https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=193485 - Favourite parts of The Ur-Quan Masters (fka Star Control II) are when you're majestically exploring a galaxy at war, getting messaged by a new undiscovered faction, and finding out that their theme music sounds like this
Someone mod the Earthbound naming screen Wow into this
About a quarter of the music tracks in The Ur-Quan Masters sound like lategame Earthbound music invented in parallel by Westerners
• There are "timed events" and you can get a "bad ending" for advancing the plot too slowly, but the game offers generous time leniency for even a first playthrough.
• The voice-acting is fine. It takes itself about as seriously as the text and music takes itself seriously.
The Ur-Quan Masters is on Steam, so here's a few tips for new players:
• The game is mainly a point-and-click adventure with heavily front-loaded resource-gathering and Spacewar-style combat systems. Don't be intimidated – those systems recede in importance later in the game.
You might think it's very silly that every member of each species in The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control II) has the same personality, but have you considered its implication: that every single human except maybe Hayes has your own personality and morality.
Scared yet?