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The WhatsNext verdict

For Players who enjoy improvisational stealth, tactical action, and plans that can go spectacularly wrong.: Board ships, read their layouts, and use gadgets, weapons, and the environment to improvise a way through each mission. Tradeoff: The top-down presentation and deliberately unpredictable situations reward patience and quick adaptation over straightforward action.

What it does best

simulator
strategy
science fiction
stealth

The setup

What you are walking into

Fly your tiny defenceless pod up to larger ships, dock with their airlock, and sneak inside. Once you're in, you creep through their corridors, ambushing guards, hiding bodies, stealing new weapons, blowing them up from the inside, or hijacking their turrets and even the whole ship.