Rebel Galaxy
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe. As the commander of an immensely powerful star destroyer, you’ll battle pirates, explore anomalies, befriend aliens, scavenge battle wreckage, mine asteroids, and discover artifacts. Choose your path as a roguish do-gooder, crafty space-trader or power-hungry privateer – or maybe a little of each! Buy larger and more powerful craft with your hard-earned credits, and outfit them with a variety of wicked weapons and defenses. Set in a galaxy of fantastic sights, and secrets to be found, Rebel Galaxy is above all a space epic of adventure, exploration, and combat.
Game Discussion
Steam User 13
I didn't know what I was buying when I got Rebel Galaxy. I expected a dumb indie game.
I was wrong. Rebel Galaxy is simple in concept, but all the game mechanics come together to create a deeply immersive and compelling experience.
Put simply, the game is a lot of fun... just pure fun. It doesn't punish you, it doesn't make you grind, but you still feel you've earned everything you got. It gives you purpose and meaning to everything you do which makes you want to fire it up randomly throughout your day.
I highly recommend this game.
Steam User 19
Space trukin' with fitting and good music and also fun gameplay
Pirated this game before I had Steam. Bought it on Steam a long time ago. Played it to completion several times and that's saying something for me. Got every achievement, too. I dont normally leave reviews, but I do suggest you try this game. It's a good time.
Steam User 13
Rebel Galaxy is an arcadey space game about how dope it would be if Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's ship combat were in space.
Steam User 11
There are two types of space games: the top-down RTS style games that have about as much action as a spreadsheet, and dogfighting games that require you to have a joystick and actual piloting skills.
Rebel Galaxy is somewhere in the middle. Its space fighting can best be described as "battleships firing broadsides at one another". It's a simplified space flight model, 'technically' 3D, but all the action happens in a 2D plane. It's frantic enough to be fun, but still simple enough for non-pilots to master.
The world of Rebel Galaxy has elements of questing, trading, piracy, and exploration. I would compare it to Freelancer from the 90s. It's all very simplified, of course, because it's a budget title, but getting 20 solar systems with a dozen planets each is still a ton of bang for your buck! Do we really need 10000 planets to be entertained?
The characters are sarcastic, the battles are plentiful, the 'space country' soundtrack sets a great atmosphere. Pilots will trash talk you over comms. The whole thing has a lot of attitude and charm. It reminds me of Fallout 1 / 2. I didn't notice any major bugs, kudos to a small but efficient dev team.
Two thumbs up, a diamond in the rough!
Steam User 6
A fun little space romp game. Not too complicated trying to be one of the "X franchise" games or tedious like some other space sims that feel more like a "point and click adventure in Excel"
Here's a ship, here's how you fly it, here's how you use your "old school pirate ship" broadsides.
Go be the best little murderhobo in the galaxy.
Story is a bit mid range, missions sometimes repetitive or grindy, but then again its not trying to be "Game of the Year" either. Its an old school space sim from 2015. If you grew up on games like this, you'll have fun.
This is a game I often come back to just for some lighthearted "fly around and blow shit up" vibes.
Thumbs up I do recommend :)
Steam User 19
Get it on sale.
Get it for the soundtrack.
Get it for the vibes.
Get it for the unique experience of being a deep-space trucker who's also heavily armed and trigger happy.
It feels a little wonky and unfinished. Get it anyway.
Steam User 7
Another game I had a blast with on console. Seeing it on sale for $2 was pretty nice.
| 9 / 10 |
PROS:
++ Modding is EZ and can fix many problems with the original game. Uses Lua.
+ Free roam enabled as soon as you finish the 30 second intro.
+ Runs well on most computers. Graphics easily configurable in the launcher.
+ Music is a shake-up; instead of standard synth or techno, you get rock and DnB.
+ You can even set custom music paths to .mp3's or .ogg's. Great if you're already a Red Devil in real life, wink wink.
+ Really nice Space Western-style atmosphere, akin to classics like Cowboy Bebop.
+ Has everything a space sim needs: combat, piracy, factions, trading, exploration, a nice ship selection, guilds, the works.
= It's not as in-depth as a lot of other space sims. Great if you have limited time and don't want a second life, but not so much if you do.
= 2015 graphics, nothing crazy.
= Story is decent, nothing too special.
= 2-Dimensional movement only; no up or down.
= Game is singleplayer only.
CONS:
- Getting started is rough if you're new.
- NPCs outside of the main story are pretty cookie-cutter, you see the same faces and voices a lot.
- Limited customization, only the name of the ship can be changed; colors are unique to the ship. No mods for this have come out yet :"(