naev VS UQM-MegaMod

#1 - NAEV/Naikari: Eye of Chaos - Naikari is a fork of NAEV, and both have received recent updates. Both inspired by a classic Space trading/piracy/fighting game called Escape Velocity. NAEV- Full open space, fun combat mechanics. Has diverged quite heavily from EV. SUPER low spec, will run on almost anything in the last 25 years, and runs great on a Rasp Pi 3 or newer. Naikari: Eye of Chaos is focusing more on the story elements! Very well done thus far and they have only started.

Have either of you tried Naev?

Naev

Other games like it are Naev, and Transcendence, and also Space RPG 3 on Android.

Naikari is an open source 2-D space trading and mercenary sandbox game forked from the Naev project. Naikari's primary inspirations are Star Wraith 2, RiftSpace, and to a lesser extent, Endless Sky. It may also be similar to the Escape Velocity series since Naev and Endless Sky are inspired by that, although the Escape Velocity series is not a direct influence and Naikari does not necessarily seek to be like it.

https://naev.org/ (opensource project in the spirit of Escape Velocity and Transcendence).

This also was what stopped me from ever completing the game, even back in the 90s when it was still Star Control 2. I am not really a fan of games that force an arbitrary timer on the player, it feels like a holdover from the bad old days of coin-op arcade machines.

A while back I discovered a fork of Ur-Quan Masters which includes a time dilation feature that seems like it might make the game more fun to play, although I haven't tried it yet simply because I don't want to start playing and realize once again that I'm being punished for exploring and forced to start all over again: https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/

At least in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mass Effect 2 when this same thing happens it's based on a trigger, so as long as you know the trigger you can go do the mission immediately. Alas in Star Control 2 the timer is counting from the beginning so the game leaves you little choice.

For a full comprehensive list of changes check out the changelog, or if you prefer it in web page form check out the main website: https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/Features

It's the MegaMod: https://github.com/JHGuitarFreak/UQM-MegaMod/releases

And if you're looking for a version with more updated graphics and too many extra options to mention there's The Ur-Quan Masters MegaMod.

You can get the .dmg from the Github releases page: https://github.com/Serosis/UQM-MegaMod/releases/tag/0.8.1-3

uqm-megamod (enhancement of "Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters")

Ur-Quan masters (http://sc2.sourceforge.net/downloads.php) runs on modern systems well plus it's free and even has a HD mod (https://github.com/Serosis/UQM-MegaMod/releases) - I'm not sure if it's good though, I played without it.

Ive played the uqm-megamod (a updated fork), it's probably the better option.

Recreated all the UI fonts (not the alien fonts) for HD, they can be found in this very repository in TTF and OTF format