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Space Merchants: Arena

Space Merchants: Arena is a cross-platform online multiplayer game where futuristic spaceships engage in intense dogfights or tactical play. 3 game modes: Free for all / Team battle (red vs blue) / Capture the Artefact. 4 different maps: Faarlands, Tristar, Jupiter, Naussike system. Platform and global leaderboards.

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18 Steam reviews

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18 total

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Steam User 5860STEAMNot recommended

this game sucks really bad

Dec 31, 2023·Verified

Steam User 3418STEAMRecommended

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Nov 15, 2023·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 6525STEAMNot recommended

IMO total garbage as it is atm, poor interface layout, no guidance on how to play or what is what, poor controls with slow responses. I played just the training mission and got frustrated with in minutes! i could not target the bot ship what so ever as it just ran rings around me. It looks ok graphically and sounds are also ok but there are much better games out there than this one where you can actually move your ship fast enough to target! At its current state its not worth the bother. I got this at £1.24 so maybe ill come back after playing some other slow games lol and try again and review again....

Dec 26, 2018·Verified

Steam User 4508STEAMRecommended

Nice space shooter game. :)

Jan 15, 2018·53h·Verified

Steam User 8799STEAMNot recommended

Absolute garbage. The only reason I have hours in this game is because I farmed some trading cards for it. It was completely unplayable for me because the controls wouldn't work. The control mapping is horrendous. It doesn't even have all 6 degrees of freedom available to map. You can't even map anything to roll or yaw for that matter. Plus many of the other axes like vertical thrust can't be mapped to a joystick axis, only keys.

Plus there are literally no players online, so multiplayer is impossible.

Jan 15, 2018·6h·Verified

Steam User 8249STEAMRecommended

Great space shooter!!! I love upgrading the ships and equipment.

Oct 19, 2017·41h·5·Verified

Steam User 4963STEAMNot recommended

the controls for this game sucks

May 15, 2017·3·Verified

Steam User 1224STEAMNot recommended

No Oculus Touch support for VR! Worthless without it!

Apr 17, 2017·4·Verified

Steam User 4291STEAMNot recommended

very slow paced space combat in hard to manouver ships. more often than not when you are in someone's sites it's game over... there's no way to outmanouver your tail.

Combat is fairly unsatisfying and it looks like grinding away and buying better weapons and ships will lead to being overpowered resulting in unbalanced gameplay, but in the few minutes I played, nobody had anything but the starter ship and starter gun (all 6 of the people playing!).

Jan 8, 2017·6·Verified

Steam User 0190STEAMRecommended

interesting cross-platform online multiplayer game.. I'm going to conquer the the universe soon!!

Dec 28, 2016·72h·3·Verified

Steam User 8784STEAMRecommended

Nice engaging combat in space, I like improving my ship very much. :-)

Mixed feelings about latest update, bugs exploiting Rewards Points were fixed! :'( :-D

Dec 21, 2016·63h·2·Verified

Steam User 6730STEAMRecommended

Ich finde, dass das Spiel für das Geld Wert ist. Man muss richtig kämpfen und sich bemühen um Upgrades kaufen zu können, die Steuerung und Gameplay ist überraschend sehr flüssig, da täuschen die Screenshots ein bisschen.

Man gewinnt während dem spielen stückweise verschiedene Fähigkeiten, die natürlich das Schiff etwas verbessern und somit auch bei dem kämpfen etwas weiter helfen. Die Upgrades so wie neue Waffen, Dronen oder "Rüstung" sind im Shop zum Kauf verfügbar, da muss man natürlich schon welche Kämpfe gewonnen haben um sich davon etwas leisten zu können.

Grundsätzlich ist es ein ziemlich gutes Spiel zum entspannen und ein guter Zeitvertrieb, würde ich empfehlen!

Dec 10, 2016·8h·3·Verified

Steam User 5690STEAMRecommended

Good game. Runs pretty well on my old laptop. Everything looks nice and smooth in motion, much better than one would expect from screenshots. My verdict after 2 hours of intense play? I highly recommend this game, great value for the price!

Nov 15, 2016·4h·5·Verified

Steam User 8173STEAMRecommended

This game is a pleasant surprise as I didn't expect much, especially for the price. Great space shooter game, something like World of Tanks wannabe but in space. :) The controls are simple and straightforward, nothing complicated with tons of switches. Nice casual for everyday relax. I can recommend this game to every fan of space games

Nov 13, 2016·13h·9·Verified

Steam User 4904STEAMRecommended

This game is a blast! The only issue is few players online at the moment. Certainly a good time to be had for just a few bucks!

Nov 8, 2016·53h·10·Verified

Steam User 2639STEAMRecommended

I am glad to see a space shooting game where players need to work really hard to enhance their skills, upgrade their equipment, achieve victories (and leaderboard fame ;)).

Nothing is given for "free", you need to discover and use every aspect of the game to your benefit (collect bonuses, level up your AI skills in that presented RPGish way). All that hard work leads to more satisfying victories in my opinion. :)

Nov 7, 2016·433h·16·Verified

Steam User 8067STEAMNot recommended

-Needs some form of matchmaking. It's frustrating when you're VSing the #2 global player and he has 200x more health then you and in one shot he deals enough damage to kill me two times over.

-Combat feels lacking and it takes a while to be able to earn enough funds for new weapons. After two hours I've still not been able to afford any kind of upgrade.

Nov 6, 2016·8h·4·Verified

Steam User 7477STEAMRecommended

I like it, it reminds me of Moon Breakers a little if anyone has played that.

The major cons right now is low population and the combat seems slow. However I havent played enough to see if there is equipment that can give you boosts to speed and I notice there are more advanced weapons.

There are 2 styles of upgrades from what I can tell...one is something you get just through experience...if you get shot a lot your defense skills goes up...if you get lots of kills your weapon skills go up...might be interesting for team tactics later down the line with the option of making a tank or something like that.

The other upgrades come through in game currency you earn by playing.

For a few bucks this game seems worth it. There is also a bot you can fight against in case no one is online and you still earn experience and money.

Nov 6, 2016·8·Verified