Convoy (v1.1.55.18)

A broken starship, a hostile desert planet, and a handful of armed vehicles create a tense road trip through a world where every radio transmission can become an opportunity or a disaster. Convoy blends the event-driven uncertainty of FTL with real-time tactical vehicle combat, filtering both through chunky, characterful pixel art and a Mad Max-style wasteland. The goal is simple on paper: gather the components needed to repair your ship and escape. Reaching that goal is anything but simple, because fuel, scrap, crew survival, and combat readiness all compete for attention.

Travel unfolds across a branching map filled with scavenging sites, merchants, enemies, and mysterious distress calls. Radio encounters present choices that can earn resources, recruit survivors, trigger fights, or punish reckless decisions, giving each run a different rhythm. When negotiations fail, your convoy faces off against enemy vehicles in arena-like battles where positioning, weapon ranges, shields, repairs, and special abilities matter as much as raw firepower. Combat runs in real time but allows tactical pausing, letting you issue orders to individual vehicles, focus targets, and react to ambushes without requiring lightning-fast reflexes. Scrap collected along the way funds upgrades, new gear, and stronger convoy configurations, while permanent failure makes every detour carry real weight.

Its strongest feature is how naturally the vehicle tactics fit the roguelike structure: losing a car or wasting ammunition can reshape an entire campaign rather than merely slow it down. The pixel presentation is compact rather than lavish, but it sells the dusty sci-fi setting with expressive portraits, battered machinery, and colorful explosions. Randomized events and different crew or equipment combinations give Convoy solid replay value, although occasional bad luck is part of the intended challenge. Players who enjoy FTL’s difficult decisions, Into the Breach’s measured tactical thinking, or the scavenger atmosphere of Mad Max should find plenty to like here, especially if they prefer planning and adaptation over constant action.