

You can also hail ships-even during combat-and talk to the captains. Space stations hold an array of interactive lifeforms to talk to and how you choose to interact with them dictates how they treat you in return.

Players who recall the classic Star Control 2 will be right at home with the crazy cast of alien characters. Most space sandbox games have you piloting a fighter and frantically dog fighting all the time.” It’s common in books and movies, but hasn’t been as well represented in games.

“Making their way through the galaxy, calling the shots, and blasting the bad guys. “It’s a great fantasy to be the captain of a giant spaceship, of course: Han Solo, Captain Kirk, Adama, or Malcolm Reynolds,” Travis says. As the name implies, the game has a distinct mercenary spirit to it, evocative of popular movies and shows. Whether simply buying and selling goods, actively smuggling, delivering cargo, or completing mercenary bounty runs, there’s always something to do in Rebel Galaxy. There are constant streams of randomly generated side missions to partake of. Tracking her down is part of the main storyline and there’s no shortage of story-based missions, but (as with most open world games) it’s all the other things to do that really make things interesting. The aunt, it seems, was something of a smuggler and has gotten herself into trouble. When the protagonist gets an old space ship and a strange message from a distant aunt to come meet her in a hurry, it sets off a grand and humorous adventure. The game itself is a mix of space trading, exploration, conversation, and combat. Rebel Galaxy, even at its early stages, is already incredibly impressive, especially considering the bulk of the work is being done by just two guys.
