Dead Star
Combining the beauty of space combat and RPG elements, Dead Star excites with online multiplayer space shooting action. Earn loot and levels as you fight in procedurally generated battlefields to further…
Dead Star is an arcade developed by Armature Studio, released 5 April 2016 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dead Star is
Dead Star is an arcade game developed by Armature Studio and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
You need to survive in a part of the galaxy that has been deemed as a prison. Upgrade your ship, form alliances and get rid of the enemies.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Dead Star holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Dead Star launched on 5 April 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.
Official trailer
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