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space trading and combat game
Hyperspeed
By MicroProse, released 1 Jan 1991
- Linux
- macOS
- Microsoft Windows
- DOS
- space flight simulation game
What it is
Hyperspeed is MicroProse’s space trading and combat game and space flight simulation, released in 1991. You travel at light speed between star systems while searching for a new home for humanity. Alien races may help, exploit, corrupt or destroy you, so each encounter can involve combat, diplomacy or trading. Your 15,000-foot starship carries remote-controlled fightercraft, kamikaze fighters, a plasma gun and probes. The journey brings encounters with groups including time-travelling pirates, energy beings, traders and mind-controlling powers. Choices must be made quickly because the game frames hesitation as dangerous while travelling at Hyperspeed. Steam lists the game as single-player with Family Sharing. Its Steam genres are Adventure, RPG, Simulation and Strategy. Hyperspeed is listed for Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows and DOS, with Windows, macOS and Linux shown as Steam platforms.
What players like, and what they don't
- Combines space combat, trading and diplomacy
- Large starship with multiple weapon systems
- Alien encounters vary in attitude and power
- Single-player format
- Linux, macOS, Windows and DOS listings
- Choices must be made quickly
- Single-player only
- Steam Family Sharing is the only listed Steam feature
Who it suits
It suits players interested in older space simulations that mix flight, combat, trade and diplomacy. Solo players can use its single-player format across the listed computer platforms.
Hyperspeed presents interstellar travel as a sequence of urgent choices involving combat, trade and negotiation. Its broad platform listing and single-player structure suit solo space-simulation sessions.
