You’ve got to love Kongregate, because they keep clocking out some pretty entertaining games and bringing them to you at the lowest possible price of free.  Another choice title that just recently got added to their rolls is The Space Game, a simple yet highly addictive strategy simulation.

You play as part of a mining collective, building infrastructure for your little part of the galaxy.  You’ll have to build energy stations and relays to get power to your mining machinery, and to the lasers and missile launchers that will defend it.  Each asteroid field will get progressively more difficult, with more asteroids to mine and more pirates to fend off in the process of getting the rock out of the asteroids.

It’s surprisingly simple, just a few maps, but it’s also surprisingly fun.  I was frantically hammering away on the map for several minutes, setting up lines of laser emplacements and repair stations.  Sure, the storyline’s nonexistent and the graphics are probably original Playstation grade, but still—the price is right, especially THESE days!