When comparing Spaceflight Simulator vs Star Command, the Slant community recommends Star Command for most people. In the question“What are the best space-themed games for Android?” Star Command is ranked 3rd while Spaceflight Simulator is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Star Command is:
A detailed, colorful and varied aesthetic throughout the game. Ships, menus, and cut-scenes are all beautifully made.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fun and good
Pro A open world game + better accuracy
Impressive that a 2D Game can become a open world game, the accuracy getting to orbit, interplanetary burns and etc. is very similar.
Pro Beautiful pixel-art that shows off the care taken in the design of the game
A detailed, colorful and varied aesthetic throughout the game. Ships, menus, and cut-scenes are all beautifully made.
Pro Offers a great sense of humor, with a nod to many sci-fi classics
A lot of references to Star Trek and other sci-fi shows can be seen in dialogue and other aspects of the game.
Pro Very in-depth starship management, where you can customize your ship how you like
You get to decide which components go where, which crew members to assign where, etc.
Pro Frantic mini-game combat that compartmentalizes the action quite well
Star Command relies heavily on minigames and time management based gameplay.
Cons
Con After supporting the developer in the begining, promises for a lifetime access were broken
Back when the developer made this to support his model rocket hobby, I paid for this and emailed and was assured that I've paid for all updates forever and will get them for free.
He was nice and helped when an update made me lose my copy. He saw I paid so he just gave me another by a code.
Now he will not communicate, he removed all his original text of what you get. Many more people were brought on to help build the game, and they seem to have taken all the good things I once had with the developer and made me feel like I am talking to EA. The founders update did not even include me as having paid and no one would address this. I paid and then talked to someone who never got back to me. I paid again and then paid to unlock all the extras and then MORE IAP??? He said this would never happen. He hated them like all of us.
He and the fans of when I first paid made jokes that if EA owned this then you would have to pay for each stage.
Seems this app is moving to an EA way of pushing away users who were the true founders and acting like that never happened.
I will never support this developer again.
Also the people working on the game seem to have a love/hate relationship with the developer. They post his party life and where he puts all the money after he got too big to remember us, who he would listen to and talk with to make this game have a base and good start.
He still has not returned the electrics to the game it had and messed up all the builds that needed them. I now am way more happy with Simple rockets and all from that developer.
Con Not free
Con Unstable
The game might crash often so save often.
Con Game gets repetitive quickly
Since the game is admittedly unfinished, the campaign is quite short and there's not really much to do besides ship combat. Many planets can't be explored and there's no real ending, you just start all over again with the same story.
Con Incomplete game
The developers themselves have said that the game is about 30% of what they envisioned.