Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
Massive Damage, Inc. · 2016 · Strategy, Space, Indie, Turn-Based Combat, Pixel Graphics
PC
Very Positive80% · 96471Metacritic
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About Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
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Rebuild a derelict starbase on the edge of known space by managing resources, crew, and combat while racing to stop an alien invasion threat. Inspired by classics like Star Control and FTL, it blends base-building strategy with tactical combat, procedurally generated encounters, and branching story events that react to your diplomatic choices and crew quirks.
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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 is a passion project who’s design is inspired by our years spent playing classic games like Star Control, Master of Orion, X-COM, Civilization and new classics like FTL.
Unlimited Replayability: Each playthrough has players dealing with a new randomly generated derelict station, surrounding galaxy, crew recruits, and alien factions
Motley Crew: Each crew member has unlimited potential for acquiring unique behaviours, traits and abilities, for better or for worse. Making the best use of your dysfunctional crew will be one of the keys to success. Who should be your main Science Officer? The insomniac that works insane hours but has an addictive personality or the agoraphobic mad genius?
Encounters of the Weird Kind: There are 6 alien factions in Halcyon 6 and they are all quite different with varying objectives and personalities. Only your wit and your crew’s skills will help you navigate the diplomatic waters to gain them as key allies or valuable trading partners.
The Game
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 is a passion project who’s 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.
Project Goals
Unlimited Replayability: Each playthrough has players dealing with a new randomly generated derelict station, surrounding galaxy, crew recruits, and alien factions
Motley Crew: Each crew member has unlimited potential for acquiring unique behaviours, traits and abilities, for better or for worse. Making the best use of your dysfunctional crew will be one of the keys to success. Who should be your main Science Officer? The insomniac that works insane hours but has an addictive personality or the agoraphobic mad genius?
Encounters of the Weird Kind: There are 6 alien factions in Halcyon 6 and they are all quite different with varying objectives and personalities. Only your wit and your crew’s skills will help you navigate the diplomatic waters to gain them as key allies or valuable trading partners.
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 0 of 1 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
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What Steam players say
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made obsolete by the lightspeed edition less than a year later.3 found this helpful
Developed and published by Massive Damage, Inc., Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is an inventive blend of 4X strategy, base management, tactical RPG combat, and science fiction storytelling. The game begins with humanity on the brink of collapse as a relentless alien threat advances toward Earth. Standing between civilization and destruction is Halcyon 6, an ancient and technologically advanced starbase abandoned by a mysterious precursor race. As the newly appointed commander, players are tasked with restoring this massive installation, rebuilding its capabilities, and leading humanity's desperate effort to survive. The game successfully combines grand strategic planning with smaller, character-driven decisions, resulting in a campaign that constantly rewards careful thinking and long-term planning. The core gameplay revolves around rebuilding the station while managing a growing empire across nearby sectors of space. Every restored room expands the station's functionality by unlocking new production facilities, research opportunities, or military improvements. Resources remain limited throughout much of the campaign, making every construction project an important investment rather…1 found this helpful
An oldie but goodie. Retro graphics but the gameplay mechanics are solid. Worth a playthrough!
amazing game.. grueling, but amazing!
Quite the game, epic final boss, beat this by the skin of my teeth ouch
This game is great for people who have autism like myself but once you start drinking to balance yourself out you'll come to realize it has some real pacing issues.
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