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Star Renegades
From the makers of Halcyon 6 comes a challenging tactical rogue-lite RPG set in an endless interplanetary rebellion against an evil authoritarian empire. Lead a ragtag squad of rebels in their desperate fight against overwhelming odds and an evolving adversary.
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- Released
- September 8, 2020
- Developer
- Massive Damage Games
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Indie
- Publisher
- Raw Fury, ININ Games
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Star Renegades Reviews
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Star Renegades is a fantastic addition to the Roguelite genre. The title's amazing animations complement the fantastic battle system that, in all honesty, had me thinking about my actions more than any strategy game has done in the past. The complex battle system feels incredibly rewarding, especially when you win a battle just by the skin of your teeth. I've never truly enjoyed a Roguelite before but Star Renegades has made me a fan.
As eye-catching as Star Renegades is, there was a high risk it would be just another pretty face. Thankfully, this small indie team has pulled together something truly special, marrying different gameplay styles to create a memorable and engaging experience. The missions can definitely be punishing with serious setbacks, but you’ll likely have fun in spite of those defeats. The snappy, satisfying combat routine doesn’t grow stale, and the variety in map layouts, enemy formations, and loot ensures each playthrough will keep you on your toes. There’s nothing like pulling out a victory from…
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Star Renegades deserves to be in the conversation of the best games of 2020 that you’ve never heard of. Like a lot of indies, its primary sales pitch is how it fuses ideas from a bunch of popular and well-respected releases, but it succeeds where many others fail in actually making something inventive and compelling with those borrowed ideas. At its best, Star Renegades is a gorgeous, deep, challenging, and thoroughly gripping release that successfully delivers a fun and enjoyable experience. There are some technical issues that hold it back from perfection, but there’s little else here that o...
This is a fun, fresh take on classic JRPG tropes and modern roguelike design, but it needs more to sustain interest from run to run.
Star Renegades revives the magic of the turn-based RPG battle.
The roguelike genre is one of my favourites of all time. If done right, with an addictive gameplay loop, a good roguelike game could last dozens of hours, if not mode. The recently released Hades and Othercide are great showcases for the genre. Star Renegades, the latest game from Raw Fury and Massive Damage, comes really close to joining the all-stars of the genre, but sadly, it doesn’t quite hit the landing.
A tactical RPG that hops between genres and dimensions alike.
Star Renegades doesn’t countenance mistakes, while demanding an inordinate amount of commitment from its players due to its mechanically dense system. This can be a challenging game to get into, from learning about its intricate turn-based combat, to making sense of the walls of text, numbers and symbols it throws at you. Those patient enough to familiarise themselves with what this roguelike has to offer, however, may find this to be a tactically satisfying experience.
Yet as we alluded to initially, as all the overtly beautiful stuff gets swept away by familiarity with the game, some things begin to grate, its personality slowly buried as you just tear through nodes looking for fights and a smattering of loot. You may be able to fast forward through individual combat rounds, but you still have to navigate through nodes adventure game-style, you still get to click through the enemy banter, participate in a few insignificant fights, struggle to properly give commands as the screen gets more cluttered with characters, puzzle through sometimes unclear effect in...
While there’s no doubt that Star Renegades can provide a fresh and satisfying experience, it isn’t likely to do so on Switch. The performance issues are far too much to overcome at present. Constant frame rate dips, frustratingly small text, and game-halting crashes make this version of the game very much a wait-and-see proposition. A Day 1 patch is in the works, but it will need to do some heavy lifting to salvage what is ultimately an unplayable game in its current state. If you have access to the Xbox or PC version of Star Renegades, it’s absolutely worth picking up. Switch players sh…
So yeah, it has more than a bit of roughness to it. But hoo boy, do I admire its spirit, its extra-ness, its enthusiasm for small-scale RPG design. It feels like somebody put a lasso around the neck of a snorting Disgaea game and corralled it into a pen with Slay The Spire, the resulting gamefoal erupting onto Steam in slime and wires, a cybernetic child of chaos, pixel art, and giant JRPG word flashes. BREAK. BLEEDING. ANTIMATTER. ENRAGED. By design it lacks the streamlined beauty of the turn-based tacticka that has spoiled us recently. I doubt I’ll be replaying it for as many weeks as I did ...