Rebel Galaxy is free on Epic Games until the 19th of august. If you like space games with spaceships and space exploration, although a little older- this game is for you. The game is similar to the game Freelancer but with far better graphics. Rebel Galaxy came out in 2015 but it’s still a good space game, the planets and the heavenly bodies are very well made and there is a vast space of the universe to be explored.
You can play as a merchant, pirate or an explorer. The Universe in this game reminds more of Star Wars than Star Trek including the aliens. In fact the dialogs with lots of different characters that have excellent voice acting remind of the dialogs in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 where you pick your text answers depending on what you want to do in the game.
The combat is interesting because even in your fist mission you get a peculiar object that is in fact an AI (Artificial Intelligence) that fires cannons for you if you make the option available, otherwise you fire the cannons on the hull of your ship by hand, but the side cannons are more effective. While for the firing you are using the left click, it is recommended that you use the right click first for precision aiming. The spaceship needs to be positioned sideways from the target and that’s the way the battles go down where at the same time you have to be careful not to crash your ship into an asteroid, big chunks of metal or rock, another spaceship or a space station.
There is also a selection of a few different ship types that are more compatible with what you will choose to play, for example if you chose to play a merchant you will need a bigger ship to store the things you’re gonna be trading. If you chose to become a pirate you will need a more combat equipped vehicle with better weapons and you are gonna have to hire a mercenary with his own ship that you can call on every 10 minutes to help you in the battles. The Music in the game is a mixture of country and rock and fits into the game very well, there are over 20 hours of that kind of music that you can change by the radio in the game.
All in all this is a very good game that is worth taking for free while the free promotion lasts.
