Rogue Star App Reviews

Seriously, I want my money back. This game is not ready for release.

Rogue Star is possibly in the top 5 games "best game on the App Store" list. This being said, I do not recommend this game to everyone. If you are thinking this game is easy, its not. For my first 30 minutes, I did not understand how anyone could play. It was hard, frustratingly hard. Countless times I would win big in an auction, and on my way to a big payday I was shot down. Oddly enough, something made me return. And the next day I did. I began to understand the game and win more battles. I began to make riskier runs that sometimes paid off and some that made me mad. Now at first getting money is RIDICULOUSLY hard but after a good amount of time I began to really progress. Dont let me completely steer you away from the game because of its difficulty though. Its an amazing game and for that I recommend it. Unless you hate hard games, you should definitely give this game a try.

It is so unbalanced, besides the wonderful fact that u can have Elite Dangerous in ur pocket, the game is hard as "bleep"

you can "fly" er "pilot" in between the bars and pillars on massive space crafts. because this is realtime space travel. so far havent found fake invisible boarders bouncing you back like "cough" GOF2 "cough". as for the difficultly.... seems fine. yup its hard, however if you use the weapon/shield adjuster to accommodate the situation odds are in your favor... ...also dont fool around in space, be quick...if you stick around with valuables pirates will surely visit. so go and sell them already, what you waiting for!?

The gameplay is a little rough but a little sandpaper (changes to control sensitivity) could smooth it out. I love the graphics and the red dwarf and Star Trek references crack me up "smegghead" " resistance is futile" are just two of the many sayings put in the game. I like the auctioning better than basic trading with varieing prices, however Id like to see a larger scale in the universe theres less than 10 star systems at the moment but if you could add in more the gameplay wouldnt run so dry after a few hours of gameplay. Earning credits isnt hard but staying alive is difficult. A good challenge, but fighting AIs every jump is kinda annoying. Again, Id like to see more content in size of the Galaxy and perhaps addons for ships to be installed? Like better shielding or missiles, larger cargo bay or auto-turrets? If you could do that this game would be 5star rated. I dont see any IAPs which Im glad but if earning credits didnt take so long the gameplay would be more exciting, I feel like I am only spending credits on better ships or auctioning, so as before repeating myself, PLEASE ADD MORE CONTENT!!,

There are great bones for a game here, but it needs to be tweaked. If the developers can reduce the starting difficulty curve they will have a great game. The inclusion of expendable to refill shields or the ability to incrementally improve your current ship until you can get to the next ship level would help to reduce frustration greatly. I have been close to being able to afford the next ship only to run into a fight I cant win (or run from) and lose a chick of credits, my cargo, and my mission. With the game in its current state I cant recommend it.

I really like this game!!!! Ive rated it 3 stars due to a crash which prevents me from reloading a character that Ive put so much time into. Please update a fix for the crashing issue.

This has the potential to be the best game on the App Store, but it needs a lot of balancing to get there. Either make the dogfighting easier, or dont make us lose all of our cargo after being blown to smithereens. I have no problem with a bit of a challenge, but this is simply unbalanced and unfair. Also, on a side-note, how did this game get a 9+ rating? Ive ran into plenty of things that would give this an "R" rating if it were a movie... Quite a few f-words and s-words, as well as some more mild ones. Update: The app kept crashing so I deleted it and reinstalled it, assuming my progress would be saved to Game Center. I was wrong. I had the third ship unlocked and a few thousand credits. Now I have to start from the very beginning. And to make matters worse, the only way to contact the developers for support is through Facebook, which I dont have. Completely and utterly unacceptable to have this happen to a game after I spend $5 on it, play it for over 3 hours, and log nearly 100 kills. One star until they get this fixed, or until I get some kind of consolation.

Until the game crashed and then acted like my last hour of work never existed... Was rather annoying to go from 1500 credits with an almost full cargo hold down to no cargo and 100 credits...

This game is good at the core but the developers must not abandon it. I am extremely frustrated in the first ship and I cant beat two pirates that inevitably mug me just outside of reaching my sell point. This is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. The auction system is fun but I spend all the money on goods only to lose it all to pirates. I would like a rebalancing to give 5 stars. There should be also SOME way to escape a dogfight. Which there doesnt seems to be.

Maybe Im just missing something but anything more than one enemy ship is doom. Ive launched maybe a dozen trade missions and only completed one. Meaning Ive lost thousands of credits worth of cargo. Its difficult to aim but meanwhile the computer seems to never miss. I love the idea of the game. The graphics are charmingly retro and the music and sound are wonderful. But man is it frustrating to play.

The gameplay is difficult, but the audio is so distracting I resent it for being so obnoxious. I could play this game for 20+ hours if not for the lack of sound effect mute.

As others have pointed out, the early game is a difficult slog to buy a better ship. You are often ambushed by ships you stand no chance against. Worse, there doesnt seem to be any ability to simply outrun these opponents despite having a faster ship. This could all be ok, but then halfway through this slog, my game file got corrupted and had to start over. Unforgivable to charge so much for buggy, rushed crap.

Beautifully polished, but very difficult at first. Stick with it for a while and work on your dogfighting technique, and youll be rewarded with hours of solid space sim action.

Ok- these guys did a great job! How come bigger dev studios couldnt pull this off? Nicely balanced, I just wish there was more content. Like, I wish there were more places to dock or space saloons or something. Yes, its a bit hard. Once you understand how to aim it gets way easier.

This is a great genre, and I really wanted to like this game. But repetitive and overly difficult pirate battles at the beginning made this game seem more like a chore. Also, some more variety and randomness, including more interesting drops from destroyed ships, would have helped. The biggest problem, though, is the game is glitchy, and because you only have one save at a time, you lose everything when the game glitches (like I just did). Time to delete this game and move on; I wish I had not wasted my time and money on it.

This game is challenging in a fantastic way. It is not too hard as some say. I cant put it down. Graphics and loading are seamless and dogfights intense. Totally worth the price and the devs seem open to improving and expanding. I feel like any negatives arent worth mentioning as they will be dealt with. My only personal suggestion would be better ship balance. Seems like you can pirate better in a cargo ship than a pirate one. Some of the cheaper ships have far better stats than higher prices ones. Isnt a major issue just something that id like to see tweaked in the future. BUY THIS GAME.

Rogue Star is a fantastic space shooter and trading game. Its surprisingly deep, but also simple to pick up and play. The dog fighting is the best aspect of play.

I enjoy this game, its addictive and it brings me back to retro games that have a bit more of a futuristic edge to them. My BIGGEST problem with this game is that I have downloaded this game 3 times now... THREE!!!! I have tried to "return to game" only to have it glitch off to my main screen while its loading. It probably wouldnt be so aggravating if I hadnt gotten as far as buying my third ship and having a ton of credits well on my way to buying a forth top tier ship. Please fix this glitch as its a pain in the arse!!

Help us out here! The game is too punishing! I mean its completely unfair that EVERY TIME you load up cargo you run into pirates that outnumber and out gun you! Theres no way to get ahead. I mean that starter ship is sooooo weak. At least let us buy some upgrades or something. Combat is already tough enough because of a rather slow d-pad, dont compound things here!