Recent reviews by knephisto

An engaging and well executed sci-fi roguelike deckbuilding card game, where you play as a sort of rogue trader that sees his route cut off when returning with a large shipment of goods (last big score kind of situation). As a result, you have no option but to try to survive by traversing though the galaxy's most dangerous paths.

This game has, simply put, amazing pixel art and music. The mood is perfect for its genre and you will, for certain, sometimes stop just to appreciate it visually.

In terms of gameplay, the card mechanics play as a space battle, based on 4 elements - attack, shield, status effects and deck manipulation. So far I'm really liking the type of synergies you can create between cards and the amount of variation already existing. As for your ship, in this version, you start the game by selecting from only two types of ships, with different characteristics, but more are planned.

To be clear, you can tell that it's an Early Access game from the amount of existing content and a few balancing issues it still has. However, the developer is clearly listening to players and using feedback to improve overall balance (I got the game on itch.io, where he did a soft-launch, to get feedback as soon as possible, for that exact purpose). Furthermore, his roadmap already includes more content and his updates have been quite frequent, always adding new stuff and fixing issues as they arise.

Overall, I'd say the game is very promising and already quite fun. A definite recommend!

One of the best games I have played in years. Couldn't turn it off until I finished it and still felt like repeating it. Haven't felt like that since I was a teenager.

Also, even though I like science fiction stories ("2001: A Space Odyssey" is one of my favorite movies of all time), I have felt very disapointed, for years now, regarding this genre. However, this game as very much surprised me. It stands as proof that a videogame can convey a meaningful and deep story, as any other medium (if not better).

Could not recommend this game any more. Congratulations to the developer!