Star Valor
Star Valor is a 2D top down space shooter. You can take a few different routes; miner, trader or combat - although if you take any non-combat role you might find yourself getting pounded a lot. If you're mining, you're going to get attacked, so really playing the combat skill tree is the only viable option. It takes place in a randomly generated galaxy where you travel between stars and each system has a different level range - getting higher as you move out. It's fun, although very low budget and quite derivative. There's also no story and no endgame, so I'm not really invested in spending much more time in it.
Pros
- Can redistribute energy between systems
- Lots of different equipment you can install on your ship
- High degree of customisation based on installed components
Cons
- Opens with the yellow text scroll from Star Wars, and there are holocrons in the game
- Terrible graphics
- Plays pretty much like any top down 2D space shooter from the 90s
- Very grindy trying to level
- There's no contrast between background and foreground objects so it's difficult to tell what's an object and what's decoration
- There's never enough component storage space to have a decent speed / turning circle / firepower