Flight Of Nova

It still has no time acceleration! Waiting hours on orbit for your redezvous realy sucks. It should be the player's choice how to waste his time!

Originally a few years ago it was a nice early access. But now since a very long time there are no automatic controller settings inside the game anymore, despite the game recognizing my controller. Makes it a bit ridiculous for a game that tells you to use the controller. Also setting controls yourself does not make much sense with these elaborate controls. You cannot learn it from the tutorials if the tutorials do not know the controller controls only keyboard. And it would be such an easy bug to fix, if I could only make a bug report, but there is no sensible option to provide a bug report... At least there will be an update soon, that is why I installed it. Let's hope that update includes a fix.

Best flight model ever, missing a bit of variety around that though

A superb experience. Very immersive. You can feel space seeped into your hands and in your face after each session, It flows space and physics deep into your senses when you explore it. It is sublime.

True orbital mechanics and excellent controls :) Rare game. The atmosphere is gorgeous so is the music. Please more ships!

Spent 20 minutes trying to dock with an orbital station and ended up getting a little motion sick after I landed. 10/10 would become dizzy again.

Отличная игра, для любителей космоса и космических полётов. Один из редких случаев, когда титул "симулятор" - более чем заслуженный. Реализована реалистичная физика полёта как в атмосфере планеты, так и на орбите. Одна из лучших игр, в которые я играл за последние несколько лет. И одна из самых честных к игроку: никаких условностей, подлянок и усложнений ради усложнения - только реализм и физика. Графика относительно простая и не требовательная, но всё равно выглядящая достойно. [spoiler] Лично мне она местами напоминает другой космический симулятор из детства - Home Planet (не путать с Homeworld) [/spoiler] Музыка в игре очень приятная и атмосферная, отлично дополняет пустынные пейзажи NVA-31 (так, если что, называется планета, где происходят действия игры), а также виды на поверхность с орбиты. Ну и дополнительным плюсом будет цена - на момент покупки, да и на момент написания этого обзора, она стоит всего 515 рублей. Из минусов я могу вспомнить разве что кривоватую русскую локализацию, но со временем её скорее всего поправят, а для игроков, знающих английский - это и вовсе не станет проблемой. Для кого-то минусом может стать отсутствие боёв, но как по мне - это наоборот плюс. Игр про космические бои разного уровня реализма и так достаточно, а вот про спокойную и расслабленную доставку посылок - не так много, как хотелось бы. Я полюбил эту игру с первого просмотра трейлера и запуска демо-версии, ещё до того как она вышла полноценный ранний доступ. И если вам тоже хочется почувствовать себя пилотом настоящего космического корабля, я думаю, что вы тоже её полюбите.

A fantastic worry-free near-future spaceplane flight sim! Instead of simplifying the flight physics or orbital mechanics to make the game more accessible, the developer made the ships you fly ridiculously good (extreme amount of delta-v, comically strong main engines, player character surviving 10G of acceleration without blacking out, impossibly good heat shielding, etc). This means that the game remains a proper sim, and that mastering it is challenging and fun, while at the same time mistakes and miscalculations carry few consequences due to the powerful ship, which IMO is a perfect combination. The crazy strong ship also means that you don't HAVE to take the optimal route and can have fun with crazy trajectories! The game is made by a single developer, and you can see it. The models and textures are kind of ugly, the tutorial is terrible, the UI leaves something to be desired. However, none of that is really enough to detract from the experience in any way - I feel like the developer made the right choice to spend their time focusing on what's actually important for the target audience (the flight model and orbital mechanics). All those things are easily overlooked once you get into the game and start actually flying. I see some people complaining about the price, but I feel like this is a niche product that has to be priced higher than most indie games to compensate for having a much smaller target audience. I see no issue there, it's worth the money if you are a nerd that this game is targeting IMO. My only real complaint is the lack of certain information that a craft like this would certainly display on one of the screens or the HUD. For example, there are no normal/antinormal orbital markers, there are no names for planetary sites on the radar, there's no way to see the prograde/retrograde and local/anti-local markers unless you're looking in their direction, etc. Would also love to see some more difficult missions for long-distance planetary transport and for off-equator orbital transport. Can't wait for the interplanetary missions coming soon!

physics and hot landings with pieces of wings breaking off. awesome. yes I recommend it!