GCS: Salvage Rat

GCS: Salvage Rat

Stellar Forge Works · 2025 · Action, Space, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, FPS

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9 user reviews22% · 9
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About GCS: Salvage Rat

GCS: Salvage Rat is a gritty, first-person space sim with permadeath and immersive salvage contracts. Explore a procedurally generated universe of hostile factions, dangerous asteroid fields, and derelict stations. Pilot a fully customizable ship, mine valuable resources, fight for control, and descend into abandoned hulks on foot in tense FPS missions. There are no second chances — your legacy is all that remains.Whether you're hunting bounties, stripping wrecks for data, or trading across star systems, every decision matters in this brutal, single-player sci-fi experience.
Key Features
  • 🔧 Dual Gameplay Modes
    Pilot your spacecraft in full first-person, then breach derelict stations or contract sites in immersive FPS missions.
  • 🌌 Massive Procedural Universe
    Explore up to potentially 1,000+ hand-seeded star systems, each procedurally generated with dynamic NPCs and salvage contracts.
  • ⚙️ Hardpoint-Based Ship Customization
    Equip mining lasers, turrets, armor plating, missile bays, and utility modules to tailor your craft to your playstyle.
  • 💀 True Permadeath
    Death is final. But achievements, rank, and exploits live on in the game’s legacy records.
  • 🛠️ Economy & Faction Warfare
    Trade across stations, accept high-risk salvage jobs, and navigate a web of procedurally generated NPC factions under seven major alliances.
  • 👨‍🚀 No Waiting. No Matchmaking. Just Play.
    GCS: Salvage Rat is designed from the ground up for solo players who want immediate, high-stakes gameplay — with no dependency on others.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 29, 2025
Runs like complete dog poo, 7900xtx 9330x3d 94gb ddr5 6000ram installed to NVMe SSD... runs like garbage! controls are completely janky! buy elite dangerous for $7 its the same thing but works!
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 30, 2025
No, just no. It's made up of mostly bought pre-built assets and AI generated art. Most everything is broke/janky. The settings, the space sim, the FPS extraction shooter missions it's all just awful. I went back down to the "About this game" and realized that it not only sounds like AI but has several em dashes as well (very obvious sign of ai usage.) With how barely functional everything seems, I wouldn't be surprised if it was coded fully by AI as well. Caveat Emptor.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 6, 2025
Just started, cant change controls, no mouse sensitivity controls, by default you control your ship pitch with R and F, this is unacceptable. Will edit later as i try this otherwise nice concept game more. First jump to nearest gas giant results in bumping onto bunch of 15 enemies, just barely escaped, with R and F to maneuver is just like a task for a man without fingers. Next time, jumped to some planet, again bunch of bandits showed, i realised my single laser tower wont fire no matter how i try, with numbers pushed or shift + numbers. But then, all the enemies can do to me is burn my shields and then no more damage to my ship. Again, maneuvering with R and F for pitch is nicely said like trying to maneuver a spaceship with my left leg finger. Day after purchase trying to put that one laser into operation. Took contract very easy espionage, approached prometheus derelict under 0.5m, one hostile showed up, i can target it with numpad numbers, but i cant shoot laser, should be selected with 1. Miner turret on asteroid worked with 2. So cant enter derelict now, sad and dissapointing. Cant buy ammo, sold some asteroids, its too bad you have no sound of footsteps on station and n…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 30, 2025
I've only got about an hour into this, so I will update my review at a later date. Thus far it's got lots going on, in a good way. Without going into loads of detail..... this is a game that will make you want to come back and continue exploring. It requires some patience to figure out what is going on, but you are rewarded for your efforts. There is in game help, and you will need it. This game is very unique and I haven't even gotten to the FPS part yet. Hell, have not even completed my first contract. The visuals are interesting, it's kind of a mix of old and new school. The music is great, very space opera. The game itself runs super smooth. I highly recommend giving this a try.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 12, 2025
I had to get a refund - the game is just too broken, in so many ways. Keys don't react as they should, the graphics had to be set to low (despite 16gb ram and Radeon), and no clear idea of what's going on, or where to go (i.e. no tutorial).

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