Starband Space Trading Game for Android
Starband is a space exploration and trading game based on the classic 1984 computer space game 'Elite'.
The goal, apart from survival, is to amass as much money as possible, fit out your ship to the highest specs, and make it to Elite status.
Travel the galaxy stamping out pirates, become a peaceful trader avoiding trouble, or become a notorious dealer in illegal goods. The choice is yours.
Starband provides literally hours upon hours of gameplay. Containing over 60 planets for you to traverse across 6 galactic sectors, 12 different upgrades for your ship, 8 different add-ons, lots of discoverable encounters, loads of enemies, and a ton of randomly generated missions. There are 5 categories of enemy ships (some are passive unless provoked) and combat is in real-time.
Watch your legal status! If you start breaking the law, police will be on the lookout for you.
You can view the game guide here: http://starbandguide.blogspot.co.uk (also accessible from within the app).
There are hidden encounters and storylines in each sector, can you find them?
This game is free to play for Sectors 1 and 2. To unlock Sectors 3-6 you need to install the Starband Unlocker App.
App permissions are for the backup/restore function (save/restore game to SDCard).
Feedback/suggestions/bug reports are always welcome. Problem? Let us know. We would love to hear your comments.
Keywords: Space Star Band Game Trader Trading RPG Cargo Ship Traders Explore Exploration Laser Hull Shields Commodities Galactic Galaxy Story Trade Spaceship Role Playing Pirate Police Epic EVE Online Bounty Hunter Starbase Elite Frontier Freelancer
Crashes immediately with no error (other than the standard system message) on start.
It's like Star Trader i used to play on Palm OS days, but with better graphics and larger universe. But I think I also enjoy it like i had enjoyed playing Freelancer on my PC even with less graphics. I love space exploration + trading games. Seriously considering buying the unlocker to gain access to other sectors and encounters.
Not great
Elite on my phone. What more so you want?!
Game is good, but little to no help with trading tactics to help out novices apart from that it's enjoyable for loosing yourself for a couple hrs
Doesn't open on 6.0
Had fun playing it at 2 in the morning, nice and challenging.
But the combat system is terrible
I love the concept of this game. Unfortunately, I'm having major display issues (specifically during the hyperspace sequences) that render it mostly unplayable.
Really husband has lots of content and no ads. I'm thinking of going pto to support the authors
Spent at least 5 minutes in hyperspace on first launch flyby'ed a ship still nothing happened for a while till I used the back key then went back into game & was immediately attacked & killed just outside the destination, Can you put some sort of indication of direction & distance remaining, Also volume sliders for the various volumes. Can you make an option of loading 3d models into game for spacecraft etc. Are you going to make an upgraded version of gazzillionair too????!!
It gives missions that you can't accomplish without buying the paid version.
It's a very "good" game.Only needs flying like elite.
This is elite I was elite in original version have a couple of suggestions possibly give option of interactive fight between other players . Hae option of being police as a player. Love that you get fined when you go to court if you have done anything wrong. And really like you can set your skill level .I set mine to hard makes game tougher and more fun . Finally bought game today . Top marks to the developers of this game now back to Geide prime
Very good elite clone
The only problem keeping me from rating this highly is that the system doesn't recognise my kills which means some missions can't be completed. Why's that? Please fix!
I have the unlocked version and having so much fun. Lots to do. Worth the upgrade.
Seems impossible to win the very first, unavoidable battle.
Fun it is like elite witch I loved. There are a few things that rune the game though.#1 controls major suck you can't see coz your finger is in the way you it is hard to kill anything when you can't see it coz your finger is covering everything (needs tilt control).#2needs landing and takeoff from space station like elite had you can't even fly in the sector your in after landing only goto New sectors.#3 in sector jump needs disabled if another ship is in the area (like elite) to easy to just avoid everythi
But the combat system is terrible
There's no control and no way to predict trade
Very good star trader, marketplace works well. Transportation could use an upgrade, but it's tolerable.
Like the trading and the story line, but combat really is pants. Would love to give this a 5 but not even close
Auto fire in options saves my thumb and sanity. It was actually the ultimate reason I decided to buy the pro unlocker. It was frustrating getting chain killed because I couldn't tap fast enough. So what, I'm old.
The trading part's pretty good, the combat is horrible! (on an S4 anyway)
Less like Elite imho, and more like a very slick version of the classic Space Trader game. The original Space Trader combat system was probably better though, I reckon; it's just really difficult to do a dynamic combat system nicely on a touch screen. The turn based system of the original could allow for more tactical and graphically interesting combat sequences. But a really nice app in all other respects!
Loved the standard game so much (reminds me of many hours playing Elite as a kid) I just had to go pro, for 79p it just had to be done!!
Excellent addictive game with simple graphics but a solid gameplay if one enjoys trading strategy games. Thanks for the bug fixes Dev. The game works like a charm now. :-) excellent work and prompt fix. Now definitely worth the buy.
tried this game for 5 minutes. Couldn't figure out how to shoot the enemy ships, even with auto fire on which didn't work.
Cool game easy to play if your not used to these sort of games, I had trouble buying the unlock for it but that was an account problem. Will kill hours off without realising
Not worth your time
This is a great game. I highly recommend it. I will buy the full version. The only problem is it isn't compatible with my tablet. It only installs on my phone. Please make it tablet compatible.
Absolutely fantastic. Simple little game thats both fun and engaging. Takes me back 20 years to the old amstrad days. Just needs a few more ships and maybe some more weapons hours of fun for 80 pence. Beats gta and assains creed for value every day of the week. And its in in pocket BRILLIANT
Star Blue
Captures the spirit and style of elite well. Would be lovely to see features like the radar also. Would also be nice to have docking recreated somehow. Shame I have been paying only a few days and feel like I've done most of it. Fully upgraded and visited all sectors. Well keep playing to improve my rating and see what happens though.
This game implements Elite pretty completely. Only question is how to upgrade to a better ship
I love the concept of this game. Unfortunately, I'm having major display issues (specifically during the hyperspace sequences) that render it mostly unplayable.
Gives me my Elite fix, at least for a little while when I don't have time for a PC game.
You can't even do the first mission unless you buy doesn't make me want to buy.
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Err... "Doesn't work on marshmallow " :(