Starship Rubicon

Clearly inspired by the best elements of its mixture of genres (arcade gaming, FTL, Starfox) with many nice throwbacks. The exciting gameplay has an adventurous streak and is enhanced by some seriously delightful sci-fi music and sound design. Starship Rubicon also has surprisingly creative writing, a fun equipment allocation system (symmetry rules!) and even more customization. Memorable and easy to load up and have fun with, the game is a great example of good indie games. Easily one of my favorites.

It's a cute, entertaining Asteroids-style Newtonian space shooter with some Roguelike elements, a bit of humor, a nice spacey and retro vibe, and an easy to understand but actually rather interesting ship customization system. And, thankfully, no sideways thrusters, which are just silly in games like this.

So, I havent had all that much time with this game just yet, but... even after just 90 minutes, I can honestly say, I think this game is brilliant. It's good enough that it leaves this impression on me that quickly... for me, this is very rare. Starship Rubicon is an interesting beast.... it uses a whole pile of different elements that were inspired by many seperate games. But the thing that makes it so good is that it takes all of these disparate elements, smashes them together... and they WORK together. They dont conflict with each other at any point. At it's base, this game uses Asteroids-style gameplay and controls. You have a "thrust" button to move your ship forwards, and then other buttons to turn it left or right; you also have a "boost" function that you can use. There are even actual asteroids floating around in many areas, which work pretty much as you'd expect, and generally making your life that much tougher. From there though, the game goes in it's own seperate di...

Controls feel great. Quite fun.

It's like a modern take on asteroids, the controls are simple, the gameplay is simple, yet has enough finesse for you not to just fall asleep at the keyboard. The game has a good sense of humor, and the customization aspect, like the rest of the game: is simple but rewarding. My only real problem with the game is that it's really short. But you can make your own missions and ships too, so that's pretty cool.

I played this game during my last semester when i was writing essays and i gotta say that this game was really good to help me focus and relieve some stress. I would not say it is among my favorite games but for its price it is well worth getting and if you are like me who handles stress with playing games this will probably be a perfect fit. Every game is quite short and the purpose is very clear, there is not really much storytelling (which i think is good) but is focuses on being a pure space shooter which is does really well. Overall worth getting and quite entertaining.

The first time i've played the game, i got many problems with framerate and there was many bugs with sprites. But the Dev is aware and care of your situation and solved the problem rapidly. The game itself is nice, take some rogue-like elements, RPG items, Asteroid gameplay and a huge replayability, take all of those things into a shaker and tadam : Starship Rubicon If you like games like Starsector, space game and shooter, this is for you !

The pixel art creates a familiar game style as well as a clean and beautiful design. It's easy to grasp the basics, yet the detailed physics engine, creative stages and lots of diversity in enemies and friends show how much thought went into the creation of this game. The game is easy to get into and play for short amounts of time but has a lot of depth and complexity to explore that make you play it over and over again. There's lots of ship customizability that makes the game accessible to different playing styles - you can play fast and action-packed, slow and calculated, or luck of the draw by stocking up on weapons that allow you to run around in a confused panic and then deploy all your ammunition at once. The amount of variation between the different ships and types of levels allows for all sorts of challenges, and the ability to save up and unlock new options means that you never get stuck doing the same thing over and over with no progress. Also, the game has a lot of style. ...

I dont usually review games but this one is incredible!

More thorough reviews already exist. I'll just laud a couple of things: [list] [*] the clever writing (scientifically literate item texts, cohorts capable of changing a run's tenor, and a just payoff [spoiler]not in spite, but in light of railroading[/spoiler]). [*] the aversion of power creep (few strict upgrades, elegant ship designs receive stat boosts and cheaper maintenance). [/list] Oh, and there's a couple of pseudo-features ([spoiler]deleting the only layout of a ship in the hangar produces unintended UI behavior and re-locks the ship; reloading a mid-campaign save adds to the bank each time[/spoiler]) that I don't mind at all, really.