Rebel Galaxy
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 21.9h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0, 512MB VRam, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was May 2021. 53 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Endless Sky (free, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 567 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 719 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 21.9 hours; clearing it takes 53, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
48% start to 23% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
24 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Ok game, combat was pretty enjoyable. Story was pretty good too. Once I hit the point where grind profit to buy my next gun or ship it became a slog. Buy low, sell high, space capitalism! Figuring out where to even find places to sell stuff and then flying all the way there to find the price had dropped. So pretty good, but not good enough to make me fight through to follow the story.
Played over 12 hours, and now my save state is gone. I start the game and it says new game. My settings were reset as well. Apparently, this is an old problem that looks like never got addressed. I can't recommend this to people if the game is just going to screw you over whenever it wants.
Damn the torpedoes (er, missiles)!! And Full Speed Ahead Matey, but watch out for the broadsides. Buy low, sell high!....and take no prisoners!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rebel Galaxy scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290300/rebel-galaxyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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