Rebel Galaxy

This is like a bad version of Elite Dangerous, and I don't even like Elite Dangerous. Scripted, clumsy, twitchy space shooter. Put 60 minutes in before I got bored.

How hard is it today to make a game with good K & M controls. I know the console has taken over gaming but i'm getting sick and tired of developers claiming great K & M controls. This game was clearly made for controllers. You can't even smoothly scroll through the menus. Launching the game is a joke because you have to line up the cursor just right on the new game tab to even launch the game. I should have known better to buy this because i watched so many streams and every one of them was with a controller. Combat just suck badly with K & M. I wish i could get my money back.

Following the Trend of Indy Developed games that include Myst-style puzzle solving elements in genres totally inappropriate for it, Rebel Galaxy fails to allow the player out of the starting area, tutorial section of the game before requiring consultation with a guide or walkthrough in order to figure out wtf the game is asking the player to do. Used to be, you'd get to play towards the end of the game before the demented developers hit you with unintelligible, nonsensical gameplay elements that forced you to quit, not right in the beginning tutorial. Horrible.

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Between the twangy, complainy music (the music in the first station is just disgusting) and the first mission putting you into a combat scenario where you can be easily killed in less than 30 seconds while still trying to figure out the unintuitive controls (broadsides? really?), I did not have fun. I know I could power through it and try to learn the controls enough to survive and maybe the gameplay gets better, but I'm not willing to put up with that horrid music just to play another 2D flight-sim game with naval controls. Pass.