Stopped working completely and trying to reinstall. This has been one of my favorite time burning games of all time, but just doesn’t work on iPhone. Please make another 2019 patch, I beg you.

TL;DR – it looks like a nice iOS implementation of the classic Space Trader game but it crashes so often that it’s no fun to play.This game looks like a nice iOS implementation of the classic Space Trader game I remember from ~20 years ago on the PalmOS platform (yes, really!). The UI is clean and readable and easy to use. It could use a few little tweaks (dark mode would be most welcome and the save/load game capability needs improvement and more metadata to be truly useful) but it gets the important bits exactly right, down to the shapes of other spacecraft and the interactions your ship will have as you warp between systems.Unfortunately, the game crashes, VERY frequently. Depending on the random state of your new game, it might start crashing almost immediately, and loading from an earlier saved point in the same game won’t help, it’ll keep crashing at the same point no matter what. All of which makes playing this game a total waste of time. The fact that the crashes are so frequent and so repeatable is a really poor reflection on the programmer(s), and that’s a shame, too. A classic game like Space Trader deserves better.

I love this game so much. Takes me back to the old game. There’s only a few bugs such as the scrolling in the star system sometimes gets stuck to where you can’t read it making you restart the app. Other than that, where the heck do I find crew members?? And mercenaries to hire?

Update 2: the game is broken and won’t load up at all, just crashes. Don’t purchase. Update: below is the original review. After a year or so I reinstalled the game seeing it was updated. Really glad to see it works and plays just like the original!I used to love playing this game up until the developers decided to break it and never fix it. The game WILL NOT OPEN at all so don't bother buying it.