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.{NeoGAF writeup}Key FeaturesQuick 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! 6d5b4406ea Title: Starship RubiconGenre: Action, IndieDeveloper:WickworksPublisher:Cheerful GhostRelease Date: 12 Dec, 2014 Starship Rubicon Ativador Download [portable] More thorough reviews already exist. I'll just laud a couple of things: the clever writing (scientifically literate item texts, cohorts capable of changing a run's tenor, and a just payoff not in spite, but in light of railroading). the aversion of power creep (few strict upgrades, elegant ship designs receive stat boosts and cheaper maintenance).Oh, and there's a couple of pseudo-features (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) that I don't mind at all, really.. 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. Both the graphics and music are really captivating. There's a wide variety of ships, weapons, and enemies to interact with. If you feel like tutorials are for chumps you can get pretty far just by ramming into your enemies (and fist-bumping your friends). If you like figuring out the intricacies of a game there's a lot to explore here, from critical hits to reflecting lasers off of inanimate objects and shields to creating your own levels. If you despise fighting and just like drawing cool contrail patterns, you can usually pull that off too. Your onboard computer, who narrates much of the game, has plenty of snaky comments to make when you fail. The allies you can acquire will have conversations with each other, making it fun to gather different groups together. Sometimes, there are biscuitfish, which are like biscuit-shaped cuttlefish. They float around in packs and trill and cycle through the colors of the rainbow. I don't understand them but they make satisfying sounds if you blow them up.I would definitely recommend this game! It's well worth the price and a great game to come back to again and again.. 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. Both the graphics and music are really captivating. There's a wide variety of ships, weapons, and enemies to interact with. If you feel like tutorials are for chumps you can get pretty far just by ramming into your enemies (and fist-bumping your friends). If you like figuring out the intricacies of a game there's a lot to explore here, from critical hits to reflecting lasers off of inanimate objects and shields to creating your own levels. If you despise fighting and just like drawing cool contrail patterns, you can usually pull that off too. Your onboard computer, who narrates much of the game, has plenty of snaky comments to make when you fail. The allies you can acquire will have conversations with each other, making it fun to gather different groups together. Sometimes, there are biscuitfish, which are like biscuit-shaped cuttlefish. They float around in packs and trill and cycle through the colors of the rainbow. I don't understand them but they make satisfying sounds if you blow them up.I would definitely recommend this game! It's well worth the price and a great game to come back to again and again.. 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.. Fun little game with some depth and customization if you like games like Asteroids.It has an FTL feel with the campaign but does not present the player with enough weapons and upgrades before the end to make it feel like you have improved your ship. However, there is ship customization that you can start the game in your fully customized ship as you please but that removes any meaningful progression during that run.Great game to get on sale. I love this game. It's a combo of Star Fox level selecting (minus the secret paths), Asteroids, and Roguelikes. My only complaint with the game is I cannot play it w\/o a virtual machine (bc I have Windows 10 baby).Edit: I ended up fixing the game by running it in Windows 7 compatibility mode.. An excellent game, the dev clearly put a lot of time and effort into it, and it shows.Pros:* Good starting loadout variety. My personal favourite is the Pakiceph.* Good enemy type variety. There are varieties that teleport, swarm, form laser networks, and much more.* Good equipment variety. All sorts of weapons, abilities, and upgrades are available.* Interesting tetris-esque outfitting system.* Variety of level types.* Amusing dialogue.Cons: * The plot is thin, and somewhat clicheI've been playing this on Windows 10 for a while with no issues, so it seems the issues the author mentioned do not occur on all Windows 10 machines.. More thorough reviews already exist. I'll just laud a couple of things: the clever writing (scientifically literate item texts, cohorts capable of changing a run's tenor, and a just payoff not in spite, but in light of railroading). the aversion of power creep (few strict upgrades, elegant ship designs receive stat boosts and cheaper maintenance).Oh, and there's a couple of pseudo-features (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) that I don't mind at all, really.
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