Pixels for Breakfast writes: My childhood largely consisted of three things: point and click adventures, space combat and Star Wars. Rodina manages to somehow combine my love for all three into a single package. Currently in alpha from Elliptic Games, this week I decided to shoot my first session with the game, in what will be an ongoing series with every major update.
Check out the games for those who want to boldly go to unknown times and place.
Most of these were available for a long time before NMS came out, especially Rodina.
While checking out No Man’s Sky on Steam about a week ago, the recommended section lead to me a title called Rodina. Released just over two years ago, it’s also a space adventure title.
Space games tend to go big, letting you travel from one system to another while the planets do little more than provide a handy gravity well for a space station to orbit. The galaxy may be big and beautiful but the planets are generally decoration. Rodina isn't having any of that.