Today, I have the urge to fly in space, to trade stuff and blow up some pirates. Traditional pick for this kind of stuff would be to take old an' good Elite III from the shelve, but maybe there are some more modern options?

My dear friend spend some time in the Internet and found Evochron Renegades . It seems that this has some good features:

# Space
# Flying in space
# Multiplayer
# Maybe pirates?
# It's an indie game

Let's see what this has to offer.

So it's a day in deep space and you need to make some credit. And yes, it seems that you have a few options, but well, as we want to have our freedom we decide to do some solo mining and sell stuff to the highest bidder. The game starts so that you wake up in your ship in remote sector, all options open and ready to make you future. Just the way a wandering soul like myself likes it.

First things first and let's see our nearest station.

Okay, well. I found out that if you want to get your tractor / mining beam-thingie, you must go and get it from the nearby planets surface but we'll skip that part. But I must tell you, that the feeling on entering the athomosphere was quite... well, a feeling. Something that you don't come across too often. Eventually, our hero got his mining beam. After wondering what sort of upgrade parts should he get after the sells his cargo and get's massive winnings.