House of the Dying Sun

I've had this in my library for 8 years. I finally got around to playing it.

DO NOT pay full price for this game. It's short, quite shallow and the overall experience is pretty light on in terms of engagement.

HOWEVER. I did still find myself having fun. I LOVE the art style and hints at lore. The dogfights, while not complex are still quite fun and I enjoyed testing out new weapons as I unlocked them.

Buy it, but only on sale! A$29 is a bit steep for this.

Not recommended if you want VR.
No Mouse/keyboard in VR(mouse is actively disabled by developer).
HOTAS not natively supported.(VR or desktop)
Index controllers not natively supported.
No workshop so no easy binding presets for index controllers or HOTAS.
VR menu is unplesantly close to your face.
VR feels like an half done afterthought implementation.

most other aspects of the game are very well done despite the somewhat short campaign, would recommend without VR.

A short space shooter game that doesn't overstay its welcome. Said game offers higher difficulty for completed missions and has multiple endings. I'd recommend it.

hey, so here's an idea, maybe play a different space sim, so you understand a few things.

Starships can strafe up and down. It isn't a fucking plane, you nonce, and the fact that you're constantly going forwards unless you holding down B is beyond fucking stupid. "TRAITOR FLAGSHIP APPROACHING" wowza, with no fucking time to spare, eh? I guess I'll get fucking railed by heavy fire, because I have no idea where it is, and hiding isn't an option. Let me aim at the tiniest fucking point known to man, and hold down A to wait for a full 30 seconds to leave, which leaves me dead. This game isn't fun, it isn't entertaining, I genuinely would rather stick a cactus up my own ass, I'd be having a thousand times more fun ._.

Not a lot of content presented in a compelling way. Probably not worth the 20 bucks, wait for a sale.

Perfect game, with some really cool lore. Just wish there was more of it.

One of the best space combat flight games.

10/10 would get blown up or crash again

Short, easy to play starfighter simulator. Expect to finish this in an hour or so if you play it once (you won't).

One of the coolest space shooters, my only regret is that it's too short. It's definitely not worth 20$, but I wish there were more games similar to this out there. Just simple, fast paced shooting without the overwhelming aspects of other sim shooters.

Also, adding VR support was a big move from the devs. Even more chaotic that way.

A short, but highly-polished space sim in which you seek to avenge the murdered Emperor by assassinating his political enemies in gorgeous, well-optimized space battles. It's essentially Warhammer 40,000 without the fantasy parts.

PERDITION TO CONSPIRATORS!

Yeah, na. I've played a LOT of Space Sims going back to the original Elite and Wing Commander and this was the very first one I didn't enjoy. Like at all. Is it still in Beta? Lacking a LOT compared to most Space Combat Sims.

A short but superbly executed game leaving me wanting more which is just fine.

A very cool VR space dogfighting sim with a good flight engine and graphics that, while more simple than many others, somehow suit the game perfectly. I think there is room for further graphical upgrades such as on the asteroids.

Tried playing it in VR - to my surprise, ALL buttons are unbound by default. Had to constantly navigate with a keyboard to set things up, only to realize that the gamepad can't navigate in the menus, so the VR experience, for some reason, had to be a combo of gamepad+keyboard. Kinda incredible, and definitely not for me.

There is some issue on Steam Deck where parts of the ui are extremely pixelated and completely unreadable

It feels nice to play, I really did not understand how to give orders on the rts screen. I just give orders via TAB key to fighters and big ships.

I played around 2 hours and I finished the first system, I do not know how to proceed to next system, I hope there is a next system, please tell me that is not the whole game :), if so this is just demo, if not why am I having difficulty to proceed on the campaign or whaterver.

If this is the game all about, finishes in 2 hours definitly I do not recommend, but if I find a way to proceed more this review will be YES.

Fast paces, fun, short, and sweet. If you like Sci-Fi fighter sims. This is a wonderful little treat.

Great hidden gem. Feels exactly like you're flying a fighter in the middle of a homeworld game.

The vibes are immaculate but somehow the game makes me feel both deaf and blind, despite being neither- there are no subtitles and the HUD is scaled far too low, and the in-game radio completely lacks subtitles, so I don't really know what I'm doing

Controls (mouse and keyboard) are basic and easy to learn. Graphics are good, not Star Citizen standards, but fine for this 2019 title. The music, sounds and space combat give me flash backs of the space combat scenes from the 2003-2009 TV show Battlestar Galactica. For a $5.99 price tag its a nice deal.

Having a great time so far. Really good VR integration, HOTAS is a little bit of a pain to set up but works great once you figure out what buttons to map. You can replay missions as many times as you want on any difficulty setting so you can figure the gameplay out quickly. I wish it had true 6DOF controls but it's made for a controller so I understand why it doesn't.

If you like ace combat sims this game is insanely fun. It's a compact experience to be sure: controls are very simple and intuitive, movement feels really responsive and nimble, and it's excellent fun to blast baddies out of the sky. The strategy component of the game is similar in that regard - shallow, but very engaging. There are a relatively limited number of ways you can load out your ships, and you progress quickly through unlocking these options. Choices of ship weapons and accessories are limited, but loadout choices you make *do* feel really impactful on the scenario. Commanding ships during battle is a little clunky with a gamepad, but i think short of actual flight stick that's prob the best way to play the game. If you choose, you can also load your larger ships with just long-range weaponry and then mostly ignore the RTS component and focus just on first-person combat. I'm not sure this is really how it is meant to be played but people should know it's not imperative for successful completion of the story missions.

Simple mechanics allow for some really fun gameplay maneuvers, like avoiding homing missiles by narrowly dodging through an asteroid belt, or hiding your frigate behind a moon so that when the enemy comes around in orbit they get a surprise broadside. Every mission has *at least* one timer, usually more, so the game has a sense of frantic urgency about it almost all the time which keeps it engaging.

I really wish the developers had made some simple additions to the story and texture of the game - i could see myself playing this for many more hours if there were more depth. As it is i'll occasionally come back to the daily challenge level to put myself on that leaderboard, ace pilot that i am. Today i placed 4th.

Get it on sale and it's a great deal. For full price it is a little bit sparse in terms of total gameplay. But honestly for fans of the genre this is a must-have entry.

This game gives me the same feels as an FPS game like DOOM or Wolfenstein:
every time I die my desire to kill them grows more intense.

Great Game, wish it had mod support.

You know that part in Halo: Reach when you take control of a fighter and dogfight in space? It's that, but a whole game.

Unplayable on steam deck ..
Loading in the tutorial and the game completely freezes after selecting a ship...

Great VR battle experience. You actually get a small fleet and have multi ship engagements thats more than just a bunch of people chasing you that most space fighters do.

Pure Excellence

Possibly the best space combat game I've ever played. The story is dark but fascinating and combines beautifully with the Dune-like atmosphere and brutal gameplay. Nothing feels cooler than hitting the enemy hard and fast (while drifting!), then warping out as the enemy flagship warps in.

"YOU ARE OUTGUNNED." Not for long.

Play in VR for an even cooler experience!

Reminds me a bit of Epic on the old Commodore Amiga and of Starblade in the Arcade - great game, space dogfight sim and a good story. Quite an oldschool feel and

Surprisingly good, despite lackluster store page

Terrible ugly blocky relic of games from 20 years ago. VR is absolutely terrible, ship design is awful looking and asteroids consists of about 3 polygons and no textures. This is a demo and should be labeled as such.

The game is such a blast to play; the market needs more games like these, in my opinion. The art style is lovely and the transition from RTS to cockpit view is seamless. I love it so much - I need more games like these.

Even though this is a short game it is such a fun game, feeling the speed of the fighter makes it so much fun.

Great game although it's quite short, I played it once on Easy for my first run and Harbinger with everything unlocked (plus a bit of idle time and one run of challenge mode). Would highly recommend it on sale, as it was WELL worth the $6 I paid for it.

For me it is better then homeworld 3(i refund it)

One of the most fun games I've played in VR

This game fucks

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Fully playable with VR headset and Thrustmaster T1000. You will not want to put this game down. My only complaint with this game is that I can't get more of it. The developer has since moved on to work for a larger studio. The immersion this game provides is unmatched, the environments are beautiful and the gunplay is tight. This game still stands up almost 10 years after release.

I seriously recommend VR to fully appreciate the scale and beauty of the game. It's fine on a monitor but a headset is where this game shines.

Still remembering it fondly eight years later.

A short, arcade-y spaceship shooter game. It gets hard at times, at least till you figure out the optimal loadout and the good strategy that works for a specific mission (the choice is quite limited, so you'll find it if you try a few different approaches). By "short" I mean "less than 10 hours to 100%". Main story can be beaten in around an hour on the first difficulty, afterwards you just replay it at higher difficulties to unlock more stuff. There's also "infinite" mode where you beat waves and try to get as far as possible, with a (daily?) leaderboard. Unfortunately, due to limited content in the game, this mode gets repetitive fast.

Overall, I liked it. It's not groundbreaking, but a nice game to scratch that space battle sim itch.

Wonderful little game. As long as it needs to be.

The best space fighting game that I've played.

Very well done updates - hotas warthog work great and vr works great as well
bought on sale for like 5bux
u cant beat that

It's pretty hard but I think I'm just stupid

A rock-solid space flightsim. Simple, straightforward, but it nails both its presentation and execution. If you like the Homeworld series but wish you could hop into a fighter partway through an engagement, this game is for you.

One last chance to avenge the Emperor!

One of the best space sims ever made