Welcome, to the world of the THIRD DIMENSION!

And no, I don't mean 3D games, but still takes three dimensional movement very seriously.

Flotilla is an indie game that I played on the Xbox 360, though I'm told there is also a PC release.  The game is a turn-based game where you are a ship captain with only a few months left to live.  Knowing this, you decide to head out on your last adventure into space.  On this final adventure, you fly from planet to planet, you encounter all sorts of creatures both helpful and detrimental to your quest.  More often than not, you will head into battle against these characters in a 3-dimensional environment which you must navigate and use to outmaneuver your opponents.

Blendo games really hit on something special with this one.  The game is just so damn charming!  It's very relaxed, for being a game that is essentially about space warfare.  I love tons of elements about this game:  the music (kinda plinkity piano stuff, very classical inspired, really chill), the weird characters you meet on the way (at one point you may need to de-fang some yetis), the 3D environment which is littered with debris you could possibly use to your advantage.

The major downfall of the game is that it takes quite a long time to set up the moves for each of the ships in your Flotilla.  At one point in the adventure I played the other day i had six ships, and it took me 5 minutes or so just to set up all the moves for a 30 second cycle!  And the other thing that's rough around the edges are the controls to set up the maneuvers.  It can be dizzying zooming in and out and flying the camera around just to see where you'd like to end up.  This problem is forgivable if for no other reason than you are maneuvering IN A 3D SPACE on a 2D screen, so there's really no escaping it without giving up some element of control over the movement of the ships, and that'd be a different game anyhow.  These elements may turn some people off from playing the game, so my advice is to just try the demo.

You can get the demo or the game in the XBL Marketplace for like 800 ms points, or for PC from the Blendo Games Website or on Steam for 10 bucks.  I mean the demos are free, just the full game costs money.  You... you knew that... you're so smart.