Starsector Review | Explore the Cosmos™ | Ruin Everything™ 

So i bought a copy for me and another for a friend and the BMT guys emailed me to make sure i meant to buy two. Real quality businesses, no other retailer would ever check that.

If you're down here wondering, the game is still $15, still updated, still amazing.

The moral of the story is, don't save a convoy from pirates. Let the pirates destroy the convoy and then destroy the pirates so that you get twice the profit with half the work.

Fun trivia fact, Tri-Tachyon incorporated was formerly known as OpenAI

**copyright protection causes the fall of humanity** 10/10 game. Period.

This is no longer a merchants guild, this is a merchants conglomerate

"start an organ harvesting operation" words I usually expect to hear in every sseth video

As a West Virginian, the miners consuming loads of heroin joke is 100% spot on.

You forgot one important thing... - Get a Paragon blueprint - Learn it - Find another - Sell it on the black market - 4 months later, the sector is plunged into an even greater chaos than before.

"I don't have to explain shit, it just works." -Todd "Seth" Howard

Honestly true terror is when you sell a shitton of blueprints and a nanoforge to the pirates and they immediately become the strongest faction in the galaxy

I found a beautiful cobtradiction in how "civilized" the factions were; since when I had high rep with major factions they would still send expeditions to mess with my successful colonies but when I got neutral rep with the supposedly bloodthirsty pirates they left my colonies alone and served as a nice trade partner.

"10/10 I'm completely biased, and I don't care." I'm gonna use that next time I write a paper.

"We trade on the black market" *Cowboy Bebop music starts playing* 10/10

This game gets insane. I installed a few mods a while back, leading to a crapton more weapons and ships, my favourite being the cathedral-class hubship. To anyone not familiar with it, it’s essentially 7 ships strapped together and about the size of a space station. I then made the best mistake of my life. I equipped it with singularity torpedos. As you’d expect, these produce miniature black holes, sucking in anything nearby. The pilot fired them off like party poppers, leading to both it, and another cathedral getting stuck together. It was then that I discovered that its death explosion is quite possibly the most destructive thing I’ve ever seen in game. It proceeded to kill both itself, and the other full health cathedral (and these things are *HARD* to kill) in one go. This lead to a flash of inspiration. I found myself a reckless pilot, put them on the ship, applied every speed mod I could, gave it a smack on the bum, and sent it straight into combat. And that’s the story of how I made the most inefficient bomb in existence

Remember, the [REDACTED] are scary, but the true terror comes from what they answer to. Watching my entire fleet get wiped out by what amounts to a pair of schizophrenic doritos put the fear of god back into me.

My Sides When Sseth Mentioning a website causes it to crash. He's becoming too powerful

$15 is a Reasonable price I’m going to buy this as soon as everyone stops killing their website The devs should thank you you probably just sold about 30k Units

bought the game. tried to live an honest life as honest space merchant. i struggle to make a profit and keep business going with repairs fuel and expenses. i was tied in an endless hell of trips just keep things afloat. then out of desperation i decided to make a stop to a luddic path planet because i was out of fuel. the margins... sweet lord i earn in a single dishonest transaction enough money to reapir a capital ship half my fleet and still have 400.000 of savings. insane. my morality was shaken. i have given troops and weapons to a terrorist organization. am i a bad man now? to hell with it i will become a weapons smuggler. i have become nicholas cage in space. i love it

I tried for so long to make a good profit with legitimate trade. I spent hours comparing prices, racing to fill demand, and struggling to stay above the (previously erroneous 60%) 86% profit margin necessary to walk away with any money after the tariffs. I was upholding order, supplying civilized planets with my legitimate goods, and improving relations with the various factions of the sector. Then I clandestinely bought every drug on the Tri-Tachyon corporation's capitol and sold them to pirates. In a single instant, I had the finances to buy a battleship, a supercarrier, two cruisers, two light cruisers, and two destroyers. Then I stood on the bridge of the most technologically advanced battleship in the galaxy and wondered what the fuck I was supposed to be doing.

"I'm completly biased and I don't care." Well at least you're honest about it.

Decided to play this game. I found a particularly profitable trade route: there was an isolated Luddic Path mining planet in a certain star system, the only planet in said star system, without any protection and in dire need of heroin. About 1 day away, in the nearest star, an independent colony was producing a jack shit ton of heroin. They weren't the largest producers in the galaxy, but when you put the accumulated costxprofit of buying all the heroin from the colony and selling it to the Jihads, buying their ores and selling back to the colony, it was a goddamn Space Silk Road. A "Heroin" Road, if you will. Nonexistent patrols meant that I could run with my transponder off non-stop and after just a few upgrades my fleet was the top dog in the region. Life was good. Well, once you get rich you want to settle down, of course, so I decided to colonize an irradiated planet in the independent star system, because for some reason a planet that was completely irradiated still had a lower hazard rate than the other barren worlds nearby. Turns out that the independent faction did not like my plans of turning a glowing dead rock into a glowing rock with people in it, so they launched a plan to bombard my brand new colony and kill everyone in it. If someone makes a public threat of nuclear annihilation, I'd say it's fair to answer in kind. So after negotiations failed (because turns out that 1000 workers consume A LOT of supplies per day, and that ate through my funds), I simply traveled to the independent planet that was organizing the raid before they could deploy, just a week away, very convenient. Once I got in orbit, I bombarded the planet, making it go barren. Everyone else decided to call me a nazi fascist and I got canceled on twitter. Even the jihadis were just baffled at what I had done. Still, they needed that heroin, and the independents needed to sell their heroin, so business as usual. That is, of course, until I decided to take two pirate's contracts, and as I flew in to deliver the second, my fleet got swarmed by 6 different fleets trying to get my head, because everyone hated me for killing the people trying to kill me. Great game, 10/10.

Started watching Sseth for the "hard hitting meme content", became a die hard fan when I realized he's an excellent source for finding hidden gems in gaming. This game looks awesome and I've never heard of it before.

Had problems with Ludic Path, destroyed the Ludic Church and the problem stopped. Amazing how realistic the game is.

AI: "I'll tell everyone what you've been doing" Sseth: "Fine...I'll do it myself"

The devs wrote to me and told me we also brought the BMT Micro site to a crawl. I've updated the description with direct download links of the game. These are hosted on Amazon cloudflare - should be much more resilient.

Aw this was such a wholesome review for our boy Sseth. You can tell how much he genuinely loves this game.

there's something that seth forgot to mention that i think makes this game even more of a masterpiece. while this game is very easy to mod, it's even easier to do it yourself! you can simply go into the game's files and modify any aspect of the game you want. values for missions, fleets, and you can even change the weapon layouts of specific ships. going into the settings config, they basically walkthrough some of the important stuff and lay it out for you. this game doesn't hide its code, it fully allows you to make it your own game if you don't like specific details about vanilla. i personally wanted to have a possibility of owning half the star sector, so i changed the value of max outpost you character can hold to about 10 or 15. i don't know if other games are like this or not, but from what i heard, they aren't. i'm not a programmer in the slightest, yet in under 30 minutes i was able to reprogram the entire game to how i wanted it with no penalty whatsoever. the devs are truly one of a kind.

cant be a seth review without selling drugs and human organs

Site servers hate him! This man quintuples indie game profits with just one simple video!

Mbeke lowkey did the greatest social experiment regarding piracy by offering both a pirate link and the website where people can buy it. And people ended up overloading the game's website.

Not only is Sseth a true chad for sharing his CD key, the developers actually link this video as the first one showcasing this game in the FAQ section. Yes, this video. With the CD key in it. If that doesn't scream faith in a product you developed I don't know what does. Definitely picking up a copy just for the balls alone. Plus I've tried it and it seems pretty neat. Cheers, Sseth and to the devs.

SSeth, you just breathed new life into an amazing game. I've literally been playing this for five straight days. Thanks for selling me this addiction.

i thought all the merchant guild crap was fake... but then i realized i've been buying all the games seth suggests...

In the grim darkness of the future, there is only trade

What the Hegemony said: “You cannot have AI” What I heard: “Objective updated: Aquire AI”

1. Propose a ceasefire 2. RECEIVE NO REPLY I completely lost it.

"Sometimes, while exploring deep space, you might hear distress signals." "Uh, we ignore those." _"Just. Ignore them."_ In space no one can hear you sweat.

I love how their website is currently dying from what seems like a Sseth triggered DDoS Feels like the Sseth tide 2.0

The fact you provide download links for a lot of games you review and even your own CD key for this one is really something I don't see and it's an aspect that makes you outshine a lot of reviewers in my opinion. It speaks to me "Fuck it, I'm not here just to have my opinion heard and make ad revenue, I genuinely love these games and I want people to play and enjoy them." A true king and Chad.

"an atrocity of this scale cant be hidden" "stop your war crimes" No.

"who knew arming terrorists could be so profitable" Isn't that how the Gulf War started?

>casually toss in own CD key because why not >crash their sales site anyways with same video Not bad.

Just bought this a couple days ago and _my god._ I am not a gamer, and I tend to suck at games like this, but this game is _so_ damn _FUN._ Just today, I launched a raid on a Sindarin warehouse because a drunk populist in a bar asked me to. And I hit the wrong target because I didn't know how to navigate the menus yet. I was then promptly surrounded by _four patrol fleets,_ each one _individually_ capable of killing me. And you know how I got out of it? I pushed a single button. Transverse jumped and got the hell out of space dodge. God I love this game.

"The gate systems went dead. We could no longer reach the rest of humanity." > The Imperium of Man would like to know your location

Seth is like our big brother that we wish we had when we were young, and nothing like the big brother we have when we are old

You can tell a game is great when Seth cuts down on the jokes and gushes about the content

here much later to tell new players some cool mods that make the game even better: 1. nexerelin [as seen in the video]: makes all the faction relations intense, gives you the option of using a gamma core + some mats to build an outpost in deep space to refuel/supply. couple custom starts that are cool [yes you can play as pirates or luddic path.] has a new update as of this writing that lets you play a land battle minigame when invading a planet. mod author fixed a bug I found in a single day. amazing. 2. underworld: small mod that adds some pirate ships/fighters, a luddic path-style high-tech faction, and a really cool custom start called 'the infernal machine.' very fun. works great with nexerelin. 3. archean order: changes every ship and weapon in the game, extra ships, gives weapons longer range, buffs/nerfs some, few extra factions, and adds a ton of fighter stuff. makes [REDACTED] and the cryosleeper guardian super hard, lags my game when you fight a semi-big fleet, but great. does not work well with underworld. works good with nexerelin. 4. industrial evolution: more exploration and colony stuff. some planets/stations have hidden stuff you will probably love. must-have. 5. starship legends: lets your ships level/de-level based on combat. adds some bar missions to find pre-leveled ships. pretty fun. 6. girls frontline portrait pack: become a smug animu waifu. SR3MP best girl.

So far: I have started with a Hammerhead and during the tutorial, i have gotten myself a second one. My first instinct was to go exploring, ran out of fuel and got pulled towards a red star with a yellow warning beacon where I stumbled upon a discarded Mothership. I saved, approached it, upon which it instantly vaporised me. After reloa... reincarnating in a previous timeline, I looked around and saw two fleets in combat. The Ludic Church where fighting a fleet of ȑ̷̺͕e̴̝̿̕m̷͙͚̫̒̂̋è̴̗̼̮n̴̡̫͆̽͆ả̸͍n̴͕͆t̸̖̆̊͘. I joined the fight and scavanged a few parts of the fleet: Including an Alpha core. I scouted around and found 2 Research stations near 2 close Neutron Stars, which gave me more blueprints and weapons than I could every imagine. Most of which I do not even know what to do with. A distress signal caused a Tri Tachyon fleet to notice my lack of fuel, so they helped me out. Upon which I ofcourse compensated them with 20000 Spacebitcoins. I was now nearly broke, but I made it back to civilised space, after a few pitstops in sectors where I scavenged for fuel ... and a few Gamma Cores. I went to a Tri Tachyon spacestation, where I wanted to sell my findings. But instead of going to the trade window, I clicked on communication. Another missclick lead me to talk with the administrator, which informed me that I could turn in the AI cores for money. I checked how much he would give me, went to the market and looked at the price it normally goes for. This is how I, through stupidity or intuition, found out that you get 3 times the money from selling it to the tri tachyon directly. I now have the "Killer Queen" ship, a small fleet, and 1 million credits. My next goal was to find a habitable planet, with a few mining ones in the same system. ... After 5 hours of checking systems I found ONE which was habitable. It even had rich Ore and Special Ore deposits! Which would be nice if it wheren't for the fact that it is: A) The only planet in the system and B) Close to a Red Dwarf, which causes it to have such a high gravity, that even mundane tasks like Walking are only possible with a reinforced Exosceleton. And here I sit now: 600.000 credits, a small fleet, no planet to call my own and a Ship that can teleport landmines into other ships. But having no clue what to do next. 10/10 Can't wait to continue.

It always feels like such a long time in between videos.

Welcome back, Mbeke. The Guild is pleased to see this tribute.

Starsector has been updated to version 0.97a as of 02/02/2024.

"Using a AI is illegal. Using a Alpha AI is EXTREMELY FUCKING illegal." This is a great quote

Game: allows you to sell organs Sseth: vigorous hand rubbing

“The Starsector equivalent of Killer Queen.” Now we know Sseth’s favorite Stand. And I can respect that choice.

This game feels 5x more alive than most AAA developers claim their game is

I've been playing this game for a year or so, and it's fantastic. Highly recommend, some of the best $15 I've ever spent. The game does some things which you wouldn't expect a game to do. I found a ton of valuable blueprints in an abandoned station in the middle of space, and some of the big battleship designs were duplicates of what I already had, so obviously I chose to sell them for profit. But why would I pay that 30% trade tariff? Nah man, fuck that shit. So, I docked at a pirate station and sold them the battleship blueprints on the black market. ...big mistake. I mean, I really should have thought that through. Within a few years, the pirates attacking my merchant fleets had high-tech battleships... built from the designs I'd sold to them. I had to spend millions upgrading my colony world Patrol HQs so I could have larger escort fleets for my merchant convoys, completely negating any profit I made off selling those blueprints. It was awesome. I love a game with that level of depth. And it's just gonna keep getting better.

You know it’s a good game when the default control bindings don’t suck

> $15 > Mods > Regular updates > Linux support Sold.

a sincere thanks, sseth. this video led me to some of the greatest experiences i’ve ever had the pleasure of playing. first save, i uh, somehow unlocked a pirate smuggler contact in askonia and ended up getting friendly with them over the course of three or so cycles through legally dubious covert ops around its closest systems. their bounties were generally aimed against the league and the diktat, and it also introduced me to raiding. it was lucrative. dropping thousands of marines into a colony after a tactical bombardment and robbing them of supplies felt like free money at the time. it was rad. my pirate buddies also took advantage of this, to my surprise, as the colonies were unstable and their patrol fleets greatly weakened after my repeated attacks. i appreciated the help, as they distracted any remaining fleets and allowed me to travel through hostile territory with impunity. couple cycles later, i took up exploring and colony management after i made enough dough. with a large enough contingent of supply ships, fuel tankers, and cargo freighters, i could safely stay in deep space for several months at a time and explore to my heart’s content. i had turned a new leaf. one morning, on a pit stop to my now-successful colony, i started getting notices about planetary governments losing control of their population. the names seemed familiar-it was the colonies that i raided at the start of my save. one by one, the persean league and the diktat lost planets to rampant banditry and looting due to the local population growing desperate with the lack of supplies. i visited them out of curiosity, and sure enough, the pirates stayed long after i left, driving colony after colony to anarchy. i had let them in. 10/10. it’s amazing.

17:13 You can build sledge hammer ships. Sledge. Hammer. Ships.

After my first Alpha Core-managed colony I came to the stark realization that the Luddic Path is actually right on 90% of everything.

"Story? Nobody gives shit..." *Start narrating the Lore of a fascinating dark, nihilistic and anarchist space distopia*

having played this occasionally for over 10 years, i finally bought it. The site worked amazing, asked me for my country to pay taxes, and then I got an e-mail with my code. Felt amazing. Now I haven't slept for days, I am smoking a spliff with one hand as I scream "yarr" at the screen when DPS Good Comet, my Executor-class mothership flanked by two Champion-class cruisers, rams into the enemy lines to defend the Dysnomia Party independent colonies from scum like tax collectors and tech inspectors. I have a powerful fleet and capable, high level captains to take over the command in battle for me so I can rest my tired eyes. When I close my lids I see visual remnants of ships detonating at my pulse barrages. I may be entering psychosis and it's hard to focus my vision, but it only adds to the immersion of the insane space warlord fantasy. Truly one of the greatest games ever made, and I don't even mod it, the current state it is in vanilla is already overwhelming.

"wait a minute, this game looks familiar..." *checks email* "I pre-ordered this in 2013???"

I love the devs, they spat in the face of big gaming companies by saying them: "see? Guys are not inclined towards piracy for profit, you just have to trust your community" and boom quintuplied sales with a free CD Key Faith restored for now

Public Service Announcement: The game never autosaves, even on ironman, so if you happen to > play for a whole day > get in a big battle in the middle of nowhere and forget the supply is a thing > Alt+F4 out of the game in a panic to avoid starvation you will loose a loooot of progress Remember to click F5 once in a while, be smarter than me :D

sseth, no joke, your videos have restored my faith in gaming. With so much shit going on int the AAA gaming market every series I love has all but died and It seems like there is only one or two companies out there that care. However, every game you have recommended has been one of those games I fell in love with as a kid. Thank you, you are doing great work.

Well DAMN! Seems like the developers are pulling a WinRAR and are advertising their product by essentially giving us a limitless trial(Sseeth's CD key). No matter how I feel about this game after giving it a whirl myself; I fully intend on purchasing a copy when I get my next paycheck for that kind of practice & trust in the consumer. We need more indie developers like this... Bless you kind sirs!

Spent 2 hours customizing and testing my ship to make it perfect but then gave up and decided to autofit and the design they gave me was 10x better. 10/10 game.

@2:45 you wouldn't fucking believe the number of times I've tried to fall asleep to Sseth's videos only to be SHOT awake by the sound of "TAH. AH-CHYON" 🙄😭😭

... aaannd the Starsector website is down. I wonder why?

Time to: >get mass profits >build a militaristic empire >colonize several worlds *Imperium of Man time*

i literally forgot the name of this game so i searched up "space heroin game" and it came up lol

even after 3 years the CD Key still works. Thanks Sseth, you're my favorite content provider!

I'd been on the run from the law for months now. It all started when I got caught smuggling a shipment of weaponry and narcotics to the Luddic Panthers. The price on my head was into the millions of credits, enough for every perspective bounty hunter this side of Jangala to have a crack at me. I'd been hiding out in the outer reaches of space for months, but supplies were running low, and I had no choice but to return to civilized space and risk running into the Hegemony's lackies or watch my fleet deteriorate before my eyes as supplies run dry, stranded in some godforsaken frontier system without enough fuel to make it home. I had two choices. I could try to make a supply run in Tri-Tachyon space, or in Sindrian space. Neither are fond of me, but if the worst came to happen, I didn't like my odds against the fast, sleek, modern warships of a Tri-Tachyon hunter fleet coming to collect the bounty on my head. The Sindrian government was openly hostile towards the Hegemony, and maybe I could hope for shelter in Sindrian space, provided I followed their laws. As I begun to pull away from Sindria, my fleet freshly repaired and supplies restocked, I noticed a large sensor contact. A large fleet running dark. As they drew closer, it became apparent they were pursuing me. I made out individual ships, Heron class carriers, Brawler gunships, Hammerhead class destroyers, and most worryingly, a Conquest class battlecruiser with Sindrian markings on it, indicating it as a prime Sindrian warship. This fleet was a privateer fleet sanctioned and bankrolled by the Sindrian government to kill me and claim the bounty on my head, and their flagship, all 3 million tons of her, was proof enough of their authority, and if it wasn't, the nearby Sindrian patrol fleet and orbital battlestation I had been docked and trading with mere hours before powering up their weapons as they moved to engage sure were. The battle commenced with fighter strikes from the Sindrian carriers and battlestation, flak fire from my own ships and my own fighter squadrons moving to engage the hostile squadrons in a huge dogfight. I knew I needed to destroy both the battlestation and cripple the hostile fleet too badly for them to pursue me if I wanted to get out of this alive. My frigates, cruisers and destroyers met with theirs in a desperate, lopsided battle for survival. Early on I focused the majority of my cruiser force on engaging that hostile battlestation. We traded blows with the Leviathan for several minutes, and lost several ships in the process, but finally we managed to overload it's shields. At that moment, every single missile armed ship within 3000 SU launched a massive barrage of high explosive ordinance. Harpoons, Hammers, Reapers, every breed of missile and torpedo in the fleet streaking for the station simultaneously. The station lit up with a hundred explosions in the span of mere seconds as it's thick armor belt failed under the withering barrage, and the entire station was left a burning hulk. This victory was a crucial glimmer of hope for my fleet's survival, but the battle was far from over. The Conquest class Battlecruiser alone possessed as much firepower as half my fleet. The broadside salvos it put out were wreaking havoc on my battle line, it had already claimed several of my escort ships and a light cruiser. My flagship, the CNS Hyura, a Dominator class heavy cruiser, had taken damage from flanking frigates and bomber squadrons. I knew that to win this, I needed to strike a decisive blow. Shortly after ordering every available ship to focus fire on the Conquest, sensors picked up a whole squadron of bombers headed for my flagship's flank. I couldn't afford to lose this ship, and in a desperate bid to avoid the bombing run, I engaged the ship's burn drive, narrowly dodging a rocket strike that would have crippled my engines and evicerated my armor belt. In my desperation, my burn drive rocketed the cruiser directly into the derelict battlestation, overloading the ship's drives and flaming out the engines. Here I am, drifting helplessly, end over end in my Dominator, engines offline as I watch my fleet struggle to hold their own against the Sindrian battle line. The Conquest had been ruthless, laying broadside after broadside into my outgunned cruisers and destroyers, but it's limits were starting to show. It's guns starting firing sporadically and it's shields flicker as it's reactor struggled to keep up with the demands of intense combat. Normally, my fleet would respond with a powerful missile salvo to punch through it's shields and armor and deal a deadly blow to the vessel, but the majority of my fleet's missile ordinance had been exhausted destroying the battlestation. Practically the only ship left in the fleet with any strike weapons was the Hyura herself, with a trio of Reaper class torpedo tubes, devastatingly powerful weapons able to disembowel the most formidable warships with just a few hits. But the Hyura was tumbling end over end, engines flamed out. And then... A flash of hope... I realized that the Hyura's wild, uncontrolled spin happened to line up perfectly with the Conquest. I assumed manual control of the Hyura's torpedo armerment, and as her wild spin was just about to line up with the Conquest, I let go one, two all three Reaper tubes. My timing was impeccable. The momentum of the ship's spin carried the torpedoes into a perfect trajectory, a one in a million shot, the trifecta. All three torpedoes struck the Conquest and it's hull shuddered as if it were struck by the hammer of Thor, and it's reactor lit up in an explosion that momentarily blinded every sensor in two thousand kilometers. In one single move, my flamed out, drifting flagship had landed a decisive blow and turned one of the most powerful ships in the system into a debris field within seconds. At this moment, the battle was won, and the Sindrians were forced into retreat. We all have our tales to tell of plying the great expanse of the Persian sector, but of all the moments of my career as a fleet commander, none will ever surpass the time I destroyed a Conquest class Battlecruiser without any engines on my flagship.

Who knew arming radical space terrorists could be so profitable.. CIA has left the chat

On behalf of the Starsector discord, thank you

After 100+ hours, I think I might actually buy the bloody game, despite Sseth's key working. The developers really cooked something incredible.

>Under rated youtuber reviewing under rated games

Heres my first experience with the game: After getting through the tutorial, I took on a lot of exploration jobs, salvaging and selling information on ancient satellites, surveying planets, etc. One particular mission was to survey an ice giant in a far-away system. I decided I had the fuel to make it and it would be some good money. About half-way through the journey I encountered a jaw-droppingly massive hyperspace cloud, thing was incredibly large. I checked up and down and there was no way over it, so I decided to go through it. Biggest mistake of my life, the damn thing was never-ending. I then realized I forgot to bring a surplus of supplies. Only fuel. Once I ran out of supplies my fleet slowly got tore apart by the storms due to well, not having supplies to repair the damage. Once my fuel ran out I started drifting towards the nearest gravity well automatically. I was initially quite relaxed about it since I could just send a distress signal and hopefully someone would come, but as I drifted closer I noticed something nearby the gravity well; a warning beacon. Before I realized exactly what that meant I was pulled into the well, exiting hyperspace to find myself next to a star. Nothing seemed wrong so I was about to send a distress signal until: a massive fleet of [REDACTED] suddenly whizzed by me. Then another. Then another. I had no idea how I didn't get spotted. I decided "fuck it, maybe if I send a distress signal someone friendly will find me before they do", and went ahead. About 3 in-game days later and finally someone arrived; a ship from the independent faction. As they came in, I noticed a fleet of [REDACTED] was already chasing them. They quickly went over to my ship, gave me fuel, and went as fast as possible away from me. Amazingly, the [REDACTED] were too distracted to notice me and they kept chasing after my rescuer. I went completely dark and started sneaking towards the jump point, [REDACTED] flying around me constantly. Again, no idea how they didn't notice I was there. I made it to the jump point and had JUST enough fuel to make it to a habitable system. I made it into the system with 3 fuel left, using it to dock at a station and finally, I bought the supplies and fuel necessary, repaired my fleet, and all was well. tl;dr Was on a hyperspace voyage when I ran out of fuel and drifted into a system full of [REDACTED], somehow going undetected long enough for a rescue ship to re-fuel me and going undetected for an even longer period to sneak to the jump point. This game is amazing.

17:12 "Star Sector is a beautiful game" Witnesses a ship use its hammer-like hull to slam against an attacking ship* Beautiful...

It's 2022, Sseth's key still works bless these devs

*Killer Queen has already touched your flagship*

I played my second game and after getting used to it, I salvaged a ruin and found a nanobots seed 20 minutes in. It was valued at 1.5M credits. I said fuck the tariff and sold it on the black market without thinking of turning off my transponder. The Luddic path declared a fatwa on me thinking I had built it and chased me to a system with a black hole. I died but took 6 of their fleets down with me. 10/10. Will restart after fap.

Thanks Sseth for allowing me to finally realize my dreams of fighting for Allah in space, where no one will hear the Infidels scream

This guy is probably the best game reviewer out there. He makes all games appeal to me. He doesn't ONLY talk about new games, which is rare because people have started to think that old games are inherently bad. He remains funny while talking about mechanics which may be boring. also this game is pretty cool.

>Sign languages american >Entire subtitle is "(Hand gesture)" >lmao

That relatable moment when you McNuke the entire sector in order to put down a rogue Neuromancer AI.

“The star sector equivalent to Killer Queen” Sseth, you cultured man.

If you're down here wondering, Seth's CD key still works

Hey hey Seth, People here.

Well after destroying every faction in the game a found something interesting, the hegemony and the luddic church were using alpha cores in their colonies, that makes their inspections and constant harassments bullshit.

"Here's my actual CD key". What an absolute mench.

For those who don't know, the anime that was on 11:29 is called Cowboy Bebop. It is a very good show. It is very funny and the fight scenes are satisfying to watch. The story is about a small group of bounty hunters who are just trying to get by financially, but with their luck they aren't so secure. Traveling among the stars and excepting every bounty that gets them dinner is all that is on their minds as they struggle. What's also unique about it is that the show, unlike most other international tv shows, is that it is a love letter to western culture. The soundtrack is a good blend of jazz and rock, the charcters gamble with their money, and the architecture looks very retro, despite it taking place in the future. I highly recomend watching it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It also has a very good english dub.

Sseth has convinced me Anarcho-Capitalism is the only philosophy that works in videogames

I have been playing nothing but starsector for the past few days, a dozen hours a day Thank you Sseth, this satisfies my autism immensely

"UPDATE - Developers gave me direct links which should work." That's one of the biggest forms of generosity i've seen in a while. I like these guys.

Starting from a frigate or destroyer and working your way to a 14th Battlegroup Legion and Onslaught combo is the most rewarding thing you'll ever experience. It can be as simple as finding one drifting out at space. You expend all your fuel dragging it to a friendly starport. And like a car project, you do job after job fixing it up and kitting it out, struggling through pirate ambushes and Luddic Jihads Until one day you roll that baby out of the garage and flatten all that dare challenge you.

>Go to outer sectors >Find 14th Battlegroup Legion Battlecarrier >Recover it >Make it back to core worlds with 3 fuel left >Refit and make command ship >Delete every pirate that dares to exist in the same sector as me 10/10 would refurbish war memorabilia again