Have you ever wondered what it would be like to collect abandoned sweaters and stale donuts in space? Well wonder no longer with the help Of Cargo Commander.
Cargo Commander is a 2.5D roguelite indie game developed Serious Brew and published by Missing Link Games. This is the first game from Serious Brew and was followed by work on several other games for other larger companies.
You play as a Cargo Commander, you work your job running through abandoned ships collecting anything you can find in a given sector. After venturing back to your home pod you get points for each piece of cargo you collect. These points bring you up the leaderboard in the sector, but don’t really mean anything besides a small sense of satisfaction.
After you do enough work in a sector, you get a chance to collect a Sector Pass, which allows you to fly off to a new sector and repeat the process in a new randomly generated set of abandoned ships.
If you can see the writing on the wall, then you can see how this can get repetitive very quickly. While there is a metagame inplace that levels you up and unlocks permanent upgrades between sectors, it can take a lot of time and grinding through sectors to get to the next upgrade.
The art style is also somewhat a point of contention for me. It’s quite a niche style that doesn’t really appeal to me. It’s cel shaded, but also has a polygonal look to it that reminds me of games like the original Crash Bandicoot or Mario 64.
Sadly, if you play the game for an hour, you’ll pretty much see all it has to offer. You’ll run through the same limited number of ship interiors that occasionally have a different kind of gravity affect that makes it slightly different from the last.
Although, to Cargo Commander’s credit, there is a story going on in the background that you get handed in bits and pieces in the form of emails from your family back at home and your employers. But to Cargo Commander’s detriment, the story is doled out along with the permanent upgrades.
With such a gap between each part of the story and then gap getting larger each time, you may lose all interest in the story and anything else you may find interesting about the game.
If you are the kind of person that enjoys climbing leaderboards to beat people who probably haven’t played this game in years, then I would recommend it for you, but otherwise I think that Cargo Commander is a game that you can skip without issue.
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