This is a space trucking game, or maybe a space cowboy game, since you spend so much time figuring out how to manage in the midst of a bunch of militaristic and economic efforts to tame a wild frontier. It might be weird to say a space game’s about movement when you’re confined to horizontal plane, but this is definitely not a space sim in the style of Wing Commander or Freespace. You’re always going somewhere, through vast, empty stretches of space, wishing that the warp drive could get you there a little bit faster. There’s movement of goods, movement from system to system, and movement through and around asteroid fields and pirate ambushes and blockades. You’ll fly from station to station to pick up missions, dig for rumors, and buy and sell commodities. You begin the game with a tiny, rusty ship, a weird alien artefact left to you by a missing aunt, and a whole lot of open space to explore. There’s a custom soundtrack option, and that’s great and wonderful and god love the developers for including that option, but the selection of music suits the game so perfectly that I can’t imagine ever wanting to change it. There are no gameplay mechanics around it, no little rhythm minigames, but I’ve never played a game outside of Rock Band or Elite Beat Agents that had so much of its identity entwined with its soundtrack. It’s all screaming blues rock, and it does amazing things to bring the game’s outlaw sensibilities to life. You can’t talk about Rebel Galaxy without talking about its soundtrack. Before anything else, though, I have to mention the soundtrack.
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