Great fun!!! Once I figured out how to actually win a battle and get missions it became a fun addictive game. 🙂

I played this game for 88 hrs, did like 16 Youtube videos on it, so I really really enjoyed it. And then one day, it wouldn't start any longer, no matter what settings I chose or what I re-installed. So even the game is fun for an extended period of time (especially while the missions last, not so much after you get a ridiculous large ship that lets you fly into any obstacle and just plow through it), I wouldn't recommend buying it.

This game have good space ships. I like ships. Wish there is more ships.

I wholeheartedly recommend this. A kindred spirit to Wing Commander: Privateer; if you liked that, you'll love this. It was a bit short and a bit shallow, and I'm done with it for now, but I'll likely play it again in a year.

• Confident aesthetics, ships you are excited to climb into, pretty space
  
• Decent ship loadout options to tune performance to your playstyle
  
• You can be effective in ships that are not "top tier"
  
• Randomized missions are fairly diverse
  
• Interesting (if somewhat predictable) campaign that resolved sensibly
  
• Pretty well-implemented progression keeps the game challenging for a while
  
• I don't care for the music, but it's very well done and a lot of folks will love it; it definitely fits the game's vibe
  
• Characters and side stories are interesting and well-written
  
• Fun - everything there is to do is fun to do
  
• Pirating is a thing

I don't really have any cons.

• I'd have liked more diversity in combat strategy; a big selling point is broadside combat, but other approaches would be nice too
  
• More fine-tuning and harder choices for loadouts (like EVE's system) would have made it more interesting
  
• Could have been longer
  
• Mining and trading were pretty thin
  
• At some point you just outgear everything, no matter what you're flying; it ceases to be challenging
  
• Some escort missions are inordinately hard, mostly due to glitches
  
• Pirating could definitely have used more attention

Absolutely worth it at full price. No-brainer if on sale.

wont work for me dont buy if on mac

Overall i think this game performs so well in its mechanics

Its a mix between EvE Online (System and Station Mechanics, Mission undertaking etc.) and the ship combat from Assasins Creed IV (Broadside Combat)
If you are a big fan of action packed space battles this is for you

It is hard to keep count of all the right boxes, that Double Damage have somehow managed to tick with Rebel Galaxy. It may be a little short(ish), and the overall story seems to just come and go. Being no more than a frantic treasure hunt type plot. Culminating in a desperate last stand that would make the Battle for Endor (See Star Wars Ep 6), look like a minor skirmish. But it does everything else so right. making its very few minor faults fade into near insignificance. After a time you won't even be bothered about the fact that all the action takes place on a two dimensional plane, rather than in three dimensional space. Though in all honesty I'm not sure that this would even work as smoothly in a fully three dimensional spacial environment. Despite this, Rebel Galaxy proves itself time and again, to be more than capable of entertaining. And it certainly held my interest for the duration of its solo player campaign.

Much like every other space game out there nowadays. RG comes with all the trimmings for some sort of roleplay. Letting you either be a mercenary, trader, miner, Bounty Hunter blah blah blah etcetera etcetera. As is the way with most of these types of games. But executes them flawlessly, without baggage and without bugs (something which the current makers of a certain well known British spacesim series, really ought to take note of). The UI is flawless and snappy (again, certain British Spacesim makers, take note). And the whole game has been put together by TWO PEOPLE (and again...). The game world isn't particularly huge. With the whole story taking place across less than a dozen star systems. But with everything that's going off. You won't really have much time for sight seeing. As much of the time you will be kept more than busy fighting for your survival, in what is most definitely a real rough region of space.

Throughout the entire sector, it seems everyone is at each others throats for one reason or another and it is upto you to decide which of the five factions you get friendly with. Or which of them you get busy with, turning their fleets into lumps of burned up twisted metal. But sooner or later, everyone is going to be after a piece of your hide. And it is a good job there's an impressive selection of firepower and starships to purchase. In order to keep you alive and make everyone else around you, dead.

All the ships that are available to you in Rebel Galaxy are of the larger type. No fighters or other small vessels to be bought here. Though the bad guys can have them. You just get to fend them off with carefully placed turrets and even in some cases (especially where the larger ships are concerned), by getting yourself some flak cannons. And the ships that are available range from light frigates (small pokey things with hardly any armour or turret placements). To massive destroyers and dreadnought class vessels, that can be defended by a truely impressive amount of armaments. Although you do have the option of building yourself up to being the biggest and the baddest thing to set sail on the cosmic sea. It isn't at all necessary. I spent most of the last half of the game in a mid-sized heavy frigate type called a Vanguard. A sort of mashed together cross-breed of the U.S.S. Enterpirse and X-Bomber (Star Trek and Star Fleet, if you're in need of reference there). Which was great to get about in, kicked ♥♥♥ like a mule drunk on thunder and was just so much fun to use, I'm practically grinning just thinking about it.

The selection of other available ships also happen to be exceptionally designed too. Not nice sleek spaceships with shiney smooth edges and poncy features like "aerodynamics". No, Double Damage have taken the design route of what's more like random blocks of metal crudely welded together, until someone said, "yeah that looks like it might fly". But even with that said. Each vessel is just as aesthetically pleasing as they are fun to use. And if that still isn't enough. For that extra bit of personalisation. You can even name your ship (again, something which a certain spacesim creator needs to take note of).

Rebel Galaxy also features a good amount of interaction with your fellow space farers. And you will be invited to open communications and have face to face discussions with other ships Captains. Not all will be friendly and not all will be human. There's not much variation in the faces, particularly where the humans are concerned. And the aliens all look the same (but who can tell those guys apart from one another anyway, right ?). But you just have to appreciate the fact that this feature exists at all. And it works. Though for the voices, the makers do seem to have followed the Borderlands : The Pre Sequel ethic. That anyone who is involved in law and order has an authoritive american accent. Whilst all the rogues, vagabonds, rabble rousers, roustabouts and general spacey ne'erdowells, all come from Australia. Of course the aliens talk in gobbledegook. But that is nothing your ships translator cannot handle. Anyhow, it all serves as a lovely addition to the game. Helping to breath a certain amount of life into your surroundings. As an added plus, you can even hire mercenaries to fly along side you into battle. Who will exchange the odd comment here and there. I spent much of the time with a very fiesty pilot by the name of Grud. A sort of large spineless hedgehog type alien. Who's main hobby (I acertained from the job interview he had with me), mainly consisted of sharpening things and then using said sharpened things on whoever he'd been paid to use them on. A real top bloke, and we got on quite famously as we burned a trail across the sector. Though sadly, he cashed in his chips during the final battle. And the last I saw of him was his tiny gunship, hurtling away from me in flames. Before exploding across the portside of a nearby enemy warcruiser. A fitting end for such a crazy fellow.

The combat is fantastic. Exceptionally put together and you will have more than your fair share of targets to choose from. As you will be set upon by enemy fleets and chased across the quadrent by squadrons of small fighters. That can be just as bad as the larger vessels when faced in large numbers. But do make for an impressive sight as they come hurtling towards you, blasting their way across your bow.

All in all Rebel Galaxy is one heck of a fine space opera. With all it's parts in 100% working order, beautifully balanced. Which chugs along to one of the most original brilliant soundtracks there is. And I just can't think of any other title at this time, that would be more deserving of a sequel than this.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Can't recommend it enough. GET IT.....
(Even if you can't change your evil ways lol)

This has to be one of the most under-rated games I have ever played. Sure it could be better- the whole 2D plane thing, and I am personally not a procedurally-generated world fan... but SO ADDICTIVE. And probably top 3 soundtracks of all time. Overall it creates a fantastic balance of Country/outlaw feel with a space exploration background

i bought this game with out reading anything it was just purly off that it looked like Galexy on fire 2 (AMAZING mobile game) 9/10 only con is that it kinda throughs you into it without any tutorial you will die a few times.

Space game for the casual player.