Distant Star: Revenant Fleet Review
by Dante (@videodante)
- Distant Star: Revenant Fleet
- Developer- Blazing Griffin
- Publisher- Blazing Griffin
- PC (Steam)
Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, by Blazing Griffin, is a solid addition to the space strategy genre. The setting is classic grand sci-fi, an empire of traveling humans protecting the alien artifact that gave them the technology to explore the stars (fittingly, called the Arc).The player is put in the shoes of the commander of a ‘revenant fleet’ (get it) of A’kari warships, carrying the Arc to safety away from the pursuing Orthani forces.
If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because it’s remarkably similar to 2012’s FTL, another game in the ‘space roguelike’ genre and clearly an inspiration for DS:RF. It’s not necessarily a bad thing- Revenant Fleet clearly builds on the structure that FTL laid the foundation for, but has enough unique differences to hold up on its own.
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