Crying Suns is an awesome roguelike space game with real-time combat in a huge procedurally-generated universe.

The game will instantly remind you of FTL. You play as a captain on a space fleet who’s been awakened by a robot called OMNI. You’re then supposed to sail your ship through space and solve a mysterious communication severance between your spaceship and the Galactic Empire. If you refuse to accept the mission, go for it. It’s funny to see what happens.

You then travel between different solar systems and fight other enemy ships in real-time strategy vehicular combat. Defeat them to progress and gain resources. As you get more stuff, you can upgrade your ship and manage your resources to be fully optimized. The game has a narrative going alongside the combat, so it never feels like you’re just grinding. The ships you command also is aligned on a hex-based grid instead of a huge single entity.

The space exploration is awesome with squadron-based fleet combat. The storyline is dramatic and spans multiple chapters. The resource management system is also pretty cool where Scrap is the currency of the game which is used to buy weapons, ships, and upgrades. Neo-N is fuel for your ship. And Commandos are used as cannon fodder and foot soldiers to get resources.

The game also has a huge map that provides you the layout for each star cluster to make it easy to navigate. You need to spend gas in order to investigate a cluster, so you need to choose wisely. When you choose a point, you’ll either get an encounter, a fight, or a planetary expedition where you can find some resources.

There are also over 300 events which can happen, such as multiple branching paths. You also get bosses, unit customization, upgrades, expeditions, and even heroes which have unique abilities. Every victory means you get some nice upgrades for your ship.

Crying Suns is currently playable as a demo. It sports roguelike strategic space fights with a mix of retro and modern pixel art. The game has a nice dose of space combat, exploration, and pausable fights. The backstory is what’ll keep you glued to the game though.

If you like it, you can support the devs on Kickstarter.

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I play the newest to the crappiest indie games and filter them for the rest of the crew.

In other words, I’m a bottom-feeder. Why do I volunteer for this trash?

Indie devs: the last honest game creators.

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Super Duper Ship 2 is a vertical arcade game.

You pilot a tiny spaceship in which you have to dodge obstacles like a lot of other arcade top-down shooters, but Super Duper Ship 2 has some unique features going for it.

First, let’s go over the basics. All you need to do is control your ship and navigate the level. Get to the end to win. It gets pretty intense at parts and the difficulty is there. If you like a challenge, you should give this game a try.

Each level has a ton of different obstacles to avoid like enemy fire, lasers, turrets, and a lot of timing events.This is where the game shines (from the timing events0. You control the ship with your mouse pointer and you can go

This is where the game shines (from the timing events brings the controls). You control the ship with your mouse pointer and you can go backward and forwards and pretty much any direction in a 360-degree circle. This adds a new layer of uniqueness to the game. A lot of parts require that you time your move so you don’t get blasted into pieces.

You have to dodge and weave through all this chaos while at the same time watch a mesmerizing, awesome background. You can collect points by grabbing little spinning green rectangles to boost your score. There are also powerups in the game. You can get stuff like teleportation and a psi-like power that retargets enemy fire towards their own turrets. That’s awesome.

You also get defensive powerups like shields you can activate when you’re in trouble.

It features awesome visuals with a single track of music in the background, but it’s catchy to listen to. The particle effects are also awesome and the sound effects will have you nostalgic for the old classics.

The game is similar to SUPERHOT, where you have to time your plan of attack as you go through the level. It’s like a puzzle you have to navigate vertically.

Super Duper Ship 2 is in alpha and has five levels for you to try. It’s not an easy game. It’ll get you frustrated and there’s plenty of trial-and-error. But it’s strangely addicting and worth a try.

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