Starship Rubicon

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.

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Key Features

• Quick 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!

Reviews

“Starship Rubicon, to my surprise, combines the nostalgia of old arcade shooters with the complexity of modern space simulators to create an altogether amazing game that will have you playing, and dying, for hours on end.”
10/10 – Bezoned

“On the surface, Starship Rubicon looks like a basic arcade style space shooter with some roguelike elements. Underneath there are a lot of fun mechanics that will feel familiar to experienced gamers. It would be easy to simply call this game a mashup of many other titles, but that wouldn’t do justice to what Starship Rubicon delivers.”
True PC Gaming

“Starship Rubicon is like FTL, Asteroids, and Luftrausers all got busy inside of a wool sleeping bag.”
10/10 – Indie Game Bundles