Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures
Blue Blaze Gaming · 2017 · Strategy, Indie, Simulation, Space, 2D
PC
Mostly Positive74% · 23
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About Star Fleet Armada Rogue Adventures
You're the captain of a small fleet of 3-5 ships. Your mission is to pass through a small sector of the galaxy to hunt down the enemy race. Along the way you will encounter other races along with their associated counterpart rebels. You will also encounter space pirates and pirate outpost. You will explore anomalies, asteroid fields, comets, nebulas, suns and worm holes. Worm holes become star lanes that let you travel greater distances instantly once you have explored them using research probes. Most encounters will result in a small 15-20 second mini arcade game.
While traversing through star systems you will also come across damaged or distressed ships. Helping these ships will grant you precious resources. You must also make orbit around planets and send down your planet lander to explore them. Find metal, gas and fuel resources as well as animal life forms. Some will be dangerous while others not so much. You can also discover shuttle craft crash sites, ancient ruins and military burial grounds. These too provide you will rare items. These can be traded to other friendly races for race credits. You can then use these credits to purchase or upgrade your ships.
Combat is a unique blend of real time with the play stopping while the player or the AI makes tactical decisions. Which way should I face my ship so it won't be flanked?Which weapons should I use and on which enemy ship? When should I use my ships special ability? When should my Fighter Carrier's deploy the fighters? Which enemy ships should I fire at with my Battle Cruisers dirty bombs? What ship should I repair using my Cargo Ship's repair drone? And finally what enemy ship should I target using my Research Vessels Research Drone to allow for the most Research Units to be stolen?
Completing achievements is no longer just a passive thing that has no real impact on the game. Completing them in SFARA earns you special Achievement Based Artifacts that you can use when you start your next game. These are artifacts that can't normally be found while playing the game.
While traversing through star systems you will also come across damaged or distressed ships. Helping these ships will grant you precious resources. You must also make orbit around planets and send down your planet lander to explore them. Find metal, gas and fuel resources as well as animal life forms. Some will be dangerous while others not so much. You can also discover shuttle craft crash sites, ancient ruins and military burial grounds. These too provide you will rare items. These can be traded to other friendly races for race credits. You can then use these credits to purchase or upgrade your ships.
Combat is a unique blend of real time with the play stopping while the player or the AI makes tactical decisions. Which way should I face my ship so it won't be flanked?Which weapons should I use and on which enemy ship? When should I use my ships special ability? When should my Fighter Carrier's deploy the fighters? Which enemy ships should I fire at with my Battle Cruisers dirty bombs? What ship should I repair using my Cargo Ship's repair drone? And finally what enemy ship should I target using my Research Vessels Research Drone to allow for the most Research Units to be stolen?
Completing achievements is no longer just a passive thing that has no real impact on the game. Completing them in SFARA earns you special Achievement Based Artifacts that you can use when you start your next game. These are artifacts that can't normally be found while playing the game.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Great. A very indepth space exploration and combat game. Whilst people may complain about graphic quality- use your imagination- that's what we had to do when i had a Vic20. Hopefully some DLC might arrive soon.5 found this helpful
The tutorial says to use the mouse scroll wheel and will not proceed until you do. Problem is I am on a laptop with no scroll wheel. So its a thumbs down from me till I can actually play the thing.3 found this helpful
I tried......I truly tried so hard since I loved Star Control as a kid. You want fleet management, action, and space adventure without having to put on your reader glasses? I'd recommend spending the extra cash on Star Sector, or Stellaris. Addition: Press "esc" to skip animation. Yea, on some computers it doesn't work. All it does is bring up help menus externally. I already removed this product from my library.1 found this helpful
Game is abandon ware now. Steam needs to take it off the store page since they lied about finishing the dlc.1 found this helpful
nope ! sorry but just trying to figure out combat is a headache. this game belongs in the late 80's anyway. i am glad that i did not spend all that much on it. i do believe that i gave it better than half a chance. i did read the manual but, going to the game it got ??? a lot of the button were tiny, hard to see unless i sat up close to the screen. just not for me
This is the game I was looking for. A worthy (and much better!) Successor to Starflight with a lot of things done better. The best part for me is the fight - tactical, deep, challenging and fun. Real time with active pause - this approach is well thought out by the developer. Space exploration is very enjoyable. What can be tedious grinding - mining - is done quickly and neatly here. What you can see and feel is true love for the genre. The graphics are simple. But after a while, the immerse takes over. I think the lack of a main storyline is a plus - this way I want to get back into the game and play it again with another race in a different randomly generated space. As for some cons: During the first 38 hours of the game I encountered 2 game crashes in battles (quick save to the rescue) All in all, I recommend this game to all space exploration fans. It's totally worth the full price. Great job for a one-man game developer.
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