Hazeron Starship

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Hazeron Starship is a single player economy city builder game with a economy theme. It was developed by Hazeron Freehold LLC and was released on December 1, 2023. It received positive reviews from players.

Explore and colonize a vast universe. Twenty one galaxies filled with countless stars and planets and other things await your discovery. Start as an indigenous person on an undeveloped world. Hunt for food. Survive wild animals. Build a home. Discover natural resources. Build mines and wells to gather resources from the land. Establish an empire to govern your work. Found a cit…

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Audience ScoreBased on 86 reviews

gameplay4 positive mentions

graphics11 negative mentions

Extremely deep and complex gameplay combining first-person survival, city building, space exploration, empire management, and ship designing.
Massive seamless universe with dozens of galaxies and fully explorable planets, moons, and ringworlds offering unparalleled sandbox freedom.
Highly dedicated developer and passionate community supporting the game for over a decade, with continuous albeit slow improvements.

Steep learning curve with unintuitive, clunky UI and a complex ship/building designer that can be overwhelming for new players.
Very outdated graphics and technical issues including bugs, lag, and occasional crashes that impact usability and immersion.
Lack of multiplayer and AI empires currently makes the universe feel empty and singleplayer experience lonely, missing key gameplay elements from the original MMO.

graphics
42 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
7%
67%
26%
The game's graphics are widely described as outdated, low-quality, and reminiscent of late 1990s or early 2000s visuals, often cited as a significant barrier for new players. However, many reviewers note a unique charm or emergent beauty in certain space views, suggesting that the deep and immersive gameplay experience outweighs the graphical shortcomings. Overall, the graphics are a drawback but not enough to diminish the game’s rich mechanics and freedom.
- “Even with the graphics as they are, they have a unique charm to them.”
- “Graphics are older but what you can do way more than makes up for it!”
- “The graphics yes are super dated but honestly it's part of its charm right now.”
- “UI is lacking something fierce, graphics are terrible, bugs everywhere of various severity that make the game borderline unplayable, repeatability of some elements, terrible first impression... yet once you get past tutorial phase the sheer scale and freedom, the richness of mechanics make this game appealing to the point you ignore most issues.”
- “The lack of anything resembling modern graphics is readily apparent and game performance suffers due to its parochial design which leverages hardware CPU cores reminiscent of old i386 programming, which describes the perspective of its creator perfectly.”
- “The game's graphics are dated at best and painful at worst.”
gameplay
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
24%
58%
18%
The gameplay has been heavily criticized for removing or simplifying key mechanics, especially combat and challenges, making many systems feel irrelevant and reducing overall difficulty. However, some players appreciate its deep, complex, and unique mechanics that blend space sim, strategy, and simulation elements, praising its vast scale and potential despite steep learning curves, dated graphics, and UI issues.
- “Once you get past the tutorial phase, the sheer scale and freedom, along with the richness of mechanics, make this game appealing despite its flaws.”
- “The graphics and UI complexity may scare you at first, but beneath them lies a true pearl of space sim, 4X strategy, and simulator genres.”
- “This game offers very deep gameplay that combines survival, city building, space exploration, and starship construction; it has a steep learning curve but is very unique and well worth the effort.”
- “Almost every mechanic has been removed or replaced with something worse, for example: no PvM or PvP challenge making most of the game's mechanics irrelevant, including military buildings, most items, most ship functions and all combat mechanics.”
- “Difficulty removed to the point where the remaining mechanics are made irrelevant, for example: planetary deformation and building damage, which turned combat into 'nuke planet from orbit, leave', making soldiers and most combat mechanics useless.”
- “This game in its current state has had all the actual gameplay elements stripped away from it.”
story
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
67%
The story lacks meaningful missions, NPC empires, and a sense of threat, leading to a minimal narrative experience focused mainly on player-created content.
- “I remember writing a story about my ship, covert ops we made.”
- “It also has no missions or meaningful NPC empires.”
- “There is no threat and no missions.”
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The monetization aspect is currently underdeveloped and requires significant improvements, including better server infrastructure, stability, and targeted advertising. With these enhancements, the game has strong potential to attract a large player base and foster engaging gameplay.
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users find the game's emotional impact remarkable, highlighting its humble beginnings and the nearly limitless potential of its mechanics, making it uniquely engaging compared to other games.
optimization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from outdated optimization, relying on old CPU core usage patterns that lead to poor performance and lack modern graphical enhancements.
- “The lack of anything resembling modern graphics is readily apparent and game performance suffers due to its parochial design which leverages hardware CPU cores reminiscent of old i386 programming.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game is praised for its simple yet elegant design, offering a gameplay experience that remains engaging and enjoyable through countless replays.
- “Simple to grasp, elegant in nature, endlessly replayable.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The atmosphere is praised for its immersive and expansive design, allowing players to seamlessly explore planets, moons, and even travel between solar systems in real time, enhancing the sense of vastness and exploration.