
A gritty first-person space sim where you mine, trade, fight, and salvage across a procedurally generated universe—then breach derelicts in tense FPS missions with permadeath and full ship customization.
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GCS: Salvage Rat is a gritty, first-person space sim with permadeath and immersive salvage contracts. Explore a procedurally generated universe of hostile factions, dangerous asteroid fields, and derelict stations. Pilot a fully customizable ship, mine valuable resources, fight for control, and descend into abandoned hulks on foot in tense FPS missions. There are no second chances — your legacy is all that remains.
Whether you're hunting bounties, stripping wrecks for data, or trading across star systems, every decision matters in this brutal, single-player sci-fi experience.
Key Features
🔧 Dual Gameplay Modes
Pilot your spacecraft in full first-person, then breach derelict stations or contract sites in immersive FPS missions.
🌌 Massive Procedural Universe
Explore up to potentially 1,000+ hand-seeded star systems, each procedurally generated with dynamic NPCs and salvage contracts.
⚙️ Hardpoint-Based Ship Customization
Equip mining lasers, turrets, armor plating, missile bays, and utility modules to tailor your craft to your playstyle.
💀 True Permadeath
Death is final. But achievements, rank, and exploits live on in the game’s legacy records.
🛠️ Economy & Faction Warfare
Trade across stations, accept high-risk salvage jobs, and navigate a web of procedurally generated NPC factions under seven major alliances.
👨🚀 No Waiting. No Matchmaking. Just Play.
GCS: Salvage Rat is designed from the ground up for solo players who want immediate, high-stakes gameplay — with no dependency on others.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
Reviews
Runs like complete dog poo, 7900xtx 9330x3d 94gb ddr5 6000ram installed to NVMe SSD... runs like garbage! controls are completely janky! buy elite dangerous for $7 its the same thing but works!
No, just no. It's made up of mostly bought pre-built assets and AI generated art. Most everything is broke/janky. The settings, the space sim, the FPS extraction shooter missions it's all just awful. I went back down to the "About this game" and realized that it not only sounds like AI but has several em dashes as well (very obvious sign of ai usage.) With how barely functional everything seems, I wouldn't be surprised if it was coded fully by AI as well. Caveat Emptor.
画面の中央に計器類があるように見えるが、これらの中で実効性があるのは下にある緑色のゲージとその右のアイコンだけである。つまりダミーである。 追記: 販売から二ヶ月が過ぎ、作者はこのゲームの開発から手を引くことを決めたそうです。心血を注いでこのゲームを作ったにもかかわらずです。 作者は生成AI画像が使われていることに対して「コンテンツよりもゲームプレイの方が大切である」と言っています。ですがその論には誤りがあります。ゲームプレイも大事ですが、コンテンツも大事なのです。蔑ろにしていいものではありません。作者はその点を完全に読み違えています。 …とまで書いたところで、彼の書いた最後のニュースも、生成AIによって書かれたものなのかもしれないと疑わなければいけないのだと思い至りました。 面倒な時代になったものです。
Just started, cant change controls, no mouse sensitivity controls, by default you control your ship pitch with R and F, this is unacceptable. Will edit later as i try this otherwise nice concept game more. First jump to nearest gas giant results in bumping onto bunch of 15 enemies, just barely escaped, with R and F to maneuver is just like a task for a man without fingers. Next time, jumped to some planet, again bunch of bandits showed, i realised my single laser tower wont fire no matter how i try, with numbers pushed or shift + numbers. But then, all the enemies can do to me is burn my shields and then no more damage to my ship. Again, maneuvering with R and F for pitch is nicely said like trying to maneuver a spaceship with my left leg finger. Day after purchase trying to put that one laser into operation. Took contract very easy espionage, approached prometheus derelict under 0.5m, one hostile showed up, i can target it with numpad numbers, but i cant shoot laser, should be selected with 1. Miner turret on asteroid worked with 2. So cant enter derelict now, sad and dissapointing. Cant buy ammo, sold some asteroids, its too bad you have no sound of footsteps on station and no sounds when moving things in inventory and when selling. Cant buy ammo, it just dont work. Npcs on station have the same face, game is waiting to finish basic things to at least approach to completion. Finally managed to board derelict. Wished i better not. What should be shooting pistol is just bad joke, early tech demo of high school kid third month after starting to code. I click to fire and the shot fires only after LIFTING YOUR FINGER FROM MOUSE BUTTON. Even that angle of holding pistol is like its on my right side of head. Terry Ball. Will better wait another year or two, if there will be something to wait for. Captain signing out. Retired. Recommended this game just to give man a chance to repair the big game ruiners described above. Enjoy your 10 bucks and try harder please.
Not ready for release.
I've only got about an hour into this, so I will update my review at a later date. Thus far it's got lots going on, in a good way. Without going into loads of detail..... this is a game that will make you want to come back and continue exploring. It requires some patience to figure out what is going on, but you are rewarded for your efforts. There is in game help, and you will need it. This game is very unique and I haven't even gotten to the FPS part yet. Hell, have not even completed my first contract. The visuals are interesting, it's kind of a mix of old and new school. The music is great, very space opera. The game itself runs super smooth. I highly recommend giving this a try.
I had to get a refund - the game is just too broken, in so many ways. Keys don't react as they should, the graphics had to be set to low (despite 16gb ram and Radeon), and no clear idea of what's going on, or where to go (i.e. no tutorial).
Not playable at that point of the game. Maybe with inside knowledge, but dear dev if you ever played something in this genre you know that you should have not released it in that state of the game. #What was good? The picture in steam shop looked quite good. But this is not what you get! #What was bad? The pictures look fine so that someone could have just enough interest to buy it. But than it is just painful after 5 Min already. I got the feeling that i might be just a scam release...show nice pictures and if you test the game for 5 Min you dont want to play it at all... So i think that game will disapear soon and come back again and again with a new name and still unplayable like so many steam games. If you are annoyed now... well prove us wrong an deliver a playable game. And no its not playable any person with a brain who ever play anything can tell you this. So just take the feedback. Look into the work of other devs and maybe learn what people want and expect. #My Conclusion: Dont buy and wait for a market ready version with basic functions that other games in this genre have. Like controller support or any way of using it in a usable nice way. The real problem is that the Steam company just takes the money from the devs and user and doesnt care for the minimum quality. So sad that are are not 10 Quality Controlling who check the game for anything and if its ready to release or not. Maybe we would have less game like this?
Подходить к этой поделке в данный момент не рекомендую, если не забросят то через годик можно будет посмотреть что получилось. а так даже не тратьте свое время поиграть в ЭТО вы не сможете, хоть и выглядит конечно многообещающе.
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