Darkstar One

Had this in my Steam library for ages, decided to play again. A surprisingly fun game, WW2 dogfights in space, but it does get repetitious since each system is about the same. Note that enemies scale with your level which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.

Smuggling drugs, videogames, or androids is the best and most fun way to make money in the game; I was laughing at how tense it was hauling 100+ tons of illicit trade goods while aiming for the perfect trade station approach vector and working the afterburner to dodge all the cops buzzing around.

Also nice to play a 2006 game that just works on Windows 10. I had a few crashes but only while tabbing through the menus on space stations, which was only a small annoyance because the game auto-saves when you dock anyway.

not for me , but an ok space game, u may like it ,do some research first..i didnt

Positives:
- Attractive female characters.
- Value for money if you get it on sale.

Negatives:
- Flight controls aren't as good as modern equivalents like 'Star Citizen', 'Elite Dangerous', or arguably even 'No Mans Sky'.
- While the female characters are attractive, the game has no real sex appeal, & the general aesthetic is that this is very much a game for young children, which is fine, but this is my review, so I am stating my preferences, not other peoples, & this game has a very safe, cuddly feel to it that I honestly find rather off-putting.
- The controller support is terrible. It might be possible to get this working with Steam controller support, but the defaults don't work well, & at time of writing there are also only 2 community made ones, which I also didn't think were very good. I could try & make my own but I just can't be bothered.
- No character customisation, no ability to play as a female character. You play as John Darkstar.
- It's generally known by this games fans that there is a 'second turret mission' that is infamously broken. You need to beat this mission to progress the main story, & the more you have leveled up your ship by that point, the harder the mission is, due to a glitch caused by enemy scaling (yes, when you level up, the game just makes the enemies harder). Which means that to beat the game, you need to try & get to this mission before you have leveled up too much or you won't be able to beat it and progress the main quest line. The only community patch for this vastly changes the game, including changing much of the games text into German.
- If like me you already own 'Star Citizen', 'Elite Dangerous', 'No Mans Sky' & most of the 'X' series, it's pretty difficult to justify owning this as well, even at the low price point.

good adventure games

Kinda unpolished gem. Still, one of the best space sims...ever!

Who said the xbox controller never worked with this game???
It was the one thing the reason i never brought it.
as guess what as soon as i started the game it found my controller i re - config the buttons and i am good to go.

any one else out there wants too know yes xbox one controller works great.
and with it on sale what a steel.

Better than elite dangerous.
I still have my old old CD and its original case, CD is heavily damaged caused I played this SO MUCH when I was a young little thing.
NOTE: You might have to run a patch to get it working! Look it up!

Old but still good-ish looking and play.

the ship is Reilly cool man and fun to play