One player takes on the role of Captain, who is meant to coordinate and buff the rest of the crew, but ultimately spends most of their time on a power trip because they are the ONLY one allowed in the Captain’s chair.
The players select from several entertainingly unique vessels, each belonging to one of four factions (intended to eventually be five). The main disadvantage of the game is that you really do need a full team of friends to fly this spaceship with you, because the game is truly unforgiving. The permadeath is a pretty regular customer at the beginning. It normally follows this up by swiftly drowning them- and then you learn that it uses permadeath. Pulsar is a developing game which throws five players onto a spaceship in an open galaxy and tells them to swim. I suppose I’ll elaborate a bit, tempting as it is to chuckle, hit save, and put this in a side column.
I figured I’d start the article by getting to the point.
