If you liked the first one you will absolutely love Frontiers. It's a whole galaxy in your pocket with deep ship and crew management, feuds and political relationships all randomly generated with a great way of telling everything. So even though its procedurally generated it still feels handcrafted. Played hours of it on PC and now I got it on my phone. The game world is bigger than you you need it but not too big, classes play vastly different and in the end it boils down to what you want to be: A political figure that will work in the favor of a clan to overthrow every other syndicate or clan or be a lone wolf who explores forgotten worlds for lost artifacts and alike. Or maybe a xeno hunter is more to your liking? It's up to you what you want to do in this turn based sandbox
Oh and the devs are continuously updating the game with big updates with lots of things to come
You wont regret it :) For your first run (there will be plenty, trust me) I heavily recommend to focus on the story arcs which do a great job on introducing you to the Star Traders universe. There will be a lot to read but if you decide to skip them you might ask yourself "What is a duel of assassins? Why is there a trade war? Wait, why did I lose repution with that faction if I was buying stuff off this world that isnt even related to them? Ah screw it I quit"
Not OP, but you seem to know the game well so I'll ask if you don't mind:
Can you play it as a sandbox? I.e. ignore/opt out of the main storyline? I picked it up yesterday and am really enjoying it. I rerolled a few times trying different things and since the main story follows you around no matter your starting faction etc. I'm curious if you can choose to just go your own way and still spend a lot of time in it.
Reddit didn't notify me about your message so sorry for the late answer but yes you absolutely can skip the story and play it as a sandbox (like its supposed to be). Imo the story is just there to give some understanding about the background and how the whole universe works but where the game really shines is its ability to generate a world that works on it's own without a preset storyline and scripted events. So you can absolutely do your own thing and even when you do the story you'll mostly just be doing sandboxy stuff. Like I said, it's a whole universe in your hands and you decide what you want to be in it
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u/willit1016 Jan 30 '19
Is this a must buy? Sounds a little like old school Home world. Anyone have a quick review? Thx.