Star Sonata reviews

Star Sonata provides a rich fabric in which the players create and define the universe. Be a cunning trader of goods exotic and mundane. A scurrilous pirate preying on the weak. A bounty hunter tracking down the galaxys most wanted vermin.

An explorer searching lost planets for forgotten civilizations. A builder and administrator of space stations, colonies, and possibly even a famed empire. Advance in a deep skill tree, using your increasing wealth and knowledge to obtain rare spaceships, devastating weapons, powerful shields, cloaking devices, drones, scanners, and rare artifacts the human race has never seen.

Create your own team and raise it to dominance, eventually seizing control of the entire universe and being crowned emperor.

Piloting
You start out in a spaceship. The simplest way to move is using the mouse. Right-click where you want to go, and the autopilot will take you there. This is easy, but not well-suited for combat. To really fly your ship, you must use the keyboard. The keys are configurable from the Key button at the top, though the defaults are W to accelerate, A to turn left, and D to turn right. Wheres the brakes, you ask? There are none. This is space. (And of course, the game is sooo realistic.) To stop your ship, you must turn around and accelerate in the opposite direction. Note: you dont run into things with your ship.