I'm getting a lot out of X4 right now. It's a German 4x game where you start out doing Uber delvieries in a shitty space jalopy and end up building a massive industrial empire that spans star systems. You can fly all the ships in first person, there's mining, fighting, factory building, some politics, some killer robots, some charming capitalist space lizards. It's also got that classic "This is a weird German sim game with ludicrously complex possibilities none of which are adequately documented" thing going. Like swapping a pilot from one ship to another is never really explained and takes you on a journey across five different menus.
Idk how much of a splash Heat SIgnature made but it's an incredibly slick 2d action game where you have to infiltrate space ships to do missions, and you have a lot of ways to do that. Like "Slow time throw a wrench at a guy's head steal his gun teleport across the room" ninja action stuff, or wacky hijinks with telport traps, some turret hacking. Basically it gives you a set of toys, like a big wrench, or a teleporter that will port you back to where you started after three seconds, or a shot gun, then says "Go figure out how to use these toys to achieve your goal" in procedurally generated space ships. I cannot overstate how well it takes a straightforward premise and executes it in an extremely satisfying way.
I'm getting a lot out of X4 right now. It's a German 4x game where you start out doing Uber delvieries in a shitty space jalopy and end up building a massive industrial empire that spans star systems. You can fly all the ships in first person, there's mining, fighting, factory building, some politics, some killer robots, some charming capitalist space lizards. It's also got that classic "This is a weird German sim game with ludicrously complex possibilities none of which are adequately documented" thing going. Like swapping a pilot from one ship to another is never really explained and takes you on a journey across five different menus.
Idk how much of a splash Heat SIgnature made but it's an incredibly slick 2d action game where you have to infiltrate space ships to do missions, and you have a lot of ways to do that. Like "Slow time throw a wrench at a guy's head steal his gun teleport across the room" ninja action stuff, or wacky hijinks with telport traps, some turret hacking. Basically it gives you a set of toys, like a big wrench, or a teleporter that will port you back to where you started after three seconds, or a shot gun, then says "Go figure out how to use these toys to achieve your goal" in procedurally generated space ships. I cannot overstate how well it takes a straightforward premise and executes it in an extremely satisfying way.
Gunpoint meets FTL meets Super Hot meets Hotline Miami
Basically EVE online, but offline and with fewer players fucking you over and much faster to enjoy?