What is the best alternative to&#x20;Star Command?

Publisher:Rockstar Games Inc.

Controller Support:HID

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Users have to strategize how much time they can spend on balancing their ships to how much time spent looking at the upcoming rounds cards. This makes for fast paced decision making. See More

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Galaxy Trucker

Top Pro

Time based strategy

Top Con

Beginning of game is more exciting than the last two parts

The game is broken up into three phases with the first being the most exciting. This makes for unbalanced gameplay in that the other two sections feel a bit dull. See More

Top Pro

Even doing poorly at the game is fun

Galaxy Trucker has lighthearted humor that can make even loosing at the game fun due to the scenarios that can play out. See More

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Fastest player sets the pace

Some games can be slowed down by a player that is lagging behind but in Galaxy Trucker the gameplay is set by the fastest player, which is refreshing. See More

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score 5 · Answer 3

Spirits

Top Pro

Impressive style and quality

The artistic design of the game is quite dream-like, with hand-drawn characters and levels. Its sound design is equally impressive. See More

Top Con

Broken on Android Marshmallow devices

Unfortunately, Spirits doesn't work with Android devices with Android 6.0 Marshmallow installed (or higher). The game simply freezes or crashes instantly while loading. See More

Top Pro

Whimsical artistic style

This game is ethereal and relaxing, while at the same time engaging the player in challenging puzzles. The main character is comical, yet beautiful at the same time. It's almost like The Wisp and Lemmings had a child. See More

Top Con

Slow-moving gameplay

Spirits is intended to be a slow, relaxing game, though some may not enjoy the extent of the title's slowness. See More

Top Pro

Great atmosphere

Dream-like art direction with hand-drawn characters and levels, and excellent sound design. See More

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Varied, Lemmings-style puzzles

The game has interesting and often challenging puzzles, especially if you wish to complete the level perfectly, made possible with varied abilities of spirits that get introduced throughout the game. See More

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Genre:Puzzle

Players must figure out how to traverse the architecture in order to get items they need to use to help guide the the main character, who is sleepwalking. It is through this mind bending architecture that the core of the gameplay lies as each level is a puzzle in and of itself to figure out how to gain all the items needed, which is only half the gameplay as once that is figured out they then need to guide the sleepwalker to their goal. See More

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score 12 · Answer 4

Back to Bed

Top Pro

Interestingly uses mind bending architecture in the gameplay

Top Con

Puzzles could be deeper

With such an amazing graphic design, the level of depth to the puzzles feels almost disappointing. See More

Top Pro

Excellent sound design

From its background music to its voice work, the sound design of The Room Two not only fits with the theme but adds to the player's immersion in the game and overall experience. See More

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Surreal graphics

The graphics of Back to Bed are very surreal, as if Dahli and Escher had teamed up to design a game. See More

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score 3 · Answer 5

The Great Fusion

Top Pro

Good story

The Great Fusion has many moments of satire and is even charmingly cynical, giving the story a lot of character and making it a joy to play through. See More

Top Con

Poor translation

There are grammatical errors in almost every line of dialogue. See More

Top Pro

Strange story with hand drawn graphics

The story is a bit crazy and a little all over the place, which is fitting with the look of the hand drawn character and backgrounds. See More

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score 3 · Answer 6

Gunman Clive

Top Pro

Good touch screen controls

The touch screen controls are accurate and work very well for this platformer. See More

Top Con

Death means a restart at the beginning of the level, no halfway points

Gunman Clive has zero mid level checkpoints, which means upon death the player will have to restart all over again at the beginning of the level. See More

Top Pro

Tough as nails

Very challenging game in the same vein as Mega Man for platforming, boss battles, and gameplay. See More

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Bad Hotel

Top Pro

Good controls

The drag and drop controls work well for this type of game. See More

Top Con

Irritating sound design

The samples used in the music of this game can be irritating and annoying. See More

Top Pro

Streamlined tower defense mechanics

Bad Hotel has stripped away all of the fluff from tower defense and has boiled it down to it's essence without making it too simple. See More

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score 11 · Answer 8

Another World

Top Con

Some issues with the control scheme

Touch controls for movements such as jump can be hard to pull off as the swipe gesture needs to be very exact. See More

Top Pro

Challenging and fun

For what is a 20 year old game to still hold in gameplay, story and presentation is quite a feat and an enjoyable one at that. See More

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Great remake

The newly added HD graphics show that much time was spent creating a fantastic remake of what was a very iconic game. See More

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Controller support

Another World features controller support for MOGA devices as well as the Xperia Play. See More

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Genre:Adventure

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score 18 · Answer 9

First Strike 1.1

Top Pro

1/4 of revenue is given to charities that help reduce nuclear arsenal

One quarter of all sales of First Strike 1.1 goes to a charity to help reduce missile arsenal in the world. See More

Top Con

No mid game save

There is no mid game save which means for some of the longer harder battles if one leaves the game, there is no going back to it. See More

Top Pro

Clear message about the pitfalls of nuclear war

First Strike 1.1 illustrates a very clear anti-war bombing message. See More

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Looks great

The effects of missiles flying and exploding are impressive to watch. See More

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Antiyoy

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Free

Free. See More

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Game mechanics

The rules are simple to learn. See More

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Controls work well on a phone

Controls are easy, and designed for phones. See More

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SC Blacklist: Spider-Bot

Top Pro

Three modes of play

There are three modes of play available in game with a different robot to play in each. See More

Top Con

Has trouble connecting to UPlay

In what is at this point expected behavior from Ubisoft there is apparently connection problems with this game to their servers. See More

Top Pro

Transferable currency to PC title

Being that this is a companion app for the PC title Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Ubisoft has made the in game earned currency transferable to the PC title. See More

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score 38 · Answer 12

Doom & Destiny

Top Con

Translation errors

With a game that's heavily focused on storytelling grammatical errors are quite noticeable. See More

Top Pro

Great storytelling

Doom & Destiny is very well written. Full of references, humorous dialogue and excellent satire of RPGs. See More

Top Con

Why pay for a mobile game, when loads of free ones

Top Pro

Beautiful

Doom & Destiny has a colorful, detailed aesthetic. See More

Top Pro

Fun gameplay and hilarious dialogs

Specs

Genre:RPG

There is so much attention payed to the details of the game that gives the player a large sense of depth to the story. See More

Controller Support:HID

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score 12 · Answer 13

King of Dragon Pass

Top Pro

Plenty of depth

Top Con

Crash prone

King of Dragon Pass is buggy and is prone to crashing often. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful hand painted art

While King of Dragon Pass does forgo animations, the hand painted art that is featured in game is outright gorgeous. See More

Top Con

Touch controls are not implemented well

While scrolling through text the play can easily accidentally click on text that performs an action. This can result in the player making game advancement choices they did not mean to. See More

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score 67 · Answer 14

Fiz : Brewery Management Game

Top Con

Can get dull

Fiz tends to be a slow game, which means it can lead to loss of interest while playing. See More

Top Pro

Fun even without beer knowledge. Great business model game similar to Kairosoft games

Top Con

Not a free game

Top Pro

Great depth of beer brewery gameplay that yields quite a lot to explore

There are a huge selection of recipes for beers, that need the correct amounts of specific ingredients that can be made with the correct equipment by the correct staff and sold to the market that demands it. Make a mistake in balancing any of these points and suffer the consequences. See More

Top Con

Not a lot of variety in visuals or music

The 2D sprite graphics are a little generic, just as the music. This can get tiring after a while as little of the aesthetics of the game change as you progress. See More

Top Pro

Variety of gameplay elements keeps the player engaged

To break up the monotony of constant stale management of business there are challenges and events that happen, usually in the form of a goal that you have to reach in order to get a reward, that you can take on or ignore. Additionally, you can exercise your fingers by trying to catch mice that run around your brewery, these mice will give you money and recipe scraps. See More

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Genre:Economics-based

Due to an excellent choice of music and incremental telling of a dark story, the game creates a nice bit of tension and a creepy vibe in an otherwise simple and calm game. See More

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score 176 · Answer 15

The Room

Top Pro

Great atmosphere is set by the wonderful music and well done design

Top Con

The control scheme can get slightly frustrating

The touch controls of navigating in 3D can be difficult at times. See More

Top Pro

A good variety of puzzle types makes sure that the game never repeats or gets tiring

You'll have to find clues, interpret symbols, use correct items in appropriate places to unearth the mystery of the room. See More

Top Con

should be free

Top Pro

Amazing graphics allow for a level of detail not always found on mobile games

The Room has very detailed graphics that show the intricacies of all the items. See More

Top Con

Ends abruptly

The Room is relatively short. Experienced players will be able to beat it in less than two hours. And it ends abruptly. Luckily there is a sequel. See More

Top Pro

Immersive

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Genre:Puzzle

The game revolves around deliveries that take time to arrive to your fireplace. There are time constraints on these deliveries that force the player to wait, unless you purchase postage stamps by unlocking combo's. As such, most of the time played in the game will be in a more 'idle' situation waiting on the deliveries instead of actually using the deliveries to solve the puzzles. See More

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score 133 · Answer 16

Little Inferno

Top Con

Most of the time is spent waiting and not on puzzles

Top Pro

Intriguing wordplay-based puzzles that keep the player guessing

Certain items may have odd properties or work together with other items to create unexpected results. A list of combinations, where the only hint is the name of the combination, gives the game another puzzle-like layer that you are required to solve to progress further. For example, a somewhat vague sentence (such as Wooden Block Combo) will be given and the player must analyse and choose the correct materials in order to process further. See More

Top Con

Costs too much

Top Pro

Delightfully warped gameplay makes for an amusing way to burn digital objects

You spend most of your time throwing things in an ill-conceived invention for kids called the Little Inferno fireplace. By setting things on fire you get money that you can spend to buy more things to throw in the fireplace. There is a subtle plot that may make you re-evaluate your actions. See More

Top Con

The game is quite short

Little Inferno is a short game. On average, the main story takes a little bit over three hours to complete, while completionists need about four hours to explore everything. See More

Top Pro

Minimalistic, eerie puzzles, gameplay and narration pointing out how the games we play manipulate us

Top Con

No puzzle diversity or large number of mechanics added

The gameplay mechanics in Little Inferno stay the same: you use the fireplace in order to burn materials and create combo's. Even when unlocking newer catalogs with new materials to burn, not much changes in terms of gameplay. The puzzle hints that are provided also are quite similar, which can make the game feel rather monotonous. See More

Specs

Platforms:Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows

Genre:Puzzle

In a typical bullet-hell fashion, the game requires constant focus, precise control and looks impossible at a distance. But if you are good enough, Danmaku Unlimited 2 can be mastered. See More

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Danmaku Unlimited 2

Top Pro

Challenging, but fair

Top Con

Not a lot of features

It only takes 10 minutes to see all of what the game offers. See More

Top Pro

Online leaderboards

You can compete with other people to get a higher score. See More

Top Pro

Smooth touch screen controls

For what can make or break a bullet hell shooter Danmaku Unlimited 2 accomplishes smooth and responsive controls on the touch screen. See More

Top Pro

Great design to the gameplay

The design of the game ranging from backgrounds to the ships is fantastic to look at in motion. See More

Specs

Genre:Shoot 'em up (Bullet hell)

Co-Op:No

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score 14 · Answer 18

Puddle

Top Pro

Beautiful graphics

From the different environments to all of the different liquids in the game, everything looks very striking. See More

Top Con

HDR graphics setting buggy

The newly added HDR graphics setting is bugged in that the fluid in game does not appear when used. See More

Top Pro

Gameplay based on physics and chemistry

Puddle is a physics based game that also uses aspects of chemistry in it's gameplay. See More

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score 101 · Answer 19

Eufloria HD

Top Con

Expensive

How much for a mobile game?! Err, no thanks. See More

Top Pro

Calm and minimalistic gameplay makes for a zen-like gaming experience

The game has a minimalistic approach towards audio design, visual representation, and gameplay mechanics, creating a calm, zen-like state while playing. This is great for those that do not wish to feel stressed about their gaming. A game that can be played in a relaxing manner. See More

Top Con

Lots of waiting around

Many portions of the game require waiting for events to unfold, even with the inclusion of a fast forward button, there will be a lot of waiting. This may not appeal to people who wish to play in short spurts of downtime, as not much will be happening when the player needs to wait on the game to finish tasks. See More

Top Pro

Good amount of content that should last the player

Eufloria has a three modes, two of them, Skirmish Arena and Dark Matter are unlocked after completing the Campaign Mode. Skirmish Arena has 8 maps to to test your skills against the AI, and Dark Matter takes certain maps from the campaign, which changes the aesthetic and increases the difficulty. The third mode is the default Relaxed Mode, this allows the player to play at their own pace. See More

Top Pro

Great controls

The controls are designed for phones/tablets, so they are easy, accurate, and intuitive. See More

Specs

Genre:RTS / Arcade

You get to choose what type of game you want to make, what tools you use to make it, who you hire to make it, what systems you publish the final product on and you get to watch how it is received by the world. Then you do it all over again bigger. See More

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score 114 · Answer 20

Game Dev Story

Top Pro

Fulfils a fantasy of creating a game studio

Top Con

Game is not free

Top Pro

Very engaging due to quick progression and frequent events

Contracts are measured in weeks and development cycles in months, but time passes at the rate of one day per second. Though the core gameplay involves watching little icons pop up over your employees' heads, rarely do five seconds go by without some player action being prudent, if not required. See More

Top Con

Punctuation and grammar errors

Game Dev Story is a Japanese game that was translated to English, which shows, as sometimes there are a few grammatical errors in game. This shows a lack of polish, which may aggravate some players. See More

Top Pro

Simple and intuitive gameplay allows the game to be accessible, no matter the skill level

Nearly everything is self-explanatory, and the bits that aren't get explained by your secretary. This makes for a game that is easy to understand, even if it does not seem evident at first. See More

Top Con

Unclear method of determining a game's success

Sometimes it is unclear how to find out how successful a game is. See More

Top Pro

A free demo version is available for anyone to try out

Game Dev Story Lite is available for free on the Google Play store. The Lite version ends after 2 in-game years. See More

Top Con

It's very hard to fail

Your employees' salaries are waived the first year ("government subsidy") and you can go into the red to pay them after that. You can't develop a game without some initial funds, but since you can always take a contract to make money, there's basically no hole you can't crawl out of. See More

Top Pro

Entertaining business success model typical for Kairosoft games

Specs

Genre:Economics / Casual / Simulation