Endless Sky: an open source space trading and combat game

Back in the 90s I played countless hours of the Escape Velocity series. I still drop into a Mac OS 9 emulator every now and then to get a healthy dose of nostalgia. I'm happy the EV torch is still going in the 2020s with Endless Sky!

I have a really fond memory of Escape Velocity. My brother and I played it all summer one year. We daisy chained two apple keyboards so that he could fly and I could control escorts. Then something incredible happened. I must have pressed a wrong key because we got a beep and a note, "you are too far away to board this ship." We looked at each other like we just discovered the map to the holy Grail. "WHAT DO…

I have played several hours of this game, and I don't know whether it's just that I'm older now, but the gameplay only kept me interested for about five hours. (As a child I played all the Escape Velocity games for months on end.) Everything dies far too fast for combat to have any strategic element. And (in the build I last played, anyway) trade prices are static, so you just need to find that one good trade route and…

Nice open clone of the "Escape Velocity" series of games. Fun to play, but sadly the main story imho isn't quite as good as in the originals. It's way better in terms of playability on modern systems though.