When comparing True Skate vs Star Command, the Slant community recommends Star Command for most people. In the question“What are the best simulation games on Android?” Star Command is ranked 2nd while True Skate is ranked 6th. 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 Immersive mode
True Skate offers immersive mode for devices on Android 4.4+.
Pro Realistic mode for more accurate physics
The physics will be less floaty but allow for quicker board response.
Pro Daily, weekly, monthly and all-time leaderboards
There is an assortment of leaderboards for each course.
Pro Customize your board / griptape graphics
The player can customize their skateboards by using images from their device.
Pro Can be played one handed
Being that True Skate is a portrait mode game, it can be played with one hand.
Pro Detection for a wide variety of tricks
There is a huge variety of tricks possible by combining different swipes and taps.
Pro Good graphics
The graphics are very well done and look quite real.
Pro Intuitive control scheme
Adequately mimics the actual movements required of your foot.
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 Additional courses are In-App-Purchases
Some aren't that great (the school one is pretty bad IMO).
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.