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For anyone who enjoyed Descent, please go buy Overload. It's a pretty much perfect spiritual sequel, with a great soundtrack.

And I believe made by some of the people that formerly worked on Descent.

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Specifically, Overload was made by Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, who were the original Descent developers. There were also major contributions from people like Dan Wentz (who worked on Descent 3) and from people who spent a lot of time playing the original game, like me and my wife (our 3 sons are all named for friends we know from Descent.)

That is true, furthermore Overload has an usermade campaign called Overload: First Strike, which is a conversion and upgrade of the entire Descent 1 campaign to Overload. Additionally I recommend Desecrators, which is a Descent-like with procedurally generated maps. Think Sublevel Zero or Everspace, except good.

Forsaken for n64 was pretty good too.

Whoa, I just remembered playing forsaken multiplayer at sleepover when I was a kid. Thanks for reminding me!

Sublevel Zero is good

Everspace is good too!

Then imagine just how great Desecrators is :)

Now all that's missing is a spiritual successor to Terminal Velocity. Or at least I think so. There's like a 10% chance that game was one of those games that was seriously held up by how much its soundtrack slapped.

I haven't played Terminal Velocity, but I finished the Descent Freespace game decades ago, and I am also itching for modernesque space-sims with 6-degrees-of-freedom dogfights, with some campaigns and explorations.

I liked this teaser trailer of Remnant Protocol, it seems exciting and perhaps a spiritual successor to Descent and Terminal Velocity games: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vemaUWPs6Zo

No Man's Sky was interesting, but its combat is meh, and it is a sandbox with procedurally generated planets made of limited types of biomes. It's inventory management is very clunky, so I finally gave up on it.

I tried Everspace, it is good, but it is more of a roguelite comprising only of dogfights in space. Haven't tried Everspace 2 yet, which I believe has campaign mode and is a better space sim.

I steered clear of Starfield, since Bethesda is infamous for launching buggy games. I will try it after a few years, once the modding community has overhauled it nicely.

And it supports VR if you really need to separate yourself from your lunch.

Overload VR was one of the most intense VR experiences I’ve ever had.

It also really helps immerse you in the “there’s no up/down” feeling.

Sure, you start feeling sick after a few minutes, but it’s such a fun few minutes that you can’t wait to do it again.

I think we might have different risk/reward levels. For me, using VR can make me feel sick and vaguely disorientated for many hours afterwards. Almost nothing is worth that.

I love the idea of VR but my brain / balance system most certainly does not!

One of the first PC games I ever played, I was single-digit years old when this released. Fond memories.

Will have to have a play of this web version and try out Overload, thanks.

I'm a simple man, I see Descent, I make sure to mention Overload. Amazing game, likely the first game ever I got to the end just to see how the story ends (yes there is a story and it's pretty good).

I think the Revival studio didn't quite work out, I'm hoping the team is working on something else, they sure do know how to make good games.

To add, I also loved Fury 3 because it had outdoor environments - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmOtHKZHjxU - though Wikipedia tells me it's a rebrand of Terminal Velocity

Damn, Terminal Velocity, I probably haven't thought about this game in 3 decades! I played the hell out of it!

The gameplay in that YouTube video is very similar to "TV", so it probably is a rebrand.

Fury 3 was its own game, albeit an extension of the TV engine. Both had some underground areas, though IIRC were mostly and best above ground.

Descent 3 also had outdoor environments, but they were all barren rocks.

I haven't heard of it, but I loved Descent, and even bought Descent: Freespace back in the day.

I will have to check out Overload.

And, using Steam, it works on Linux too.

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