Nomad
DOS - 1993
Description of Nomad
One of the most overlooked classics of all time, this is essentially Starflight with a much more developed and interesting plot (although with less sophisticated details and interface): an alien ship that mysteriously crashed into earth suddenly gives mankind the hyperdrive technology.
As captain, you must pilot the craft into unknown worlds to find out its origins. Despite ridiculously simplistic combat, the game has many memorable alien characters and trade goods. It's also very non-linear, and there's plenty of dialogues and sub-plots. Two thumbs up!
Review By HOTUD
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Comments and reviews
Cpt. Wilson 2025-07-03 2 points
If I combined the thousands of hours I've spent playing the Fallout series and the Elder Scrolls series together, it still wouldn't amount to the amount of hours over the last three decades I've spent playing Nomad, and it warms my heart to see so many positive comments about it.
This was the first PC game my family ever owned, back when we got our 386 and finally said goodbye to the more or less always broken C64. My parents actually bought this one to try it out for themselves, around the same time I picked up a Shareware copy of Wolfenstein 3D back when I was nine...but I'm the only one who ever ended up loading and playing it. That's a shame, because the simplistic controls that people often criticize might have appealed to them enough for them to take a foray into computer gaming which they otherwise never took, after the end of the C64 era.
It ran on the 386 just fine and probably saw hundreds or close to a thousand hours of play there, sometimes with others stopping by to join in, but when we got a Pentium from Gateway 2000 that had speakers, the real magic started...I discovered it had sound!
I had no idea, though, that anyone other than me was still coming back and playing this after all these years. It would be nice if we had a community page or a Discord server or something. The developers behind Nomad deserve the appreciation that this title warrants.
Apparently, the game started development as a Disney title, and the player's ship is modeled after something that was a part of the attraction at Space Mountain...something changed during development, however, and Nomad a.k.a. Project: Nomad became an independent title...there are still some artifacts of or allusions to the Disney part of development, though, in the form of the company badge...or the fact that your one starting 'fact' you can use in exchanging information varies in narrative from the introduction provided in the final version of the game.
Raphahell 2025-05-13 0 point
Best space game ever.. The way you trade stuff, harvest resources, improve ship, etc... is addictive... its a complete set of everything you want in a game like this..
JadedMonk 2023-08-10 0 point
So good when I gave it a test run to make sure it worked, I forgot to stop playing. Gives modern space games a run for their money.
trobyboy 2020-03-29 3 points
Yesterday I was playing Elite Dangerous (current version) and Star Citizen (Alpha 3.8.2). Today I played Nomad, and it's somewhat satisfying the way that you can trade with other pilots and how you can send farm bots, gas bots and archaeology bots on planet. Very good game!
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