Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

This is a cautious recommendation; I enjoy it, but I can see why it may not be for everyone. First of all, it's pretty grindy: You need to complete a lot of low-paying, low-risk missions in order to make enough money to upgrade your ship in order to be able to handle high-risk missions. And in fact you'll want to do a great deal of that even before advancing the story mission, because it gets quite dangerous quite fast. The story is pretty simple and its twists are very predictable, but it's fine. The voice acting is a bit sparse (most of what you will hear are variants on "you are cleared to dock" or "help me!"), but it sounds good. Almost all the gameplay takes place on your ship, in space, in combat. Docking at stations or landing on planets is essentially a menu interface for things you can do in town, like repair your ship, take on new missions, or buy and sell cargo. I really appreciate that they were not afraid to let you buy cargo cheap and sell it dear. Most game designers seem deathly afraid of arbitrage, but in this game, a well-planned trade route can make you a lot of money with relatively low risk. There is a faction system tracking who likes you and who doesn't, but after several hours in, I didn't really notice it making much difference. The police really like me... but they still treat me the same as ever. You are [i]always[/i] outnumbered. There are [i]always[/i] pirates. Seriously, the number of pirates in this sector is absolutely absurd. Just trying to fly from one side of one system to another, I have encountered [i]four[/i] separate distress calls with a total of over [i]twenty[/i] pirate fighters to engage. This definitely allows you to jump right from action-packed dogfight to action-packed dogfight, but it strains my immersion to think that even a very good pilot with a mediocre cargo hauler could survive this frequency and intensity of combat. I have killed [i]hundreds[/i] of enemy pilots. With a cargo ship. (I am basically a trucker, yet also somehow one of the deadliest warriors of all time.) [b]Do the flight training.[/b] There is no tutorial within the main game; this is the only tutorial to teach you the complex controls. Without it, you may flounder, not knowing how to lock on targets or even control your throttle. [b]Get a tractor beam right away.[/b] Collecting cargo from enemy ships you destroy is an important source of income, especially early on. [b]The soundtrack [i]rocks[/i].[/b] There are multiple subspace radio stations to choose from, and all of them have good music and funny commercials. This is honestly the best part of the game. I hated the pool minigame at first for being too hard, but then I finally won a cool weapon and I'm not complaining anymore. (Even with all the bets I lost, it was worth it.) If you enjoy space dogfights---so many space dogfights, nothing but space dogfights for hours on end---and you don't mind a lot of grind, you'll probably enjoy it. If you were hoping for a deep, immersive story or action that [i]isn't[/i] space dogfights, look elsewhere.

Fun game. Reminds me of all the hours I put into the '90s flight sims back in the day, like some of the Microprose ones. The thing I think this game did wrong was making it possible to NOT have fun. The "easy" or "normal" difficulty settings remove a lot of the actual gameplay by assuming you can't figure it out or want your hand held. I think the only sin this game commits is not trusting itself to be fun or that the right players would find it.

first game is better, they changed too much, mostly removing the things that i liked and adding things that are just meh.

If you spent half your high school years in the '90s glued to a CRT monitor playing Wing Commander: Privateer, stop messing around and just buy Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. This thing is a pure nostalgia overload. The second I pulled up to my first station and heard "You have entered an automatic landing zone," I almost squealed. It instantly took me back 30 years, except now it runs at buttery smooth framerates and has a killer Southern rock soundtrack blasting through the cockpit. I’m playing with a flight stick, and the dogfighting feels so right. Look, the core gameplay loop is classic, unapologetic space sim business: grind missions, stack credits, and trick out your ship. You start off in a complete bucket of bolts with a mountain of debt, slowly hustling your way up to buying meaner ships and mounting bigger guns. It’s total comfort food for anyone who grew up on classic Origin games. If you loved Privateer, you’re gonna love this.

I loved the first game, but this one is just boring.

Mechanically, the game is technically competent and I want to like it. The problem is that there are a lot of little things working against it. The game is littered with difficulty spikes, and the autosave system sometimes saves after you get defeated; when you reload your game, it leaves you with a heavily damaged ship that requires you to limp back to a base (hopefully avoiding random hostiles along the way). A few other, shall we say, "quirks" have shown up during my play time.

The first game was nice, and had a fun and open base however could be improved in a sequel. Try the game its on EA. This next game instead of improvement, I find unplayable and boring.

I do really like the game, the start is rough, the first ship is bad and the controls are a little wonky at first until you play an hour or so but after that the campaign and secondary missions are really nice, the bounties you can do to ear money are not boring and you can choose to do trades or fight. You can play on the pirate faction too. Very recomended game

Currently not for me, the controls feel wonky, the graphics don't bother me but they are weak, you don't really know what to do in the beginning and are supposed to grind the first couple of hours, no thanks.