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A retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling. Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition is a massively enhanced version of the Award Winning indie strategy RPG, Halcyon 6.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is a 4x, tactical rpg and turn-based game developed and published by Massive Damage and Inc..
Released on August 09th 2017 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 811 reviews of which 640 were positive and 171 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) into these genres:

4X Tactical RPG Turn-Based Exploration Turn-Based Strategy Base-Building Strategy RPG RPG Strategy 2D Turn-Based Combat Space Diplomacy Pixel Graphics Sci-fi Multiple Endings Character Customization Simulation Beautiful Retro

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 or 10
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
  • OS: Linux Ubuntu
  • Processor: 2GHZ
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 128MB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
I've had this combo of XCOM (you have teams of soldiers you send a round a map under a time limit) and Star Trek/Babylon 5 (your main base of operations is a starbase in space, you send teams of greenshirts to different planets who mostly die horribly lol) on my Steam account for a while and finally got around to playing it. It was alright--I beat it on the third highest difficulty in about three days and 18.6 hours, so its not too substantial and thus I'm not leaving a lengthy review. But the pixel graphics were nice, the humor is pleasant enough, though some may find it grating, and it kept me occupied for all those hours, so I'll recommend it. However, its somewhat poorly balanced, IMO: The strategic side is pretty easy, I had essentially unlimited resources by the end of the second in-game chapter, while the final boss is the closest thing to a real challenge I had. And this was on the third-highest difficulty, mind you. Also, you should have an option to disable notifications for the repeating tasks you can set on your starbase, it's ridiculous they didn't think of that. But I got nearly 20 hours worth of fun outta this, so like I said, I'll recommend it.
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March 2025
It's combat is simple enough to get yet complicated enough to get REALLY tactical with it. After owning the game for years, it's still fun to go back and play again.
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Feb. 2025
It's a great game! If you like the base building and meta progress of XCOM, and rock paper scissors type of turn-based RPG combat you'll like this game.
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Dec. 2024
I'd say pick it up on sale. Cool strategy and management elements and the ship debuffs make sense (bleed becomes hull breach, and the like), but it can get repetitive and the game sometimes has bugs.
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Aug. 2024
Lighthearted parody of mostly Star Trek, which is fun. I bounced off of it getting a bit grindy, but if you like grinding JRPG style battles, with a lightweight base building component, this is a fun, silly one for you. This is apparently the less grindy updated version of the game. The original is under "Classic Edition" and I give it thumbs down.
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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) received 640 positive votes out of a total of 811 achieving a rating of 7.51.
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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) was developed and published by Massive Damage and Inc..

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION). Explore additional content available for Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) on Steam.

Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION) does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander (LIGHTSPEED EDITION)
14.99€
7.5
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171
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Massive Damage, Inc.
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Massive Damage, Inc.
Release 09 Aug 2017
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