Starpoint Gemini 3 (New Freelancer Like Game)

Amazing! Only a couple of weeks ago I was excitedly posting here about the release of Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and now someone over in the Freelancer Facebook group posts a video of yet another very Freelancer like game called Starpoint Gemini 3!

I'd listed the previous Starpoint Gemini games over in my old Freelancer Similar games thread here as they had space combat, trading on stations and even some planet landing stuff however they still felt a bit different eg more of a big ship tactical combat game. However for this new game it looks like they've totally gone in a pure Freelancer style fighter game direction (which I think has upset some of their past fanbase but hey its great for us FL fans haha) with all the cool FL stuff like landing on planets and space stations to trade and visit their seedy space bars for work! It also has an interesting (unfinished) side game where you take control of a small probe infiltrating derelicts and space stations avoiding security systems that sort of reminds me of some of X2 – The Threat’s side missions.

The game is still in early access on steam so naturally it lacks polish but is already looking absolutely gorgeous!! The only fault I have with its otherwise stunning graphics are the very plastic mannequin like people but apparently the devs have said they'll be fixing that.

This guy has done a good video preview of it:

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Here's some sexy screens I found around the place:

Some cool news I saw today.. Starpoint Gemini 3 will be released soon and has added mod support which is good as the game looks super similar to Freelancer (they even added a mini Sirius sector to the game lol) so if there was ever a good candidate engine for a future Freelancer mod it's this game lol. Of course who's gonna have the skill and motivation to do such a thing these days hey, but nevertheless its fun to fantasize about lol.

Starpoint Gemini 3 gets modding and release date! news - Mod DB

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multiplayer?

Yeah minus that part I guess haha.

Meanwhile the SG3 devs liked the idea hahaha.. but I've seen them posting about their love of FL in the past so I guess that should be no surprise lol.

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it would be the most important part

there are many space games like that but none with MP support

Not for me personally as I'm a single player, but I absolutely understand why it would be to most people around here, over at Discovery and the other FL multiplayer server communities. It's a shame that all these spiritual FL successors are coming from the small studios that lack the resources (or at least believe they do) to implement MP in their games. Interestingly the SG3 devs even posted publicly that in the early days they did attempt a multiplayer mode and had some impressive results but then realised it would be too much work and would blow out the project by years.