Posted on: November 25, 2024
harrygrady08_1347
Verified ownerGames: 16 Reviews: 4
good game
like space enginners movement and no mans sky social aspects
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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.
Popular achievements
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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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: April 11, 2025
Rick_Berton
Verified ownerGames: 64 Reviews: 5
Nice shooter game
Fun game with some puzzles. Sometimes is hard to pass in tight passages though.
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Posted on: January 14, 2022
DonWallace3
Verified ownerGames: 106 Reviews: 85
Bad Interface
Game was OK until I got a second ship. At that point it was impossile to figure out how to manage the activities of the 2 ships. It seems you can only control one at a time even if it is on a 12 day transit. All ships sit idle and only one at a time can do anything. Maybe this isn't actually true, but after an agonizing half hour trying to figure it out I gave up and got my money back.
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Posted on: June 2, 2020
mausmori
Verified ownerGames: 84 Reviews: 8
Frustrating
Unless you are an expert at flying ships in a Newtonian physics simulation, steer clear. For someone like me who is a casual player who prefers the point and fly approach, merely docking ships in this game was a nightmare. I tried for hours to dock with various stations and managed to do so only once. There is an autodock feature, but it only seems to work half the time. I honestly didn't get very far in the game due to what is for me a broken and very extremely frustrating flight mechanic, but I did get to play a bit with the economic simulation, which seemed to be very basic, not going any further than Elite from the 1980's, or its numerous clones: you buy goods that differ merely in their names, prices, and locations, and deliver or sell them somewhere else... rinse and repeat endlessly. This is actually kind of what I wanted, but the frustrating flight mechanic stood in the way of enjoying this part of the game for me. Avoid this game unless you are a pro at flying in Newtonian physics.
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