From the creator of Thirty Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone comes Flotilla, a rouge-like space opera that is at once tense and relaxing. You command a flotilla of space ships (you start with two and can get more), and travel from planet to planet, on search of adventure during the final seven months of your life. During your travels, you meet anthropomorphic animals of all shapes and sized who have it out for you, are slavers, are on the run from the authorities, or might just be slightly confused.

Battles are played out in 30 second rounds as you float through space firing volley after volley of missiles. You can control the speed, rate of attack, and vector of each ship in a true three dimensional plane. With three types of ships, there is a little variety to combat, but strategy is limited. Basically, it's whoever can flank or get behind a ship first wins. The scenarios that play out in each planet are interesting, but they end up repeating a great deal, so replayability is only mild. There is a skirmish mode for people who just want to fight, but, again, it's 30 second rounds of quite missile volleys while a piano ballad plays.

Overall, it's nice, short, light, and fun, just like everything else Blendo makes. FTL does the space roughlike better, but the battle system here had a lot of promise. Grab it if it goes on sale.

Coffee break space strategy game. Really well designed, simple but cool graphics, and a pretty sweet soundtrack. Very addicting.

Very nice little game.

You find yourself commanding a little space ships' flotilla , travelling from one solar system to another, and each time you arrive in a new solar system, there's an event that can influence next events, and that can also throw you in the middle of a battle.

In the battles, you have a planning phase, where you give your ships orders like "move fast" or "fire" etc, and then the game goes on for 30 seconds, pauses, and back to a planning phase.

It has a default however on my opinion : no inertia. You can change movement direction as if you weren't moving before. A shame, because battles are very good if you forget this detail.

A penguin Pirate peppered my pride! A strange sentence to say the least, but not the strangest you'll utter when playing flotilla. A turn based 3d space strategy game, Flotilla makes me do something I am not very used to.... Thinking ahead.

The combat is simple, but also has hidden depths. Trying to keep your forward facing armour to the enemy, while trying to stay out of the threat range of an ion beam ship.

Seven months to live, you embark on a final voyage. This is a randomised adventure, where the weird is normal. Pirate penguins, slaver carp, even a Goddess.... THese are a few of the things that you will face when embarking on the short campaign of flotilla.

A gem of an indie game, I have enjoyed every moment of this game. Buy for the combat, stay for the convict cats!

This game was so much better than I expected it to be. Sank countless hours in it. If you've ever played weird worlds (the digital eel game, not the table top) then you will understand the concept. You only have so much time to complete the game. And that's my only complaint. I wish yuo could keep playing the same game longer and develope your fleet more and explore more.

Blendo games made my favourite indie freeware title - the quake 2 engine based Gravity Bone which was a brief but inspired spy action thriller.

Flotilla is a light take on space exploration and combat. Game turns are limited and your goal is to score as much as you can through a bunch of random encounters. I enjoyed the quirky humour in the exploration screen but the limited choices in encounters means you will get through most of the scripted parts in a few games.

The combat parts can drag a bit especially when you are outnumbered. It took me 10 or so games before I encounted any ships wanting to join me so I could get a bigger flotilla. Once I realised that was possible I tried a few more times to get the biggest flotilla I could.

Ultimately the game is too shallow to keep me interested. A small diversion that is interesting but really needs fleshing out.

This is a pretty good indie game, and it is an indie game. The ships are no more then about a dozen polygons a piece and things are not really lit at all. Still the simple graphics lend a sort of lighthearted feeling to the game. The adventure mode is full of colorful characters and humor and the game is sure to keep you occupied for a while. I found it annoying that the game would interrupt my rather pretty missile barrages to prompt me to move my ships around but maybe that is just me playing too much RTS games. The UI is serviceable but it is not a great port from the xbox. Overall Flotilla is a decent game that will keep you entertained for a moderate amount of time.

a great indie rts with unlimited replay value. the game offers multiple playthoughs with different events happening on each planet as well as different result depending on the order or events you have encountered. combat allows you to move your ships up and down and across space while choosing from 3 tactics. this is a must that someone is looking for a cheap indie rts.

This is quite a good indie game. You can either go on an adventure or skirmish. The adventure has you traveling from planet to planet for a limited time until you character dies from the disease. This can take from 15mins and more depending on how you play. The planets and events are random and they can range from penguin pirates to space goddess on an unicorn. The battles are fun using the simultaneous turn resolving type. My only complaint is lack of a save feature in adventure. There are different ships with different abilities and you can upgrade them. The graphics are simple but work really well. As for the skirmish mode you pick the amount of ships for the battle and duke it out.

This game should be held up as an example to all indie developers. Instead of focusing on a gimmick to the point of death by repetition or focusing on being art but forgetting to make a game, it has one goal: Make a short, fun, immensely repayable game, and it nails that goal. Flotilla offers a unique turn based true 3D space combat system as the meat of it's gameplay. Maneuvering and positioning are the name of the game, and while it's simple to figure out, it's by no means easy to master. In between the combat, there's a charming adventure portion where you travel from planet to planet, exploring a randomly generated galaxy populated by an interesting and varied cast of races. This is definitely one of my best purchases so far this year, and one I could easily recommend to any of my gaming friends.

Flotilla is a casual turn based strategy game that has minor RPG elements to it. Simple premise - you have a terminal illness and 7 months to enjoy your life, so you go on a space cruise (naturally). Along the way, you will encounter pirates, thieves, moral dilemmas, and nothing. However, every action has a repercussion - even benign ones. It's a great, small casual game, even if the replays start to repeat themselves. I'll give it 4 stars.

I only tried thirty minutes of adventure mode and three skirmish sessions, but I can safely say that this game is awesomely fun! The combat is very strategic, but it's also simple enough to not make you waste dozens of minutes just to ponder one tactical maneuver.

The graphic is quite simple and rudimentary, but it also makes the ships and obstacles stand out and helps you concentrate on the battle; Plus, it makes the game gracefully playable on my 6-year laptop! Similar thing with the minimalistic UI: It makes inputting commands an easy and straightforward thing to do.

If there's any problem with this awesome game, it's probably the camera control; Sometimes I have to 'wrestle' with the camera to get the viewing angle I want, particularly in the manual orientation mode, but it's only a minor annoyance and far from making the game unplayable.

Another issue is the lack of info (weapons, armors, speed stats or anything like that) on different types of spaceship; I looked at the manual and the official website, but found no info on that.

I had some Blues to spend and I grabbed this game, easily worth $5-$10, much funner than you would think. Hopefully they're making a true multiplayer expansion.

Possibly one of the most novel games I have played in a while. The combat is consistently fun, always steering just clear of getting dull. The campaign, however, does start to repeat itself after a few play throughs. Good news though, the game is being updated regularly by the creator with new content adding to the length of the game (I believe you can play longer campaigns now)

Great engine, great battles, simple, smooth, funny - this game has a lot to offer. From an off beat story mode taking the cheese out of so many overly serious space operas, to tense tactical ship-to-ship combat there is plenty of cheap kicks for your ten dollars.

The graphics are simple but effective - how many times have we heard that phrase before. Battles take place within an apparently infinite arena populated with a cluster of destructible hull wreckage and meteors.

Frontal assaults on your targets will likely lead to your ships hulls torn to flaming shreds and blasted in all directions. You will find yourself and your opponents dancing about the "field" trying to get at that weak spot in your targets armour to score that killer blow while attempting to cover your own skin. Divide and conquer tempered with patience is the key to success.

A cool little feature is the online score board you can check from the games interface to see how your story mode scores compare to other players.

I'm not yet sure at the games longevity but with a skirmish mode where you are free to add allies and arrange fleets, composed of a variety of ships from humble but effective destroyers to massive dreadnoughts, should keep the tactically minded coming back for more.