I was looking on Steam for something slower to play, and found myself wondering if a game like this exists.
Remember in Homeworld, when you were slowly moving your main capital ship to somewhere and then engaging in combat elsewhere in the sector? Imagine that sort of pace, but just with a large battleship that you are improving, FTL style. So like FTL I guess, but on a much larger scale and potentially fighting multiple smaller ships with or without other capital ships.
If not - someone should make one!
Something like this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2118810/Breachway/
Yep Eva, that looks somewhat what I was thinking of. Thanks, I'll explore it.
I got a set of tiny space battleship models in Japan and wrote out a table top game for them that had that kind of slow paced maneuvering gameplay. It's like a card dogfighting game I liked, where the cards in your hand were maneuvers, like you put the model stand over the "incoming" slot in the card and move the model to the "outgoing" slot, and then when you link with other ships you can board them and have in-ship battles, and it had special mechanics like cloaking system & fighter swarms.
I thought it was great, but I never found a local group of people wanting to play it with me though, even for testing purposes.
Can you turn it into a computer game?
I don't know if the translation would work. I think it's the touchy feely part of having these little models of battlecruisers taking these slow arcs over the tabletop to vie for position for their fusillades that's kind of the whole point that makes it engaging. But I mean sure, it's pieces and a rule set, so it could work as a computer game as well as any game like that could. The catch there is I already have a queue of vidya games I want to make already.
I had a look at Nexus The Jupiter Incident
https://store.steampowered.com/app/6...iter_Incident/
a few years ago but it looked a little heavy for my tastes
Last edited by LordBooford; 14th Nov 2024 at 09:06.
Not a battleship, but a train: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...st_Train_Home/
Haven't played it, but it's on my wishlist. Ticks all your boxes except space and multiple vehicles, as far as I can tell.
It sounds like you're looking for Cosmoteer: https://store.steampowered.com/app/7...ct__Commander/
I only played a little bit of it, but it was decent.
Wow, some good looking suggestions here.
I bounced off Breachway pretty hard.
Cosmoteer is pretty close to what I was thinking. I've tried the demo. Not bad. I'll see how goes, thanks.
So... Cosmoteer will suit some people, but it's not quite as ponderous as I was hoping. In FTL there plenty of time and it's quite chill. Cosmoteer is more like an RTS - you can pause it but it's quite frantic at other times.
I guess what I'm really looking for is a cross between FTL and Alpha Centauri - a turn based battleship sim perhaps.
Anything like that about?
Honestly I think you would have to make one yourself. I have been looking for something similar, but a bit more exploration based like the old Starflight.
Probably Crying Suns. There's also Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
Those look good dema!
You guys are the best.
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