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Starship Rubicon

Starship Rubicon is a modern take on the classic space shooter genre. It's a smart and challenging rogue-lite that features a unique control scheme, pixel art remixed with NASA photographs, and an existential crisis about who is REALLY the monster.

All Reviews:

Positive (17) - 94% of the 17 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Dec 12, 2014

Developer:

Wickworks

Publisher:

Cheerful Ghost

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Includes level editor

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Title: Starship Rubicon
Genre: Action, Indie

Developer: Wickworks

Publisher: Cheerful Ghost

Release Date: Dec 12, 2014

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“Starship Rubicon, to my surprise, combines the nostalgia of old arcade shooters with the complexity of modern space simulators to create an altogether amazing game that will have you playing, and dying, for hours on end.”
10/10 – Bezoned

“On the surface, Starship Rubicon looks like a basic arcade style space shooter with some roguelike elements. Underneath there are a lot of fun mechanics that will feel familiar to experienced gamers. It would be easy to simply call this game a mashup of many other titles, but that wouldn’t do justice to what Starship Rubicon delivers.”
True PC Gaming

“Starship Rubicon is like FTL, Asteroids, and Luftrausers all got busy inside of a wool sleeping bag.”
10/10 – Indie Game Bundles

About This Game

In Starship Rubicon, Earth has been casually destroyed by a mysterious race of space-faring invertebrates. You are a fighter pilot whose cryopod has been collected by a possibly-insane AI, who has placed you in the unenviable position of being humanity’s savior. Shanghaied and alone, you must gather the remaining human survivors and traverse the surprising biodiversity of deep space to find a new home.

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Key Features

Quick Gameplay - Pilot your ship in fast-paced shoot-em-up, featuring a unique approach to arcade physics and controls.
Customize Your Ship - Upgrade your ship with a Tetris-styled hangar bay as you find weapons and items on your quest.
Randomized Universe - Make your way through a diverse galaxy as you encounter interesting new lifeforms. Each play session generates a new path of enemies, allies, and items.
Casual Roguelike - When your ship blows up, that's the end of the line for that game. However, if you collect enough crystal shards by the end of a sector you can save your ship to re-launch it on another level.
A Fleet Of Ships To Play - Do you prefer fast ships for run and gun? Do you like something that takes a punch but isn't as agile? Start the game with 3 different ships and spend shards to unlock more ships with unique abilities!
Mod-friendly - Since ships and weapons are exposed in simple external .lua scripts, modding and creating your own content only requires a text editor!

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS: XP (Win10 NOT SUPPORTED)
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 35 MB available space

Recommended:

OS *: Windows 7
Memory: 1 GB RAM

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: OSX 10.6
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 35 MB available space

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 10.04
Processor: 1.6 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL-supported
Storage: 35 MB available space
Sound Card: OpenAL-supported
Additional Notes: Needs 32-bit OpenAL normal and dev libraries, see readme.txt for instructions.

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