Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
Massive Damage, Inc. · 2017 · 4X, Tactical RPG, Turn-Based, Exploration, Turn-Based Strategy
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About Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
✦ AI summary
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.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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…1 found this helpful
Ive had this game for years but I just played it. Biggest mistake of my life! This game is amazing!1 found this helpful
It's not bad! But it offers very little of value, and that's why I don't recommend it. If you are having space withdrawals and just want a quick hit, you could do worse but the turn based Pokemon combat slows down the whole game. The peace is uneven, you struggle with getting new officers early on, managing fleets is clunky, no way to build up defences or harden your space. Just endless send your fleet/fleets out to do some tasks.1 found this helpful
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.
This game is interesting for sure. -X-Com 2 style base building -Standard Research tree -Spaceship turn based combat -Crew turn based combat -Space 4X kinda strategy thing with Master of Orion feels I think the game tries to do a lot and does it ok for the most part but not really well enough to keep my interest in a world with tons of games. After a while I felt like it showed everything it had to show. A game like this would need a really compelling story to keep me engaged but this game's story is more of a mechanism made to get you to understand why you're doing any of this rather than something that really grips you. My favorite part would probably be the turn based space combat because I really liked the strategy of setting up your ships to inflict status effects and exploit them for max damage. However, that element is really lacking a lot of QoL. Before every fight I found I'd have to setup my ship skills which became tedious since I had to keep going back and forth between checking enemy resistances, then the skills I have. Overall, I think the game makes a decent effort to be unique and it's worth a shot. PS: Fix your pixel art guys. It's very obvious when you scal…
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