Space Mercs

Space Mercs

Bearded Giant Games · August 2, 2019 · Action, Indie, Space Sim, Sci-fi, Space

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Space Mercs price by region

Space Mercs costs €0.79 in Europe (EUR), £0.79 in the United Kingdom, $0.90 in Georgia (USD), $0.99 in the United States, CA$1.19 in Canada, NZ$1.29 in New Zealand, A$1.50 in Australia, R$2.29 in Brazil and zł3.59 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Space Mercs offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €0.79 €0.79 — 1
United Kingdom £0.79 £0.79 — 1
Georgia (USD) $0.90 $0.90 — 1
United Statesyour region $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Canada CA$1.19 CA$1.19 — 1
New Zealand NZ$1.29 NZ$1.29 — 1
Australia A$1.50 A$1.50 — 1
Brazil R$2.29 R$2.29 — 1
Poland zł3.59 zł3.59 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Space Mercs

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Space Mercs is an extreme arcade space combat game where the amount of projectiles and lasers on-screen is only toppled by the amount of stars in the universe! Will you be able to complete all the mercenary missions and become the best pilot in the Galaxy?Throughout the game’s mission campaign you will dodge, chase, fire, escort and absolutely obliterate enemies ranging from small drones to huge battleships while bound to a single rule: “If it moves, it dies“.

FEATURES

  • Huge, real-time, space ship battles, with up to hundreds of spaceships on screen at the same time
  • Mission battles range from small (3-10 ships) and scale up into the gigantic sector wide battles (400-500 ships)
  • Single-player campaign where the stakes increase with every mission
  • Thousands of projectiles on screen at every time
  • Consistent graphics and performance even on really low hardware specs
  • Shooter-style control and flight system optimized for Keyboard and Gamepad use
  • Instant battle mode where you are thrown in a procedural generated battle of epic scales
  • Loadout system for ship weaponry and internal systems
  • Coffee-break design where you can pickup and play in short 3 to 10 minute sessions
  • Functional cockpit display

Space Mercs — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Space Mercs is a lightweight space shooter that players praise for its old-school difficulty and satisfying mastery curve, but the game is hampered by a significant design choice: it lacks mouse support on PC, requiring players to aim exclusively with keyboard keys, which most reviewers find frustrating and nearly unplayable. Additional complaints include poor control remapping that reverts to defaults, minimal customization options, and vague tutorials, making the experience inaccessible to most players. The consensus is to avoid the game until mouse support is implemented.

Not recommended Dec 28, 2021
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. ....Pretty colors? Maybe?? No, I can't play this game. Hardly any sort of support of mouse, very minimalist options. Changing the resolution is hit or miss. I don't recommend.
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Apr 12, 2025
Moronic idea to not support mouse.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 22, 2025
This game is only for a very specific kind of person to play, I have to assume the designer. First, it's a light space shooter, a way to kill time while listening to something. Second, due to the difficulty, there's a sense of mastery gained because you really do have to get good at this old school hard game. Flight is extremely bare-bones: you can slowly accelerate or decelerate and reverse, or jump to top speed or brake instantly, and you aim with the WASD keys, not the mouse. There is control mapping, but it has a tendency to switch back to defaults without warning. The two special moves are boosting which is strangely used for precise aiming control, and the dodge roll which doesn't seem to prevent damage but is useful to avoid smashing into other ships at the last moment. Weapons use energy to fire and consist of either a selection of primaries to buy, or one dumbfire missile that will only hit with luck or from close range. The primary weapons start with a free pew-pew laser and go up to an expensive shotgun-like railgun which feels like shooting a bunch of light chaff. In the story mode, you start as the new hire for a gunship mercenary group. The story, which is relayed …
2 found this helpful
Not recommended May 19, 2026
No mouse support?! On a PC game?! Avoid this until even that is rectified.
Not recommended Jul 9, 2023
Not even for free.
Not recommended Dec 28, 2021
Can't even make it past the introduction fights, the controls are awful and the bot hit you every time. - No mouse support, so aiming with keyboard is almost impossible - Missiles are not able to lock on to a target to a bit pointless - Only very basic instructions

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