Rebel Galaxy

Very arcade-style space flight sim. You command a ship, shoot guns, kill pirates, upgrade ship, rinse and repeat. Plenty of content to keep you busy. Very fun. Be well and take care.

Broadsides seems like an ancient concept, but it is good when gotten used to. Since the 'battle' ships are all on a basic 2-d plane, there's no real issue with motion sickness and not knowing which end is up. Weapons, missiles, and fighters all move in 3-d space. Sure, sometimes physics is a bit simplified, but that is to keep the game a game. This is good fun. And, the music is great too.

The bones of an entertaining game are there. What's missing are enough unique quests/npcs/space stations/equipment. Main story line is very bleh. All the stations feel the same. The half-dozen factions you fight against feel the same. There are a couple weapon types but it didn't add much variety to the combat. The 2D navigation and combat also felt constricting. Maybe I'm overrating Freelancer 1 & 2 from nostalgia but it felt like there was alot more meat to those two games.

Great game. They went for quite unusual direction/approach in many places - so (while is not obvious at start) the type of entertainment it provide is what we usually see in games like diablo/borderlands, this also apply to mindsets and how the entire game is build. Once you go past initial confusion of experiencing something different from infinite sequels big studios recently provide - game become what it is, a game. One of the best games I have recently played - and I say it as I play it alongside few 9/10 & 10/10 titles. As for a game itself, few things that may be worth mentioning - will try to avoid spoilers. Player ship is moving on a 2D plane, space itself is 3D (for of a rather flat cylinder) and it manage to only benefits from it. Progress saves at a base, and game menu save choice you can switch between characters. Mission and enemy difficulty information is dynamic/orientational so you can make it both easier or more difficult depending on your choices. Finally: reading/seeing is important in 99% of cases, if you do not know or understand something there is an information or a hint on your screen that address it (this is a comment to few confused comments I saw here). This may be partly because game happens to avoid few common gaming cliches - so something looking like a flavour text warning may actually be represented in a game - offering of quick, daring and spectacular death ;)

i was looking for a nice littel game to realease heat qt the end of the day and i could not be more right! it now more than h of game and i still enjoy it so much. the fight are realy pleasant, you feel the might of you ship when all this small bugs bust in flame around you and the other capital ships take damage from your mighty connons. the littel details like geting incoming messages realy make you feel like you are living you own Firefly or Farscape advanture!