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.
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 12
It's some mindless fun from simpler times, easy controls, just blasting away, trade a little on the side, accept a bounty or two, do whatever you like. Grab a couple of beers, turn your brain off and fire away. The music is charming in the beginning but gets old really soon. Doesn't really catch the Firefly vibes anyway.
Would still get it on sale though.
Steam User 8
This game is so much fun!! it's simple, straightforward, and enjoyable.. the type of space game you didn't think you would need but once you have it, you can't go back, it's affordable too... get it !!!
Steam User 10
TLDR- Solid broadside ship fighter. super sexy sound track. you can alter the games music from sound files you have on your pc. ---yeah you though you were reading TLDR but you saw that and were like "THE F--- did you just say?" For real. i mention it at the end.
The game it self is super solid. it's a SEMI-YAW axis space game. so kinda like, a sea pirate game, but space style. except things can sometimes be under or over you.
The story isn't terribly compelling, there are a number of things that should be changed of course, but the combat is actually pretty solid. You have are rewarded for making good strategical decisions, and there are numerous ways to customize your ship (within some boundaries) that can actually make the combat feel sorta fps momentum style. By boundaries, i mean, you can't modify the size of your ship, you can get bigger or smaller ships, but you can't do anything to adjust their hitbox after that
The weapons are actually kinda fun. Lots of auto lazers, long range missile turrets, absurdly powerful broadsides that are oh-so satisfying when you can trick the enemies to kinda lining up on one side of you just to knock them down within the cooldown of your broadsides.
the economy system isn't super interesting, but you can definitely mess around with the buying here, selling there dynamic.
There's random encounters that are completely optional, and seem infrequent enough to add to the immersion.
but the real reason, to play this game. Is the sound track + ingame soundtrack adjustment.
You know how you've been listening to a track, and your brain paints this music video, and you think "awe man, this would be perfect for well you know what, game X has arived! you can literally set up folders for the game, where it plays music from YOUR HARDRIVE during certain things.
combat = playlist
warping = playlist
noncombat = playlist
If i remember right there's like, 2-4 other little archetypes to link songs to.
Like you're playing pool, you got a play list, you're snowboarding, you got a playlist, you're killing people in pubg, got a playlist, raiding in wow-playlist, playing a moba-playlist
these devs did it super hardcore though. they went with what (at the time) is outlaw blues. I learned about a whole new style of hard folk/blues music. There was one track that reminded me of a halo map, before i new it's name. (Hang'em High)
Steam User 5
Overall, a fun game, but the campaign of kind of shorter than I expected. I might keep playing to get some of the achievements, but I wish there was more to the story. It feels like it's just missing something. Maybe it's because the endgame seems to be over so soon after it starts.
As for the gameplay, I liked it. The capital ship focus of the game takes some getting used to, but it's fun. I did feel like there wasn't any need to upgrade to the higher-tier ships, though. I completed pretty much the entire game using a mid-tier ship and some careful maneuvering to hide in the blind spots of the larger ships.
Steam User 6
This is a game I've come back to multiple times when I want a relatively simple space sim. It has a fun story, plenty of upgrades to work towards, a soundtrack that I appreciate, and satisfying combat.
The systems are all densely populated, so there are plenty of enemies to fight, traders to rescue from pirates (or steal from), asteroid fields to mine, and so on. The only drawback to such a lively universe is the incessant, "Warp inhibited by..." notifications as getting pulled out of jaunts across systems is extremely common.
Note that this is a "broadsides" style space combat game with a chase camera view; you can move forward and side to side, but no z axis. It makes for some different strategy and gameplay than either a classic top-down or full 360 degree space/flight sim.
Overall, I believe this game is well worth the full $20 asking price, though it goes on sale for significantly less (currently $3.99 during the 2023 Winter Sale).
Steam User 4
Great single player space game with a great soundtrack sharing songs with Elite Dangerous Odyssey.
After 7 hours I have never left the first star system and there's been lots to do.