
Some believe Space Station 13 cannot be remade. This repeated failure to remake Space Station 13 has led to what's known among the game's community and developers as a curse. Perhaps that's why so many have tried to remake it over the years. It is also hugely popular among video game developers, some of whom say the emergent gameplay Space Station 13 enables is the most interesting they've ever experienced. And yet for some, Space Station 13, a community-created open source project coming up on its 15th birthday, is the greatest multiplayer role-playing video game ever made. It is a slow burn of a video game, often demanding hours of intense concentration, planning and execution to succeed. It is fiddly, abstruse and hugely complex. Its user interface rekindles memories of Windows 95. The viewpoint is top-down and staying that way.

The 2D graphics are basic in the extreme. The curse of Space Station 13 Why scores of developers have tried and failed to remake the greatest role-playing game you've never heard of.
