Captain Forever
 

http://www.captainforever.com/captainforever.php


Essentially, you pilot a little ship and find different modules you can stick together to build an even bigger ship with better guns. More ships come in with better modules, so you kill em and take em. You have to balance out thrusters and weapons and not build your ship all lopsided and underpowered, or else some CPU jagoff will make you look like a chump.


So fun.

This sounded pretty shitty by your description, but when I got into it, I realized this is the best version of asteroids I have ever played. I'll take more time to get into it while I'm at work.

I like it a lot, but once you get your weapons destroyed a few minutes into the game, you're prtty much screwed. You can zip around waiting for weaker ships to appear, but it'll take forever to climb back up to fighting ships with echo-level mods.

It's hard. It's sweet.