Publisher: Digital Eel Games
Website: http://www.digital-eel.com/sais/
Genre: Simulation
Summary: Thanks to a shady business deal, you have ten years to explore neighboring solar systems and hopefully bring back enough loot to make the trip viable.
Gameplay: Each space sector is randomly created at the start of each game, so every game varies, although races, items, and weapons remain the same. Sometimes you're dealt a bad hand, sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you have to defeat star-destroying invaders. Games go quick enough if disaster befalls you can easily just start another game.
There is some combat, which can be surprisingly slow while waiting for ships to get close enough to shoot each other. Often combat jumps quickly between impossible and too easy, depending on what you've managed to find in your adventures.
Exploration is more fun--trading with aliens, making a guess about whether the inhabitants of a solar system will be friendly, deciding whether to try to visit one more star...
Style: The interface and graphics are simple, but overall get the job done. I could use some more description (and maybe larger text) in some places.
Story: Any story beyond the summary is up to your imagination, which can certainly be stirred anew each game thanks to the random new arrangement of everything.
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