Sol Trader

Author: Chris Parsons A solo indie title from Chris Parsons, Sol Trader is a genre-busting space simulation where it's not about what you know - it's who you know. In Sol Trader you trade not only goods but ships, components, minerals, favours, contacts and information too. Single-player combination of top down 2D spaceflight and strategic manipulation of your network of contacts Run missions using your family and friends' connections to government or business No ship given to you at game start: you must take a loan and hire a ship, or borrow one from a wealthy relative Fly between planets, interacting with the various characters you come across in cities and in space Research information on other characters through chatting to friends and relatives Customise your ship with better guns, engines, hyperdrives and passenger cabins Trade goods for profit Procedural generation of a whole society of thousands of random characters Start every new game from your character's birth Choose your parents and all your major life choices as you grow up Your choices determine your personality and your friends, relatives and enemies Full modding support: change all the organisations, events, weapons, planets, ships, conversations and tutorial system.