Galaxy Genome [Space Sim]

TL;DR this is a great 2D space sim, well worth the money. Several hours into a somewhat steep learning curve I have figured out most of the mechanics of the game. I had to figure out that mining is just equipping the mining laser as a weapon clicking a asteroid. The game reminds me of the classic Starport GE, or a 2D top down EVE. Mining, trading, scanning, selling data, bounty hunting, and planet rovers are all in the game. One feature I want to see one day is to set up outposts/bases.

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This is a perfect example of what a game on Android should be. Extremely modest price for what you get, and the dang game even has mod support which is really cool. If you're a fan of elite dangerous, you'll probably like this. Extremely similar in how ships are built etc, just this is top down 2d instead. The game also has a fairly robust autopilot system. (No worse than elites, but can do a bit of auto combat too. Actually it's very similar to elites, might be an intentional design choice idk)

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A brilliant game. A deep, robust, polished ode to the space sim genre, containing all of the essentials. Whether you're into exploration, trading, smuggling, or good old-fashioned space combat, this game is for you. There are storylines, missions, and factions, but ultimately, this is a rich sandbox experience that let's you play however you want. There are a number of ships and ship classes, including some faction-specific trophy ships. Try the alternative controls (stick off) in combat.

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With the amount of hours I have played and will continue to play this game, it is worth much more than $2.99. True to the space-sim genre it requires a fair amount of grinding but is relatively fast-paced w/ balanced options for how you like to earn credits. Maintaining multiple, specialized ships is key to overcoming the initial challenge of not being able to do any of the 3 core activities (mining/trading, fighting, or exploring) w/o immense frustration.

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Great game! I've been fueled by a nostalgia kick, as this game reminds me of a game I played a lot as a kid, 'Solar Winds'. There's a lot to explore and I've sunk a lot of time in. I'm not sure how welcome feedback is, but I'd love to see the game expand into things like founding, upgrading, and profiting off of your own space station in vacant systems. In any case, I'm a fan and highly recommend!

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A diamond in the app store has been found! This is a glorious day!! This is basically a single player 2D somewhat simplified Elite Dangerous and it works! It even has a gigantic galaxy map for you Explorer players! No ads, no microtransactions or DLC you have to buy, you just get the game, and you got the game, with no strings attached. This is a concept rarely seen in the modern era. Easily THE best game I've found on android so far.

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Basically just a 2D mobile version of Elite Dangers. If you play or have ever played ED, you will be very familiar with how this game works, know exactly how to play, what to look for in ships, and how to make money. It's a bit more simplistic, but many systems work near exactly like ED, or at least as close as can be in a 2D game.

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Everything I want in a top down space simulator. And the developer is dedicated to balancing the game and adding features in a timely manner. Well worth the price. I have spent over 100 hours on the game, exploring the 1.5 billion star systems - Yes, 1.5 billion. The scale of this game is more than amazing! That's more than 47 years to explore every system in the game, at 1 second a piece! The discord community is also very helpful, so if you get stuck, we will be happy to help you.

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What you've been looking for! A 0 space rpg Sim for mobile that's completely amazing. Roughly 40 hrs in. This isn't your point and click easy game. You can do and be what you want. Slow starting. You have to plan and use caution. One day I spent playing just exploring different systems traveling extremely far and it was very rewarding. Another day spent collecting bounties on pirates..... This is a really great mobile game that will keep you entertained for the long run. Ready for

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Just awesome. Been waiting a long time for a game like this and I could see myself sinking many hours into it. The soothing music is perfect and gives me No Man’s Sky vibes. I understand why the starter ship is so basic so I can’t wait wait to unlock a better ship or improve the starter one. The modules and power priority is a little confusing but hopefully either I figure it out or it’s not imperative that every setting has to be tinkered with. It would be neat if when you earn XP it goes to a role/job. Could rise ranks and become a famous bounty hunter, expert miner, trader, explorer, etc. Would just be a cool title to have and see how far you’ve come. As it is though, this is an absolutely great game and I hope more people discover and enjoy this.

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What an absolutely fantastic game. My favorite space Sim out there. Every single thing this game does, it does it the best out there. The missions, the random enemies, the ships and upgrades, and just how professional and just serious the game feels.. is incredible. Truly a remarkable game that I will be comparing space games to for a very long time.

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This game is not a time waster, there is so much to do. Want to be a black market trader, go for it. Want to be a bounty hunter, no problem. Like mining or exploring the unknown.? A bit longer to master but worth it. The developer is working to fix, tweak and add to the game and hears suggestions, bugs and gives feedback. The game could get "grindy" but you have a goal to grind for. The map is huge I mean almost impossibly huge. Giving you a sense that the game could grow, and you can too.

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One of my favorites. If you want a game that will take a while to "beat" and isn't riddled with ads or a paywall, scroll no further. One of the best space sims I have found and WORKS. Advancement is pretty straightforward and difficult if you want it to be. Combat is probably the fastest way to make money and rivled only by mining for ore. Sooo many modification combinations for whatever you want to specialize in. Once you get one of the top ships, you don't even have to pick one. Just pick all.

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Yeah, I bought this game. Love it so far. Took me a little while to understand how to play. I was very lost when I first tried this and I was thinking that I might need to buy a controller. I was wrong. Touch screen controls work great. The controls and ship/weapons options are very intuitive and extremely simple once you know how to use them. Beautiful game. Reminds me of space rpg 3 and 4. Now I have something to look forward to after work. Galaxy exploration. Thank you for this game!! Amazing

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I love this game so far. It's addictive though. The good: very large exploration. Lots of variable play styles. The bad: short main story. Long travel time for exploration. The glitches: I've found 1 glitch so far, I took a lot of pirate missions at once and 3 were in the same system, all of the pirates appeared after warping into the system, I beat them and one didn't clear the mission. Now all pirate missions from the station I got that mission at will not clear after beating the pirate.

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It's a great indie space exploration sim game! Bit of a steep learning curve, but if you join the discord or check out the reddit you should be fine. Most gripes I see in other reviews are people who didnt take the time to actually learn what they were doing. 😆Only real issue I've had was with the autosave, got stuck in a system with a combat mission i couldn't beat and had to load an older manual save. Oops. Dialogue could use a redo, but isn't horrible. Definitely a game worth the money.

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For the time I’ve put in, I can’t stop smiling. This to me feels like a 2d Elite Dangerous. There is some small design choices I’m still trying to wrap my head around but nothing so far that has me feeling frustrated. If your looking for a game on mobile like Elite Dangerous and can get past the 2d graphics, then you should absolutely give this game a try. I can see putting in hundreds if not thousands of hours into this, and it’s only 3 bucks.

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Absolute fantastic job, I don’t think there’s anything else like it on the Apple market so you have things cornered. I was wondering if you could add the ability to customize the on screen display controls a little bit more, so that I can add a flight assist on and off shortcut button near the shooter stick. In general a little better control customization would be great, like auto hide on the analog sticks when not touching the screen, and the option to remove the borers around the control zones around both sticks so there is more immersion. Thank you very much for your time making this sim. It’s appreciated and enjoyable.

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I'm about 70 hours in, I enjoy this game a lot. After the initial purchase, there is zero request for additional purchase, but also nothing to purchase. I would actually like to support the dev with perhaps cosmetic upgrades in the future. I left one star off because there is room for QoL improvements and I can see myself getting bored eventually. I've been exploring and the trip to the center of the galaxy isn't for the faint of heart... Overall great game! I wish I could stream da soundtrack.

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I have conversed with the developers. And they have made whatever I have found about this game playable. Only reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5, Is that because the world is so open and vast? I believe there needs to be some sort of map and reference and Wiki. The developer took the best part of the main pc games out there and stripped it down to something still fun in the single player experience. Worth more than $2.99 by far. Bravo!!! I hope more is added to the experience 👍👍👍💯.

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This game is great, I have only two problems being that you don't know anything about the systems you go to before you warp, we have no idea what kind of station offers what components or trade goods, in terms of trade it gets annoying to know that the good you are looking for is in-system, but there are 3 stations in-system, which means I have to look through each one and get lucky, in terms of ship upgrades, I wish we could get a map that tells us where to get upgrades, all in all, good game.

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Almost a perfect game. It's well worth playing. I think I'm 50 hours in. The trading, mining, and ship upgrading is great. It's a bit grinding but that's half the fun. The text has a ton of grammatical errors. It also goes by too fast sometimes and I miss stuff. I wish there was more information or some sort of a guide. Some modules can only be purchased once and some can be purchased and installed many times or stacked. It took 50 hours to figure this out.

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It has ALOT in common with Elite: Dangerous, at least by the standards of a google play app. Great way to pass time when you're riding in the car for 8+ hours. Developers, I know you're watching out there: when you get the chance, consider adding the ability for player-made/owned stations. I won't say its a pressing concern of mine (its not), but I can forsee in the near future for me a scenario where I stop being motivated to play due to owning the biggest ship with the best gear equipped.

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I know we’re starting the game with a beginners ship but the turning speed and decel/accel are absolutely terrible, I keep flying by everything because I can’t slow down, even with autopilot it always blows by the destination. Please fix this and it’ll be five star for sure, great start though I’ve been looking for a game like this for a while. Also maybe add disabling of ships with a chance boarding and taking over the ship as your own, going back to escape velocity if you know of this game, it had that function and I loved it. Another function would be later in the game the ability to battle a station to take control and earn credits from it over time. Adding rare ships and weapons would be sweet too, like I said just some suggestions to make this game over the top. Thanks for your feedback! In order for the ship to have less inertia and spin faster, you need to add more power to the engines. The physics of the ships was made taking into account the upgrades and the differences between the ship models. Most of the ideas come from Elite Dangerous. I see no reason to copy Escape Velocity, which has so many clones. The search does not work because the name cannot be entered or the search cannot find the system? Join Discord server (button in the main menu), there is a friendly community that will always help!

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I really want to like this game, but the tutorial really doesn’t help too much. Ive spent a couple hours trying to figure out what to do and when I follow the first few “missions” to get started I find I’m always the target of high level ships that destroy my ship and everything I’m transporting. If you like wasting time doing the same thing over and over the start of this game is exactly that. Very difficult to get started. Update: I have now out in about 5 hours. The first 2-3 hours were definitely a struggle with the learning curve being fairly steep. After trying a variety of things in the game and just spending time trying to figure it out I think I’ve finally got some of it down. While I feel the in game tutorial really did not help me much, now that I’ve gotten a handle on the basics it is VERY fun. Was tough for me to get started but now Im enjoying the actual gameplay figuring out how the game goes.

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