Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro sci-fi strategy RPG with a unique blend of base building, exploration and deep tactical JRPG style combat system with capital starships and their idiosyncratic…
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is an indie developed by Massive Damage Games, released 8 September 2016 on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 24 hrs to finish.
What Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is an indie game developed by Massive Damage Games and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro sci-fi strategy RPG with a unique blend of base building, exploration and deep tactical JRPG style combat system with capital starships and their idiosyncratic officers, all captured in stunningly beautiful modernized pixel graphics. In Halcyon 6, an unknown alien force is carving a path of destruction towards Earth and you, as the Commander of an immensely powerful, newly discovered derelict starbase left behind by a precursor alien race, are the best chance for the New Terran Federation to stop the impending invasion.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 69 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 26% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 24 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 35 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GB RAM and 128MB. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander launched on 8 September 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Persona 5, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
Official trailer
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All media
Dlc
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