Starflight I

This game has a lot of potential. Starflight was a beloved game by many with a huge fan following (me included). That said, the bar is pretty high for this game. First, it doesn’t seem to save progress, and leaves no obvious way to save. It forces you to sign in to begin with, but there’s no obvious reason why. If it’s supposed to auto save, it doesn’t work. Every time you open it you have to “hire” your crew. In the original you created the crew and could see what each species strengths and weaknesses were, here, you don’t see that. It has the right species, but no clue who should do what. You also cannot reassign crew (or at least not that I could see), so if you create an android communications officer, you can’t change him to science (his real strength). Navigating in a star system is VERY slow, like more than a minute to navigate to a planet. That needs to be much faster as it kills game play. These are the things I found early on, I unfortunately could not go farther into the game, it’s very laggy throughout, clicking buttons takes a long time to register, this on an M1 iPad Pro. I’ll absolutely be looking for this game to improve as I would love to play it through.