I've been loving it and then it crashed on me after all this time which is pretty good. Other reviews will show. I'm sorry I'm still playing.

For 20 bucks, I'd recommend this to anybody who wants casual space combat game. Not for people only interested in hardcore space sims.

There's plenty to like about this game. The ships are pretty cool, there's quite a bit of customization available and they give you a galaxy of about 20 star systems to play around in. It's an open world sandbox, so you can keep playing if you want to after the main campaign is through.

There's also plenty of stuff that I find infuriating. I haven't seen this much of a grind outside of a MMORPG. Missions sometimes bug out and cant be completed, although thankfully there is no penalty for abandoning sidequests. Finally, and I am saying this to all game designers everywhere: NOBODY ENJOYS ESCORTING SLOW NPCS THAT GET STUCK ON TERRAIN OBJECTS. NOBODY. STOP IT.

So aside from the above issues, it's a pretty fun game. Plenty of variety in terms of ships, equipment and things to do. You can even become a pirate if that's your thing. Pretty impressive for such a small team.

Rebel Galaxy is an arcade-like space shooter that models its space firefights on naval combat. Your ship does not move up or down in combat (and neither to other large "Capital" class ships), and a lot of the firefights boil down to maneuvering alongside another ship to fire your broadside cannons to devastating effect. You fend off adversaries with a combination of lasers turrets, missiles, mines, deflector shields, emp blasts, pulse cannons, and so on.

This game has some significant flaws. To name a few, there isn't enough variety in missions, the storyline is pretty mediocre, your pilot has not skill tree to upgrade or any personality or other presence of note (your ship is practically the protagonist of the story), and random encounters in the overworld occur too frequently and have little variety.

But there are also a lot of things the game does right. You can trade in any weapon or ship for credits equivalent to its value, which means that swapping ships and weapons is super easy and never penalizes you in the long term. The soundtrack is an absolute blast and adds tremendously to the space western aesthetic the game aims for. There are a lot of different ships and possible loadouts. You autosave at every station you dock at, so deaths are rarely overly penalizing.

But more than anything, the game has an organic unity that causes it to rise above the sum of its parts. This is a 7/10 game, but when the music is cranking and you're in a chaotic firefight where the outcome is uncertain, it sometimes hits like a 10/10. It sometimes achieves a level of immersion and enjoyment that I rarely feel even in games that are objectively better.

t's a space game unlike anything I've ever played, and at the modest asking price of $20, it's easy for me to recommend it to other fans of space shooters or space games in general. You will know within the initial 2 hours whether this game is up your alley, so it's not a risky purchase. On a decent discount, this is a no-brainer pickup.