Starcom Nexus
You’ve finally made it out of the academy and have been given your first ship to command. Sure it’s just a light shuttle, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right? Suddenly “somewhere” is stranded in an unknown galaxy surrounded by hostile aliens and no way home.
Explore the beautiful and mysterious open-world of Starcom: Nexus. It’s a universe where you’ll battle or befriend strange alien races, discover ancient artifacts, research powerful technologies and build your ultimate starship.
Features:
- Fully open-world universe with numerous quests and storylines
- Hundreds of unique planet anomalies, space discoveries, artifacts and more!
- Fast-paced, exciting combat with numerous hostile factions
- Over 150 technologies to research
- Design your own ship using a modular construction system
- Talk and trade with multiple alien factions, each with their own agendas and dynamic AI
- Lots of hidden secrets and side quests
- Quick save anywhere
- Much, much more!
Starcom Nexus Review
This was a fantastic game. It evoked the memories and joy of playing Star Control 2 (one of my favorites) without being very much like Star Control 2 at all.
The storyline was really interesting to me, but discussing it would be pretty spoiler-y so I’ll leave it alone. But essentially you’re stuck somewhere without the resources and knowledge of your homeworld and need to find a way to survive and maybe get home. As any plucky space hero knows, that means going out to beg, borrow, steal, stripmine, salvage and, when all else fails, buy resources and technology from any and all sources to build a bigger ship with as many guns on it as possible.
Exploring planets feels risky, but not punishingly so, and you are often rewarded for – or at least can avoid the grisly death of yet another xenobiologist by – paying attention to details and clues found on other away missions (also, whenever you find something weird you can’t do anything with yet you should probably leave yourself a note on the map). I really enjoyed the breadth of the lore found in my exploration, sometimes a thing would be related to the main story, sometimes it would just be finding out about some ancient tragedy or accident. It made the galaxy of this game feel like it was inhabited by others with their own stories and more than just a lonely sandbox for me to play in.
The ship building and research system were really cool, and worked together flawlessly. It was fun to design new specialty ships for speed or power or for specific tasks. Combat was satisfying, but I played on normal and at a certain level of tech and resource availability it became fairly trivial (Check it out. Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx. Fry half a city with this puppy. … We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks…). To be fair that should be part of the reward for exploring every backwater planet for megatons of resources and weird alien tech. When I play through again in a few months it will definitely be at a higher combat difficulty.
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