I wholeheartedly recommend this. A kindred spirit to Wing Commander: Privateer; if you liked that, you'll love this. It was a bit short and a bit shallow, and I'm done with it for now, but I'll likely play it again in a year.

• Confident aesthetics, ships you are excited to climb into, pretty space
  
• Decent ship loadout options to tune performance to your playstyle
  
• You can be effective in ships that are not "top tier"
  
• Randomized missions are fairly diverse
  
• Interesting (if somewhat predictable) campaign that resolved sensibly
  
• Pretty well-implemented progression keeps the game challenging for a while
  
• I don't care for the music, but it's very well done and a lot of folks will love it; it definitely fits the game's vibe
  
• Characters and side stories are interesting and well-written
  
• Fun - everything there is to do is fun to do
  
• Pirating is a thing

I don't really have any cons.

• I'd have liked more diversity in combat strategy; a big selling point is broadside combat, but other approaches would be nice too
  
• More fine-tuning and harder choices for loadouts (like EVE's system) would have made it more interesting
  
• Could have been longer
  
• Mining and trading were pretty thin
  
• At some point you just outgear everything, no matter what you're flying; it ceases to be challenging
  
• Some escort missions are inordinately hard, mostly due to glitches
  
• Pirating could definitely have used more attention

Absolutely worth it at full price. No-brainer if on sale.

Great fun!!! Once I figured out how to actually win a battle and get missions it became a fun addictive game. 🙂

I played this game for 88 hrs, did like 16 Youtube videos on it, so I really really enjoyed it. And then one day, it wouldn't start any longer, no matter what settings I chose or what I re-installed. So even the game is fun for an extended period of time (especially while the missions last, not so much after you get a ridiculous large ship that lets you fly into any obstacle and just plow through it), I wouldn't recommend buying it.

This game have good space ships. I like ships. Wish there is more ships.

wont work for me dont buy if on mac

Overall i think this game performs so well in its mechanics

Its a mix between EvE Online (System and Station Mechanics, Mission undertaking etc.) and the ship combat from Assasins Creed IV (Broadside Combat)
If you are a big fan of action packed space battles this is for you

This has to be one of the most under-rated games I have ever played. Sure it could be better- the whole 2D plane thing, and I am personally not a procedurally-generated world fan... but SO ADDICTIVE. And probably top 3 soundtracks of all time. Overall it creates a fantastic balance of Country/outlaw feel with a space exploration background

i bought this game with out reading anything it was just purly off that it looked like Galexy on fire 2 (AMAZING mobile game) 9/10 only con is that it kinda throughs you into it without any tutorial you will die a few times.

Space game for the casual player.

Imagine you're playing Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Now, imagine that instead of being stuck with that one, tiny, but somehow infinitely upgradable little ship, you can actually buy new ships as your fortunes improve. Now, imagine you're in space. Finally, imagine you don't have to get out of the ship to follow some British ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around the island for 20 minutes in an area that is suddenly, inexplicably teeming with soldiers.

I think I got sidetracked. Anyway. This is an excellent quasi-3D ship combat game. Not a full 3D sim like Freelancer... all player-piloted ships, and those of similar size, seem to occupy the same plane of space. Rolls, climbs, and dives are not valid maneuvers. Shields go fore, aft, port, starboard, with no concern for doral or ventral. Despite this, you don't feel particularly limited in your play. It's just streamlining something that can overly complicate some other games.

There is some downside. There isn't a lot of variety to your available weaponry. The targeting AI that controls your turrets most of the time is kinda stupid, and works in exclusive terms, rather that allowing prioritization. There are, inevitably, escort missions, some of which you will lose for no good reason. The in-game economy is a little capricious, which makes moving goods profitably as a trader a bit of a long game. But I still find it enjoyable to spend a few hours making pretty explosions in space, set to a soundtrack that you might find playing in Jim Raynor's house back on Mar Sara- forgettable, upbeat, twangy rock.