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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes demo by Nick Spaz 05/12/2026, 1:20pm PDT This gameplay trailer explains it good. It's basically FTL as tower defense. Fend off the overwhelming waves of Cylons with a mix of fighters and capital ship defenses until the jump drive charges up (try to recover your fighters before jumping, or leave them behind in emergencies). You play as some shitty Colonial sort of carrier sort of gunship? That's apparently more outdated than the Galactica? You're spending the game trying to catch up to the Galactica. With the squadron controls and crew member artwork, you can immediately tell it's by the Crying Suns people. Crying Suns was an interesting, but ultimately repetitive and pointless roguelike that tried to be FTL with a story and mixed capital ship + fighters combat. It was very flawed and became a total slog. From playing the demo, Scattered Hopes seems to have learned a lot of lessons and improved on the formula in every way. It's slick and polished as hell. The HORRIBLE landing party segments from Crying Suns are gone. The artwork isn't as offensively neon. It doesn't try to pretend that capital to capital slugfests are an option (they were present in Crying Suns, but worthless). The between battle resource management seems engaging without being too much (pretending hero energy is a limited resource seems weird; maybe you're overwhelmed with more events than heroes later?). One mildly irritating thing about combat was being able to house all sorts of fighters, but only being able to field 2 per battle. Don't know why you would ever use the slow tank craft (with a literal "taunt" ability) over the fast dps Viper or the long range artillery Raptor, so you might just use the same useful ones over and over. Just try the demo. I easily get bored when tutorials are too slow and handholdy. This one I breezed through. You'll know if you're into it quick enough. Maybe it turns into a repetitive slog later but I enjoyed the demo and the final game is only $20. Not crazy about the meta unlocking but oh well.

Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes demo by Nick Spaz 05/12/2026, 1:20pm PDT     Yeah it turned into Crying Suns with BSG coat of paint by Nick Spaz 05/23/2026, 3:21am PDT