Sid Meier's Starships 12+

Extremely high potential. I have really enjoyed this game. Lots of bugs and some of the worst graphics you will ever see but it is quite a fun game!

Graphics need to be upped for mac: more polygons (its really rough guys. REALLY rough. I should not be able to count the polygons of an asteroid and stop at 7).
Use retina assets. That starships video at the beginning and end are blurry, stretching what is acceptable on a low end 2014 imac.
Use smoke damage to help indicate damaged ships.
Larger fonts, and better mouse and multitouch pad scrolling for the help pages
End turn is confusing, as it ends for a particular ship of yours.
There should be a ship health and status view somewhere that shows all of your ships in combat.
A little more help, perhaps tutorial on diplomacy and trading.

Bugs:
Sensor ping by AI will result in bad audio bug if more than one of your ships is stealthed.
The ‘you destroyed the ship’ zoom in is glitched with a very big hit… takes forever to watch the slow zoom and you go well past the ship, sometimes inside a planet.
RIght click is glitchy. I have to left-click sometimes to get a right click through.

But again, VERY FUN. you have the ingredients, now bake the cake.

I’m glad I didn’t pay more than $10 for this game; that’s about all it’s worth. Sprite clipping errors all over the place (objects showing through one another or overlapping when they’re not supposed to), buggy sound implementation and the gameplay is very one-dimensional and lacking in realism in certain respects. This has the potential to be a really good game but it’s mediocre implementation makes it the kind of game you will probably play until you beat the system once or twice at which point you’ll be bored with it. The “enemy leader” soundbites used in the Diplomacy screen are the cheeziest things I’ve ever heard, and the “graphics from the helm" when you’re about to accept a mission are equally cheesy. Both feel like they’re from the 90s.

I’ve heard a lot about the greatness of Sid Meier games but this was my first and I have to say I don’t know what all the hype is about. If the Civ games are implemented anything like this one, they’re overrated.

Its an ok game. The first time I played it, I had a good time. As time went on, though, it got repetitive. Like the second time I played. Battles are just hunt and destroy. There is no real diplomacy. No customization to ships and their levels are capped at 8. So all my ships are level 8 in every category now. There is a bug when you do a lot of damage to a ship it takes forever for the “Blown Up, Sir” montage to pass. The missions are repetitive. Just a so-so game.