{"title":"Double Damage Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eDouble Damage Games was founded in 2014 by Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer, two developers whose names already carried weight with action RPG fans. Schaefer co-founded Condor, the studio that became Blizzard North, where he was one of the lead designers on Diablo and Diablo II, and he later co-founded Flagship Studios. Baldree created the cult action RPG FATE and led Flagship's Seattle team on Mythos before the pair, together with Max Schaefer and Peter Hu, established Runic Games in 2008 and shipped Torchlight and Torchlight II. In March 2014 Baldree and Schaefer left Runic to form Double Damage as a deliberately small, independent outfit based in Washington state, trading the overhead of a large studio for the freedom to build exactly the game they wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat first game was Rebel Galaxy, released for Windows and Mac on October 20, 2015 and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One the following January: a space adventure that put players in command of a capital ship in a randomly generated frontier, with broadside combat, trading and a soundtrack that quickly became part of its identity. The studio followed it with the prequel Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, launched on August 13, 2019 as a timed Epic Games Store exclusive and expanded to Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 22, 2020, this time swapping the capital ship for a nimble fighter and a cockpit view. Double Damage has been quiet since then, with Baldree building a second career as an audiobook narrator and novelist (his 2022 debut Legends \u0026amp; Lattes became a bestseller), while the studio's catalog remains available and Rebel Galaxy is now published on PC in partnership with the preservation-focused label SNEG.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"rebel-galaxy-pc-download","title":"Rebel Galaxy","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eRebel Galaxy puts you in the captain's chair of a capital ship rather than a nimble fighter, then turns you loose on a randomly generated frontier full of pirates, traders, aliens and drifting wrecks. Combat is fought broadside to broadside, fortunes are made at the trade terminal or at the end of a gun, and the edge of the known universe is exactly as dangerous as it sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCaptain of Your Own Capital Ship\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the first mission you command a heavily armed star destroyer, and that scale changes how everything plays. You bring the ship around to line up broadsides, absorb particle beams on your deflectors and pick the moment to unload every turret at once. Between fights you dock at stations to sell cargo, buy larger and more powerful craft with your hard-earned credits, and outfit each hull with a wide selection of weapons and defensive systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Frontier That Never Repeats\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery new game generates a fresh universe, so no two star systems ever look the same. Out among the stars you will find:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNebulae, junkyards, asteroid belts and ice fields to explore, each hiding anomalies to investigate, artifacts to recover and mining opportunities for anyone with the right equipment and a little patience.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDerelict hulks left over from old battles that can be scavenged for salvage and equipment, provided you reach them before rival captains do and can hold the site long enough to strip it clean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrade routes to discover and exploit, with station prices that shift as events unfold, so a hold full of the right goods delivered to the right place can fund your next ship outright.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCombat Built Around the Broadside\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDouble Damage Games designed Rebel Galaxy for spaceship combat action from the outset. This is not a strategy game of clicking and issuing orders. You feel the concussion of a broadside blast and the impact on your deflectors as they absorb a shot meant for your shield generator. Your ship holds to a flat plane of movement, so battles read like naval engagements: you jockey for firing arcs, manage your deflectors and decide when to commit your heaviest volley, all while turrets track the fighters that dart in from every angle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFight, Trade or Talk Your Way Through\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrute force is only one option, and a shrewd player can take a very different approach to the same problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eRoguish do-gooder\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTake bounty and escort work, protect the less fortunate and build a reputation that opens doors with the militia and the merchant factions, even if it costs you a few lucrative shortcuts along the way.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eCrafty space trader\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eHang out in the station bar for a hot tip about a relief vessel heading to a famine-struck world, get there first and offload a few tons of meat while the price is right, then reinvest the profit in a bigger hold.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003ePower-hungry privateer\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePrey on the unwitting, make sure that relief vessel never arrives at all, hire a mercenary or two to watch your flanks and set your turrets to custom AI stances so the dirty work runs itself.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eShips, Crew and a Soundtrack with Swagger\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProgression runs through the hulls you own and how you fit them out, from sturdy freighters to heavy warships bristling with turrets, and hired mercenaries add extra guns when a contract looks risky. Full controller support suits the deliberate pace of capital-ship combat, 37 achievements track your exploits, and the swaggering soundtrack is a favorite among players for good reason. When a frontier bar fills with rumors and your hull is finally paid off, Rebel Galaxy has a way of making the next jump feel like the important one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edge of the universe is a dangerous place, so bring a big ship and watch your back. If you have been waiting for a space game that lets you captain something with real weight, this is the one to take out of dock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Double Damage Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38680680588,"sku":"PC_10523100364_DL_GL","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-rebel-galaxy-pc-game.jpg?v=1788148644"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/collections\/double-damage-games.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}