Posted on: October 23, 2025
Already___Dead
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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 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...
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.
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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No Time for Caution
Dock at a station using manual controls
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Lab Rat
Unlock a technology
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44.08%
Show Me Your Wares
Complete a resource trade
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49.87%
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User reviews
Posted on: October 30, 2025
gavrushka
Verified ownerGames: 240 Reviews: 5
What a Pleasant Surprise
I don't game regularly now, but X4 Foundations is/was my goto, but it's a little complex to just leap into for ten minutes now and then... Helium Rain is very, very different. With a really good tutorial system that slowly introduces additional gameplay elements, you're eased into what is a surprisingly good game, with a great feel. The music works well, and it almost gave me that original 'Elite' feeling from back in the 80s. I've played for a few hours now, have a few ships, and I'm no longer the weakest company... That added a new element as soon as I realised companies were ranked... You can declare war on other companies, and I guess they can do likewise, and there are of course the obligatory missions you can take to transport VIPs or cargo, or even destroy rogue asteroids threatening stations. But I love it, and am still discovering new gameplay elements, each with its own intuitive in-game tutorial that doesn't break immersion. Well recommended.
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Posted on: November 17, 2025
Pomme_de_Pain
Verified ownerGames: 322 Reviews: 142
Simulation with not enough instructions
A simulation game in space where your goal is to build a delivery company from scratch. The game is very relaxing. Everything is slow, the from the music to the gameplay, but it works since where in deep space. However, there are some weird choices. The first tutorial in the game teach you how to dock to a station, which is rather complex and tedious. But later in the game you can do it automaticaly so you never do it again. The interface is weirdly done, lacking of explanation, and the trading system is not clear. I found myself establishing some trade route, analyzing the needs and resquests, but nothing happen, they don't trade. And since nothing explaining how to do things, i ended up stuck. I guess it's one of those game where you have to do your own research.
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Posted on: November 9, 2024
UoPTucson
Verified ownerGames: 2 Reviews: 1
Relaxed game play
This appears to be a nice relaxed space hauling and Ship building game.
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Posted on: November 16, 2024
tweetjacket
Verified ownerGames: 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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