In my quest to find awesome games that aren’t well known, I came across StarSector a couple of weeks ago and I can’t put it down. It is the same addition that I had with Factorio and Balatro in recent times.
However, when I started looking into it, I had already heard about it back in 2013/2014 under the name of Starferer and it was great to see that it was still being worked on.
What an amazing game/project as I’m sure many of you might agree. The lore, the gameplay and the atmosphere is great.
But I have to admit, digging my teeth into the mods for QoL and trying to get Java23 to game the game to work was as fun as the game.
My questions to you are:
- How did you come across StarSector
- A favourite moment while playing
- What other games that you have played/heard come close to this?
I quite like StarSector too. It clearly owes a lot to the Escape Velocity series which I love.
StarSector’s focus on colony management is super fun though. The recent patch was also quite good and seemed to add more story elements which I appreciate. I appreciate the unique looking ships even though some of them end up looking very ugly.
I love working with the AIs. Smuggling them, integrating them into colonies, doing other spoilery things with them. I wish there were deeper mechanics there and more story too, but that could still happen.
I am currently playing my first save on vanilla with a few QoL mods but looking at the mods list there is a lot more amazing content to be had. I think I am going to enjoy this game for sometime.