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Endless Sky if you’re down for a top-down space shooter mining grind.
Came here to say this, although I would not categorize it as a "shooter mining grind" (FWIF I never mine grind).
There are tons of things to do and stories to play. The community is quite active especially on the Git and Discord. Lot's do to but you really need to explore to get the full experience.
Also
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Republic and Syndicate story lines when? Can we stop making a zillion different alien factions already?Forgot to add a key detail! This game is a direct homage to the old Escape Velocity games if you remember those.
Actually it was my search for Escape Velocity which led me to it!
Same! But long, long ago, like 2017 or so. I am overdue for another play through soon!
Or a trading grind, depending on your playstyle. I've barely ever mined in it.
How are they doing on the campaign/storyline, BTW? Last time I played it (a year or so ago) I managed to capture a jump drive and explored a bunch of really interesting areas outside human space, but it really felt like I wasn't intended to be there yet and the story wasn't really ready for it.
Endless sky follows the old and storied tradition where 90% of the game's content is locked behind speaking to a specific random NPC near the starting town, and as a bonus they will tell you to go away at first. You probably fell victim to that.
They have specifically gotten better about adding in other opportunities especially for starting the
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Free WorldsNo, I was following the human space campaign just fine (although maybe I didn't go far enough along it for it to take me to alien space "naturally").
I've also picked up at least one non-randomly-generated quest from the
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Hai, namely, the one where you get the Anomalocaris.
I've also made it
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through the Tangled Shroud to Avgi space, and maybe I'm legitimately on their main questline there (as I currently have a job marker for "Meet up with the Avgi Strike force at Navigeo Yards in the Symphony system" on my map)
It's just that those last two things I mentioned, especially the latter one, don't feel all that fleshed out compared to the human campaign.
I've wandered through the territories of a couple of other species, but they're either hostile or I haven't figured out how to talk to them yet.
Oh you did! Indeed, you have to complete the human campaign all the way through (to the point that you get an epilogue) to even be able to start the 2nd largest storyline after the human things.