Amazing totally underrated game. I have completely no experience of playing such galaxy-freeonroam games, but I had a lot of fun.

It includes brilliant OST, pretty good graphics and all that fits in less ~500 MB game size. It takes some time to learn how to play it, but it definitely worth it.

Must have.

This game is amazing. It has big boss battles, hilarious mission lines that you have to finish because you want to know what happens next. It has a huge loot table and if you don't get loot you want you can craft your own and then add looted modifiers to it. I was put off by the graphics at first but the insane, techno light show of the first boss changed my mind. This game can be beautifully trippy at times combined with a nice, pumping soundtrack. And it's $5? Unbelieveable.

I came into this not expecting much. I was more than a little surpised. This game is incredible. It managed to interest me in a way that no sci fi game since Star Control 2 has. At first I was afraid the game was going to be a twitch shooter, which do to slowed reflexes from age, I wouldn't be able to manage, but it turned out that it is more about how you have equipped your ship for each battle. It's also great that you can continue to play the game after the completion of the campaign.

The negatives:
It could have had more choices. I wish that you could make decisions that would have effects on the campaign.
It wasn't always clear what the information on the weapons were. How does force affect the amount of damage caused by the different weapons.
I wish there were mysteries in the game beyond the campaign, something to reward jumping into unknown random systems.


It's not really a complaint about this game, but it would be incredible if it had civilizations on the planets and you could actually get close to the worlds. Maybe allow you to dock with bases on the planets.


Positives:
Everything.
The gameplay is smooth and easy to learn.
The graphics are great and the different color combos really make your ships stand out.
The wide open exploration is fun.
The different entities you meet are actually interesting.
The story is great.

This game is a must play for anyone who loved SC3 or anyone waiting for No Man's Sky. It fulfills that space exploration itch that not too many games successfully manage.

((((( I HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME IN OFFLINE MODE FOR ATLEAST 40 HOURS )))))


I've played a bunch of the space rpg gerne. This game has limitless potential.
Sure, it's single player, but having beaten the game some time ago, I still find myself playing it 3+ hours a day.

Pro's ( Simple List )
- Lot's of customization, (endless loot, with random prefix's and altercations/modifications)
- Loads of replayability.
- As the description says, High paced combat, very addicting gameplay aswell!
- 10+ Player Ships, (that I currently know about.) Considering I have just found playable ship another twenty minutes ago suggests that just because you beat this game, doesnt mean you 'Beat' this game.)
P.S. I know that 'only 10ish' ships may not seem like a lot as a first impression, but in reality, considering what your ship is in this game, they are more comparable to playing styles, depending on which ship and how many slots for weapons/ drones / engines etc the ship has.
-After you beat this game, there is still a plethora of content to be unlocked. ( Through Randomly generated events or Missions, aswell as weapons from special vendors/stations that can only be obtained from 'Research', or Boatloads of credits.)
Free Roam!!! Not just 'free roam', I Literally mean you can travel to hundreds of different locations, which all have very decent size btw.


CONS
- No Multiplayer ( possible future devolupment I Hope! )
- Uhh... Aside from not having Multiplayer, there literally is basically nothing i can list as a significant 'Con'.


For 5$, this game is toooooootttallly worth investing in. I would honestly pay a moderate price of 15$ considering how much fun i've had in this game thus far.

To those of you whom take my review seriously, Enjoy the Game!! ( And let me know if theres any extra content you find, as in secret ships or weapons!)

My initial thought on this game is Finally. Finally I found a outer space flying game that has a ton of potential. The graphics are sick, the missions and story line are even interesting. It has a RPG feel to it, so your weapon system is less linear and more crafting, salvage and various skill trees. Gameplay is just right, not too simple and not to complicated, a common ailment of this genre. That is not to say it is overly easy either. Im excitted to see what more this game has to offer. I got it with a coupon for one dollar and it was definetly a dollar well spent, @ least a 10dollar + worth. Get it! 8.5/10. :bomb:

This is a really cool game - for $5 it's a steal. Tons of loot, cool inventory system, and lots of things to do. It's the kind of game that I always hoped someone would make. I'm already hoping for future installments or a sequel.

if borderlands was a spaceflightsim it would probably play something like this, and that's not a bad thing. Loot pinatas are never a bad thing

This game is space, Realy spacy, and nice graphics

A tongue in cheek indie space sim that definitively proves that indie titles can present a meaningful and complete experience within the genre.

Mildly rough around the edges, but still a blast to play.

A pretty good indie game,with very active dev(even though this game is seemed left),and possibly future DLC i expect to play again.
Good soundtrack and sense of humor(i.e things like noob tubes).
While story isn't good(you know indie),the other things compensate that.
The demo compared to other demos,is about few hours long.
7/10 because of lacking something,but good anyways.

Combines the feeling of getting that epic Legendary drop from games like Diablo or Borderlands with solid 3rd person spaceship combat. Coupled with some nice customization options, lots of weapon variety and a fun story and you have a real winner on your hands.

For $5, it's an insane bargain!

this game was an astoundingly good game for the price, there is quite a number of hours of gameplay, a good selection of weapons, not particularly challanging combat but this game has more of a casual vibe to it but not a cake walk either, a riviting story with interesting situations in my opinion quite entertaining over all. highly recommended.

After putting 10 hours into this, enough to complete the campaign i can easily recommend this game. It may not be for some as i would say this game does have seizure inducing visuals especially since there is quite a bit of massive battles. The controls are a bit convoluted but my recommendation is that you put your frequent use items in slots 1-5 as the game progresses.

There is also MANY references to other media in the game, as such examples as a powerup called you become death, which is a reference to the detonation of the first atom bomb, A whole mission dedicated to The Pirate bay. and there are others in the game. This is underrated at best.

Some of my gripes is the encounter system. even if your in friendly territory you may become a target to a few different enemies that jump in and may have massive fleets in which you Will have to jump out if your not of a sufficient level and have weapons that are weak. The crafting system is a little lack lustre and resource gathering is a pain as well. But thats the most i can say.

Otherwise this game has flaws that may turn people off which is a given but if you like loot, space and have enough patience to learn the controls you may enjoy it or you may not. But i do recommend trying it. 5dollars is more than enough for this.

Imagine the look and feel of Freespace combined with the mechanics of an ARPG and you will have a good idea of what Zigfrak is all about.

Years ago I was the 18th person to purchase the game and now that he has continued to pour a ton of work into the game and its now made it to Steam I hope that many of you purchase this absolutely spectacular game. I look forward to watching Zigfrak evolve more and more and its just going to get better. Congratulations Alex!

The game has extensive options so you can tweak the game to the point where its the best for your PC and there is only one thing that I wish would be added into the game, and that would be the ability to make the ingame text size larger. Its not crippling microfonts like some games but I wish I could bump it up a little. That being said do not let that discourage you from buying the game--the font is clear and not too tiny.

This is a game that you will be able to get MANY hours of enjoyment out of and if you don't purchase it you will be missing out on a great experience. The controls are wonderful and the interface is intuitive.

Picked this game up on a whim for $2.49 because I figured, "Why the hell not?" Let me say, I'm so glad I did! The combat is user-controlled and terrific, the equipment altering interface is very simplified yet is made complex by the innumerable additions and expansions found throughout the game. And if you like loot, well, this game has a TON of it. From someone who played Eve Online and found it to be rather droll and nigh impossible to be an effective addition to the world, Zigfrak "scratched that itch" for me in regards to free-roam space exploration games. I also really appreciate the physics of the game and how they are implemented to provide an engaging starfighter experience. Definitely recommend!

I've put several hours into the pre-Steam version of the game, and it's a BLAST. Funny, fun to play and very high energy, if you want a fun, ARPG loot chase in space, this is your game. If you want to know more, please check out my review here:

http://www.spacegamejunkie.com/reviews/zigfrak-funny-action-space-romp/

Enjoy!

Released in late 2012 and just recently on steam comes Zigfrak. With a name seemingly produced by a name generator, Zigfrak is an action RPG set in space. The game drives the player through a single player story but the player is free to roam off the beaten trail to explore or engage in side-quests.

Zigfrak was a game that I wanted to like as I love space exploration action RPGs ever since Escape Velocity. Unfortunately, in my opinion suffers from some key flaws. Playing this game it's fairly obvious that this game borrows alot from MMOs such as World of Warcraft, which is not something I would necessarily want in a single player game. A lot of quests are tedious and uninteresting "go here and click on this" tasks. There's a lot of loot in the game to collect, which might generate some interest and motivation to play, but this mechanic feel a bit cheap. A lot of sidequests are collection questions that just involve collecting a specified amount of items and cashing them in for a reward.

Since this game is inspiried by MMOs I don't think it really respects the player's time; for example at one point the player must battle a spacestation with a friendly fleet. It took me nearly 45 minutes to deplete half of it's health.

Aside from this, the action is fairly average. The weapons don't have a particularly notable feel and I didn't get a sense that I was actually hitting a target. Instead I just held down the attack buttons until I saw the enemy's health bar lower.

To it's merit, when a 'hacking minigame' came up I was given the option to fight enemies instead. I aprpeciated the option to focus on the game's core gameplay instead of getting pulled off into some minigame.

In terms of production value, the graphics aren't anything to write home about and many things in the game simply don't have any sort of sound effect.

There is no USB controller support for this game.

If you like MMOs and space exploration RPGs and you want a single player game you might find this game fun, otherwise there are better options for you. I played this game a little over 3 hours, giving it a chance to get me interested but it failed to really inspire me to play.

Score: 5/10

A game this cheap has no business being this good.

Despite an interface which can be a little tricky to learn, this is a solid game experience. Destroyed ships litter space with tons of loot: ammo, guns, vendor trash, crafting components, etc. So much so that it can be a bit overwhelming in the early going. I've only scratched the surface of this one, but it seems surprisingly deep.

GET THIS GAME! Unless you're Maverick.

Zigfrak is a pretty awesome game. It's amazingly beautiful, but for reasons I can't begin to fathom it has never overheated my laptop. Not even when I accidentally left it running paused and the temperature in my room was in the mid-80s during the afternoon hours (my room sadly faces west). Even games that are 3D only as window dressing tend to overheat my laptop (RTS games, XCOM Enemy Unknown, and many others). This game I could probably leave running for a week.

This game is what I'd term a casual space RPG. What I mean by "casual" is that it tends to avoid the micromanagement most RPGs entail. Unlike most casual RPGs it IS pretty and there's a very wide variety of enemies and components you can add to your ship. No really, there's TONS of things you can upgrade your guns, shields, armor, missile launchers, whatever to. Going along with the casual game theme, they're often whimsically named. Inconvenient realism tends to get glossed over in this game. You're only allowed to carry so many of each object. Once you hit that amount, it automatically converts those items into the type of credits you spend at a trade station (there's at least three forms of currency, which makes game economics all kinds of interesting).

The author loves puns and references. There's an alien weapon type called "strange." So one of the weapons has an effect called "When you're strange." And given that certain of the higher-end weapon names are prepended with "tweaked" they put in one weapon called "Tweaked Morrison." The references vary between movies/sci-fi (obviously) but you can also find weapon types like Larry, Curly and Moe. I want to hope that Moe is the most effective, with Larry being the less-interesting mid-range model.

It's also a fairly sandboxy game. While there's an arcing storyline, you can freely ignore it if you want, and just go about fighting, looting, crafting or whatever.

The author is AMAZINGLY responsive and non-dickish (even when folks are being critical). Seems willing to take a look at your saved games in order to track down bugs (or just fix your stuck game for you). It's almost unbelievable how responsive he is given that it's a $5 game. I almost feel guilty mentioning that it's fairly easy to come by coupons for this game...

The only reason I mention my friend Maverick up top, it's not his type of game. While I wouldn't call the game overly easy, it rather shamelessly lists as one of its selling points that it's a click, kill and loot game. It even describes the things you kill as "loot pinatas." I like the honesty there, it lets you know that this wasn't done by accident or poor design. This game is for people who like getting loot. It's a nice palate-cleanser for my Shadowclan friends *snickers*. Money is easy enough to come by (and if you putter away a few hours in certain areas you'll be absurdly comfortable). You could also avoid doing as I did to get a "more balanced" experience. It shouldn't be TOO hard to get the things you'd want to buy (in the unlikely event they don't drop as loot somewhere).

Hey, engines don't make a good game.

I'm having a lot of fun dashing around in my third person cockpit killing enemy hordes and collecting their salvaged loot.

<Tons of replayabilty
<Tons of missions
<Great story
<Many planets and worlds
<Randomized loot and encounters to keep the game fresh, not minorly, but greatly impacting the game's features almost making it a roguelike.
<Lots of items, powerups, weapons, addons to your ship.
<Developers give patches and updates frequently and are kind.

The only downside to this game is that it's amazingly underrated. Great game.