Genome on iOS, which in itself is a 2D Elite Dangerous.
You should check out Ascendance, upcoming 4X space game with The Expanse vibes
Underspace would look interesting if it didn't have space legs.
Spaceship commander...is very good too
Just updated Elite for under $10.
I picked up all the x4 expansions as they're on sale now (save timelines) unfortunately, I now have 4 expansions worth of missions and the Argons are getting utterly brutalized by some new split faction after having already incurred heavy Xenon losses.
Qanga cought my eye...
Qanga should keep us going until squadron 42 gets here........ 😂
We dont need SQ42, Star Citizen is enough, the FOMO in SQ42 will be painfull, along with the cheesy LORE
@@davewills148 I honestly love SC! But SQ42 will bring the single player people's over.. Plus I like the cast and hoping for some decent free form end game
@@VeryBritishGaming I Agree, many will move house to SQ42, No push for Group play, everything earned in game. The only issue i have with SQ42....and ive had a copy on another side account for yrs is, the FOMO, can you imagine the tie-ins, after all, SQ42 is a promo to buy star Citizen, that's why CIG want SQ42 on console as quickly as possible. There will be a huge migration from SC, especially when its as wrecked as it is now.
@@davewills148 Yea fair point.. Let's firmly cross our fingers and hope for a miraculous fixing of SC!
@@VeryBritishGaming Its a strange game, the Concierge live in denial, many just refuse to acknowledged the state of this patch, i checked two accounts, Microtech/Orison, not using the ASOP's at the spaceport but in my hangar, choose a ship, told me it had been delivered........nothing, hangar ASOP greyed out. And after 5+ yrs i know when an issue is client side....its not, its server side. I could quite see a rolling back to 3.23.1a. Anyways rant over. Good times
I need a game similar to eve online but single player. Any thoughts?
Isn't that pretty much exactly what X4 is?
Astrox Imperium is rather EVE-like, although its development seems to have stalled...
Tried the Qanga demo recently, runs like an absolute dog on my not so old pc. However, it's really good!
Feed me cosmos
Qanga looks amazing but also way too ambitious for a small team. There are also barely any videos on it and it only has 25 reviews on Steam. Seems suspicious...
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Qanga says release in 2027 on their Steampage...
Ah yes, I meant to mention that Qanga is still in early access.
@ObsidianAnt got me a bit excited about this game heh but that release date crushed me lol
@@ObsidianAnt it's in the video that it's early access, although you didn't say the words out loud
hmm went to check out between the stars.. says in library.. check it .. bought in 2020 played for 20 minutes, no memory of that at all ;)
How many of these are VR?
I really really want to like Between the Stars but the camera control was *terrible* last time I tried. I mean, the camera has a different behavior for vertical motion and horizontal motion in every single mode, it make it really hard to shoot at things when one axis is tied to your ship heading and the other is tied to your cursor. Very disorienting.
Everything else is pretty great but it's hard to enjoy the game when it gives a headache within an hour of playing.
Cant hear you. Too many thargoid explosions.
Unclear if you said fishing mini-game or fission mini-game.
And ... nothing on consoles ... ever 🤷🏻♂️
Mainstream games industry doesnt like the genre, lots of good space games are indie, crowdfunded or passion projects. That said, Everspace 2 is a great console space game, if youre into action rpgs
My credit card:
No, no, no, no.... your tought out of luck & credit chump...
I hate most space games coz of darkness😂...
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I don’t like the animation on the title cards, a bit dazzling, nothing personal though! ❤
Between the stars is an awful game. Half-baked features, dreadful UI, nonsensical design decisions, wasted opportunities. For instance, the game has 3d crew members, but there is no purpose (e.g. bridge, on foot exploration, story cutscenes etc) to take advantage of that. It is basically like Rebel Galaxy (the 1st game), but made by idiots.
In other words nothing to challenge Star Citizen. Thanks but I will wait for SC to get finished.