Ever since my brief Shattered Galaxy stint I’ve been loving the whole custom spaceship battling game. You get an empty hull and lots of options of how to fill it. The trick is the select a good combination of defensive and offensive weaponry. If you like this kind of puzzling, you’ll love the two games in this post.
First of, there’s
Gratuitous Space Battles. Although this game might look like an action game, there’s absolutely no action gaming involved whatsoever. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you. The game is about setting up a space fleet. You have virtually unlimited choices, which kind of makes it hard to get into at first. When you’ve tinkered with your fleet for a few hours you send them to battle.
This is where your involvement ends. It’s all on autopilot from here on. You can watch the battle to get a feel of how your options influence your ships efficiency. You don’t get to change anything though. So if you don’t like how it turns out, you have to restart.
The game is available on Steam if you want.
If you’d like a little action added to the mix and you don’t like paying for games. Orbital Decay is your game. It has less options, but there’s still a bunch. And you have one cannon (the main one) you can control. You can choose to go for a mostly auto-piloted game or you can start shooting away yourself. Or both. The choice is yours.
You’ll need a little time to find a strategy that fits you, so I suggest you start on easy. It might be a little too easy, but the normal difficulty level will probably kick your ass the first few times you try it.
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