When comparing Interstellar Pilot vs Galaxy Trucker, the Slant community recommends Galaxy Trucker for most people. In the question“What are the best space-themed games for Android?” Galaxy Trucker is ranked 13th while Interstellar Pilot is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Galaxy Trucker is:
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.
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Pros
Pro You can do anything
You can trade, mine, be a Bounty Hunter, do militaristic jbs... it's an amazing open world game. There are lots of ships to choose from with your own custom loadout. You can upgrade anything on your ship from the type of guns to your shields and generators. You can play the game over and over, there are thousands of ways to play the game and thousands of different strategies to go with it.
Pro No advertisements
None, nada, zilch. Play it forever with no pop ups or interruptions.
Pro Enjoyable and overall sense of achievement
Especially when you build up your little one man army into a 50 ship armada, it takes time.
Pro Time based strategy
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.
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.
Pro 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.
Cons
Con In-app purchases
The bright side is the DLC is fairly cheap. About $1 to $2 for each of the 3 DLCs currently out.
Con There seems to be no more updates
There were no more updates after the UI reworks.
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.