Halcyon 6 Starbase Commander
- September 9, 2016
- Massive Damage, Inc.
- 22h median play time
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a deeply-involved game with a huge number of things to keep players busy.
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Get on Epic Games Store"Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander" is a strategy game where you reclaim and rebuild a derelict starbase to stop an impending alien invasion. Using gathered resources, you'll build station facilities, research new technologies, establish alliances, and manage diplomatic efforts. Inspired by classic games like Star Control and Master of Orion, Halcyon 6 also features base building and exploration.
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Reviews
- story620 mentions
- 22 % positive mentions
- 75 % neutral mentions
- 4 % negative mentions
- gameplay406 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 66 % neutral mentions
- 9 % negative mentions
- graphics285 mentions
- 44 % positive mentions
- 55 % neutral mentions
- 1 % negative mentions
- grinding282 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- music182 mentions
- 52 % positive mentions
- 43 % neutral mentions
- 5 % negative mentions
- funny153 mentions
- 99 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 1 % negative mentions
- replayability48 mentions
- 42 % positive mentions
- 54 % neutral mentions
- 4 % negative mentions
- stability20 mentions
- 10 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 90 % negative mentions
- atmosphere16 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- character development4 mentions
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- optimization4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
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Critic Reviews
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Review
It feels like a missed opportunity. It starts okay, but it’s not long before the downtime or micro-management begin to push the enjoyable segments of gameplay further and further apart.
50%Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Review
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander presents a tough game to rate: its composite elements set it up to be an awesome experience but it fails to meet the bar it raised. The mix of so many great franchises easily could set itself up to be a great game with crazy replayability; the problem is as it currently is, the novelty wears off quickly and the grind becomes real with no end in sight. The resource gathering is far too bland and repetitious, the battles start cool but devolve into similar, repetitive outcomes. There is nothing new as it is just more of the same, which was grindy to begin with. All the elements present come close to being this awesome game, but in the end the repetition of the core elements and the endless grind make it hard to recommend at this point, which is very unfortunate.
50%Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander Review
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander brings a lot of different concepts into one amalgam of a game and it’s shockingly good at doing a lot of things well. Construction and research relies on resource management, which inevitably leads to combat aided by construction and research. It builds upon itself thoughtfully, does well in avoiding making any of these aspects annoying or boring, and keeps the tension going the whole way through. The pixelated look is clean and every ship, race, and officer brings nostalgic charm to the game’s overall visuals. There’s a few speed bumps in random chance wrecking your journey or an untimely bug making things difficult, but these problems are pretty easily overcome by everything else the game has to offer. We just wish we didn’t have to play as boring old humans every time.
85%
