Board 8 > Free game on Steam made by my friend - PlanetDrop: A Tiny Space Adventure

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In a few months' time, my friend made a game all by himself in his spare time, and today he has published it on Steam for free:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793060/PlanetDrop__A_Tiny_Space_Adventure/

If you're interested, play it, and if you like it, leave a review. Thanks!

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Looks interesting, but not really my thing. I'll see if there's someone I know who's interested.

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The shots and the write-up don't do a really great job of conveying what the game is. Maybe it's just a hard game to present, and it will be evident upon playing, but I wish I knew what I'd be getting myself into.

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Yeah, it's not something that can be grasped immediately, takes maybe some 30 minutes to get used to.
Here's the manual with more explanation: https://planetdrop.nobfg.com/mechanics.html

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I beat the game and wrote a Steam review:

"Very impressive for a game made by a single person in his spare time for a few months. You command a ship and execute various missions in a star system, facing many enemies that you can defeat by force or evade by stealth. In some missions, your commandos will have to be dropped via shuttles and capture enemy zones.

Ship navigation in a planet's orbit takes a little time to get used to, but the mechanics make sense and approach realism. Everything you have at your disposal has its use - various torpedoes, the energy pulse to detect mines, the decoy to lure enemy torpedoes away from your ship, there's even "teleportation" (SF-jump) to designated points of the planet. When you run out of necessary resources, you can buy them at neutral stations. The ship models and music are nice.

The game takes around 8-10 hours to beat for a beginner, which is a good length considering the small scale of the project and the fact it is a free game. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the genre."

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I suppose if nothing else I can add it to my library and see if I ever get to it.

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