*THE UR-QUAN MASTERS*

This is free vintage gaming gem that has been kept alive by the fanbase for over 30 years. Very open RPG/space game hybrid. Your choices in the game can massively impact the galaxy, wars, genoicides, peace and how difficult things may or may not be for you. Choose sides, what price (in wealth or morality) you are willing to pay. Try to survive and make sure humanity survives with you.

Earth was part of an Alliance to hold back the Heirarchy which wanted to dominate the rest. The Alliance failed. The galaxy has been conquered and held by two factions - the Ur-Quan, who want to enslave all life in the galaxy to ensure their own safety and position at the top forever (giving each life form the choice of being battle thralls or simply trapped on their own world behind an impenetrable shield forever) and the Kohr-Ah, who simply want to eradicate all life capable of threatening them ever in the future (anything above simple animals) in a galactic purging crusade.

You are the captain of a Precursor vessel, the result of a forgotten expedition who managed to awaken old facilities for it after some decades to find that the war was long over. With you being the only free agent left and with a tool of great potential, it's up to you to decide how to tip the balance of the galactic powers and pull on the levers available to you.

Get all the mods and upgrades you can from the site, they really make it shine. Great soundtrack. Don't get the Steam version.

https://sc2.sourceforge.net/