It received a lot of criticism at the time because they sort of bought into the Star Control 2 / The Urquan Masters IP and ghosted the main devs, but I found it fun too. It’s sort of funny because it has become such a trend of the serious, they also got into a row with the Star Control Origins guys, another fun take by another good studio in the same sort of genre, and even went to court against them. Now the original devs have crowdfunded FREE STARS: Children of Infinity as the official sequel.
In regards to multiplayer gameplay similar to Star Control, there’s Subspace Continuum, particularly the Trench Wars server if it still exists. It’s probably still active. I also remember Stardock did its own take on it called Stellar Frontier. There was also a shareware game called Solar Winds from long ago which was single player but had similar gameplay.
It received a lot of criticism at the time because they sort of bought into the Star Control 2 / The Urquan Masters IP and ghosted the main devs, but I found it fun too. It’s sort of funny because it has become such a trend of the serious, they also got into a row with the Star Control Origins guys, another fun take by another good studio in the same sort of genre, and even went to court against them. Now the original devs have crowdfunded FREE STARS: Children of Infinity as the official sequel.
In regards to multiplayer gameplay similar to Star Control, there’s Subspace Continuum, particularly the Trench Wars server if it still exists. It’s probably still active. I also remember Stardock did its own take on it called Stellar Frontier. There was also a shareware game called Solar Winds from long ago which was single player but had similar gameplay.
Solar Winds was awesome! One of the few shareware games I actually bought the full version of!