Build-it-yourself starships doing top-down dogfights.
An indie action RPG has a cool twist on the genre, having your character as a starship with parts and a crew to be upgraded rather than the normal single warrior and their inventory of random stuff. Starcom: Unknown Space looks like just that, a more low-key but still very enjoyable action take on the space sandbox genre that also blends in narrative events as you land on and explore new planets.
Starcom: Unknown Space calls itself “an action adventure RPG of space exploration, ship building and fast-paced tactical combat” with a “vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.
