Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

My first attempt taught me a lot about what is important. Second way through I hit my stride and began to really enjoy the game - in that sweet spot where I couldn’t put it down. But then, just as I was smooth sailing, I got walloped by an unexpected invasion. I really didn’t see what I had done wrong and honestly am not interested enough to spend any more time figuring out the dev’s complex shenanigans.

The developer did an ok job learning from his inspirations and made a game that’s passable. It plays like an above average student project. I suppose the game is in its semi baked state cause the developer got government and crowd funding money, so felt satisfied with keeping it good enough.

This game is 5 years old, but a breath of fresh air amongst freemium or microtransaction types of games. I play on iPhone 12 and for me the screen size is sufficient. Only sometimes you are trying to press an icon and it isn’t registering easily but it’s easy to work around it. Well worth the low cost.