Star Hunter-Infinite Lagrange

I honestly expected some pretty lazy cash grab with a cool skin. But the game is a bit deeper and a lot more interesting than I expected. And it is fun just watching your ships sailing through space and fighting. That being said, they really, really need to improve how you get blueprints for new ships. You simply will not be able to beat players who have better ships than you, and it is just comical how many times I’ve waited days to finally get another blueprint only to find out I’ve pulled the same ship everybody starts with AGAIN and just have to settle for some points I don’t need anyway. I barely have any of the available ships too, so it doesn’t make sense I keep drawing the same few I have if they’re all equally likely. And it’s not really like you can buy them in a sensible way either, so I don’t get why they are so against giving you ships you can use. I’ve hit a wall now where my base is upgraded to its max, but I just don’t have enough ships I can build or ones that are particularly good. So what am I really supposed to be doing? I do want to keep playing this game, but it is getting harder and harder to find the motivation as I’m running out of tech boxes I can get, and keep redrawing the same handful of ships the few times I finally do get a blueprint.

Game is fun and has some good aspects to it, be wary of the boxes for ship blueprints. It’s highly likely you’ll roll the same ship multiple times (sometimes you get the exact same box twice in a row) so there’s most definitely an odd mechanic in the game, whether by design or by accident I’m not sure. It’s very frustrating when you open a black market box then immediately afterwards open the guaranteed box for the exact same ship you just pulled. There’s dozens of ships and about three times that amount in variants so not sure why they decided to not limit duplicates in such a short time span, it’s happened to me about 4 times now and rather takes the enjoyment out the game pretty quickly. The boxes are set so when you do pull the same box every single thing in it is exactly the same right down to the variant it pulls and the tech files it gives. You can say this is a whiney review sure, easy to think that when it’s not happening to you. I get that it’s gacha, but I’ve played other gacha games and haven’t seen this many duplicates when the rates for drops are already kinda steep. To be fair, this game has a lot of potential. I do enjoy the game as a whole and feel terrible for the other reviewers that labeled toxic players as I have seem some language back and forth but haven’t experienced it firsthand myself. Graphics are solid with recent update and the gameplay is actually pretty fun I will say. Not a bad game at all but the boxes for sure threw me for a loop. Who knows, maybe it’s just me, I do have a penchant for bad luck after all.

I normally don’t play mobile strategies for long. They get boring quickly to me, especially the pay-to-win aspects. This game isn’t like it. Sure, you can use real money, but you can also play without that. You have your own starbase and send out mining ships to get resources while expanding and building up the base. You also do research and build your fleet to fight pirates or other players. I like that the game gets the scale of a star system better than many others. A single system is HUGE, it’s basically a server, although you can travel between them through giant stargates. The visual style is very industrial. Not many flashy colors or impractical designs. Somewhat reminiscent of Homeworld, especially the music and the background chatter. Combat is automatic and pretty much involves ships floating in space and shooting at one another. Only fighter craft maneuver. But I like that you can have multiple fleets engage the same enemy and it actually has an effect. Fleets automatically organize ships into battle lines. Typically your ships target lines in order, but if a second fleet were to flank the same enemy, then that second fleet would be able to attack any enemy