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Helium Rain

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3.8/5

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3.8

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Helium Rain
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Build your fleet, trade, explore and conquer Helium Rain is a single-player space simulation that places you at the helm of a spacefaring company. Trade resources, buy ships and stations to fulfill contracts ! Dock at stations to buy and sell your wares or upgrade your ship, upgrade your technology...
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3.8/5

( 31 Reviews )

3.8

31 Reviews

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Product details
2018, Deimos Games, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10 (64 bit), Intel Core® i3, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 470 / AMD Radeon® HD 6870...
Description
Build your fleet, trade, explore and conquer
Helium Rain is a single-player space simulation that places you at the helm of a spacefaring company. Trade resources, buy ships and stations to fulfill contracts ! Dock at stations to buy and sell your wares or upgrade your ship, upgrade your technology to be more efficient and militarize your fleet to prevent piracy.

You will need to master both real-time action and long-term strategy: destroying a freighter has a direct impact on the economy, while declaring war will make your spaceflight environment slightly more hostile...



  • 13 playable ships with weapon and engine upgrades
    Build and fly fleets of fighters, bombers, cargos, corvettes or capital ships. Buy new engines and weapons.
  • Fast-paced combat with Newtonian flight, localized damage and joystick support
    There is no speed limit in Helium Rain. You can fly at half a mile a second while aiming backwards. Aim for critical systems in order to disable ships, kill their crew or capture targets, and don't fly into asteroids.
  • Complex economy model
    Take advantage of a complex simulation of space trade to be the most competitive company.
  • A planetary system to explore
    Explore around 25 sectors orbiting the gas giant Nema and its moons.
  • Procedural contracts, world exploration, technology upgrades
    Pick contracts and build your empire to become the largest company.
  • Quick-action skirmish mode
    Setup your fleet, pick an opponent and go into fighting action right away !



A world that feels real
Your ships have generators, radiators, weapons, engines, cargo bays or life support systems - they all work together. Every thruster on your ship plays a role. Aim for engines to pin down your enemies, or send them spinning around by destroying power stations. Most ships have more than thirty individual parts ! You can customize the most important parts of your ships - your main engines, attitude control thrusters, weapons and hull colors.

Your competitors are independent factions, companies with the same goal as yours - ruling the system. They will try to undercut you, or even attack you if you become a threat to them. But don't be too quick to destroy them, as war can break the supply of resources you depend on ! Attacking freighters will destroy resources, with the potential to cause an economic crisis.

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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04)
Release date:
{{'2018-10-11T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
1.4 GB

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Posted on: July 15, 2019

codifies

Verified owner

Games: Reviews: 6

let down by a confused user interface

This could be an amazing game, as it is I wish I hadn't wasted my time and money, the tutorial takes for granted things that are far form obvious or cunningly hidden in the user interface... The user interface while it looks clean and nice looking, is just really confusing, a station can have a very large stock of items but nothing to sell, extra info is often hidden needing you to click inside a list item, with no dropdown icon as a visual aid. its cheap for a reason...


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Posted on: October 6, 2024

JMayer70

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Games: 504 Reviews: 211

For free it's a no brainer!

You just have to get it! It is mostly eye candy though. The game mechanics are a VERY light weight "X" type game, and there is only ONE Neptune like gas giant planet with four moons and two of those (so far) have been unreachable! The number of ships and items to install in them is a lot lower than is average for this sort of game. It is rather repetitive too....... though that is the bugbear with all games of this ilk! I most certainly would pay even a few quid for this, but NOT something like £20+!


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Posted on: August 27, 2024

burzinskas

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Games: 109 Reviews: 17

Very relaxing game

I honestly don't know how this game is free, big thanks for DEVs. It is a slow-paced, very relaxing experience. The visuals, music, and gameplay are beautiful.


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Posted on: December 22, 2024

grzbiet

Verified owner

Games: 92 Reviews: 1

hit the wall, no turning back

I've been saving the technology points to build a shipyard (level 4 tech) only to find out I need electronics for that. "now that's a new one, I haven't seen it anywhere" turns out there's no producers of electronics anywhere and I would need to wait another 500 days to get enough science points for advanced stations (level 5 tech). I did a rage quit and uninstalled at this moment. but it was fun while it lasted so 2/5


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Posted on: November 16, 2024

tweetjacket

Verified owner

Games: 316 Reviews: 2

The Tutorial is the killer for this game

I don't usually have problems in putting some effort to understand complex games but what I don't accept is a tutorial that leads to getting me stuck. As others already pointed out, Docking is the worst functionality in this game that acts like a random-number-game when it comes to success or failure. For me, this even came into action while still into the early tutorial. It orders You to dock to a mining station - so far, so good. When at the station it tells You something about orbital navigation and to reduce alignment to 3°. This is where You come to think of "WHAT!?". Don't dare to undock Your ship to get some meaning into this task because You won't ever be able to dock to any station again. Uninstalled the game - not worth my time to get into a game where the tutorial is not even working and where a steam learning curve is torpedized by weak gaming mechanics (Docking).


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