Freelancer-like free-roam sandbox
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“Chill exploration, mining, and missions, with a side order of trade and combat.”
Steam review · 32 h played ↗
Starpoint Gemini 2
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 70%Mostly Positive · 70%Little Green Men Games2014Space Sim · Simulation · RPG
$34.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
An approachable Freelancer-style solo space sandbox about captaining big ships, with many ships and free roaming. Skip it if you dislike slow travel, grind, bugs or poor tutorials.
Great for
Freelancer and Privateer fans who want a relaxed solo space sandbox with ship progression and ship capturing
Main risk
Slow travel, grind and level-scaling frustration, plus campaign bugs that can block progress
What players love
Huge variety of ships and weapons
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“from starting in a small gunship to finishing the game in a huge carrier launching squadrons of fighters or a Titan ship that can alone wipe out a whole fleet.”
Steam review · 79 h played ↗
Easy to get into, approachable
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“It doesn't take hours and googling guides to get into it.”
Steam review · 79 h played ↗
Beautiful visuals and music
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“The visuals are absolutely stellar, the combat feels good, and the UI is very comfortable.”
Steam review · 28.2 h played ↗
Active devs and mod support
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“The devs are super responsive and really care about the community.”
Steam review · 66.2 h played ↗
Capturing enemy ships is satisfying
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“There's nothing quite like flying into an ongoing space battle, capturing a weakened ship, and getting the heck out of Dodge before anyone's the wiser.”
Steam review · 97.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Grind and broken level scaling
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“This game must have the worst leveling system EVER.”
Steam review · 17 h played ↗
Clunky controls and tiny unscalable UI
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The interface is crooked, the text is too small to read, and ship controls are awful.”
Steam review · translated · 1 h played ↗
Dead static world, shallow and repetitive
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“This game feels so incredibly dead and empty, that travelling and exploring just simply isn't any fun at all.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
Slow, tedious travel
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Your ship moves at a snail's pace and there is NO WAY TO SPEED IT UP.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Overwhelming, unhelpful tutorial and UI
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“This game throws WAY too much info at you right out of the gate.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗
Bugs break the campaign
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“I cannot recommend the game when it has several game breaking bugs.”
Steam review · 87.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown8 GB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft Windows 7, 8
Processor2.2 GHz Dual core or equivalent
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 512MB RAM
Storage8 GB available space
Recommended
OSMicrosoft Windows 7, 8
Processor3.0 GHz Dual core or equivalent
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 11 compliant graphics card with 1GB RAM
Storage8 GB available space
OSMicrosoft Windows 7, 8
Processor2.2 GHz Dual core or equivalent
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10 compliant graphics card with 512MB RAM
Storage8 GB available space
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