Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
Massive Damage, Inc. · August 10, 2017 · 4X, Tactical RPG, Turn-Based, Exploration, Turn-Based Strategy
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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) costs £1.27 in the United Kingdom, €1.43 in Europe (EUR), $2.29 in the United States, $2.99 in Georgia (USD), R$5.59 in Brazil and zł7.91 in Poland right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 United Kingdom | £1.27 −80% | £2.19 | £1.27 | 6 |
 Europe (EUR) | €1.43 −80% | €2.99 | €1.43 | 6 |
 United Statesyour region | $2.29 −80% | $2.99 | $2.29 | 5 |
 Georgia (USD) | $2.99 −80% | $2.99 | — | 4 |
 Brazil | R$5.59 −80% | R$5.59 | R$11.98 | 5 |
 Poland | zł7.91 −80% | zł12.79 | zł7.91 | 6 |
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About Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
Rebuild a derelict starbase on the edge of known space while managing crew, technology, and diplomacy to stop an alien invasion in this tactical strategy hybrid. The Lightspeed Edition streamlines everything into a 12-hour campaign packed with faster progression, revamped combat with 25+ new abilities, expanded officer customization with prestige classes, and a complete UI overhaul for smoother gameplay.
LIGHTSPEED EDITION
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition brings together the original Halcyon 6 base game along with all of the additional content (Combat & Customization, Diplomatic Diversions, Loot’em Up, and Morale Booster updates) released since launch in Sept 2016 as well as brand new Lightspeed Edition optimizations and features as follows:
Streamlined Campaign
Greatly speeds up progression and tightens the campaign to an action and adventure packed 12 hrs depending on your play style and paceStreamlined All Systems
For faster progression, including economy, starbase, resources, and officer levelling.New Officer Progression System
With 6 subclasses, 3 Prestige classes, new skill tree, and over 20+ new Prestige/Epic powers.New Ship Loadout and Config Screen
Will let you customize loadouts (and save them) for your ships just before entering combatNew Difficulty Mode
Called Vice Admiral and slightly increased difficulty across the boardEnhanced Combat
Includes 25+ new alien faction space combat abilities, more combos for both players and enemies, increased faction weaknesses and resistances, and other balancing tweaksNew UI Overhaul
Designed for greater readability and usability. Many many UI quality of life enhancements to all areas of the game, too many to list here.
Halcyon 6
On the edge of Terran space lies Halcyon 6, a derelict starbase left behind by a mysterious precursor race. Your mission is to reclaim the derelict station and rebuild it.
A mysterious alien force is making a beeline towards Earth and this starbase is the best chance for the New Terran Federation to establish new alliances, research new technologies and otherwise figure out a way to stop the impending invasion.
Using only the resources you can salvage from the derelict station and gathered from nearby star systems, it’s up to you to rebuild the starbase to lead the Terran Republic’s scientific research, exploration and diplomatic efforts on the edge of known space.
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a passion project whose design is inspired by our years spent playing classic games like Star Control, Master of Orion, X-COM, Civilization and new classics like FTL.
Features:
- Base Building: spend resources to build station facilities (rooms) to enhance your production and technological capabilities, or build ships to help you control more territory
- Exploration: assign your fleets to nearby star clusters, where they can handle emerging enemy threats, do missions for alien factions or secure bonus resources
- Crew Management: assign crew to station facilities to greatly improve their output efficiency, or to ships where they can contribute in unique ways to combat, missions and events
- Deep Tactical Combat: fight tactical ship or ground battles to resolve hostile events, create a foothold in the sector and ultimately defeat the enemy mothership!
- Story Events: based on game criteria like rooms-built, alien diplomacy scores or officer traits/skills, the game will produce story events (often with multiple choice outcomes) that can lead to combat, time-related applied bonuses/negatives, officer attribute changes or any number of crazy in-game stories.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 3 of 3 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is a surprisingly engaging space strategy game that combines base management, tactical combat, and exploration with charming pixel graphics and a memorable soundtrack that players find hard to forget. Most reviewers praise its accessible but rewarding gameplay loop and moddability, though some note the experience becomes repetitive by late game. Players generally find it worth experiencing, with several mentioning they enjoyed it enough to purchase it despite obtaining it free elsewhere.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is an inventive fusion of grand strategy, role-playing mechanics, base management, and turn-based tactical combat that delivers a refreshing take on the science fiction genre. Developed and published by Massive Damage, Inc., this definitive edition expands and refines the original release with additional content, gameplay improvements, and quality-of-life enhancements that make the experience far more polished. Rather than focusing solely on galactic conquest, the game places players in charge of restoring an ancient starbase that serves as humanity's last major defense against an overwhelming alien menace. This combination of strategic planning, exploration, and character progression creates a gameplay loop that feels rewarding from beginning to end. The central objective revolves around rebuilding Halcyon 6, a mysterious precursor station packed with forgotten technology and immense strategic value. Every section of the station that is repaired unlocks new opportunities, whether through research, manufacturing, diplomacy, or military expansion. Resource management becomes a constant balancing act as players decide how best to al…2 found this helpful
It's a surprisingly interesting if simple space game. And easy to mod to personal preferences using just Notepad.1 found this helpful
Truly an excellent game, love the pixel graphics and music, very challenging. I got the game for free on Epic, but enjoyed it so much I decided to buy the steam version so I could get the achievements.
Simple but fun game! A little bit repetitive towards the end, but I enjoyed a lot!
this game will always stick with me! if only it was an mmo...
One must consider the Yablings. "Please save us, We'll pay you. -Throw in a fur coat. Deal. Take your time champ, you got this." You'll hate that you love this one. And you'll remember that you never finished it with the pain of a lost mp3 player full of bangers you never discovered because you're too much of a coward to pace yourself.
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