For the Uninitiated
It's Mount and Blade IN SPAAAACE. Same-ish strategic map and tactical battle gameplay, rewarding combat, with the same unforgiving nature.
Current Features
Starsector version 0.9 is now out! Here are some of the more prominent new features in this release:
- Establish colonies! Build up industrial production to make a profit, improve your colonies, and protect them from many dangers
- Visit a portside bar to find missions and other opportunities
- Fight alongside – or against – massive orbital stations
- Create your own faction and set up its military doctrine
- Find blueprints and use them to let your colonies produce ships, weapons, and fighters
- Face enemy ships with dynamically generated weapon loadouts
- Discover new dangers and derelicts on the fringes of the Sector
- Explore planetary ruins
- Raid core worlds for plunder or to disrupt your competition
Release in blog post here: http://fractalsoftworks.com/2018/11/16/starsector-0-9a-release/
Full patch notes here: http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13445.0